Peanuts by Charles Schulz for August 29, 2021

whoopee-doo

“The World War 1 flying ace is home…”, as opposed to his greatest opponent…

I’d be happy with the girls and root beer.

And today, soldiers and marines and airmen are coming home exhausted and disillusioned as a result of incompetent and feckless leadership. Poor timing in running this strip now.

“Wing walking” – or as dogs might call it: “Wing walkies”

Personally, I think girls and root beer is a pretty good answer, if I could remember what the question was…

There is a family legend of a distant uncle or cousin who used to go up in a balloon and jump out with a parachute to entertain crowds back in the ’20s. He was a redhead so he went by the moniker “Mile High Red.” This strip has me wondering if he was a Veteran looking for work and a thrill.

We could use a soldier like Snoopy nowadays.

What does the World War I Flying Ace have to do with girls and root beer?

What do you mean, ‘Girls & root beer are not the answer’?!? Blimey. A babe in one arm, a frosty Barq’s in the other…Paradise…Ummm…Before I was married, of course. (Good morning, my queen…)

No, not so! It is a morale boosting script.

The war is over? Not only was WWI over, but so was WWII, the Korean war, and a number of other wars the US was involved in, such as the Dominican civil war, the Russian civil war, the last Indian wars, and more, and the Vietnam war was over the year after this strip was first published.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States#20th-century_wars

Rare to see Snoopy on all fours.

He wouldn’t have called himself the “World War 1” flying ace back then, before they knew there’d be a World War 2. It would have simply been “the Great War”, or as some called it, “the war to end all wars” (which it clearly wasn’t).

girls and root beer are always the answer

Does anyone know the original date for this strip? (Or is there a way to find it quickly that I don’t know of?)

I beg to differ. Girls and Root Beer most certainly are the answer – if you ask the right question.

Girls and root beer are the answer.

“Girls and root beer are not the answer”?!

I don’t even know who you ARE anymore…

Back to the original comic – this is great! I don’t think I had seen it before (although I loved Peanuts as a kid, when this strip originally ran). WWI flying was incredibly dangerous. I’ve read somewhere that the average life expectancy of a pilot was something like 2 weeks once they were in combat – and that’s if they survived training. The ones who did were pretty good, and when they got home many of them brought aviation to America in a very important way. The stories of the barn storming days are amazing. It was often the first time many of these people had seen an airplane. Many of these pioneer aviators went on to promote aviation in other ways, including our top ace, Eddie Rickenbacker, who went on to lead Eastern Airlines for many years.

In WWI, he hadn’t yet met Bill Mauldin. At least once a year, quaffing root beers will still be viable…

Watch out, Snoopy. You will never lock horns with the Red Baron again, but Ernst Udet is coming to the states to do a little barnstorming himself!

I miss the new Peanuts comics… compared to today’s “Garfield”, which are obviously drawn in the computer, this looks awful.

Would be quite dangerous since no one is flying the plane as he does it. And being a Sopwith Camel, the danger goes up.

Oh how I love and envy Snoopy’s vivid fantasy life; just what is needed to cope with all the craziness these days.

If Snoopy is wing walking, then who is flying the plane?

barnstorming? do we mean brainstorming?

I’m just surprised to see a strip where Snoopy imagines that WW1 is finally over and that he’s home. Even as a longtime Peanuts fan I never knew that happened in the strip.

If girls and root beer are not the answer, I don’t want to know the question.

The war wasn’t called World War I when it was happening, it was called The Great War. It wasn’t named World War I until World War II happened.