Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for March 11, 2011
March 10, 2011
March 12, 2011
Transcript:
Baldo: Dad, will I ever have the coolest car in the world? Dad: Ha! This Charlie Brown is sooooo funny. Dad: Can you believe it? His world has been exactly the same for 60 years!! Dad: You'll never kick that football, boy!! Baldo: Good grief.
Charlie Brown MAY have kicked the football, in Schulz’s last football gag (sometime in October of 2000, I think).
Lucy’s holding the football for Charlie Brown to kick, when Rerun tells her she has a phone call. She asks Rerun to take her place, and leaves.
We then move to Rerun back home, fixing a sandwich. Lucy asks “Well, did you pull the football away, or did Charlie Brown actually kick it?” Rerun looks up at Lucy with a smug look and says “You’ll NEVER know.” (Lucy then lets out a big “AAAAARRRRGGGHHH!!!”)
Lucy will never know, and neither will we. But we can believe whichever we choose.
The last year of Peanuts (already collected in a “Peanuts 2000” paperback; you don’t have to wait for Volume 25 of “The Complete Peanuts”) was remarkably good, a real resurgence after what I admit were some fallow years. Rerun figures pretty prominently, and I think that had a lot to do with it. After 50 years, all the rest of the characters had pretty much played out every conceivable scenario, but once Schulz figured out what to do with Rerun (he’s NOT simply a smaller Linus) it opened a lot of new doors. Sparky exited on a high note.