Peanuts by Charles Schulz for October 28, 2015

But is it truly sincere when you call it sincere?

Linus, if you think she’s calling you a hypocrite when she hasn’t even said a word, what does that REALLY say about you? Guilty conscience, maybe?

Ah, but Linus forgets that the Great Pumpkin will only rise out of the pumpkin patch that HE thinks is the most sincere, not the one Linus thinks is so.

Lucy is the best. She is providing support for free.

That’s like the guilt I felt telling Santa I had been a good boy and deserved presents. I knew all the boyish misdeeds I had committed! I really felt I deserved a lump of coal.

Peanuts.com gives the wrong original date for the strip.

Back in an early Schulz bio, Linus was voted “Most Likely to Join a Far-Out Cult.”

What if the messiah arrives and has a pumpkin for a head?

Now back to 1968 with the start of the 1968 Linus Great Pumpkin/Halloween sequence.

Linus is not a hypocrite. He is a idiot.

Linus has ESP…

I don’t know whether Linus is suppressing feeling like a hypocrite or if Lucy has so badgered him that he just expects to be torn down by her at every step. Linus is actually a pretty decent kid so I think it might be the latter.

That’s not sensitivity, paranoia OR a guilty conscience, Lucy and y’all. That’s experience.

I love the Great Pumpkin Storyline!

xxx