Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for November 28, 2017
November 27, 2017
November 29, 2017
Transcript:
the winners these comic strips received the most votes from our readers. they will be featured every day in the comics section of your newspaper. pre-classic peanuts girl: today no one remembers, but it was originally i, violet, who yanked the football away as charlie brown ran to kick it. girl: yet somehow over the years lucy, the fuss-budget, the drama queen, usurped my place, leaving me a foote, a cipher in a billion dollar franchise. boy: what a neurotic embittered little girl. girl: i should have been a star! doltish duck duck: hey - do goats really eat tin cans? goat: no. duck: hey - do chickens really stare at the sky during a rainstorm with their beaks open until they drown? chicken: no. goat: what a dolt- oop: hey - are rhino horns really an aphrodisiac - ow that hurt fanky malloon the clown genius fanky: now i take the balloons and- skwik skwik fanky: voila! i call it "pieta"! kids" ooh! kids: now do "the disasters of war" fanky: sure!
Kaputnik almost 7 years ago
Well, the Violet thing is sort of true.
http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts-begins/1951/11/14?ct=v&cti=649237
Except she’s not doing it maliciously, like Lucy: she just loses her nerve.
Pharmakeus Ubik almost 7 years ago
I’d like to see Franky Malloon do Picasso’s Guernica next.
Sisyphos almost 7 years ago
Legacy comics: love ’em or leave ’em.
I’m not now and never have been a fan of Doltish Duck. But I remember Violet, the Peanuts star who was pushed out of the picture by Lucy. It’s a sad story….
I like the sound the balloons make. Skwik!
rjh almost 7 years ago
And the boy in Pre-Classic Peanuts looks like early Shermy, another character written out of the strip. I like looking at Peanuts strips from the 1950s and 1960s, and hate the way Violet, Shermy, Patty (not Peppermint), and Frieda disappeared with no explanation.
well-i-never over 5 years ago
I like August 2, 2017 too.