Peanuts by Charles Schulz for May 30, 2021

Sorry, Luce, your criticism wasn’t constructive enough. Although if you’re interested in a scenario where these two actually do collab on a story, you should check out the episode “Huggable, Buggable Beagle” of The Snoopy Show on Apple TV+. In what is possibly my favorite of all the segments from Season 1, Lucy, Linus, and Peppermint Patty help Snoopy write the next great novel. Great stuff! :D

well played, Snoopy

Lucy, go write your own story and leave Snoopy alone!

To be honest, Lucy’s idea sounds a bit cliche.At least Snoopy was able to write his feelings without resorting to more colorful language.

I can’t wait for chapter two.

That’s putting it mildly, Snoopy.

Snoopy, it’s time for a really big dog-fart.

In the third panel Schulz is having a playful dig at romantic movies, 99% of which really do seem to rely on the formula which Lucy has described. That’s the joke here; Lucy is expressing one of the biggest clichés in the book (film?).

At least he didn’t write, “It was a dark and stormy night.”

Interfering fussbudgets make Snoopy a dull dog.

Nobody likes a backseat writer.

No writer wants a self elected backseat author.

Who says he’s not a great writer?

“I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden, uh, I mean apple orchard!”

Yes. “Bug” off. That’s what we’re all thinking.

Always a critic, never a doer.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt.

Imagine what kind of criticism Snoopy would get online.

Bug On. Bug Off. The Zapper!

Close to what I would have said…

In the last panel, in Snoopy’s original draft, the first word had FOUR letters

Give her a big kiss, Snoopy, she’ll be gone in a flash.

That enough feeling for ya?

Since my wife died in March 2021 I have been “writing” in journals/notebooks and some of my language is not safe for a family strip, but it is what I feel right now. I does help but doesn’t change my “anger” about what happened just slows the exploding head.

When it comes to writing romantic stories, Snoopy needs a better consultant than someone who continually pursuing an emotionally unavailable pianist.

Nowadays, the word preceding “off” would begin with an F. No?

I always had the reverse problem. I would write a forty-page short story and give it to my wife to read. She would return it with no comment but all the spelling errors corrected. That’s why we’re not married anymore; I can hire an editor. What I needed was a Muse.

I never promised you a parachute.

Hey, Lucy, why don’t you just go write your own stories?

Sounds like the plot of every romantic comedy ever filmed or in other words boring.

“He was a dark and smarmy knight…”

If you can write just one true thing, then you’ve started well. (Thanks, Papa)

Not sorry Lucy, but you’ve been rejected by the writer!

…Or words to that effect. This IS a family strip, after all.

Snoopy c’mon don’t write it you can just kick her off, that’s a big feeling like Lucy said :D if that’s ho you feel it’s the same way for me LoL :D

Last panel is interesting. She looks surprised, ha

Before you continue Snoopy, remember this is a family comic.

It’s a dirty story of a dirty man And his clinging wife doesn’t understand

Took the words right out of my mouth, snoopy

that’s snoppy feeling

Fichez-moi le camp, Lucy!