num_pages: 344
description: As the 1970s wind down the last two recurring Peanuts characters have fallen into place: Snoopys brother Spike and the youngest Van Pelt siblingRerun. But that doesnt mean Schulzs creativity has diminished; in fact this volume features an amazing profusion of hilariously distinctive new one-(or two-) shot characters! For instance in an epic five-week sequence when Charlie Brown found guilty by the EPA of biting the Kite-Eating tree he goes on the lam and ends up coaching the Goose Eggs a group of diminutive baseball playersAustin Ruby Leland anddid you know there was a second black Peanutscharacter aside from Franklin?Milo. Also: a tennis-playing Snoopy ends up reluctantly teamed with the extreme Type A athlete Molly Volley... who then reappears later in the booknow facing off against her nemesis Crybaby Boobie. (Honest!) Add in Sallys new camp friend Eudora the thuggish caddymaster who shoots down Peppermint Patty and Marcies new vocation an entire hockey team and a surprise repeat appearance by Linuss sweetheart Truffles (creating a love triangle with Sally) all in addition to the usual cast of beloved characters(including the talking schoolhouse and the doghouse-jigsawing cat who gets hold of Linuss blanket in this one) and youve got a veritable crowd of characters. Its another two years of the greatest comic strip of all time full of laughs and surprises.
language: English
title: The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 14: 1977-1978
publisher: Fantagraphics