I recently picked up a copy of Peanuts #0, published by Kaboom. As it states on the cover, this issue serves as a preview for an upcoming comic book series of all new Peanuts stories. Since Peanuts has long been my favorite comic strip, coupled with the one dollar cover price on this issue, I figured there wasn’t any reason for me not to check it out.
This comic book series is the first instance of new Peanuts material, as Schulz made it known that he did not want his newspaper strip to continue without him. I guess some fans are against the idea of any new Peanuts content penned by anyone other than Schulz, but I figure each reader can determine for themselves whether or not it is worth their time.
Peanuts #0 is comprised of a couple of all new stories, a preview of an original Peanuts graphic novel that actually was released a few months ago, as well as a handful of classic Sunday Peanuts strips by Schulz himself. All of the new material is actually very much in the vein of what Schulz’s Peanuts was like.
They are obviously striving to do it exactly the way Schulz would have done it. I have mixed feelings about this. If you’re going to try and craft new Peanuts comics exactly like Schulz would have done, a part of me can’t help but wonder what the point of that would be. Wouldn’t we be better off just reading the original strips by Schulz himself? But on the other hand, if someone were to tackle Peanuts in a new way with a new style, at what point would it cease to be Peanuts? Hmm, it seems even I don’t know exactly where I stand with this new Peanuts series.
I guess I like it. Peanuts is Peanuts, after all. I don’t know… You can call me wishy washy if you want.
