COMPLETE PEANUTS 1981-1982 HC: VOLUME 16: Vol. 16 Hardcover Edition: 0 - Hardcover

Kudos to Fantagraphics for maintaining the incredibly high standard of quality and presentation they established at the outset, with this entry featuring an introduction from cartoonist Lynn Johnston. More!--Ken Plume

The Complete Peanuts 1981-1982 ventures into the lesser-known 1980s strips. Spike is drafted into the Infantry (don’t worry, it’s only Snoopy’s imaginary World War I army), and a brand-new brother, “Marbles” (with the spotty ears) takes his bow. We also see two major baseball-oriented stories, one in which Charlie Brown joins Peppermint Patty’s team, and another in which Charlie Brown and his team lose their baseball field. In other stories, Peppermint Patty witnesses the “butterfly miracle,” Linus protests that he is not Sally’s “Sweet Babboo,” Sally (in an unrelated sequence) gets fat, the Van Pelts get into farming, and two of the most eccentric characters from later Peanuts years, the hyperaggressive Molly Volley and the whiny “Crybaby” Boobie, make a return engagement.