"Sometimes I marvel at my consistency!"
Jan. 2nd, 2007 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerAmong all the varied events and feelings that mark the beginning of a new year for me, there's the small question of just what's going to happen with the "Classic Peanuts" reruns this year. When the comic strip ended in 2000, I noted with some interest that reruns would start from the year 1974, when both Woodstock and Marcie were pretty well-defined as characters. Then, at the start of 2001, I squinted at the original copright notices as displayed online, which is where I find them nowadays, and realised they were now rerunning strips from 1973. A little surprised and a little intrigued by that, I started saving the image files.
Every New Year reset the clock one tick backwards. It could be somehow ambiguous to see time reversing itself, but, as the volumes of "The Complete Peanuts" started to come out, I found myself contemplating what moment the book reprints and the online reprints would cross. At the start of last year, though, the strips jumped all the way from the end of 1969 to the start of 1959. Everything looked and felt very different, and all I could do was contemplate that the 1959 strips would also be reprinted in book form in a few months.
At the very end of December, I had my Complete Peanuts books ready. One Sunday page was from 1958, and for a moment I wondered about the strip still hurtling back and back, all the way to "Good ol' Charlie Brown... How I hate him!" Yesterday and today, though, I recognised the strips as being from 1960. It may not actually be worth anything one way or another, of course, but it's happened. Also, I happened to notice that today's strip (where Lucy says she never catches snowflakes on her tongue until February or so, and Linus says "They sure look ripe to me!") became an element in "A Charlie Brown Christmas" half a decade later.
Every New Year reset the clock one tick backwards. It could be somehow ambiguous to see time reversing itself, but, as the volumes of "The Complete Peanuts" started to come out, I found myself contemplating what moment the book reprints and the online reprints would cross. At the start of last year, though, the strips jumped all the way from the end of 1969 to the start of 1959. Everything looked and felt very different, and all I could do was contemplate that the 1959 strips would also be reprinted in book form in a few months.
At the very end of December, I had my Complete Peanuts books ready. One Sunday page was from 1958, and for a moment I wondered about the strip still hurtling back and back, all the way to "Good ol' Charlie Brown... How I hate him!" Yesterday and today, though, I recognised the strips as being from 1960. It may not actually be worth anything one way or another, of course, but it's happened. Also, I happened to notice that today's strip (where Lucy says she never catches snowflakes on her tongue until February or so, and Linus says "They sure look ripe to me!") became an element in "A Charlie Brown Christmas" half a decade later.