Complete Peanuts, British style

As the UK readers of this blog know, the Complete Peanuts books have been restricted for sale to the US and Canada (and as they may also have noticed, it hasn’t exactly been hard to work around those restrictions).

Now, however, they’ll have access to these books without even those small hurdles or any ethical conflicts. This October brings the first UK editions from Canongate Books. They’re releasing both volume 1 (1950-1952) and volume 2 (1953-1954) that month.

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It was a stormy Dark Knight…

Coming out in December is a facsimile edition of Detective Comics issue 500, the big thick issue-versary release from 1981. Detective Comics is a series that began in 1937, although it really picked up steam in 1939, when issue 27 introduced a little character called “The Batman”. Reaching issue 500 is an achievement …

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Offboarding

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How many bunny-wunnies?

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