This cover is a Peanuts trivia quiz

Upcoming releases

This is, apparently, the real cover to Peanuts Volume 1, the upcoming collection of the recent Peanuts comic book run… or at least realer than the fill-in image they had (they’ve previously been showing the cover to Peanuts issue zero as the cover… including the $1 price. Sadly, this will cost more than a buck.)

So, can you name all the characters? Do they all even have names?

It is, of course, available for preorder (and I always recommend preordering, because you’ll get the lowest price listed between now and the time of publication.)

By the way – the software I had linking the blog to Facebook? It was causing the entire blog to be uneditable (I suspect it’s tied to whatever’s bogging down Facebook’s comment system at the moment.) As such, I’ll be posting this and other upcoming messages separately on the blog and Facebook… which means Facebook comments on these posts will not be eventually integrated into the blog. Oh, technology, why must you hurt me so?

Upcoming releases
2025 in Peanuts

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A book I’d not expected to resurface

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A box of squares

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