Will there be a special Peanuts cover at this year’s San Diego Comic Con?

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Yup.
This is an alternate covered version of issue 9. 500 copies are available. The cover art is by Mike Kunkel, of Herobear & The Kid fame… In fact, that looks like Herobear flying at the bottom of the image.

I only wrote half a story in this issue; the lead tale is cowritten by managing editor Alexis E. Fajardo. (You will continue to see my work in the series; I’ve already completed a half dozen more scripts.)

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A thing that might have been

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Charles’s Angel

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Up and down, up and down

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