Guide to a revised life

Coming in April from Running Press is a newly revised edition of Peanuts Guide to Life, the original edition of which I reviewed back in 2005. I’m not sure whether the revisions will extend beyond the foreword; they’re dumping the one co-written by Bill Cosby, and getting a new one written by Andy Cohen. I presume this is Andy Cohen, the TV host and pop culture specialist and not Andy Cohen, the former second baseman for the Giants. My presumption is based on two facts:

  1. The baseball player has been dead continuously since 1988.
  2. I think I detect a subtle clue in this photo of the TV host by Greg Hernandez:

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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

I can think of a number of times that Peanuts storybooks have been converted into board books, often with some shortening and simplification. And I can think of once or twice that the stories from board books have been included inside non-board anthologies of stories. But I can’t think of …

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How many bunny-wunnies?

We’ve got the first listed Peanuts book for 2027, and while it’s a board book for kids, it’s going to have something for all you Freida fans. In Snoopy’s Bunny Fun!, Freida wants Snoopy to go after rabbits, but Snoopy has other plans. And if bunnies are your thing, January …