The new Snoopy graphic novel Where Beagles Dare! is available at better comic book shops (which is where I grabbed mine), and here at BN.com, but at the moment it is not available from Amazon. Why? I don’t know. But the BN.com listing still carries this summary:

Charles Schulz’s Peanuts, like they’ve never been seen before!

20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios announced a Peanuts feature film scheduled to hit theaters in October 2015, and to celebrate the gang’s digital 3-D debut, KaBOOM!s summer original graphic novel will celebrate Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy, Woodstock and friends in the same style we’ll see them on the silver screen.

The problem with that being… it’s not right at all. The feature film is schedule for November, not October; the graphic novel was released in fall, not summer; and it’s not in the 3-D digital style of the film, but a reasonable attempt at the usual pseudo-Schulz style by the talented Vicki Scott and Paige Braddock. The 96-page story is written by Jason Cooper, and to help you see the way that they achieved the Schulz look, they reproduce nine pages of Ms. Scott’s pencils in the back,

Anyway, that’s a considerably large new Peanuts story, and it includes a lot of things that I know will attract specific fans. Lots of the Flying Ace. Some bridge playing. Snoopy’s siblings, including Belle getting far more dialog than she ever got in the strip!

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