Peanuts vol. 8

pv8For various reasons, I’m not actually reviewing the collection of the Kaboom! Peanuts comics. However, I now have Peanuts volume 8, and I do have to say that one thing I like about these collections is that they have a cover gallery in the back, and they include not only the standard covers for the books, but any variant covers that were issued. For example, in this volume that collects issues 25 through 28, it has a Denver Comic Con exclusive cover for issue 25 that I didn’t even know existed.

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