One for all you Al Roker completists

The intro writer for the next Complete Peanuts volume has been announced – it’s Al Roker of the Today show.

Meanwhile, today’s big Amazon deal is a fairly cheap price on a 47 inch TV. I’m going to feel guilty inviting people to my Super Bowl party in a couple months with my little 30-something inch tube TV, but I’m trying to be good and not mindlessly replace working electronics with the latest shiny thing. But I can’t help but think that with a TV that big, one can put it directly facing out a window, and with the right video, make it look like the inside of your house is Santa’s workshop or some other seasonally-appropriate display. Even just running A Charlie Brown Christmas on Blu-ray in the window would probably get people stopping and staring….

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Another discount book

Hot on the heels of finding a discount printing of a Peanuts strip collection at Five Below, I discover another volume there. A-Maze-ing Peanuts  was  among  their five-dollar books, and it’s original version (which has a different cover) is a $12.99 list price book. I’ve no idea if this is …

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The one and only 75th anniversary book

Past Peanuts anniversaries have sometimes had several books waving the sign that this is an anniversary book, but this year, at least one book is proclaiming that it is the one and only Peanuts 75th Anniversary book. The Essential Peanuts: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time will be a slipcased …

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Every Sunday comes around again

Shipping this September (or so they say) is the first volume of the paperback rerelease of Peanuts Every Sunday, the series which reprints the Sunday strips for the entire run of the strip, in color. The solicitation doesn’t appear to have the dimensions on it, so I don’t know if …