{"id":6984,"date":"2023-01-21T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=6984"},"modified":"2023-01-21T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T19:00:01","slug":"snoopy-soars-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/snoopy-soars-to-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoopy Soars to Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/SnoopySoars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6810\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/SnoopySoars-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/SnoopySoars-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/SnoopySoars-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/SnoopySoars-768x1154.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/SnoopySoars-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/SnoopySoars-1363x2048.jpg 1363w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/SnoopySoars.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The first of the new Peanuts Graphic Novels line dropped this week,\u00a0<strong><a id=\"amznPsBmLink_3454150\" class=\"amzn_ps_bm_tl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1665928476\/ref=as_li_bk_tl\/?tag=aaugh-20&amp;linkId=9dbd857cb041a296b8adcbabb4dad066&amp;linkCode=ktl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword=\"Snoopy Soars to Space\" data-amzn-link-id=\"9dbd857cb041a296b8adcbabb4dad066\">Snoopy Soars to Space<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"amznPsBmPixel_3454150\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?source=bk&amp;t=aaugh-20&amp;bm-id=default&amp;l=ktl&amp;linkId=9dbd857cb041a296b8adcbabb4dad066&amp;_cb=1674327233673\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong>. Whether it&#8217;s a &#8220;graphic novel&#8221; depends on which of the fuzzy definitions of the term you&#8217;re using; it&#8217;s mostly reprints of pre-existing stories, although the first one is\u00a0<em>The Beagle has Landed, Charlie Brown<\/em>, which was indeed released as a book of its own and thus does qualify as a graphic novel. After that, it has six space-themed short stories from the Kaboom!-published Peanuts comic book series, plus one all-new tale, the 11-page &#8220;Kickoff to the Moon&#8221; by Jason Cooper and Robert Pope. There&#8217;s also a couple of Schulz Sunday strips and some behind-the-scenes material, 160 pages total.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PeanutsByShultz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2478 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PeanutsByShultz-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"A panel from &quot;Twinkle Thinkle&quot; -- Rerun and Lucy look on as Linus points into the starry night sky.\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PeanutsByShultz-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PeanutsByShultz.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a>One thing that I was wondering was whether it would include the three-pager &#8220;Twinkle Thinkle&#8221;, which I wrote and Jeff Shultz drew, and indeed it does! What&#8217;s weird is that this is the second week in a row that a book came out where 1.5 to 2% of the book is a comics story I wrote &#8212; last week saw the comic shop debut of <strong><a id=\"amznPsBmLink_7197081\" class=\"amzn_ps_bm_tl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1779514956\/ref=as_li_bk_tl\/?tag=aaugh-20&amp;linkId=509ba9d1c50752f8d7f27d5ff4804874&amp;linkCode=ktl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword=\"Milestone Compendium Two\" data-amzn-link-id=\"509ba9d1c50752f8d7f27d5ff4804874\">Milestone Compendium Two<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"amznPsBmPixel_7197081\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?source=bk&amp;t=aaugh-20&amp;bm-id=default&amp;l=ktl&amp;linkId=509ba9d1c50752f8d7f27d5ff4804874&amp;_cb=1674327253896\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong>, a thick whomper of a book that collects 54 issues worth of 1990s comics from the inclusive superhero line Milestone&#8230; one issue of which I wrote. It ain&#8217;t fame, but it&#8217;s still nice that my older work can be seen, even if it&#8217;s only tiny fractions of books. (As it happens, this story, which is basically the most mainstream published superhero credit I have, was the first professional comics work of one Humberto Ramos, who has gone on to bigger things.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MilestoneCompendiumTwo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6985\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MilestoneCompendiumTwo-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MilestoneCompendiumTwo-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MilestoneCompendiumTwo-659x1024.jpg 659w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MilestoneCompendiumTwo-768x1193.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MilestoneCompendiumTwo-989x1536.jpg 989w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MilestoneCompendiumTwo-1318x2048.jpg 1318w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MilestoneCompendiumTwo.jpg 1648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first of the new Peanuts Graphic Novels line dropped this week,\u00a0Snoopy Soars to Space. Whether it&#8217;s a &#8220;graphic novel&#8221; depends on which of the fuzzy definitions of the term you&#8217;re using; it&#8217;s mostly reprints of pre-existing stories, although the first one is\u00a0The Beagle has Landed, Charlie Brown, which was &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}