The Complete Peanuts 1999-2000 Comics & Stories

The box in which the books are kept is a bit damaged from the edges and the return policy for this is a bit complicated instead of the usual return policy. A lot of charm of these books are in the box and it's sad that the box is damaged

Cada libro es increíble, tiene páginas con papel de colores (ojo sólo el papel es de color) y bueno, la calidad perfecta, algunas hojas tienen textura, lo compré para leerlo y de colección obviamente, muy bonito.

Amazing that this man did 50 years of this without ever taking a break - consistently great comics!

Creio que para essa coleção, o formato box (com dois livros) é o ideal para se ter na estante. O box, além de proteger da poeira os livros, fica bonito e organizado a medida que vc vai completando a coleção, além de sair mais em conta. Enfim, uma edição super caprichada e bem acabada para a coleção definitiva dos Peanuts.

I had mixed feelings about the arrival of this book on my doorstep. I was rapt as ever to have more Peanuts to read but I knew it was the end of an era of annually getting one of these amazing two volume four year sets. I feel that Peanuts went through a resurgence in the late 80's and 90's as it was sometimes not as sharp and observational in the late 70's and early 80's. That's what I feel anyway. The quality of these strips is very high though they are not as acidic and cruelly funny as they could be in the late 50's and 60's heyday. Less ranting from Lucy who is not as strident particularly and she accepts jibes at her baseball shortcomings. Charlie is not complaining that his stomach hurts or about depression and he is no longer so hapless. Snoopy is used in numerous ways from being quite dog like laying on Charlies lap running on all fours etc to being a Revolutionary war soldier, a Fighter pilot, a french legionairre etc ... He seemed to be used in a more flexible way in this era and Re-Run is a very prominent character and his longing for a dog can be added to the unrequited desires of the strip. The strips often have a bittersweet tone and surrealistic or visual gags like Snoopy rounding up Schroeder's music notes and Spike (who I love) is often in wistful scenes with his cactus or walking a tumbleweed like a pet dog.The quality of the drawing is first class and though I love the drawing in all eras of Peanuts there is a particularly fluent use of line and the strips are a fraction busier than in its earliest days. One of the last strips is classic Schulz with Charlie Brown confessing that he wouldn't know what to do if he ever received a longed for love letter. The main volume is completed by a set of Li'l Folks cartoons from before Peanuts and these are good rather than great but they did set the scene and helped develop the themes Schulz used so brilliantly in Peanuts. There is an accompanying volume full of interesting material including Schulz's strips for the comic he was assisted with. These long form stories are terrific. there are also ads for Ford Kodak and a bread company and all this material is good too. Overall an outstanding finale to the incredible complete publishing of the greatest comic strip that has ever existed.Oh well I think I will start the series over again.

The Complete Peanuts comes to an end with these two final volumes.As always, great quality and content. A volume is dedicated to various Schulz's material from 1950 to 2000.My only disappointment is the lack of an index putting together the alphabetical indexes of all other volumes: it might have been useful to trace a particular strip without too much effort.