Love this theme. I thought it was evident that Charlie marries and divorces Lucy. Or maybe he marries the red-headed girl, and she's Lucy in disguise (with diamonds).
Roger Green | Email | Homepage | 07.08.08 - 2:31 am | #

Dan DiDio wrote a Shadowpact story for the Infinite Halloween Special last year that featured an adult Charlie Brown and Linus performing a ritual to raise the Great Pumpkin.
Dr. K | Email | Homepage | 07.08.08 - 5:40 am | #

I remember a Rick Veitch strip with the Peanuts gang that showed them all grown up. It was only a short strip in a collection, but in it, Charlie Brown encountered all his hippie/druggie friends as he tried to find the little red-headed girl, and finally found her at the bottom of a biker gang-bang. Charming. I wanna say this was in one of those artist-dedicated reprint books that Eclipse and Pacific put out in the early 80s, but who knows?
Brian Hughes | Email | Homepage | 07.08.08 - 5:59 am | #

Seems to me that Kite-Man has taken on the role that twenty years ago seemed to be for Dr. Light--ineffectual bumbler super-villain usually defeated by his own incompetence.

Let's hope he doesn't follow the same career path as Light...
Bully | Email | Homepage | 07.08.08 - 6:55 am | #

Per GCD, the Veitch story I mentioned previously was "NUTPEAS!" (Bedlam #2, Eclipse, 1985).
Brian Hughes | Email | Homepage | 07.08.08 - 7:15 am | #

Thanks for making a grown man cry at 10:30am with that Peter Gillis link, Mike.
De | Email | Homepage | 07.08.08 - 7:37 am | #

No future at all for the gang in this Peanuts riff from Achewood.

The teenage Peanuts play sounds real interesting. But oh boy does the Jambar reviewer you linked miss the entire point of the strip when he calls it "Charles Schulz's saccharine creation." Are there many people out there who really think that? Must be comforting to be so carelessly dismissive.
Max | Email | Homepage | 07.08.08 - 8:08 am | #

I like this topic. It remembers me of the post traumatic stress disorder Charlie Brown from the Parking Lot is Full: http://plif.courageunfettered.co...chive/ wc079.gif

Bonus strip. Charlie Brown and Lucy on the context of Soviet Russia: http://plif.courageunfettered.co...chive/ wc063.gif
Julio Dvulture | Email | 07.08.08 - 8:26 am | #

Well, in Transmetropolitan (specifically issue 34), we meet one of Kristin's hired thugs, a portly fellow with a tiny wisp of hair swirling atop his bald, round head, wearing a shirt with a zig-zag stripe around the belly. Spider knocks him out with the butt of his bowel disruptor gun, and then kicks another thug out the window. This thug lands on a white puppy with large black ears and a round black spot on his back, smashing the dog into a bloody mess.

Spider: "Ha! No one touch that dog! I'm having that for my fucking dinner!"

So that's one possible future, I guess...
Aaron | Email | 07.08.08 - 9:28 am | #

http://samadi.livejournal.com/ 11...395.html#cutid1
Stuart | Email | Homepage | 07.08.08 - 9:58 am | #

Here's one from CMJ back in 2000, Smashing Peanuts.

Not quite the same sort of thing, but fun all the same.
Bill D. | Email | Homepage | 07.08.08 - 10:32 am | #

Didn't the Shadowpact defeat The Great Pumpkin in the DC Halloween special this year?
Rocco | Email | Homepage | 07.08.08 - 11:11 am | #

That issue of Hawkman is my favorite of my run. I got to use Zatanna and have some fun in the middle of a generally dark series. Thanks for mentioning it.
Tony Isabella | Email | Homepage | 07.08.08 - 11:29 am | #

Like others, I remember a story/parody from a Mad Magazine (or maybe even Cracked) collection in the early 80's where we see the kids as if they aged in real time. The only thing I remember is Charlie returning to town, having gone off and become some kind of high-powered exec somewhere (he's dressed even in a little suit). I remember him being pretty caustic on seeing the fates of his friends, and kind of luxuriating in his own success and power over them.

Thinking about it, the collection was a comic strip/book themed one, I'm sure. Lots of parodies of superheroes combined with old time strips I may or may not have heard of at the time.
Mathew | Homepage | 07.08.08 - 11:41 am | #

Thanks for posting the link to the Peter Gillis piece. Made me tear up, it did.
Oscar Blotnik | Email | 07.08.08 - 12:17 pm | #

David Lasky has a one-page Peanuts epilogue comic in Top Shelf Asks the Big Questions, but I can't find it online. The only Peanuts epilogue I know of to include Rerun.
Bill Burns | Email | 07.08.08 - 1:22 pm | #

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that issue of Joe Casey and Ashley Wood's Automatic Kafka that imagined the cast as adults, with Charlie Brown still being obsessed with the red-haired girl, Lucy still acting as his psychologist, and Linus relegated to a mental hospital.

Sad to say, I totally didn't get it until something clicked a few issues later (maybe in the metafictional final issue) and I went back and read it over again. It's good stuff.
Matthew J. Brady | Email | Homepage | 07.08.08 - 2:29 pm | #

I remember a MAD parody -- I think it might be the same one Mathew saw -- something like "Will success spoil Charlie Brown?" where Shermy (having been long since phased out of the strip) returns home for a visit only to find everybody living the good life after having cashed in on the merchandising. Charlie Brown does indeed show up in a plaid suit complete with a bad toupee.

There was a pretty bold joke that I only got years later, where Charlie Brown says something like "Sorry I can't let you into our country club Shermy, but your name sounds a little, you know..." Yikes...

I also remember Schroeder playing in a rock band, with lyrics that stuck in my head for 20 years for some reason: "Well, my mind's expanding, but my stomach's empty..."

--Chris K
Chris K | Email | 07.08.08 - 6:06 pm | #

A few years ago I was snatching up everything I could find that Peter (B.) Gillis ever wrote. I had no idea he had a blog until now! Thanks. Great link.
Tom A. | Email | 07.08.08 - 9:38 pm | #

Fanfic author Darkmark did a story: http://darkmark90.tripod.com/PEANUTS.HTM

Not bad, I think.

And the issue of Hawkman with Kiteman is my favorite of that run also, since it included my first appearance in a lettercolumn. (Unless you include the Answer Man column that Bob Rozakis used to do).
Scott Rowland | Email | 07.09.08 - 10:43 am | #

Thanks to you I am now reminded of the the anime Peanuts redesigns.

Damn you!
TeamSmithy | Email | Homepage | 07.10.08 - 1:43 am | #

Don't know what's up with the Weapon Brown link (Z?), but try this one instead:

http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2...weapon-brown-1/
Jason Yungbluth | Email | Homepage | 07.10.08 - 8:47 pm | #

Jason - OOPS! Fixed now...have no idea how I screwed that up.
Mikester | Homepage | 07.10.08 - 9:10 pm | #