It’s rare to see Woodstock without Snoopy, just like it’s rare to see Marcie without Peppermint Patty. It’s also rare to see Woodstock drawn bigger, like in the second panel. I have always thought that a magnificent sight gag would have been Woodstock flying into Pig-Pen’s dust cloud and struggling to escape from it.
I wasn’t around in the 70s, 80s & 90s, but it appears to me that those decades were much, MUCH more exciting and pleasurable than life nowadays. Immeasurably better fashion, design and music, and I bet that people were nicer, too. Growing up in those decades must have been a blast.
What is more, the original Hebrew version of Susan means lily of the valley. I imagine that girls named Karen are picked on at school, just because someone randomly and stupidly decided to establish their name as an insult.
Lyman Frank Baum wrote 14 Oz books between 1899 and 1920. In one of them, Tik-Tok of Oz (1914), he even essentially describes a mobile phone, more than 70 years before the device was introduced!
If you like fantasy and stories which revolve around quests, then I would strongly recommend The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913) to you – it’s the seventh novel in L. Frank Baum’s Land of Oz series. You can read it for free on Project Gutenberg.
I would LOVE to see Schroeder’s reaction if Pig-Pen were to lean across his piano.