Early Peanuts was a lot edgier and the kids a lot more nuanced than what it became later when Schulz was coasting and collecting that dough. The ones this early can be downright dark without the microcosmic whimsy of the world he created for them in their “golden age.”

So that’s why they called him blockhead

Jesus, I’ve been reading manga all week and read this backwards and was fucking lost for a second as to why he was back in his chair lmao