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Retroist's avatar

Love Scrappy Doo. Like anything it's about what you grew up with or were first exposed to. I find a non-talking Snoopy in the cartoons very charming but as Melendez said, it didn't make sense. He has words in the comics, why shouldn't he have some voice, even if it's internal.

I wonder if Schulz was concerned c about getting the voice wrong or just couldn't hear it. Whatever the case, I like that he pushed back against it. That it became a "rule" and one that will immediately be broken.

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Michael DiBaggio's avatar

I wonder if Schulz's response had something to do with a certain segment of the Peanuts fans who hated Snoopy, thinking he had taken over the comics. We tend to think that this is an Internet-age phenomenon, but as the comic book letters pages show, people were not shy about snail-mailing their complaints about the creators artistic decisions.

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