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Look, I came here to get angry if Pokio wasn’t on first place, but it is, and so my world is at peace. Read more

My biggest complaint about Pokio is that he’s largely used in Bowser’s Castle (or only? it’s been a while) which is a fun stage, but it’s pretty restrictive in terms of what you can do. Since it’s a series of floating areas, there are less opportunities to just tool around and have fun with the transformations. As a… Read more

Pokio absolutely number one (top 3 is spot-on for sure), but Letters underrated. Was especially fun watching my 3-year old daughter practice spelling Mario. Read more

“I am confused about statements like these. I am a black person” Read more

If Kotaku doesn’t personally fly Kevin Wong to this hotel, there are no ethics in gaming journalism Read more

I see something very different in these comics; I see Lucy bullying Schroeder into paying attention to her because if he doesn’t, she’s not “real”. She destroys his stuff. She won’t leave him alone. She screams and throws temper tantrums. Then, when he’s willing to acknowledge her, she turns him down cold because it’s… Read more

When was this? It must have been a fairly let strip cuz I remember Schulz going on some weird Great Gatsby kick. Read more

Schroeder was definitely a weird one. I’m at work, so I can’t check, but I want to say that there were a couple moments where he had some character development. Maybe. -_- I guess the best thing is about him is that most of the jokes he was used in did elicit a laugh.

When Schroeder was introduced as a toddler, the joke was less that he was obsessed with Beethoven (he did occasionally talk about other composers) but that he was an uncanny musical savant — impossibly able to get concert-quality sound out of a toy piano whose black keys were painted on. Looking at these later strips… Read more

I certainly appreciate your take, even if I don’t agree with this specific one. Glad your articles are out there, and I enjoy reading them. I think this may be one of those situations like the romantic movie stalkers that the ‘romanticism’ of it is seen a lot differently by different people. Read more

“Finally, having forced them into a show of physical affection, they publicly reject them just to humiliate them, attempting to rewrite the narrative to them rejecting the other, instead of being rejected.” Read more

I still think that it’s one of those situations where, if you reversed the genders, we’d be talking about how abusive Lucy is. As a woman reading this situation, all I’m seeing is a person who forced someone to acknowledge them, even though the other party has clearly and repeatedly expressed that they are not… Read more

early on schroeder grew accustomed to lucy the same way radio listeners grow accustomed to pop music that radio stations play 1000x a week explicitly to stamp it into their memory. was he invented as a plot device on which to foist lucy’s own character development? given his storylines with her and overall thin… Read more

I also see a parallel between with the strips where Lucy ask for Charlie Brown to kick the football, only to remove the ball just before he kicks it. Instead of her having expectactions, she creates one in Charlie Brown, who believes every time that this one is gonna be for real. Even though its not about love, its… Read more

Really? I thought it was a good movie. It did a great job of bringing it back to life, and I thought the voices where spot on (did they use the ones from the old tv specials?)
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Aw yeah! A new Wong article! It’s a good wednesday Read more

That’s childhood relationships though. One day you’re getting married to someone on the playground the next day you never talk to them again, etc etc Read more

Love works in mysterious ways, but it’s fascinating that while Lucy had one of the more complex trajectories of any Peanuts character, Schroeder stayed rooted in the past, ignoring all pop culture (or indeed any culture) outside of Beethoven and classical music, and the strips above hint that one day that would lead… Read more

So glad to see another Peanuts article from you Kevin!
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Schulz always had a thing for relationships that never seemed to go anywhere. Lucy loves Schroeder but Schroeder doesn’t like her back. Sally loves Linus but Linus doesn’t love her back. Charlie Brown is the crush of Patty and Marcie but get downplayed by Charlie Brown all the same. Charlie Brown has a crush with the… Read more