Peanuts Every Sunday #7

Charles Schulz's unmistakable linework fills this handsome Fantagraphics collection, with the cover capturing a wonderfully chaotic baseball scene — Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, and the whole Peanuts gang scattered across the field, gloves raised, as the telltale "BONK" makes clear that yet another fly ball has gone delightfully wrong. The strip panel across the top reinforces the theme, showing Charlie Brown alone on the mound before the crowd converges with overlapping cries of "I got it!" Spanning the Sunday pages from 1981 to 1985, this seventh volume is a warm, generous celebration of Schulz at full creative stride.