Leage of Extraordinary Bloggers Post: Star Trek!

I've managed to find about 10 minutes to squeeze in a quick post for my favorite weekly feature (that I miss dearly), and this week's assignment is simply titled Star Trek.

Unfortunately, I have never been a fan of Star Trek. Despite my penchant for green women, Star Trek has never really impressed me.

The original series bored me as a kid, the Next Generation stuff was even worse (and it was crammed down my throat thanks to a Trekker roommate), and pretty much all of the movies were lame-o (although Wrath of Khan had its moments).

However, I did honestly enjoyed the latest reboot movie, and look forward to the new one. So I guess my distaste for Star Trek is 100%.

Still, I wracked my brain trying to think of something Trek-ish that I could post, and the only thing that I could come up with is a quick pic of the only remotely Star Trek related collectibles I own; my Captain Snoopy and Woodspock Funko Wacky Wobblers...

And I gotta be honest, I only have these because I'm a Peanuts fan.

But that just goes to show how powerful the legacy of Star Trek is; When a person who actively avoids and is inherently repulsed by a certain franchise and he still ends up with at least a couple of collectibles on his shelf touch by the very thing he tried to avoid. Star Trek, whether I like it or not, is everywhere.

Live Long and Prosper.

From the other League Trekkies...

Fortune & Glory Days
AEIOU & Sometimes Why?
Infinite Hollywood

Happy Thanksgiving from Me & the Peanuts Gang!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown

I love Peanuts. Always have. In fact, if I could be any comic strip character, I'd be the Phantom. But if I could be another, I'd be Snoopy.

So with an undying love for all things Charles Shultz in my heart, I just can't pass up any of these vintage Peanuts paperbacks whenever I find them. This little gem was one that I remembered from my grade school days, having checked out all of the Peanuts books several times between 1st and 5th grade, that I'm sure I've read this one about eight times.

Scholastic released this book in a series based on the extremely popular Peanuts TV specials, which included stills taken from Bill Melendez's original animation cels. Here we see Shermie (yes, that's his name), Linus, Charlie Brown, Pig Pen and Schroder roasting up marshmallows on the cover...

This is a classic going-to-summer-camp tale (not to be confused with the better known, and frankly better all around, Peanuts summer camp special, Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown), and is packed with color illustrations throughout.

Unlike many Peanuts paperbacks, which are usually reprints of the classic strips (I have a ton of those, too), these books were presented in storybook style for young readers (or geeky collectors, like me).

The real beauty of some of these books were the occasional calm moment of sublime illustration without the need for words...

If you're having trouble remembering this TV special, this was the one were the whole camp was taken over by arm-wrestling fever (or "wrist wrestling", as they say in the show), leading the champion, Lucy, to face off with the "Masked Marvel", who no one ever identified as Snoopy.

The match was riveting!

Of course, Snoopy eventually did things his way...

Causing Lucy to call foul...

This book is a perfect storm of nostalgia for me from the TV specials, to the book itself to my own epic memories of Summer Camp. Not that we did any "wrist wrestling".

Thanks for reading!