Comments on: Snoopy’s Last Flight

By: LC

LC — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:32:03 +0000

Maybe the joke is he doesn’t have a parachute with him?

By: Alexandra Erin

Alexandra Erin — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:58:14 +0000

The “joke” is the same as in the image of Hobbes standing over the bloody, mauled corpse of Calvin. It’s taking a harmless bit of fantasy fluff and imagining it as deadly reality. In Snoopy’s usual “Dogfights”, he can be shot down any number of times because it’s fantasy… but here it’s his “last flight” because he gets shot down and dies.

By: ty

ty — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:27:22 +0000

Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose. Snoopy and his Sopwith Camel.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:13:52 +0000

I’ll toss Gary Powers and the U2 into the pool.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:57:19 +0000

Seismic, I think it’s kind of funny that, in a post where you mis-typed the words “and” and “ever,” the typo you chose to correct is the one none of us would have noticed.

(Also, I nominate Lindberg and the Spirit of St. Louis for that “closely associated with an aircraft” title).

By: Seismic-2

Seismic-2 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:24:44 +0000

Typo — should be Fokker “DR1″ triplane.

By: Seismic-2

Seismic-2 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:23:40 +0000

Amd since when did the Red Baron every fly a biplane??? Surely no one has been associated with an aircraft so closely as Baron Manfred von Richtofen was with the Fokker DRA triplane.

By: Cidu Bill

Cidu Bill — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:59:17 +0000

Fuzzmaster (and everybody else), have you seen this?

By: fuzzmaster

fuzzmaster — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:56:42 +0000

Snoopy’s flights were … imaginary? You mean, not real, like him sleeping on the roof peak of his doghouse, or playing shortstop, or playing hockey on a frozen birdbath? Or Charlie Brown being stripped down to his shorts by a line drive, or Schroeder being able to play Beethoven sonatas on a toy piano?

So — about that whole Great Pumpkin thing, then …

By: Oy vey

Oy vey — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:28:38 +0000

I don’t think I’d think this particular strip was hilarious in any case, but maybe it would’ve worked better with a caption like, “Snoopy’s first real flight was also his last.” But there would definitely be some better jokes about Walter Mitty-ish types colliding with reality.