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Transcript:

Lucy sits on the floor whistling and piling her building blocks.

She turns around puzzled and surprised as Charlie Brown yells and charges her blocks.

She covers her eyes and whimpers 'No', as he gets ready to kick them down.

She lets out a sigh of relief as he walks off saying, "I haven't got the heart..."

Original comic:

And of course, Lucy went on to sucker CB for decades afterwards, yanking the football away from him just as he was trying to go for a field goal, sending him flying in the air to land on his back.

There's an exception here, however:
https://piefed.social/c/ComicStripEdits/p/1959848/charlie-brown-finally-gets-his-with-a-little-help-from-spidey

Comics hit different in the 50s I guess? I'm not even smiling at these. 🫤

You've gotta remember, no one knew anything. Schulz had little context for what he was doing and the humor and experience he was drawing from was limited.

Is Schulz the original author/creator of these back in the day? Pardon my ignorance.

I dunno, there's just... No substance. Just a person doing a thing to another person, almost. Almost being mean, but saying "nope, I don't have the heart to be mean." Like, a'ight. 😄 It's more funny how it isn't funny.

Maybe it's not trying to be funny? Maybe there's a political theme for the time, hiding behind this? Who knows, not I.

Yeah, I think the deal is that he was just drawing kids doing stuff. Most of the humor comes from "kids say the darndest things". Again, the whole thing was pretty new, so just drawing kids doing stuff was a novelty.

I can see how people were... drawn to it, back in the day, then. Nowadays with the nuisance and depth of problems we're dealing with, it seems so mundane lol.

Maybe I'm being generationist.