Early Peanuts " Peanuts Begins "

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What do you think of the early Peanuts comic strips by Schulz ?
The " Charlie Brown's oval , not round , head "/" like Calvin " ones ? They're now being sequentially reprinted (in colorized versions) by GoComics as PEANUTS BEGINS .
The earliest Peanuts paperback books drew from them ~ definitely the first one , titled just PEANUTS ~ but Schulz got to dislike these early strips in his later years , and apparentl[ he kept the books out of print in his later years , though I guess the Fantagraphics COMPLETE PEANUTS books made them all available as one .

...Is it clear what I'm referring to ???
http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts-begins/2015/01/05
This is the very first PEANUTS daily newspaper strip .
There's nearly a year of them up , I've linked to the very beginner .
They're colorized ~ as I said !

That's pretty cool. I like peanuts and am interested in reading up on early era strips.

I'm actually practicing the Linus and Lucy song on piano. The one that was played on the Christmas special.

How are you doing these days?

...Not that great although ~ Right now , I just splurged on a lot of magazines , so that should be good :--..but , I'll be completely cut off from a computer toomorrow , at best?? I'll be trotting around ~ on my bad feet and my gas-/liquid-retainingg stomach , going to " poor/homeless charity feeds " on Christmas day ~ Things will be pretty dead the next day and as things stand now I'll be low on money .
People sometimes go around casually giving gifts to poor/homeless inn times leading up to holidays and today I got a gift from somebody giving away a (rather land) burrito ~ and a 12 oz Pabst Blue Ribbon !
I drank about one third/one half .
I have only beat-up , rather dirty from my urination problems pants ~
I have supposedly solved having been essentially thown out o fhe shelter I was in , as it was ~ apparently ~ solved by the time I got to the computer I didn't mention it before .
Other people in the shelter have smartphones/laptops/tablets . I do not . (one I had was stolen )

It's hard to get used to the early Charlie Brown--but he was pretty much the same kid as the later Charlie Brown (maybe a little more hip in the "early" strip).

I grew up treasuring my collection of Peanuts paperbacks, which ran from the beginning to the early '70s. Read them over and over again, and can still quote lines from them.

Now that I'm going through the Fantagraphics series it's clear that that was when Peanuts was absolutely brilliant. I still like the later strip, but it unquestionably got blander, sweeter, and cuter (Snoopy as Joe Skateboard, etc). Originally Peanuts was about how hard it is to be a kid. Sometimes it was really bitter and dark. People who only knew Peanuts in the '80s or later must wonder what the fuss is about.

I've purchased an assortment of the old paperbacks on eBay, and hope my kids will come to love them as much as I do.