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Unlike other media, [[Newspaper Comics]] are generally intended to run six to seven days a week for years or even decades, until the cartoonist either retires or [[Author Existence Failure|dies]], and possibly beyond that. As a result, this medium is particularly vulnerable to [[Canon Discontinuity]] for a variety of reasons. A previously entertaining comic may become a tiresome [[Author Tract|mouthpiece for the cartoonist's ideology]]. Cartoonists may grow [[Artist Disillusionment|bored]] with their creation yet continue under [[Franchise Zombie|executive pressure]] or financial duress, leading to [[Never Live It Down|uninspired retreads of old ideas]]. Or the new cartoonist for an existing strip may [[My Real Daddy|pale in comparison to the original]].

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* A lot of fans tend to totally ignore the earliest years of ''[[Peanuts]]'', on the grounds that it is absolutely nothing like the Peanuts that everyone knows about, especially character-wise, (Lucy and Schroeder, and later Linus, being babies when Charlie Brown was about five is one example that is completely incompatible with the rest of the strip); but also because the tone was utterly different—much cheerier, with none of the strips hallmarks. The strip morphs into canon somewhere during the mid- to late '50s.

** Another set of ''Peanuts'' fans are fine with the earliest strips, but consider the last few years of the strip (when nearly all characters but Charlie Brown, Lucy, and Linus have disappeared and they take a backseat to Snoopy and [[The Scrappy|Rerun Van Pelt]] to have never happened.