Yeah, John, I was writing about you. ;-D

Joe - I identified with Snoopy too. I think most people did, hence his popularity. A lot of people identified somewhat with Charlie Brown as well...but not to the extent they did with Snoopy. Charlie Brown was undoubtedly Charles Schulz's view of his own not too happy childhood...and the pain of being "the weird kid", the one who gets picked on, laughed at, and excluded. It must have come as a surprise to Schulz himself how Snoopy grew from being a minor character to pretty much taking over the strip as time went by. Snoopy is like the hidden self in all of us, the imaginary self that has great adventures and does extraordinary things...while Charlie Brown is the ordinary everday person with all his problems and shortcomings.

Lucy? She's the conquering nightmare who lives next door...and might even eventually marry you! ;-) Only the dream self (Snoopy) is invulnerable to her power.