Linus Loves Mankind

I was commissioned to recreate this iconic PEANUTS panel (from the strip dated November 12, 1959), one of my all-time favorites (and oft-quoted, along with SEINFELD's "People... They are the worst!"). The person who requested this wondered if I could do some kind of tweak along the lines of my Sluggo panel redux, but I said that there are some things I consider sacrosanct, and PEANUTS is one of them. I did move Linus up a bit in the art, so that his feet are not cut off as in the original comic strip, but other than that... how do you improve perfection? The most you can do is hope to pay tribute.