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Category Archives: Popeye

There’s an Apkallu for That

Beth and I went to the Mermaid Parade in Coney Island on Saturday, and watched The Shape of Water last night, so it’s been a good weekend for fish-people. The rest of this paragraph will have some SPOILERS for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Babylonian, Cold War, Final Fantasy, Greek Philosophy, Hinduism, History, Humor, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Popeye, Relationships, Religion, Space Program, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies, Zelda | Tagged a link between worlds, apkallu, berossus, birds, captain james hook, cats, coney island, coney island mermaid parade, costumes, creature from the black lagoon, crocodiles, enki, epic of gilgamesh, fish, flood, guillermo del toro, lobsters, marduk, matsya, mermaids, mister ed, oannes, ocarina of time, octopuses, plato, princess ruto, queen oren, racism, sages, saptarishi, seven sages, sexism, sexuality, starfish, the shape of water, uanna, vishnu, zoras |

Koopas Behind the Curtain

This article I read this week discusses the idea of Mario and company being essentially actors in different scenarios, as per a comment from Shigeru Miyamoto comparing them to the cast of Popeye cartoons. It obviously addresses Super Mario Bros. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Dreams, Mario, Muppets, Plays, Popeye, Relationships, Video Games | Tagged baby herman, doki doki panic, kermit the frog, king bowser koopa, lakitu, looney tunes, mario and luigi paper jam, mario and luigi: superstar saga, mickey mouse, new donk city, paper mario, roger rabbit, shigeru miyamoto, super mario 64, super mario bros. 3, super mario odyssey, who framed roger rabbit, wreck-it ralph |

Gammon and Spinach

You know, I think I still have a DVD set of old Popeye cartoons I haven’t watched, and I haven’t gotten my hands on a copy of the last collection of Elzie Segar’s strips either. But I did think of … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Cartoons, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Donkey Kong, Families, Food, Greek Mythology, Health, Humor, Mythology, Pac-Man, Popeye, Video Games | Tagged achilles, bluto, captain strong, elzie segar, erich von wolf, famous studios, fantastic four, fleischer studios, hercules, olive oyl, poopdeck pappy, samson, shigeru miyamoto, spinach, superfoods, superheroes, superman, the incredible hulk, vegetables, whiffle hen, zeus |

Gotta Nuke Something

It seems that the Trump administration is determined to bring back the Cold War and its arms race, only this time they’re on the same side as Russia. Or are they? I’ve been trying to get through my old e-mail, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Cold War, Current Events, History, Japan, Politics, Popeye, Prejudice | Tagged adolf hitler, atomic bombs, donald trump, Iran, kim jong-un, north korea, nuclear weapons, president barack obama, surrender, vladimir putin, war, world war ii, you're a sap mr. jap |

Blast from the Pasta

I have neither played nor watched anyone else play Yoshi’s New Island, but I know the premise behind it is that the Stork brought Mario and Luigi to the wrong house, and when trying to find the right one he … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Donkey Kong, Fairy Tales, Families, Mario, Popeye, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged cranky kong, donkey kong jr., elzie segar, issun-boshi, jumpman, kamek, luigi mario, mario's bombs away, nintendo comics system, nintendo power, pauline, poopdeck pappy, princess peach toadstool, shigeru miyamoto, stork, super smash bros. melee, toad, yoshi, yoshi's island, yoshi's new island |

A Mutagen-Filled Origin

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection, Volume 1, by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird – I picked up a digital copy of this from Comixology when they were having a sale, and I kind of wish I’d bought other … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Cartoons, Comics, Humor, Popeye, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Television | Tagged april o'neil, baxter stockman, bluto, casey jones, daredevil, fantastic four, foot clan, frank miller, kevin eastman, peter laird, shredder, splinter, teenage mutant ninja turtles the ultimate collection, utroms |

The Spinach Cycle

Something I’d been meaning to check out but didn’t until recently was the recent series of Popeye comics written by Roger Langridge, with art by Tom Neely, Bruce Ozella, Ken Wheaton, and John Byrne. Last year, the series was wrapped … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Cartoons, Comics, Humor, Popeye | Tagged alice the goon, bluto, bruce ozella, castor oyl, elzie segar, george geezil, harold ham gravy, j. wellington wimpy, john byrne, ken wheaton, king blozo, o.g. wotasnozzle, poopdeck pappy, roger langridge, rough-house, sappo, sea hag, swee'pea, toar, tom neely |

Duck, Duck, Mouse

Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot and Lost in Lands of Long Ago, by Floyd Gottfredson – These are the fifth and sixth volumes of Fantagraphics’ reprints of the classic Mickey strips. I still haven’t read the third and fourth, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Popeye | Tagged carl barks, disney, donald duck, floyd gottfredson, gladstone gander, huey dewey and louie, j. wellington wimpy, lost in lands of long ago, mickey mouse, mickey mouse outwits the phantom blot, peg-leg pete, scrooge mcduck, trail of the unicorn, unicorns |

Better Shredder Than Deader

No, I haven’t seen the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. There’s part of me that wants to, but I think I can wait for the video release. It doesn’t look that good, and while it might well not be … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Focus on the Foes, Popeye, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Television | Tagged april o'neil, baxter stockman, bebop and rocksteady, bluto, elzie segar, james avery, kevin eastman, oroku saki, peter laird, shredder, splinter, teenage mutant ninja turtles 2: the secret of the ooze, william fichtner |

The Initial Problem

It’s sort of an unspoken rule that cartoon characters tend to have the middle initial J. It’s probably really not as common as you might think, but it does show up in quite a few unrelated cartoon franchises. In The … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Futurama, Popeye, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Television, The Flintstones, The Simpsons | Tagged abraham simpson, barney rubble, bart simpson, bullwinkle j. moose, donald duck, elmer fudd, fred flintstone, homer simpson, j. wellington wimpy, jay ward, lisa simpson, looney tunes, michigan j. frog, middle initial, middle name, nancy cartwright, philip j. fry, rocket j. squirrel, wile e. coyote |