In article <[email protected]>,
Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:

In article <tlv1lq$99p$[email protected]>,
Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:

On 2022-11-27 06:10:22 +0000, [email protected] (Ted Nolan said:

https://comicskingdom.com/popeye/2022-11-27

Is this something new that Milholland is establishing?

I thought Popeye's mother was never seen (and presumed dead?) and that
the Granny character was *Poopdeck's* mother, not Popeye's.

Popeye's mother, Irene, first appeared in 1951 in the Thimble Theatre
comic strip and the animated "Let's Talk Spinach". >><https://popeye.fandom.com/wiki/Popeye%27s_mother>

She's been appearing in the Olive & Popeye strips on Thursdays lately as well.

I'm pretty sure at least some of that contradicts what Segar established,
but I'm not going to quibble.

Randy is a HUGE Popeye fan, and has almost a century of material to
mine. I think his only really new character is the intern, who he introduced in Popeye's Cartoon Club a few years ago before getting the Sundays gig. The problem is that like any corporate property that's been around long enough, there's a lot of contradictions. Randy's been doing a lot of continuity patching in his strips (e.g. "Sonny" looks like Brutus and Bluto but Sea Hag does not want to talk about it), but sometimes the only way out is to pick
one possibility and abandon the others. And, of course, even Segar didn't necessarily maintain the same vision throughout his entire run, and probably contradicted himself occasionally.

It's a heavy lift, it's be a lot easier to reboot like a lot of legacy strips do, but Randy's taken on the task of accepting that Popeye's been
active since the early 20th Century and yet somehow hasn't died of old age,
and kids are still kids decades later, but it's all in continuity. Just part of the absurdity of the strip.

Dave Van Domelen, thinks if Segar were still alive today, he'd say, "Let me out of this coffin!"

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On 11/27/22 2:03 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <tlv1lq$99p$[email protected]>,
Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:

On 2022-11-27 06:10:22 +0000, [email protected] (Ted Nolan said:

https://comicskingdom.com/popeye/2022-11-27

Is this something new that Milholland is establishing?

I thought Popeye's mother was never seen (and presumed dead?) and that
the Granny character was *Poopdeck's* mother, not Popeye's.

Popeye's mother, Irene, first appeared in 1951 in the Thimble Theatre
comic strip and the animated "Let's Talk Spinach".
<https://popeye.fandom.com/wiki/Popeye%27s_mother>

Hey, if Popeye's mother *is* around, she, at least, ought to remember
the family name which Poopdeck didn't tell Popeye before sending him
out to get chewing tobacco, and which he had forgotten by the time adult >>> Popeye rescued him..

Popeye's surname is "Thesailorman" ... it tells you that in the theme
tune. ;-)

Interesting, thanks!

I'm pretty sure at least some of that contradicts what Segar established,
but I'm not going to quibble.

Hey, Segar contradicted himself when he decided to replace Wifflehen
luck with spinach!

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John W. Kennedy
Algernon Burbage, Lord Roderick, Father Martin, Bishop Baldwin,
King Pellinore, Captain Bailey, Merlin -- A Kingdom for a Stage!

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