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dantastic's review
4.0
In this volume of Sunday Thimble Theater comics from 1934 and 1935, Popeye goes up against Sea Hag and Alice the Goon for the first time, as the title indicates, but the character who gets the most space is J. Wellington Wimpy. Wimpy spends a lot of his time screwing the local restaurateurs out of hamburgers but also has time to go gold prospecting with Popeye and opening his own restaurant.
Early Popeye is great stuff. The art really pops and Segar really knows how to make use of the space Sunday comics allowed back in the day. Each strip is a page in the book but has between nine and twenty panels. The Sea Hag strips are pretty moody at the beginning and Segar draws a decent variety of animals. Popeye goes from one predicament to another, beating the shit out of people and inevitably giving his money away to the orphinks.
Great stuff. When the hell does Bluto/Brutus get introduced?
Early Popeye is great stuff. The art really pops and Segar really knows how to make use of the space Sunday comics allowed back in the day. Each strip is a page in the book but has between nine and twenty panels. The Sea Hag strips are pretty moody at the beginning and Segar draws a decent variety of animals. Popeye goes from one predicament to another, beating the shit out of people and inevitably giving his money away to the orphinks.
Great stuff. When the hell does Bluto/Brutus get introduced?
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