The Exciting Conclusion Of The Popeye Snuff Storyline

I have to go to a wedding this afternoon — of two of my high school friends (gaww) — but I wanted to update you on the further adventures of Popeye. As you may remember, on Wednesday Olive Oyl threatened to kill herself. As I’ve since learned, the Olive Oyl lookalike is apparently Olive’s cousin, who egged her on. Yesterday, all the characters turned into dogs.

And as you can see today, Olive Oyl has apparently disappeared and now we’re on to talking about hamburgers or something. I have no idea. I didn’t even know there was a Popeye comic strip until two days ago. Back in the early 1990s, the artist of Popeye was fired for joking about abortion. Yeah.

I’ll be posting over the weekend from now on (I think), so youse can check in over the weekend to distract yourself from bad TV as opposed to distracting yourself from work.

If you’re bored for the rest of the day, have fun counting all the punny lines in this article from Pittsburgh. I’m not done, but I’m up to 4500.

The Exciting Conclusion To The Popeye Snuff Comic

Yesterday, every child who’s ever had a dream when watching Popeye that one day Olive Oyl would be portrayed in a snuff comic had the best day of his or her life. (Not that any of these people exist, but let’s pretend.) Yesterday’s Popeye comic strip featured Olive Oyl gleefully laughing as she pointed a gun at her head, ready to end her life.

Today, the story gets weirder, kinda.

Okay, so it was all a joke. What makes this strip almost as disturbing as yesterday’s is this: In today’s third panel, all three characters’ brains (as small as they are) are replaced with dogs’ brains. Popeye is going “Arf,” Olive Oyl with boobs is going “Grr,” and Olive Oyl herself is drinking from a fairly unsanitary location.

You know, fake suicide jokes could be funny, I guess, if they were actually funny. I am interested to see where this dog plotline goes, though. Maybe Popeye will sniff Bluto’s ass!

Popeye 6.28.07 [Houston Chronicle]
Yesterday: Popeye The Sadist Man

Popeye The Sadist Man

I dare you to read this comic and tell me you still believe in the First Amendment. And maybe the Second, too.

Horrow show face off [The Comics Curmudgeon]