Bluto's Just Strangling an Innocent Man...He Deserves To Be Twisted Into a Knot

We have a new writer/artist on the long-running Thimble Theatre/Popeye comic strip. Randy Milholland apparently was the most popular of the creators during the Popeye Cartoon Club run back in 2019 and is now the new creator for the regular Sunday strip. Congratulations, I hope your run is long and successful.

Yes, Castor's daughter is named Deezil.

Look, if you're trying to recreate the movie-going experience from the 1970s then charging $50 isn't part of it. Tickets were around $1.75 back then. Add on another $1.75 for soda and popcorn and you are still nowhere close to $50. But whatever, enjoy the movie guys.

Weird that Uncle Ted has the same living room setup as Brutus and them. He even has more places to sit despite Brutus' house having three people living in it. That TV looks precarious though.

Is Ian Petty's cat, Champion, okay? Does Ian think this

is his cat?

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He Yam What He Yam

Getting this tribute to Popeye just in under the wire, aren't you Chip?

Popeye, as we all know, originally starred in E.C. Segar's Thimble Theatre which started in 1919 and originally starred Harold Hamgravy and his girlfriend Olive Oyl. Popeye first appeared January 17, 1929 and soon became the strip's star. Thimble Theatre was renamed Popeye in the 1970s. So while we're all honoring Popeye on his 90th, let's all wish Olive Oyl a happy 100th.

Luckily It Was the Chicken's Blood, Sweat, and Tears

Beetle Bailey

The way this country treats our military sometimes is just blasphemous.

Family Circus

If you want to inject Jeffy with a lethal dose of potassium chloride and say it's a flu shot or something, no one would rat you out.

Crankshaft

You ungrateful son of a... You and the teacher make a mistake causing yourselves to have to be marooned at the theater and you crap all over it. It's a wonder no one has killed you.

panel from Funky Winkerbean

Speaking of wondering why somehow hasn't killed someone yet, here's Funky and his wife. She's not going to kill him because of the bad joke or the insult to her but because she's not seeking heat so the joke/insult doesn't work.

Hi and Lois, January 29-30, February 2-3

It's clear that the five random people who create Hi and Lois don't talk to each other or even half-assedly concern themselves with even the most basic continuity, right?

Popeye

Wait. Does everybody think this gorilla in a suit is a human being? It's like that episode of The Flintstones where everybody thinks a gorilla is Fred just because the gorilla is wearing the same shirt.

Friday Quickies

Mutts

I had a dream last night that I owned a spider farm. And yes, it was exactly what it sounds like.

Mother Goose and Grimm

HAHA! Waiters. Amiright?

Popeye

This storyline is getting so weird.

Hagar the Horrible

HAHA! Wives. Amiright?

$8!?! Get Outta Here!

Blondie

Whoa. Sir.

Crock

Is that supposed to be a cell phone or is that cactus some sort of desert phone booth?

Slylock Fox and Comics For Kids

Why can't Max buy his own $8 bubble wand? Just more evidence that Max is some sort of servant to Slylock and not a junior detective or Dr. Watson. $8?!! Shady is lucky that his 1500% fraud just warrants a stern talking to and not a prison sentence like everything else in this dark yet brightly colored future.

Popeye

I...guess this is a change in storyline...

Saturday Quickies

Popeye

I don't know about you but this "generation gap/sweetie gap" storyline is getting tiresome. Both Swee'Pea and Olive are treating Popeye terribly and neither deserve him.

Curtis

Or a basketball player. Is that racist? Nah.

Crankshaft

...

All right, that does it for me. I'm out. Today's Crankshaft has broken me. Bye, everyone.

Screaming At Babies

Crankshaft

Oh no! I have an opinion similar to Ed Crankshaft. Please save me!!!

Mark Trail

Soooo...I guess that fire ant problem is solved.

Popeye

I do the same thing, Olive Oyl. Not to my own child but just to any random children that I see. They need to know where they stand with me.

Saturday Quickies

Popeye

Popeye's grandma is still alive? I guess Popeye is only in his 40s which means Poopdeck Pappy is between 60-80 so his mom could certainly still be alive at 80-105.

At least we know where Pappy and Popeye get their looks.

Rex Morgan, M.D.

I hope Sarah's teddy bear, Bobo, plays an important role in her origins when she inevitably grows up to be a supervillain.

'Should Have' Not 'Should Of'

Funky Winkerbean

"Wow! You are obsessive with a capital O."

"Wow! You really put the 'obsess' in 'obsessive.'"

"Wow! Is 'obsessive' your middle name?"

"Wow! If only you were this obsessive about things that matter."

Four possible changes to the last panel, all of them better than what is used. It's not that hard, Batiuk!!

The Amazing Spider-Man

One thing that has been bothering me about Spider-Man over the last couple of days is 1)I thought it was daytime. I've never seen any indication that it's night so Jameson being asleep seems odd. 2)Jameson's asleep? He just lost his beloved newspaper. JJJ strikes me as a man who will stay up and ponder about what he can do. Make phone calls, threaten and yell. You know, what J. Jonah Jameson usually does. 3)Why can't they just use the door? 4)I know Ant-Man is neither dead nor injured but I can hope.

Popeye

"...And the mess his Pappy left him, and the mess his Pappy left him, and the mess..."

Screaming Into the Wind

Beetle Bailey

That tree has comforted Beetle.

That tree has shaded Beetle.

That tree has protected Beetle.

That tree has loved Beetle.

But Beetle treats that tree like that jerkass kid did from The Giving Tree. I don't know what's worse: Beetle not giving a damn that the tree is gone or that Sarge clearly cut the tree down out of spite.

Popeye

I know of several adults that don't act as mature as Swee' Pea. It's a sad state of affairs out there, people.

Sherman's Lagoon

I don't understand why pop culture uses the Disney theme park's names when the same effect can be achieved by just using a generic theme park name. My favorite will always be Happy World Land.

Mainly, it's just sad to see that even a comic strip about a talking shark is in the pocket of Big Mouse.

Ziggy

It Was Probably About Alexander Hamilton, the Grandson of Alexander Hamilton

Sally Forth

I love that one summer without Hillary has put a lot of pressure on the Forths' marriage. While I don't think they will actually get divorced and Ted move out, it would be kind of cool to see Ted live by himself with only Hillary's once-favorite stuffed animal for companionship.

I want to know what "Hamilton Musical" Ted took Sally to see.

Family Circus

Why is PJ in the high chair? That seems dangerous.

Popeye

I gave this girl I liked in fifth grade a flower. In sixth grade, I gave another girl this cheap piece of jewelry I had. I never dated either of them, they never became my friend, and my life went on as if I had done nothing at all.

Nancy

A lot of Sunday comic strips have throwaway panels at the top so that, depending on how the newspaper formats their comics page, the strip can be easily stacked. A lot of times, the only way you can see these throwaway panels is either through a printed collection or seeing the original posted online through the syndicate's website. But what happens when even the syndicate removes the throwaway panels. Then I guess you can only see the original when the artist posts the strip on Instagram.