get me a jury and show me how to say "in july" and I'll... go down on you

So Grandmaster of Funk fishymcb pointed me towards this video.

It... look, it's Orson Welles and it's Pinky and the Brain. Just watch it.

Like the vast majority of kids who say this ten years ago, I didn't get the joke. Now... holy crap. Hoooooo-ly crap. Kevin's right, Maurice LaMarche is a god among men; if it weren't for the recording quality difference, you wouldn't be able to tell where he ended and Welles began.

POPEYE pimpery

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So I was shocked to discover that the old POPEYE comics are fucking brilliant.

No, seriously. I had no idea. Like most people, when I think of Popeye, I think of the cartoons. Not a fan. The same damn plot over and over, Bluto, spinach, the whole deal. So when Fantagraphics put a giant hardcover collection of the original pre-cartoon E.C. Segar THIMBLE THEATER comic strips, my immediate reaction is, "no thanks." I mean, it's Popeye. And besides, it's... old. Ewww.

What a fool I was.

These comics are the creative equivalent of the Marx Brothers and W.C. Fields, and Popeye himself is like Marv from SIN CITY, Wolverine, and Chuck Norris all rolled up in one absurd-looking sailor.

And all I wanted was to scan some strips and put them up here, to show you just why POPEYE is so damn awesome. But the problem is, the daily strips weren't one-note gags but rather a serialized ongoing story, ala Dickens and Dostoevsky! Trying to scan whole stories would be a pain in the ass.

So what could I do? How could I possibly convey, in one single strip, the awesomeness of POPEYE?

( And blow me down, then I found it. )

So, yes, go pick up POPEYE volumes 1 and 2, published by Fantagraphics and available at all finer booksellers.