Popeye is one of the most famous and awful comic strips in history. It is so boring and bad written yet somehow this comic strip is so illustrious in history of drawing and newspaper print. I am amazed when I look at some books back at the historical prints of Popeye in the thirties how just plain boring this comic strip was and how it was seen as entertaining. There was absolutely no television back then so maybe that can help explain some of this. The characters are so dull and the story lines just pretty much serve the reader nothing in the long run except predictable results. This is a comic strip that ran like some fucking fifty or more years. the comic did no justice to the later cartoons that were a little better. the worse part of this classic comic strip is the running gags that were both not funny and repetitive. Wimpy and his hamburgers are a classic in every strip where he was featured and I really don't get what is so funny about some ugly fat guy eating hamburgers all of the time. If the strip was done now I wonder if it would be tacos that would be his thing instead of hamburgers.
The wimpy character is the top one of many bizarre characters that added nothing and perhaps just these drawings in what was an otherwise simple newspaper formats back then gave more credence and humor to these strips. I really think it would of been funnier if Wimpy just ate tacos. Somehow the obesity epidemic was not really a problem back then even though you had compulsive son of a bitches in real life like Wimpy who gorged themselves on this new foreign delicatessen of hamburgers. This was a time period where the German immigration patters far outweighed those from Mexico and thus why there was a Wimpy and not a Copbarde in Popeye whose only purpose in the comic was to eat tacos all of the time. Popeye remains one of the worse comic strips in my mind mainly on the surrounding cast and baneful story lines that was common of this "classic " comic strip.
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