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thebeardedpoet's review
3.0
My rating of 3 stars is entirely about my very subjective response to these comic strips. At times I was charmed and amused to the hilt. Other moments I was sick and tired of the boxing matches and of Popeye beating up any potential suitor for Olive Oyl, no matter how mild-mannered the new rival. The violence and repetitiveness grated on me. But I realize that is the nature of the beast when dealing with the 1930s Popeye.
The production levels on the collection are amazing. E.C. Segar's drawings are always appealing. And I do love Popeye's unmistakable way of speaking. Probably my favorite sequences here were when Popeye would come into a huge windfall of money (usually a boxing purse), propose to Olive promising to buy her a dream house, and then he'd run into an impoverished woman with too many children and give her all the money. Or in one case, a crowd of children beg ice-cream and candy off him, inspiring the line in the candy shop: "I wants a thousing dollars' worth of jelly beans." Popeye is a brutal brawler with heart of pink ice cream!
The production levels on the collection are amazing. E.C. Segar's drawings are always appealing. And I do love Popeye's unmistakable way of speaking. Probably my favorite sequences here were when Popeye would come into a huge windfall of money (usually a boxing purse), propose to Olive promising to buy her a dream house, and then he'd run into an impoverished woman with too many children and give her all the money. Or in one case, a crowd of children beg ice-cream and candy off him, inspiring the line in the candy shop: "I wants a thousing dollars' worth of jelly beans." Popeye is a brutal brawler with heart of pink ice cream!
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