‘Popeye’ Comic Strip Getting Woke Makeover with ‘More Characters Who Aren’t Heterosexual’

Breitbart ^ | 07/06/2022 | David NG

[DFG]

After nearly a hundred years in existence, the Popeye comic strip is reportedly getting a woke makeover, with the strip’s latest cartoonist promising more ethnic diversity and “more characters who aren’t heterosexual.”

Cartoonist Randal K. Milholland described the Popeye character as being “gender fluid,” citing old episodes in which the plot required Popeye to dress in drag.

“I [want] to bring in more characters who aren’t heterosexual,” Milholland said in an interview with the San Antonio Express-News. “I don’t live in that purely straight white world, and I don’t think a lot of other people do either.”

[Bigg Red]

Pervs just love bringing their perversions into everything.

[Dr. Sivana]

Unfortunately, Popeye's been messed up for years. From Wikipedia:

From 1986 to 1992, the daily strip was written and drawn by Bobby London, who, after some controversy, was fired from the strip for a story that could be taken to satirize abortion.

[dsrtsage]

Fantabulous. Guess there are new and improved places to jam cans of spinach

[gundog]

[Category Four]

Jack Mercer has been dead for almost forty years; Elzie Segar, for over eighty.

Each man's right pinky finger was, and remains today, a bigger man than this asshat cartoonist.

[Pilsner]

Popeye is in the Navy after all…

In the 1944 short Puppet Love, Popeye is seen preparing for date with Olive Oyl. He is bent over apparently buffing his shoes to a high shine with a rag. But when he lifts is foot we see he was in fact buffing his toenails, which are painted fire engine red. The scene is at 1:00 in the video.

[Lazamataz]

Uh oh.

Whole new meaning.

[Dr. Sivana]

Popeye is down to 20 papers carrying Sunday strips, and 8 papers carrying repeats of daily strips. (High of 600 papers in the glory days of Segar)

That makes VERY little money for the artist/writer. I suspect King Features keeps it going because of Popeye’s cross-platform appeal, and its antiquity. They let “Bring Up Father” (Maggie and Jiggs) go, and may have regrets.

( https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/07/03/cartoonist-randy-milholland-gladly-gets-paid-tuesday-for-a-sunday-popeye-comic-strip-today/ )

[OrangeHoof]

Well, blow me!

[SaveFerris]

As it was in the days of Lot

Luke 17:28-32

[SaveFerris]

(but we’re actually at the level of Sodom)

Time is running out, for planet Earth 🌎🌍, before the 7-year Tribulation begins.

✝️🙏🛐

[Charles Martel]

Oh no. Wonder what they are going to do with Alice the Goon.

I'm not entirely sure that Alice is human, so they could get very creative there. I'm afraid Poopdeck Pappy's fate is pretty much sealed, though.

[redshawk]

Why oh Why can’t these whack jobs just leave things alone?
Popeye was a different time in a different world.

[telescope115]

Can’t picture Bluto going thru gender re-assignment.

[Drew68]

I didn’t know Popeye was still around.

Exactly. Who the hell is still reading Popeye comic strips in 2022?

What's next? Hagar the Horrible is non-binary?

[telescope115]

And we alll know what happens after THAT…

[telescope115]

Jeremy Renner would be good!
I am having trouble seeing Qui-Gonn Jinn as Pappy. Too tall, maybe?
This could be a fun thread…😀

[Az Joe]

A gay character? Must be a Marine

[BiteYourSelf]

Gives New meaning to the song “Blow the man down”.🙄

[Agatsu77]

That is all fine, and I do not have to watch them either. I’ll watch the old ones, the ones before they got woke.