Yeah I just read the 2015 comics and I get a very distinct feeling the goobergrape and twitter broke this man in two. It goes from this "Married with Children but about weird comic spergs" to "some fat jewish kid took this guy's lunch money in the 90's"
Actually the inspiration for the comic came from when the author was working at DC Comics. At one point one of the editors he was working under got bags of hate mail, telling him to kill himself etc. The reason for this was because he was the one that decided to kill of a minor Justice League character (Ice). This went on for days and Dorkin (the author of the comic) was shocked to the bone just how delusional comic fans could get. He made the comic as a form of detox.
I have, and it's surprisingly decent so far.
oh yeah. I know the original inspiration at this point haha. I'm partly joking/more agreeing now to not wanting a modern one, having read some of the old strip vs that more modern 'ending' the guy put it's definitely got an entirely different energy to it. Dude is very clearly worn down at that point and i can totally get that. At least from this guy unless things have changed since some of these interviews.
The show is a weird guilty pleasure of mine. Came on while I was watching the cousins and I got more invested than I thought. It's not amazing by any means, but if you're a fan of Phineas and Ferb's/Fairly Odd-parents sitcom-y 4th wall humor then it's worth leaving on in the background. The romance thankfully is mostly on the wayside and the show doesn't try to pretend like they won't be endgame. As for any wokestuff to bitch about, Scott's sister is a lesbian and gets a gf in an episode but that's it.
holy image dump batman
I don't think you could really do Popeye in current year without doing violence to Segar's original (well even more violence than the previous adaptations have done). You'd have to dumb down Wimpy even more for instance. That's without even getting to the wokeshit mutilations.
And don't forget that Olive Oyl was slapsticked and beaten up almost as often as Popeye and Bluto. Obviously that'd never stand today.
Eh. I've been reading them and there *does* seem to be a lot of proto-woke virtue signaling. It's subtle but every strip has to have some obvious knock at racism or something.
The movie wasn't much but Williams' was a great Popeye. Too bad nearly everything else about it sucked (although Shelley Duvall was inspired casting for Olive Oyl too). I hate when perfect casting is wasted on a mediocre movie.
also in episode one there's the whole "serene Williams is a black female president in a future Hailey saved from climate change"...hit every wish fufillment of some one the writing staff with that one didnt you?
He's still written to be something of a goofball and a little airheaded but credit where it's due, he's nowhere near as dumb and bumbling as male protagonists tend to be written these days especially in Disney shows. I think the last Disney animated show that had a male lead who wasn't written to be a bumbling oaf was milo murphy's law, and even then that's mostly because someone who understands real comedy (weird AL Yankovick) was a showrunner on it.
eddy's brother molested him and kevin and rolf
