IDW's Popeye!

[Piratelion]

I also bought and enjoyed Popeye #1, and I am very happy with the care IDW apply to this issue. The feel and tone of the book was really classic strips, makes me wished for a King Features anthology book in this style with Haggar the terrible, Beattle Baily, etc. Def will be back for issue 2.

[Angilas-Man]

Popeye isn't just becoming an ongoing - IDW is adding a second Popeye monthly! Classic Popeye will reprint Bud Sagendorf's Popeye comics from the '40s and '50s!



http://www.midtowncomics.com/store/dp.asp?PRID=CLASSIC+POPEYE+ONGOING+%231_1211829

[Angilas-Man]

Tom Neely talks about his work in upcoming Popeye issues (including the return of Sappo!), the influence of Popeye on his work, and other stuff.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/05/...and-the-devil/

[Angilas-Man]

Issue #2 came out this week. It had a 15 page Popeye story and a 7 page Sappo back-up.


Sappo!

[Piratelion]

I also got issue #2, I enjoyed the Popeye story better than issue 1 (at least the gags).

[Maidman]

Does this have different stories from that big oversized volumes that came out over the last few years? The ones I am thinking of are those volumes that spell out POPEYE a letter a time on the spine of each volume.

[Angilas-Man]

^Those are collections of the original E.C. Segar Popeye comic strips from '28 (Popeye's first story) to '38 (death of Segar).

This series is brand new stuff in the vein of the Segar strip.

[needler420]

Bleeding cool has corrected the article and its an ongoing from IDW.

I thought it was a four part mini series.

[Angilas-Man]

^After the first issue sold out they changed it into an ongoing. It was only a 4 issue mini at first in case it didn't sell; they'd at least committed to doing four issues.

[lonestar9]

Issue #2 came out this week. It had a 15 page Popeye story and a 7 page Sappo back-up.


Sappo!

I was so suprised I enjoyed Popeye #1 as much as I did. I do have #2 as well, but it's on my to read pile, that magically seems to go up even when I do read from it.
I'll get to it as soon as I can though.

[Gary Scott Beatty]

Thanks for the reminder to order this book!

I usually don't like other people writing classic strips I enjoy, but talked to Ken Wheaton at a convention and he convinced me it's not the goofy stuff that came in after Segar. Interesting Captain Jim mentioned the lettering, Ken said he based the lettering on Segar's.

If you know the cartoon, as entertaining as they are (gotta love Fleischer), they don't come close the the cleverness of Segar's strips.

Not all that knocked out with the Bud Sagendorf strips.

(Full disclosure, I colored Peter David's The Wedding of Popeye and Olive for Ocean Comics in the late '90s.)

[Captain Jim]

I remember that! I bought that too.

[Sean@CharitablePress]

Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention.....I picked up the second issue and loved it. I'll have to track down the 1st one now.

[Zach J.]

I was a big fan of Langridge's Thor: The Mighty Avenger and am interested in reading more of his work. Would you recommend this series to someone who is only marginally familiar with Popeye? I remember watching some of the cartoons as a kid, but that's it.

[Angilas-Man]

^This comic is more like the original Popeye comic strip then the cartoons, either way, it should be easy to get into. The first issue is as good an intro to Popeye's world as any, and every issue is a self-contained story.