![]() ![]() Each strip pays off in a fine gag, yet the narrative accumulates to reveal a good satire of war politics. Popeye soon discovers sedition in the ranks Blozo’s chief general Bunzo plots to overthrow the king. One of the best storylines concerns the hiring of Popeye to join the ”brave” forces of King Blozo of Nazilia (a thin, stooped-over, stringy-bearded idiot) to defeat his kingdom’s enemies, the ”cowardly” Tonsylvanians. Within this formal grid pattern, Segar worked anarchic wonders. ![]() Creator Segar worked at this point (19) primarily in six-panel black-and-white daily strips and 12-panel color strips. ![]() In addition to the much under-reported reissues of Hank Ketchum’s Dennis the Menace (how can comics devotees resist Ketchum’s sleek drawing line and the way his technique contrasts so beautifully with the idea of his sloppy bad-boy character?), this collection of Popeye newspaper strips is one of the year’s most valuable, revelatory efforts. ![]()
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