- Linkara: Patreon-sponsored review time again, and it's rather unique: a franchise we've never discussed before: Popeye. I'm not gonna do an in-depth look at the history of the character or anything like that, mostly because, well, the comic today is an origin story. An incredible one, if the cover is to be believed. On the off-chance you're not familiar with the character, Popeye the Sailor Man is probably best known as a cartoon, particularly for both his distinctive style of speech and the fact that when he consumes spinach, it basically gives him super strength, although given his bulbous forearms, I think we can presume he was super strong already. Despite most of his pop culture fame being based on the cartoon, he started life as a comic strip character and, naturally, found himself in quite a few comic books. Like most other franchises, Gold Key and Dell held the license for a while, eventually going through life with King Comics and Charlton Comics before we get to this 1987 book by Ocean Comics. How appropriate.
- Narrator: Poopdeck Kidd clearly loved a rough sea. He wasn't afeared of nothink, which tells ya Poopdeck wasn't a right man where brains was concerned.
- Linkara: [as narrator] What I'm trying to say is that his head was ninety percent beard and five percent brain.
- Linkara: As time went on, Pappy grew resentful of the fact that he was pretty much in charge of the baby while his wife sat down and watched football all day. And since we now apparently have two weeks in a row with something football-related, I should note that I'm pretty sure Roxy could kick SuperPro's ass.
- Linkara: Roxy decides to leave Popeye to go to Zaire, for they have no roller derbies there. Truly, Roxy understood the complex issues facing Central African countries in the '80s.