"She Yam What She Yam"

I came across this Popeye strip over at Scans Daily, and found it rather amusing (nay, perhaps even touching).

Popeye on "exter bad women" (in this case, the Sea Hag):

"If they wasn't no bad women maybe we wouldn't appreciate the good ones. Anyway, she yam what she yam."

Occasional Links: The Lex Is Leaving Edition

Old-Skool Popeye Will Mess You UP


He'll punch ya in ya jewels. And eat spinach when you cry.

Afraid of Popeye:


All kinds of awesome:


Came up inexplicably in Google Image search results and I figured, "what the hell...":


Is There a Link Between Valentine's Day And Infidelity?

"The National Retail Federation predicts that over $17 billion will be spent on Valentine's gifts this year. A significant portion of that money will be spent by cheaters buying gifts for their secret lovers, and most of these gifts will be delivered in person – either on Valentine´s Day, the day before, or the day after."

It is also estimated that Mephisto steals approximately 2,700 marriages during the holiday as well.

Wide-open social calendar during Valentine's Day:


Approximately how many times men have either used my name as a variation of "Valentine" or "Valkyrie": 27. Annoying? Yes.


Did The Cloverfield Monster First Appear In GI Joe?


Via Tom Biro's blog is a story about a first appearance of the Cloverfield monster in the 1980s GI Joe cartoon. Is it true? You be the judge. Remember, knowing is half the battle!

Meanwhile the hit JJ Abrams film continues to make some moviegoers sick...

I'm one of those happy view who get really nauseous during movies or video games with shaky cameras or saturated color -- so I will catch the movie in bite-sized clips on YouTube.



Kwick Kwotables:


"...today comics have become much more politically correct and political correctness is a disease that is slowly strangling western civilisation."
--Alan Grant

(How long should Lex fans watch Smallville?)
"For only a couple more months, because then I'm done."
--Michael Rosenbaum


"I have failed at my task as Sorcerer Supreme of this dimension. I-I don't think I can help you anymore."
--Doctor Strange, New Avengers Annual #2

"He just wore the costume that Alex Ross designed. He's a big Alex Ross fan, basically."
--Ed Brubaker on what deep symbolic significance the new costume represented for Bucky.


VIDEO: "TOM CRUISE IS CRAZY" (can you blame him?)

Popeye: Real Man

These old "Popeye" screenshots from the Classic Cartoons Blog shows us just why the sailor is such a studly awesome guy.



Notice that Olive does not stop berating him until he saves the day.

Oh, and here's some serious Bluto gropage:

Creepy Comix

Just read this post in Comics Must Be Good about the fabled Mickey Mouse strips where he tries to kill himself:


Yeesh! And of course that brought to mind a recent Popeye strip where Olive Oyl tries to do exactly the same thing...


And then I thought about this really creepy-ass series of Garfield strips where he apparently falls into some slip in time or whatever where he's really dead or does not exist:


But then, of course, there is the most depressing, disturbing comic strip of them all: