SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Episode 138

 

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ A Key Moment - Mini-Episode #8

 

I admit that it feels sort of sacrilegious for me to even to attempt to do today's flashback to a "Key Moment" from Popeye's life that is such an iconic big part of Popeye's history originally created and portrayed by creator E.C. Segar in a THIMBLE THEATRE comic strip that ran on Saturday, October 24, 1936. 

 

So with apologies... this is "after Segar".

 

This is the moment that Popeye finally confronted his father Poopdeck Pappy for the first time. For those that don't know, Popeye was abandoned decades earlier when he was a young child and had been on the lookout for his Poppa ever since. 

 

Popeye had journeyed with his friends and found his father due to the magical abilities of Eugene the Jeep who knew how to locate Popeye's father and pointed the way. On the remote island, Popeye found Poopdeck Pappy joined by his shipmate pal Pooky Jones who had just exited the scene just before this to "go trim his beard".

 

I did take some creative liberties to insert a few elements that were "off screen" that had appeared in previous panels leading up to this pivotal scene. This is another re-imagined "key moment" one-panel comic that I do my own reinterpretation of sorts.

 

For SEA SHANTY FUNNIES continuity in my comic strips and stories, I build off all of E.C. Segar's work that came before. I view it pretty much all as canon to Popeye's backstory though there are few things in my alternate universe I choose to throw out. I digress.

 

While I build off the foundation of Segar's work, I also inject modified stories from the Flesicher cartoons and other material into the back story of SEA SHANTY FUNNIES where I try to fit certain elements or "retcon" things the best I can to bring it all together in a melded mishmash.

 

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES is absolutely an "alternate retro universe" so some things that happened officially in comics or cartoons doesn't necessarily all fit within my unofficial alternate universe's history, back stories, or timeline. I state this for all the hardcore Popeye fans who may comb over details in my work to relax and rest easy knowing that this "alternate universe" is doing it's own thing and playing out. I'm just doing some storytelling in my own sandbox.

 

SPOILER ALERT...

 

And to tease something for a future segment of the current storyline from this summer in my SEA SHANTY FUNNIES "alternate retro timeline"... the "OTHER first meeting reunions" between Popeye and Poopdeck Pappy portrayed differently in the cartoons of Fleischer Studions "Goonland" (1938), "Popeye's Pappy" (1952) by Famous Studios, and "Me Quest for Poopdeck Pappy" (1960) from A.A.P. also all took place (in some altered manner) in my timeline's history if you will suspend your disbelief. Not to mention another version or two elsewhere seen in Popeye's various lore. At least in my mind and story.

 

I will explain the paradox and how and why it happened in an upcoming comic strip. But just know that over in SEA SHANTY FUNNIES, this "first reunion" portrayed by E.C. Segar happened first and was the most significant.

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Episode 137

 

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Bully!

 

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES Facebook Group

 

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SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Episode 136

 

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Episode 135

 

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SEA SHANTY FUNNIES Update

 Sorry, I wasn't able to get to my digital drawing board last night to deliver for you my usual Wednesday morning web comic. I was out on the town with some high school pals including the model and inspiration for our umpire Troy Vilayhong nd fellow SEA SHANTY FUNNIES Facebook Group members including my wife Jennifer for dinner and a fun get together. However, the next comic strip is 75% completed and I will post it tomorrow morning at 7:30 a.m. Central. I've got to go work at the day job now.

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Episode 134