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Published by: IDW Publishing / Yoe Books!
Released on: May 21, 2014
Writer: Bud Sagendorf
Artist: Bud Sagendorf
Cover artist: Bud Sagendorf
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This reprint of the 1950s Popeye #22 comic book brings more knuckle-headed mayhem from Popeye and his regular gang of assbags. Per usual, Mr. Bud Sagendorf provides all the stories and artwork. Let's see what that fuckwit Popeye is up to this week.
In “Spinach Farm!†Swee'Pea goes to fetch the mail from the box out front, and notices a lot of bills were in the stack of mail. He doesn't want to give them to all Popeye at once, afraid the sailor will blow his top, so he decides to give Popeye one bill a day, to ease the top blowing. Too bad the one bill he gave Popeye is the most expensive one, and it's his bill for spinach. Pissed, Popeye confronts his dealer and decides: fuck it; he'll just have his own spinach farm. After paying someone two grand for a farm the guy didn't own, he buys it from the right guy, then plows the field using his own face, and plants his spinach seeds. Olive and Wimpy decide the spinach needs daisies planted amongst it, but they muff it up. Six weeks later, Popeye assaults Wimpy with a rake.
“Swee'Pea's Vacation!†starts with the little guy bummed out because he has two weeks' vacation and doesn't know what to do. Oh, the stress of being a baby. King Blozo invites Swee'Pea to his castle and a little two-seat plane shows up to get the kid, but Blozo blooped by giving the boy the royal power of commanding the plane pilot to do whatever he says. This ends in disaster after he drives the plane himself and bombs the castle. Locked up for two weeks with just bread and water, his vacation ends with Popeye getting a bill for all the shit his kid wrecked.
In this issue's Sherm story, “The Long Way Home!â€, the kid has to get home to his mother from Mrs. Twee's house. He chases pussy, gives Mrs. Jones his package, cries in the woods, rides a bus, pisses off a dog, and can't find his key to get in his house. But the treat with this story isn't with the inept humor, but with the maze on every page. Yes, in this interactive tale you get to help Sherm out.
This is absolute mindless and dumb fun, but man…it reads SO fast. Two Popeye stories an issue just isn't enough. How about some double sized fun, Yoe?
