Who’d Mess With PopEye?

Popeye the Sailor was one of my absolute favorite cartoon characters when I was a kid. Sadly, my own boy doesn’t share my enthusiasm because all the best cartoon are “gray” according to him. Max Fleisher’s animation was wondrous, and likely would have overtaken Walt Disney’s talents. But the mumbling, jovial coastie who loved flat-chested chicks and didn’t take guff from anyone, has now been modeled in 3D. And looking at him now, who the hell, Bluto included, would want to mess with him?

More great pics of this at LaughingSquid.

By the way- those swollen forearms? That was a common malady of sailors who used to have to scrape barnacles from hulls day-in and day-out. Its a form of tendonitis and inflammation of those muscles. And its even scarier looking in real life.