I sorta do and sorta don’t want this to be officially part of Popeye’s backstory.
Long ago, during a stormy evening whilst at sea, Poopdeck Kidd’s wife gives birth to their child:
And thus does Poopdeck’s son enter the world with the name of “Ugly Kidd,” a handle as unlikely as it is appropriate:
Of course, Ugly would soon be better known to the world by his injury-inspired nickname:
On a related note, the future father of Linus, Lucy and Rerun Van Pelt (and apparent PTA fan) attended Santa Monica High School with Popeye:
Glass houses, Poopdeck.
I always figured his name was, like, John Popeye or something
is this the one published by Ocean Comics? I vaguely remember that coming out and there being a bit of a kerfuffle about it. Wasn’t Ocean Comics (and these creators?) the ones who did Mr. Jigsaw? I remember that as a really good, fun comic book.
and holy crap, looking it up on the googlemachine to verify, I find out that they’ve been producing more issues of it? http://www.robmdavis.com/RedbudStudio/index.html must investigate…
he’s RIGHT. that IS one UGLY baby!
I have this comic someplace, it’s very … interesting.
I think my fav’ bit is that Poppeye’s mom is a professional roller derby athlete.
As awful as this comic was — and it was dreadful — it shone like the son compared to that hideous wedding issue Peter David “wrote” a few years later.
“And this is why at 18, you get a free rename and to slap your parents.”
On the one had, I can’t believe I never knew that someone had come up with a back-story for Popeye.
On the other hand, I can’t believe I can’t believe I never knew that someone had come up with a back-story for Popeye. Because of course they did.
You forgot to mention Arcane is in Animal Man #0.
Somehow sees Popeye in that art style is incredibly upsetting to me… the classic arms and chin just look hideously swollen or something.
“POOPDECK”???
“A nickname he earned on one of his many visits to San Fansico…”
The Robin Williams movie is all the origin I could ever need.