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  • Hmm. Is Millholland creating a King Features universe?

    From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 13 05:23:53 2023
    https://comicskingdom.com/popeye/2023-08-13

    Not a guest star anyone will recognize..
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    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From Freezer@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 13 11:14:33 2023
    If I don't reply to this Ted Nolan <tednolan> post, the terroists
    win.

    https://comicskingdom.com/popeye/2023-08-13

    Not a guest star anyone will recognize..

    I think the deal is while he can't make and real changes to the
    status quo (Olive's new spirit medium powers notwithstanding. SHe's
    had powers before), he and Shadia Amin are given freedom with the
    more obscure Thimble Theater characters (like basically turning
    Castor's long-absent wife Cylinda in Whilemina from "OK, KO!" and
    giving Whaler Joe a daughter [and a face]).

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  • From Dave Van Domelen@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 13 17:24:42 2023
    In article <kjr7n9FhoemU1@mid.individual.net>,
    Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote: >https://comicskingdom.com/popeye/2023-08-13

    Not a guest star anyone will recognize..

    Well, the two main Katzenjammer Kids were pretty clear, so I figured the third one was just a kid who got dropped from that strip or something.
    Someone replying on Randy's facebook recognized Lil' Iodine, the birthday
    girl in the trip.

    Back in October, every non-generic Halloween costume worn by the kids
    was a King Features character. So, yeah, Randy has been given the keys to
    the toybox, as long as he doesn't break anything.

    Dave Van Domelen, notes Randy was basically a Thimble Theater scholar (hobbyist level) before he got the gig.

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  • From John W Kennedy@21:1/5 to Dave Van Domelen on Sun Aug 13 14:57:56 2023
    On 8/13/23 1:24 PM, Dave Van Domelen wrote:
    In article <kjr7n9FhoemU1@mid.individual.net>,
    Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
    https://comicskingdom.com/popeye/2023-08-13

    Not a guest star anyone will recognize..

    Well, the two main Katzenjammer Kids were pretty clear, so I figured the
    third one was just a kid who got dropped from that strip or something. Someone replying on Randy's facebook recognized Lil' Iodine, the birthday girl in the trip.

    Back in October, every non-generic Halloween costume worn by the kids was a King Features character. So, yeah, Randy has been given the keys to the toybox, as long as he doesn't break anything.

    Dave Van Domelen, notes Randy was basically a Thimble Theater scholar (hobbyist level) before he got the gig.

    A) Little Iodine has appeared in a recent KF strip—maybe it was even
    this one. In the meantime, her eponymous strip is carried as “Vintage”
    by CK.

    B) There were originally three Katzenjammers, but they were so different
    from the two I remember going back to the 50s, that it’s impossible to
    say which is which. (They actually look more like Wilhelm Busch’s Max
    and Moritz than like the eventual Hans and Fritz.) The odd character
    might be the third brother, or, for all I can tell, he could be Rollo
    with his hair colored wrong.

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    John W. Kennedy
    Algernon Burbage, Lord Roderick, Father Martin, Bishop Baldwin,
    King Pellinore, Captain Bailey, Merlin -- A Kingdom for a Stage!

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  • From Mark Jackson@21:1/5 to Dave Van Domelen on Sun Aug 13 22:12:16 2023
    On 8/13/2023 1:24 PM, Dave Van Domelen wrote:
    In article <kjr7n9FhoemU1@mid.individual.net>, Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
    https://comicskingdom.com/popeye/2023-08-13

    Not a guest star anyone will recognize..

    Well, the two main Katzenjammer Kids were pretty clear, so I figured
    the third one was just a kid who got dropped from that strip or
    something.

    D. D. weighs in near the end of this article:

    https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/08/13/lets-lighten-the-mood-with-the-funnies/

    --
    Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
    Engineering is achieving function
    while avoiding failure. - Henry Petroski

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  • From Darryl H@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 14 06:54:25 2023
    On Sunday, August 13, 2023 at 12:23:56 AM UTC-5, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    https://comicskingdom.com/popeye/2023-08-13

    Not a guest star anyone will recognize..
    --
    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

    If Shelly Prager and Mike Curtis can create a Tribune universe with Tribune Publishing owned comic strip adventure characters crossing over into Dick Tracy, then why not Mollholland's Popeye with King Features?

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