# If Indiana Jones were Popeye

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-indiana-jones-were-popeye/663588>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 15, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-indiana-jones-were-popeye/663588 "2013-07-15T20:09:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-indiana-jones-were-popeye/663588/1 "2013-07-15T20:09:36Z")

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Very clever: [http://geektyrant.com/news/2010/10/27/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-story-told-in-a-one-page-popeye-comi.html](http://geektyrant.com/news/2010/10/27/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-story-told-in-a-one-page-popeye-comi.html)

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-indiana-jones-were-popeye/663588/2 "2013-07-15T20:21:57Z")

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Very good. They’ve captured Segar’s look pretty much dead on.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-indiana-jones-were-popeye/663588/3 "2013-07-15T22:47:02Z")

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It’s not really “the whole story told in one page”, though, just key scenes. But they don’t hold together without all those other parts of the movie they left out.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-indiana-jones-were-popeye/663588/4 "2013-07-15T23:32:04Z")

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Scott Kurtz did a funny Watchmen [parody](http://loyalkng.com/2009/04/22/watchmen-parody-ombudsman-created-by-pvponlinecom-staring-popeye-as-rorshach-jon-as-night-owl-dagwood-as-dr-manhattan/) where he used comic strip characters to tell the Watchmen story. Popeye was Rorsach.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-indiana-jones-were-popeye/663588/5 "2013-07-16T01:29:40Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Scott Kurtz did a funny Watchmen [parody](http://loyalkng.com/2009/04/22/watchmen-parody-ombudsman-created-by-pvponlinecom-staring-popeye-as-rorshach-jon-as-night-owl-dagwood-as-dr-manhattan/) where he used comic strip characters to tell the Watchmen story. Popeye was Rorsach.

With Dagwood as Dr. Manhattan - I love it!!!

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**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-indiana-jones-were-popeye/663588/6 "2013-07-16T01:41:11Z")

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I first read the title of the OP as

**If Indiana Jones were Pope**

I think I’d pay to see \*that \*sequel…

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-indiana-jones-were-popeye/663588/7 "2013-07-16T02:14:49Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> With Dagwood as Dr. Manhattan - I love it!!!

You can read all of it [here](http://pvponline.com/comic/2009/03/02/ombudsmen).

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-indiana-jones-were-popeye/663588/8 "2013-07-16T02:15:00Z")

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“Presbyterians… why did it have to be Presbyterians…?”