Happy Fourth! Junior has always been a regular, it’s just that Locher never used him as such during his solo run. In fact, he never used Sam much either.
Small mistake today, though. The case that tied up Dick after B.B. Eyes was not Tiger Lilly, but the Yollman/Van Dyke Love Triangle. Not one of Chester Gould’s better stories though.
@BillThompson
Impossible it should be, though I felt much the same way about Collins bringing back Pruneface in the 80s. On the other hand, it’s a trick that Gould used himself a couple of times. Mumbles is one such famous example (though Mumbles’s death in the 1947 continuity doesn’t take place onscreen). Shoulders is another (and even then it was hinted by Tracy that he could have survived the plane wreck!). There’s also Flattop’s son in 1956 who is the spitting image of his father. Granted, it shouldn’t happen too often, and truthfully, this creative team has been down this road once already with Flyface and the Fifth.
I hate to think one of Gould’s most famous instances of a villain meeting his death is going to be erased, but I am excited to see one of Tracy’s all-time top 10 foes return.Happy 4th, everyone!Good morning, Vista Bill!
Sherlock Holmes, Ming the Merciless and Fu Manchu came back from the dead, so it’s not as though Gould invented the idea. But I’d rather see new villains; Hot Rize and Doubleup (verbal tic aside) were both good characters. Maybe Hot Rize can have a twin sister, or a cloned daughter.
Wasn’t Matty Square. Our Matty was helping Mr. Bribery set up a death trap for Tracy and bungled into it himself…right here on earth. Actually Matty was a bungler from the get-go. He set up an electrical death trap for Moon Maid only to fry two of his henchmen by mistake.
What continues to please me are the scores of new posters that have come onto the board since the advent of the new team.
And perhaps more important is that the harsh critiques that were a daily staple here (from those that held on), have all melted away in the wave of the truly pleasing work that has arrived.
My main hope is that it will be further enhanced with TMS comintg to realize that brief stories must give way to longer tales with the CHASE sequence. The latter is an INTEGRAL part of a good Dick Tracy story. Hope it will be allowed, indeed promoted out in the future (?)
@MIKE CURTISI know it’s not under the team’s control.I was wondering if there’s any merchandise coming out with Joe’s artwork? (i.e. T-shirts, watches, coffe cups, etc.)
The guy that froze to death on the Moon, I think his name was “Pretty Fella” or something like that. He was Mrs. Chin Chilla’s brother. The woman with a beard. Her maiden name was “Notta Fella”! Mr. Gould could really think them up!
About BB Eyes being dead and alive again…………well that is the licence writers have, that is to bring people back from the dead or make them disappear without explanation.
The most famous was Bobby Ewing – he wasn’t dead, it was all a dream. On Happy Days, Ritchie had an older brother that disappeared after season one.
Same in the show “Family Matters” The Winslow’s youngest child walked up the stairs to the second floor of the home and was never seen again.
My wife was a fan of “As the World Turns”
I can’t remember how many times the evil James Stenbeck was supposed to have died, but he kept coming back from the grave.
First, the guy who froze was “Purdy Faller,” a name deliberately designed to phonetically evoke “Pretty Fella,” so Dberrymanal1 was close to the mark.
Second, bringing a character back who was ASSUMED dead, but whose death is still unproven is fundamentally different from bringing back a character who has died on-stage.
Mumbles, Willie the Fifth and Flyface, and (in the current storyline) BB Eyes were all assumed to have drowned, but, in the bodies of Mumbles, the Fifth, and Flyface were never recovered, and Mumbles was declared dead by an incompetent (and possibly corrupt) coroner. Pruneface was never actually declared dead nor was he seen to have died. Steve the Tramp was reported to have died in another city some years after being released from prison, but, again, was never seen to have died. These were all instances in which Gould’s successors were given an out.
Given the richness of so many of the characters from TRACY’s eight decades of history, you can hardly blame the current team for resurrecting characters as long as they were left with such an out.
But that’s different from, say, dipping Ra’s Al-Ghul into the Resurrection Pit over and over again.
As I’ve said on earlier occasions, I’m not the captain of this team, but I think I can safely say that no villain who, as the coroner in THE WIZARD OF OZ put it, is “undeniably and reliably dead” will ever be the subject of a resurrection.
There may be continuity implants (is that thecorrect technical term for an “in-between-quel?”). Perhaps some new relatives will be discovered. But characters who’re absolutely dead and buried, like Flattop or the Brow, will remain in their graves.
Well, to be fair, BB Eyes was in handcuffs, fell a few stories into a full garbage scow filled with muck and trash, dumped into the lake, and we the readers saw him encased in a tire. Still wearing handcuffs. At the bottom of the lake. And to be also fair, Tracy was immediately accosted on the banks of the lake while they were still hunting for the body by Van Dyke and embroiled into a (lame) missing persons case, so his attention after what was almost a certain demise was understandably divided. And indeed, after he had wrapped up the Van Dyke/Yollman case, on his way back home, perhaps to investigate the BB Eyes thing further, his train was purposely derailed by Tiger Lilly. And then BB Eyes went missing for almost 70 years, while several people tried to take revenge for him, thinking him dead as well (his wife, his brother BD, etc).
So yeah, in context, not really surprising that he might have had a lack of interest after all that.
WHAT is this nonsense?!? This writer needs to go and pick up “The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy, 1931-1951” where the death of 88 keys is quite clearly shown—he was killed in a railroad tool house by Dick Tracy himself. Dick Tracy comments over 88 keys’ dead body: “i called to him to surrender—there was no response. It was the ONLY way.”
margueritem almost 13 years ago
Happy 4th of July, everyone!
Wiseking almost 13 years ago
Happy Fourth of July everyone!
Det.DanDone almost 13 years ago
Note to self : There’s no such thing as a watery grave.
Det.DanDone almost 13 years ago
Happy Independence Day!
Sisyphos almost 13 years ago
I kinda think it’s time for Tracy to check into that old case-file. Are we seeing the original B.B. Eyes, or some relative/descendant of his?
Happy 4th of July, USA!
thejensens almost 13 years ago
Happy July 4th everyone.
Enjoy the Holiday plus the parades & the fireworks.
Don’t forget to pig-out at the BBQ’s.
I am sure we will see more fireworks in Dick Tracy.
I hope Junior will become a regular.
Good Morning Vista Bill -
Aaron Mimura almost 13 years ago
Happy Fourth! Junior has always been a regular, it’s just that Locher never used him as such during his solo run. In fact, he never used Sam much either.
Small mistake today, though. The case that tied up Dick after B.B. Eyes was not Tiger Lilly, but the Yollman/Van Dyke Love Triangle. Not one of Chester Gould’s better stories though.
@BillThompson
Impossible it should be, though I felt much the same way about Collins bringing back Pruneface in the 80s. On the other hand, it’s a trick that Gould used himself a couple of times. Mumbles is one such famous example (though Mumbles’s death in the 1947 continuity doesn’t take place onscreen). Shoulders is another (and even then it was hinted by Tracy that he could have survived the plane wreck!). There’s also Flattop’s son in 1956 who is the spitting image of his father. Granted, it shouldn’t happen too often, and truthfully, this creative team has been down this road once already with Flyface and the Fifth.
Aaron
coratelli almost 13 years ago
Wonderful strip. The last panel remember me the classic strip with BB “death”.
Can't Sleep almost 13 years ago
I hate to think one of Gould’s most famous instances of a villain meeting his death is going to be erased, but I am excited to see one of Tracy’s all-time top 10 foes return.Happy 4th, everyone!Good morning, Vista Bill!
Bill Thompson almost 13 years ago
Sherlock Holmes, Ming the Merciless and Fu Manchu came back from the dead, so it’s not as though Gould invented the idea. But I’d rather see new villains; Hot Rize and Doubleup (verbal tic aside) were both good characters. Maybe Hot Rize can have a twin sister, or a cloned daughter.
CaptainKiddeo almost 13 years ago
Wasn’t Matty Square. Our Matty was helping Mr. Bribery set up a death trap for Tracy and bungled into it himself…right here on earth. Actually Matty was a bungler from the get-go. He set up an electrical death trap for Moon Maid only to fry two of his henchmen by mistake.
sydney almost 13 years ago
Panel 3
Well I guess now that B-B Eyes is deemed to have “survived”, it’s important not to show a BODY in the modern reconstruction of the death scene ;).
sydney almost 13 years ago
What continues to please me are the scores of new posters that have come onto the board since the advent of the new team.
And perhaps more important is that the harsh critiques that were a daily staple here (from those that held on), have all melted away in the wave of the truly pleasing work that has arrived.
My main hope is that it will be further enhanced with TMS comintg to realize that brief stories must give way to longer tales with the CHASE sequence. The latter is an INTEGRAL part of a good Dick Tracy story. Hope it will be allowed, indeed promoted out in the future (?)
Det.DanDone almost 13 years ago
@MIKE CURTISI know it’s not under the team’s control.I was wondering if there’s any merchandise coming out with Joe’s artwork? (i.e. T-shirts, watches, coffe cups, etc.)
Dberrymanal1 almost 13 years ago
The guy that froze to death on the Moon, I think his name was “Pretty Fella” or something like that. He was Mrs. Chin Chilla’s brother. The woman with a beard. Her maiden name was “Notta Fella”! Mr. Gould could really think them up!
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ almost 13 years ago
Good afternoon all…
thejensens almost 13 years ago
About BB Eyes being dead and alive again…………well that is the licence writers have, that is to bring people back from the dead or make them disappear without explanation.
The most famous was Bobby Ewing – he wasn’t dead, it was all a dream. On Happy Days, Ritchie had an older brother that disappeared after season one.
Same in the show “Family Matters” The Winslow’s youngest child walked up the stairs to the second floor of the home and was never seen again.My wife was a fan of “As the World Turns”
I can’t remember how many times the evil James Stenbeck was supposed to have died, but he kept coming back from the grave.
Weegel almost 13 years ago
First, the guy who froze was “Purdy Faller,” a name deliberately designed to phonetically evoke “Pretty Fella,” so Dberrymanal1 was close to the mark.
Second, bringing a character back who was ASSUMED dead, but whose death is still unproven is fundamentally different from bringing back a character who has died on-stage.
Mumbles, Willie the Fifth and Flyface, and (in the current storyline) BB Eyes were all assumed to have drowned, but, in the bodies of Mumbles, the Fifth, and Flyface were never recovered, and Mumbles was declared dead by an incompetent (and possibly corrupt) coroner. Pruneface was never actually declared dead nor was he seen to have died. Steve the Tramp was reported to have died in another city some years after being released from prison, but, again, was never seen to have died. These were all instances in which Gould’s successors were given an out.
Given the richness of so many of the characters from TRACY’s eight decades of history, you can hardly blame the current team for resurrecting characters as long as they were left with such an out.
But that’s different from, say, dipping Ra’s Al-Ghul into the Resurrection Pit over and over again.
As I’ve said on earlier occasions, I’m not the captain of this team, but I think I can safely say that no villain who, as the coroner in THE WIZARD OF OZ put it, is “undeniably and reliably dead” will ever be the subject of a resurrection.
There may be continuity implants (is that thecorrect technical term for an “in-between-quel?”). Perhaps some new relatives will be discovered. But characters who’re absolutely dead and buried, like Flattop or the Brow, will remain in their graves.
Aaron Mimura almost 13 years ago
Well, to be fair, BB Eyes was in handcuffs, fell a few stories into a full garbage scow filled with muck and trash, dumped into the lake, and we the readers saw him encased in a tire. Still wearing handcuffs. At the bottom of the lake. And to be also fair, Tracy was immediately accosted on the banks of the lake while they were still hunting for the body by Van Dyke and embroiled into a (lame) missing persons case, so his attention after what was almost a certain demise was understandably divided. And indeed, after he had wrapped up the Van Dyke/Yollman case, on his way back home, perhaps to investigate the BB Eyes thing further, his train was purposely derailed by Tiger Lilly. And then BB Eyes went missing for almost 70 years, while several people tried to take revenge for him, thinking him dead as well (his wife, his brother BD, etc).
So yeah, in context, not really surprising that he might have had a lack of interest after all that.
Aaron
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ almost 13 years ago
Pig on Wheels is gone but not forgotten!
Maximara almost 13 years ago
WHAT is this nonsense?!? This writer needs to go and pick up “The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy, 1931-1951” where the death of 88 keys is quite clearly shown—he was killed in a railroad tool house by Dick Tracy himself. Dick Tracy comments over 88 keys’ dead body: “i called to him to surrender—there was no response. It was the ONLY way.”