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1. 

   Margueritem said, about 21 hours ago

   Somehow, this explanation doesn’t quite seem to fit with all we’ve endured up until this point…

2. 

   VistaBill said, about 21 hours ago

   I’m confused!

3. 

   leakysqueaky712 said, about 21 hours ago

   Huh??? I am so lost with this explanation. ………………Why are we even here??

4. 

   Flight Suit said, about 21 hours ago

   You eff with the bull, you get the horns!

5. 

   Gweedo Murray said, about 21 hours ago

   zzzzzzzzzz……..

6. 

   Llewellenbruce said, about 20 hours ago

   I think Locher is scaring off readers too.

7. 

   barticle35 said, about 20 hours ago

   So it was the tiger all along!

8. 

   VistaBill said, about 20 hours ago

   barticle35 said, “So it was the tiger all along!”

   You could be right. The tiger does have a dishonest look in his eyes!

   BTW, has anyone fed the tiger yet?

9. 

   Margueritem said, about 20 hours ago

   I just hope that the tiger didn’t eat The Pig on Wheels when we weren’t looking…..

10. 

    Flight Suit said, about 20 hours ago

    Panel Two is clearly a pig’s-eye-view:

    As we speak, the Pig On Wheels is heroically rolling towards the circus tent’s entrance!

11. 

    jumbobrain said, about 19 hours ago

    Okay, so maybe there was another script they were supposed to be using, that was actually interesting and exciting and made sense and didn’t have Dick Tracy being stupid and helpless, and they decided to just run the last week of that script after making us suffer through this drek all summer.

    Anybody got a better explanation?

12. 

    Carlo Coratelli said, about 19 hours ago

    Close this strip, please.

13. 

    LudwigVonDrake said, about 16 hours ago

    Now they want the property? What happened to the blackmailing?

14. 

    HankF said, about 15 hours ago

    How’d he figure it out so quickly?

15. 

    fishbulb said, about 15 hours ago

    Circuses travel. They don’t own the property on which they perform! How many ridiculous explanations are we going to get for this mess?

16. 

    ridenslide65 said, about 14 hours ago

    How convenient that Tracy is making up a story right before our very SORE eyes!

17. 

    ridenslide65 said, about 14 hours ago

    SInce when does a circus own land. Last time I checked the circus was at Madison Square Garden. Are they trying to buy that? It will be at the Boston Garden Next week. Then the plan starts all over. Pretty soon, stupid Britney Spears will have no place for a concert because the circus owns all the land……

18. 

    HectorPriam said, about 14 hours ago

    “The horns of a dilenema.”

    What a picturesque phrase…I’ll have to remember that.

19. 

    Sydney Phillips said, about 13 hours ago

    margueritem

    I think your assumption on the Tiger eating the Pig on Wheels is a sound one. The poor creature was starved and thrice denided !

    By contrast Tracy continues making wild accusations without a shred of evidence in the style of a Judge summimg up just before sentencing.

    In local parlance ”ALL man guilty” ! Sentencing next week !

    More seriously Locher needs to stop changing his facts from week to week as he goes along. Read the text above and compare the contradictions below :

    8-08-09 (Tracy to Ringo):”Let me get this straight. you’re the Owner and Ringmaster of the O’Connell Circus”…
    10-30-09 (Mr,Pops - shouting):”You’re not taking me in ..* this is MY Circus, mine all *mine”! (and repeated in 2 other panels)

    Today’s statements suggest none of them OWN the Circus. DL needs to take care, on the heels of so many distortions readers may begin to “believe” he is slipping into dotage

20. 

    Fer Lefer said, about 13 hours ago

    And ALL the enemies Ringo is supposed to have in the circus?
    And the man Ennen was supposed to contact?
    And the SWAT team?
    And the pig on wheels?
    And the story line?
    …just plain grotesque…

21. 

    Flight Suit said, about 13 hours ago

    ridenslide65, good catch! If we wanted to be extremely generous, we might suppose that Tracy’s referring to the Circus’s intellectual property.

    “Intellectual” is certainly one of the first words that comes to mind when I think of this strip.

22. 

    Araldite said, about 13 hours ago

    What?!?! This is the most absurd story I’ve ever read. Today’s strip convinces me Locher is suffering from dementia.

23. 

    kreniigh said, about 12 hours ago

    OMFG. Tell me this is a parody, please!

    This has now topped the rock-em sock-em robots plot for utter nonsense, and that was a low bar to get under.

24. 

    ChubsyUbsy said, about 12 hours ago

    Wait, I thought they wanted to kill Ringo because he was blackmailing them.
    Now they wanted the non-existent circus property?
    Is Locher completely senile?!?!?
    Ah forget it…

25. 

    idarke said, about 12 hours ago

    Considering the caliber of these acts, I hardly think they needed a murder to scare off customers. If anything, a few murders might increase the audience.

26. 

    N7326 Foxtrot said, about 11 hours ago

    So, after watching this thing for four months, it has to be explained to us?

27. 

    Froxkrybra said, about 11 hours ago

    I said in the beginning all clowns are evil…

28. 

    jtpozenel said, about 10 hours ago

    ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz……….

29. 

    Dennis Smith said, about 10 hours ago

    So it was agent Ennen all along who is secretly in love with Ringo. I didn’t trust her from the start.

30. 

    kab2rb said, about 9 hours ago

    DT does what he does best sums it up fast. Let’s everyone hang themselves.

31. 

    Ray C said, about 8 hours ago

    Maybe the “property” is the tent, the animals, cages, clown car, and the PIG ON WHEELS!!! That’s it!! They wanted the world’s only PIG ON WHEELS! The greatest circus attraction since Gargantua.
    To paraphrase myself (if I may): This strip is Brenda Starr with bad art.

32. 

    Joe Allen Doty said, about 8 hours ago

    So, someone else owned this circus and Mr. Pops lied when he claimed it was his?

    Considering the fact that most of the circus employees in this strip had either worked for Mr. Pops or invested money in his company BEFORE they joined the outfit, the real owner might just be the FBI.

33. 

    Joe Allen Doty said, about 8 hours ago

    I also thought that this was a traveling circus and not merely a circus that stayed in the same place all of the time.

34. 

    OldTracy said, about 8 hours ago

    Agent Ennen has just set the record as the most useless character in the history of comics!

35. 

    VistaBill said, about 7 hours ago

    Ray C said, “Maybe the “property” is the tent, the animals, cages, clown car, and the PIG ON WHEELS!!! That’s it!! They wanted the world’s only PIG ON WHEELS! The greatest circus attraction since Gargantua.”

    Three cheers for the Pig on Wheels!

36. 

    Flight Suit said, about 6 hours ago

    Well I guess enough time has elapsed that I can bring this up again, since y’all keep clamoring for it:

    http://kraptastrophe.blogspot.com/2009/11/who-you-gonna-call-pig-on-wheels.html

    While you’re there, why don’t you give me a real thrill and subscribe to, or “follow” my blog?

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    puddleglum1066 said, about 6 hours ago

    I’m still sticking with the “Killer Clowns from Space” theory.

    The “property” in question is the “tent” itself, which is in fact not a tent at all but an alien space ship. Mr. Pops (an alien who just looks like a clown) lost it to Ringo during a poker game (part of Ringo’s FBI witless protection training was how to cheat at cards), and cooked up this scheme to get it back before the Alien Police come to arrest him and haul him away in the Pig on Wheels.

    As for Agent Enema, she’s clearly some other non-human species, but given her inaction for the seventeen years or so that this story’s been dragging on, she must be related to those “watchers” who show up on “Fringe.” (Oh wait–last night one of the “watchers” actually DID something. Agent E. can’t be one of them after all…)

38. 

    R_Noonan63 said, about 5 hours ago

    Oh Oh Cyber looks like he is getting Ticked he hasn’t eaten in a few months from what Ringo Said the other day.

    On a Side note the art work on Cyber looks Cool

39. 

    Sydney Phillips said, about 4 hours ago

    N7326 Foxtrot,
    Yours is the most cogent question on this story as it ends. It concisely sums up all that is wrong and a message for Author Dick Locher pointing out his major writing flaw. I’ll repeat it below:

    ”So sfter watching this thing for four months it has to be explained to us? “

    Perhaps that’s why at the begining there was this big hullabaloo about what HAPPENED (?) - we don’t see it in the story, so now it’s expalanation time !

40. 

    Sydney Phillips said, about 4 hours ago

    OldTracy,

    Don’t you realize that’s where Locher seems to get his “highs” ?

    “Agent Ennen,the most useless character in the history of comics”?

    She’d have a hard time beating “message man”, Detective Lt. Teevo for that spot. He displaced the renown “Useless Eustace” on his arrival back in 2007 !

    It was a significant Locher triumph in creating nonsense !

41. 

    LudwigVonDrake said, 2 minutes ago

    Sigh…