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   VistaBill said, about 13 hours ago

   That’s quite a fall for Pops. I wanna see the Pig on Wheels! Perhaps he’ll rescue Pops! That’s quite a tent. The only ropes are on the corners.

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   barticle35 said, about 13 hours ago

   That kitty looks really annoyed.

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   Margueritem said, about 13 hours ago

   LOL, love the look on the tiger’s face!
   Pig On Wheels, Pig On Wheels, we want the Pig On Wheels!!!

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   Llewellenbruce said, about 13 hours ago

   Maybe by next Tuesday’s script Pops will hit the floor.

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   JDG said, about 13 hours ago

   Where is the really good looking tiger??? I do love the expression, but it could look less like a cute kitten.

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   Flight Suit said, about 12 hours ago

   I think that’s the Pink Panther. He was called in because Tracy’s detective work was so lacking.

   Did somebody say “Pig on Wheels?”

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

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   ARF2 said, about 12 hours ago

   Kitty is so annoyed from having her tail pulled, that she’ll probably snub her dinner, and Pops will have to go to jail, after all.

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   jumbobrain said, about 12 hours ago

   curiously, the drawing of the tiger is better– more stylized and Gould-like– than all the endless tiger panels of recent months.

   Good Lord though, this strip overall remains a nigh-abomination.

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   Michael McMillan said, about 9 hours ago

   Kitty had been reading Daniel. Now, she gets to eat according to the story, but it’s clown so it’s going to taste funny. Daniel’s lions got a better deal, they got an official meal next day.

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    morrow said, about 9 hours ago

    “Ye Gods!” Is that all that remains in Macy’s vocabulary? I suspect he smells real ripe by now. Doncha know Agent Ennin is itchin’ to get as far away from Naperville and its brave hero as soon as possible? Especially with his 3-month old pair of Depends all loaded up?

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    drwatson said, about 8 hours ago

    The tiger has been electro-transmutated since last time we saw it.

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    Sydney Phillips said, about 6 hours ago

    Llewellenbruce is exactly right - thrown down yesterday, it will take untill next week Tuesday to hit the cage floor. Another example of economical “tit-bit” progress to flaw the strip, and further “self inflicted” injury to the Author’s waning reputation.

    Frustration finds good bedfellows. Comment and demand for the “Pig on Wheels”, an incidental prop, has confered a hightened presence on an inanimate object, displacing Dick Tracy as the main “focus” in the strip.

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    DatBigGuy said, about 6 hours ago

    I’m thinking the tiger is looking more like Pete the Puma from Warner Bros…..or maybe the old Exxon Tiger…

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    g6793 said, about 6 hours ago

    Hey…Thanksgiving is in just under 3 weeks. The tiger’s just getting his dinner early….(note to Mr Pops: haven’t you ever heard turnabout is fair play?)

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    Sydney Phillips said, about 5 hours ago

    The endless Tiger and Elephant illustrations Jumbo noted were also props to sate the hunger of readers for the never present “action” Locher has with great difficulty managed to keep out of the strip.

    He now has Dick Tracy behaving like a poster boy for Apraxia. The new blurting “nothing” man of comic strips

    I contend that it’s easier to let actiom flow than to stamp, “cramp” and clamp down on activity flow in the strip.

    And here I find myself strangely agreeing with Mattie - Locher really is “SUPERB”. But only at ONE thing - being so drastically slow that readers are lulled into deep sleep !

    Just shake “jtpozenel” and ask him ! He knows if he awakens in a week or two he wouldn’t have missed a single Locher beat. Repetition never tales a back seat !

    Now Annie and Gasoline Alley promoted to (daily) COLOR.
    But Locher’s “bottom-of-the-barrel” crafted Dick Tracy can’t follow !

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    NotNormanChubsyUbsy said, about 5 hours ago

    This stinks!

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    ridenslide65 said, about 5 hours ago

    The tiger is really TIGGER from Winnie the Pooh. The Pig is Piglet’s Father.

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    morrow said, about 5 hours ago

    No, NotNorman………. Macy stinks! This REEKS!

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    Matthew Hansel said, about 4 hours ago

    To answer a few questions from yesterday:

    Sydney: I know that Mike and Joe are working on their pro-fanfic version of DT (which I think will probably rock!), but they aren’t the BIG names I’m talking about…think more like X-MEN or BATMAN or things like that. AND–my best wishes to Mike and Joe, too! I’m a huge Joe Staton fan!

    DonnieTevault: Thanks so much for the kind words about Apollo and my approach to it. I’ve been having a ball doing the strip and I’ve already got my next story plotted out and I’ve got ideas for the two that follow (I have the whole first year mapped out, but I like the flexibility to change things as needed). Now, if I could only get about 10,000 more people to think so…

    MPH

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    Matthew Hansel said, about 4 hours ago

    Question to the board:

    For those of you with mobile devices, would you consider purchasing an “App” that would deliver daily strips right to your phone? I’m thinking particularly those of us with iPhones.

    I’ve been investigating the idea of publishing APOLLO and METHUSELAH’S GATE: WATER WORLD via one of the iPhone platforms.

    AND–would any of you be interested in a FORUM if I create one for discussing my comic strips and, I’d also have sections set aside for Dick Tracy, Movies, TV, politics, etc. Before I invest the time (and MONEY!), I’d like to get an idea about how many people HERE might be interested.

    Thanks,

    MPH

21. 

    MaxStarmanJones said, about 4 hours ago

    Virus Warning: My antivirus program is going crazy on all the Gocomics site this morning. It has removed several terrible trojans. One of them even managed to shut down an old antivirus program, but fortunately, Microsoft Essentials managed to get it. I also am having tons of popups this morning.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, about 3 hours ago

    Yes, the tiger now looks like a domestic cat rather than a wild feline. Brozman never consistently draws things, animals and people in this strip.

    Will the “tiger” eat Mr. Pops? The animal needs to be warned because cannibals say, “Clowns taste funny.”

23. 

    nighthawks said, about 3 hours ago

    when did this become a vehicle for self promotion?

24. 

    JanCinVV said, about 3 hours ago

    That is one enormous cage. Either that or Locher has the perspective all messed up again. No wonder it will take Pops until next Tuesday to hit the ground.

25. 

    Ray C said, about 3 hours ago

    When Pops finally hits the floor, will the three officers of the law stand around and watch him being eaten alive? Didn’t something like that happen in the Great Dog Bank Robbery arc a couple of years ago?

26. 

    jtpozenel said, about 2 hours ago

    ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz…………..

27. 

    JPBecker said, about 1 hour ago

    Naw he’ll hit the floor on Thursday that way they can drag out another weeks worth of this garbage. Tiger is annoyed because he keeps being denied his lunch!

28. 

    Sydney Phillips said, 34 minutes ago

    Ray C,

    If you have the time you can refresh on all the “action” (if I can call it that), in the Archives, July 22 to Aug.13, 2008 - Baskerville !

    As I recall Tracy had a plan to defend with T-Bone steaks which failed. Then he, 2 Swat Team members, 2 Bank Guards and the Manager (total SIX) had to grab defensive “whistles” from Baskervile’s gang, and then another, from Baskerville to save a late arriving Shirl Locke from the savage dogs.

    One Swat team member wanted to shoot the dogs. Tracy said “NO !”. He waited for Animal Control to arrive but by then - Baskerville was dead !

    Seem’s Locher also did a little Houdini “magic” with the WHISTLES. It’s puzzeling ! Six good guys, plus Shirl. Bad Guys, total 3 “seen”, with just THREE whistles !

    Where did the extra FOUR whistles come from (?) and how did the 2 gang members stay alive when their “tooters” were swiped ?

    How could the remainder of (4) be alive ? As I noted on a recent occasion, not for the first time has Locher, acting carelessly - confounded us with “nonsense”!

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    Ray C said, 6 minutes ago

    Thanks for the refresher, Sydney. I had given up on DT months before that, but when I checked in and found a plot where there was a mole in the police department, I though it would be interesting. That was the Baskerville episode. Why I have stuck with it, other than to read the comments, I cannot say. I even wrote Locher once, to compliment him on his editorial cartoons and ask why he didn’t have the same quality in the DT strips. He didn’t answer. I defended him for a while in the comments, but have since given up on that.