Dick Tracy by Dick Locher
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About Dick Tracy
Chester Gould, a veteran cartoonist, began drawing his most legendary character, the dashing and daring Dick Tracy for the newspaper comics page in 1931. Modeled in the image of the innovative Sherlock Holmes, Gould was inspired to create new crime-fighting technology, including the two-way wrist TV, closed circuit TV police line-up and the engineless car that took Dick Tracy to the moon (both literally and figuratively).
Although many remember him with fond nostalgia, Dick Tracy, now written and illustrated by Dick Locher, continues to be relevant as he combines old-fashioned values with 21st century innovation to capture corporate crooks, computer pirates, polluters, skyjackers, gang members and terrorists.
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Margueritem
said,
about 1 year ago
Right in the ol’ bread basket! What’s MF saying in the last panel, I can’t read it.
Traze-R has magically erased his dents, wonder if MF can do the same?
hamdenct said, about 1 year ago
Good Morning TRACY FANS.
Who said, “Easier Said then Done.” I think the Dick Tracy Robot is a clever change. Also to me, the DRAWING (and coloring, weekends) work is time-consuming and takes skill–maybe computers make it easier? But they also offer so many choices they also can make it harder. Hope you fans fans continue to enjoy the battle–tho’ all hero comics have predictable finishes.
CyberV said, about 1 year ago
Ummm… Tracy? SHOOT OUT IT’S TIRES OR SOMETHING! IDIOT!
Ujjwal Dey said, about 1 year ago
I believe this stupid fight scene will last till second week of December.
Isn’t a gunfight with the law easier than watching 2 wheeled robots trash talk ? ? ?
I thought Gangsters were supposed to be evil geniuses !!!
Michael McMillan said, about 1 year ago
MF/BF looks to be over his center of balance in the last panel. The fight may be over, because the design doesn’t look like it allows either robot to self-right if he falls over. I could be wrong though, nothing else about these machines has been right so far so why should this be?
HankF said, about 1 year ago
Now I know why bad robot had his mouth shaped like an explanation point…to express the hit to his gut.
brine
said,
about 1 year ago
Finally getting the “Rock-em, Sock-em Robots” we have been waiting for!!
KingRat said, about 1 year ago
in the last panel BF/MF says:
ben 10# SMS 5!!
translation:
BF/MF is sending a text to #5 (of short circuit fame) to record the latest episode of Ben 10.
KingRat said, about 1 year ago
Gill says:
thank you, cheap foreign labor, for your joyous bounty.
KingRat’s shameless plug for second favorite cartoonist’s new comic:
http://www.gillcomic.com/?p=121
Vincent Massi said, about 1 year ago
Bystander: “Somebody needs to call the police!”
Tracy: “We are the police.”
Bystander: :”Nooooo”
Tukla Ratte said, about 1 year ago
That’s…that’s not it, is it? That’s not the whole battle?
Ray C
said,
about 1 year ago
MF is robo-cursing the Chinese quality assurance guy who let them use lead for his stomach plate instead of steel. Or he may be sending a message to his counterparts still on the assembly line in Tianjin to demand better body armor.
That has to be Tracy making the comment. He’s the only one there who knows Traze-R’s name, I believe.
LudwigVonDrake said, about 1 year ago
According to the first panel, the robot voice is coming from behind Robo-Dick. If that’s the case, who is saying it?
Sigh…
morrow said, about 1 year ago
The idea for this story originated after Locher went to a WWF match, then went to see a Terminator movie, didn’t understand much of it, chewed some peyote, and wound up puffing on a waterpipe. Thus, the storyline was born.
Ray C
said,
about 1 year ago
morrow says:
“The idea for this story originated after Locher went to a WWF match, then went to see a Terminator movie, didn’t understand much of it, chewed some peyote, and wound up puffing on a waterpipe. Thus, the storyline was born. ”
Isn’t that about how Samuel Taylor Colerdidge wrote Kubla Khan?
LudwigVonDrake said, about 1 year ago
They just don’t make Robots like they used to. Can’t even take a punch!
SinatraFan said, about 1 year ago
Dick Tracy has been one of my favorite comics since I was an 8 year old kid in 1950. The current plot line with the robots is probably the dumbest story since Moon Maid. Go back to the intricate plots and long plots like Flattop and Pruneface and Big Boy. I wish we could go back to the four panel strip which provided better story and charactor development (but more drawing). I feel like the stories today are too superficial and too short. Tracy is a detective but doesn’t do much detective work. Drawing is great, but the plots lines are thin and short.
RichardT said, about 1 year ago
One time, a girl told me that I had a shortage of quality parts. I hung my head in shame, just like MF.
Margueritem
said,
about 1 year ago
Ray C says:
morrow says:
“The idea for this story originated after Locher went to a WWF match, then went to see a Terminator movie, didn’t understand much of it, chewed some peyote, and wound up puffing on a waterpipe. Thus, the storyline was born. ”
Isn’t that about how Samuel Taylor Colerdidge wrote Kubla Khan?
I believe that you are correct, sir.
Ray C
said,
about 1 year ago
margueritem says:
“Ray C says:
Isn’t that about how Samuel Taylor Colerdidge wrote Kubla Khan?
I believe that you are correct, sir.”
Well, it’s a durn good thing old STC didn’t have to write poems for THIS crowd!! Imagine what they’d have done with the Ancient Mariner.
LudwigVonDrake said, about 1 year ago
What ever happened to the breaking news that Kersten was alluding to??
MaxStarmanJones said, about 1 year ago
(Since Bassman has not shown up yet)
Traze-r was grateful for the special rubber-based titanium that Diet Smith had wisely designed for his face. Though its original intent was just to allow minor facial expressions, a hidden benefit was the ability to recover from a smash like he had just received.
His intelligence circuits went mad with insults. He was shocked that a robot with such a big, funny-looking mouth would have anything to say about his own, and in a rage, he swung at BF’s solar plexus.
BF was shocked. Why had no one told him of this critical weakness? He hung his head in shame, mumbling senseless algorithms. He needed something – anything – to give him the drive to stand and go back in the battle.
It came from the puny human: “Good work, Traze-R!
That was it! No more Mr. Nice Guy!
(to be continued)