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   wndrwrthg said, 3 months ago

   Maybe it was a rival aerial performer, or the hot dog vendor or even (gasp) Ringo himself!

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   Margueritem said, 3 months ago

   Or moi, the elephant trainer….

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   jumbobrain said, 3 months ago

   I’m really starting to regret the fact that I started following this strip again. It takes so very long to go nowhere, over and over.

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   thx1134 said, 3 months ago

   This comic strip is like reading the phone book … it has a big cast of characters … but no plot.

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   barticle35 said, 3 months ago

   So what was the clue, Bracey?

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   Carlo Coratelli said, 3 months ago

   Oh my god.

   Terrible strip today.

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   watcha said, 3 months ago

   Well, we are going to have another 2 - 5 days of this before Mr. Locher decides where to go next with this story line.

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   Fearless_Fosdick said, 3 months ago

   Is bleeep Galore next?

9. 

   LudwigVonDrake said, 3 months ago

   Sigh…

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    Lewreader said, 3 months ago

    What ever happened to the smoking gun?

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    TheGiantBrain said, 3 months ago

    I expect several more days of non-advancement of the plot.

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    OzzieJohn said, 3 months ago

    Oh dear I think Mr Locher has hit upon a cunning plan to extend this “could it be…?” situation even further - will we be subjected to the whole circus troupe, at 3 panels per day?

    BTW has anyone actually seen a bearded lady at a circus?
    All the circuses I can remember from my childhood days (the South Australian circuit, in the fifties and sixties), didn’t have “freaks” on display.
    I don’t think I would feel comfortable gawking at a lady with facial hair, unless I knew it was just a fake beard (and easy enough to fake too I might add).

    You don’t have to watch this strip to see a circus, just come down here to Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
    The Moscow Circus has just left down but don’t panic there are still two left to see and gape at:

    Firstly there are the elected members of Darwin City Council who accepted hundreds of free tickets from the Moscow Circus in lieu of cash payment for renting the grounds. The coucil refused to disclose who got the tickets, but it’s know that a lot went to councillors and their families and friends. the local paper published pictures of the council with a red nose superimposed on each.

    Then there are the elected members of our Legislative Assembly - who carry on in a manner much sillier than any professional circus clown).

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    ridenslide65 said, 3 months ago

    This is a Joke. One lame name after another. Locher and Brozman should hide their heads in SHAME.

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    MotleyCrue said, 3 months ago

    Damm, these are both women…Barb Els and Mustacha???

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    itisme said, 3 months ago

    Ringo is the ring master.

    Barb Els is the strong woman.

    Wee Smally is the dwarf.

    Mustacha is the bearded lady.

    That ain’t no circus, that’s a Garbage Pail Kids reunion!

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    itisme said, 3 months ago

    OzzieJohn, we used to have freak shows that came around with the countt fair when I was younger. Man did I see some shows!

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 3 months ago

    Oh, I forgot that lady bodybuilders build up so much muscle that their breasts end up looking like a man’s pectoral muscles.

    Women do have pectoral muscles under their breasts, too.

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    idarke said, 3 months ago

    Apparently the circus consisted of two performers (one of which is dead now), a clown, an elephant with rider, and a bunch of marginal “freaks”. Makes you wonder if they’re set up in a Walmart parking lot.

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    JanCinVV said, 3 months ago

    Naw. Walmart has too much taste for this show.

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    Anthony 2816 said, 3 months ago

    I think the idea is that we’re supposed to be so overwhelmingly impressed at how witty the characters’ names are that we won’t notice that the plot advancement has gone from slow to stopped.

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    joegagne said, 3 months ago

    This plot is rocketing along!

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    jtpozenel said, 3 months ago

    Wait! Let me get my notebook out. There’s just so many suspects! Keep up the good work Dick. Chester would be proud of you (not).

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    OldHipster said, 3 months ago

    MUSTACHA???? Give me a break!!!

    Watch out, hiding behind something, we will find “Testical Tom, the Human Testical”

    Wonder how The Artist We Call Dick will draw THAT???

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    HectorPriam said, 3 months ago

    Mustasha looks like a local bartender…and he ain’t no lady!

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    CougarAllen said, 3 months ago

    Wake me up if something happens………………….

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    overtop said, 3 months ago

    Barb Els evidently has the same pharmacist as “Big Papi” Ortiz and Barry “Balloon Head” Bonds. And kids look at Mustacha, that’s what happens when you visit Barb Els Drugstore. Should be in Sunday’s Grimestop Weekly

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    crunkbot said, 3 months ago

    My favorite part is the breathtaking incompetence.

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    86krucar said, 3 months ago

    I got it!

    They are going to create a story that is similar to those good old “let’s find out who is the murderer” comics.

    First they present every character and then everyone is going to tell their defense. Finally, in the final panel the DT is going to say “This is not a problem at all. I think it is quite easy to see who is the guilty person.”

    The right answer is written below the comic strip, but of course the text is upside down. You can now browse through all these previous strips and try to figure out the right answer.

    Exciting, isn’t it.

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    Sydney Phillips said, 3 months ago

    TheGiantBrain said this morning :

    “I expect several more days of non-advabcement in the plot”.

    And I’d say that after seeing just that for the past three weeks you’re right, and expect that you’ll be back saying the same thing again – three weeks from now.

30. 

    Sydney Phillips said, 3 months ago

    bassmanbob said:

    ” Barb Els looks a lot like Jay Leno”

    How’d you know ? Does he have “lots” like Barbs under the Bra’ ?

31. 

    MoParMitch said, 3 months ago

    I give up!

    sigh……

    Going to http://drexfiles.wordpress.com to read the REAL Dick Tracy.

32. 

    achtungkitten said, 3 months ago

    I think Locher’s real dream was to draw circus freaks, and he’s just going to make this last as long as possible.

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    tracyfan92 said, 3 months ago

    I have to agree, the best part of this strip is right here in the comments section. (BLEEEP GALORE) good one!!! Use it Locher, it might make things worth reading. I can just imagine going through the entire Circus cast panel by panel by panel by panel…………………….ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ is it tomorrow yet??

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    big G 3469 said, 3 months ago

    I still say it’s the Disgruntled Gypsy Fortune Teller Mme Fortuna D. Doomzayer who was fired from the circus a few weeks back & vowed to get revenge!!

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    channce said, 3 months ago

    Trippy the Tumbler, Whip Master the lion tamer; Karl Klutzy, the tight rope walker; or how about Lainie Godiva, the bareback rider. Come everybody lend a hand and come up with more performer names to help out Locher and his crew.