Dick Tracy by Dick Locher

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  1. ridenslide65

    ridenslide65 said, about 1 month ago

    This gets worse by the day.

  2. ridenslide65

    ridenslide65 said, about 1 month ago

    She’s a MAN Baby!!

  3. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Ah Sydney, it unfolds as you revealed…

  4. jumbobrain

    jumbobrainGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    SIGH. I would say I wish this story were over, but having followed Dick for the past year I know the next story will only be worse. How anyone can spend three months setting up a story and still have it be this inane is beyond me.

  5. big G 3469

    big G 3469Genius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Well Barl Els sure isn’t a “Manly Girl”! (or is it a Girly Man?)

  6. Flight Suit

    Flight SuitGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Either Agent Ennen’s been secretly making out with Ringo, or the contagion responsible for his skin disease is air-borne!

  7. jorizaga

    jorizaga said, about 1 month ago

    all the critics out there… just reading a Dick Tracy strip makes me smile… I think it is a good start for the month.. the art is great!

  8. Flight Suit

    Flight SuitGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    I think the tiger should star in his own spin-off series. Each story-arc could involve a new group of idiots being fed to him, each time for a different reason. I’m not sure if Mr. Pops should stay on as his sidekick, or if there should be a rotating cast of evil guest-clowns.

    Who’s with me on this?

    Matt, are you there? I really think I could be on to something!

  9. Fearless_Fosdick

    Fearless_Fosdick said, about 1 month ago

    Ok, we know that Louise wasn’t about to kill Ringo during her act. So, to avoid attention, Barb decides to kill Louise during her act, in front of all the audience, and this was just so that Louise couldn’t kill Ringo first. Ok, now I get it. What a swell plot.

  10. Akenta

    Akenta said, about 1 month ago

    Flight Suit, I’m with you. The tiger has been my favorite character this whole arc and has even been getting the best dialogue.

  11. LudwigVonDrake

    LudwigVonDrake said, about 1 month ago

    Sigh…

  12. morrow

    morrow said, about 1 month ago

    I’m flagging jorizaga. That is inappropriate.

  13. fishbulb

    fishbulbGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    “Lock ‘em in, Ringo”. Oh, yeah. That’s gonna look like an accident.

  14. ridenslide65

    ridenslide65 said, about 1 month ago

    morrow said, about 1 hour ago
    I’m flagging jorizaga. That is inappropriate.

    LOL!!!!

    The New strip’s name?? TIGER BEAT!

  15. jkebxjunke

    jkebxjunke said, about 1 month ago

    are they going to escape in the pig on wheels?

  16. Fer Lefer

    Fer Lefer said, about 1 month ago

    Nah, the angry elephant will rescue them all

  17. prrdh

    prrdh said, about 1 month ago

    Flight suit, certainly the tiger looks like the most intelligent creature in the strip. Just look at the look of infinite sadness in his eyes…as if he understands every cheesy word of the dialog, and being in the cage as he is, has no escape.

  18. puddleglum1066

    puddleglum1066 said, about 1 month ago

    DT’s new investigative technique: stand around acting dumb long enough, and the villain will confess all just to get the plot moving again!

  19. Sydney Phillips

    Sydney PhillipsGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    OFFAL ?

    Where is the Elephant ? Now may be a good time to conduct an analysis and comparison to this bowel movement

    And for those that “smile”, the good aroma might be an incentive to head up the investigation.

    As a connoisseur of domestic *arts, he may find a synthesis that has eluded us all (?)

  20. kreniigh

    kreniighGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    I am still completely at a loss about the back story.

    Everyone at the circus is a former employee of the arms dealing company? Were they in the circus before Ringo joined, or was he set up as ringmaster at a circus with no other employees? But no, the FBI had files on everyone at the circus.

    So if they’re not mad at him because he blew the whistle on the arms dealing, why are they mad at him?

    Why am I bothering to try to figure this out?

  21. CyberV

    CyberV said, about 1 month ago

    “YOU get to kill Ringo! And YOU get to kill Ringo! EVERYBODY GETS TO KILL RINGO!”

    So now TWO people with guns walking around what should be a taped off crime scene with no other police or FBI ANYWHERE?

    Yeesh.

    So everyone in the circus is a criminal? Toss in a woman with a snake and you’ve got a lawsuit from Marvel Comics.

  22. Flight Suit

    Flight SuitGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    I only raised the idea of Kitty getting his own strip as a joke, but enough of you have responded favorably that I now give you…

    DICK TIGER!

    http://kraptastrophe.blogspot.com/

  23. Ray C

    Ray CGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Wait a minute here. Maybe Sydney alluded to this months ago. Barb Els was in the circus tent with the 30-30. Louise is up in the sky, a moving target. Ringo, whom she wants to kill, is standing still on the ground. So she elects to kill Louise instead of Ringo, thus endangering her plot to kill Ringo.
    There had better be a good explanation for this, is all I can say.
    It may be that Barb is a victim of acromegaly, i.e. her pituitary has not stopped producing growth hormone when it was supposed to. This makes you tall and muscular, but makes you clumsy and does bad things to your brain and nervous system. (Think Andre the Giant and the guy who played Jaws in the Bond movies.)
    I could accept acromegaly as the reason for her illogical action, given her size and facial features.
    Then again, hitting a moving target at 100 feet or maybe much more…hard to do even for a normal person.
    Maybe Barb will barge in and shoot the clown to keep him from killing Ringo. This would give DT and friend a chance to escape while she has turned her attention to Ringo.

  24. Joe Allen Doty

    Joe Allen Doty said, about 1 month ago

    Barb Els is a female body-builder/weight-lifter.

    When women spend so much time developing large muscles, like female body builders do, they tend to end up looking rather masculine.

    But, Barb Els could be a male-to-female transgender person who was very masculine looking to begin with before the operation took place.

    How can a whole circus have something against Ringo? Did the whole outfit work for the same corporation that Ringo did?

    From what was said earlier at FBI HQ, someone in the circus is a federal agent undercover.

    Apparently, since “Mr. Pops” talked like Ringo ruined his company, he must have been Ringo’s boss.

  25. dstufff

    dstufff said, about 1 month ago

    How did Barb Els happen to get a gun?

  26. pianist38

    pianist38 said, about 1 month ago

    <…laughing…> To think I alllllmost quit reading Dick Tracy, some months back! And then I scrolled down and found all your comments…

    LOL@morrow… Good strip, Flight Suit… (uh, did I say that right?)

  27. jakebb2

    jakebb2Genius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    “Barb Els?” Heh. I just love the Tracy caricature names. Wish we could get some more of the more outrageous caricatures like Pruneface.

  28. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    I love trying to figure out why parents would name their babies something like “Barb Els”…those parents must be prescient.

    Oh, wait…I meant to say I “hate” trying to figure it out…

  29. JanCinVV

    JanCinVVGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Ray C: That would be Richard Kiel in the Bond movies.

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  31. Sydney Phillips

    Sydney PhillipsGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Take a second look at today’s mid-panel.
    Are those pectoral muscles ? I thought the designer version came with “boobs” ?

    The only Hero in this big mess, is Teevo …. he had the good sense of smell ,,,, to leave – after ONE panel !

  32. cholldekkgher stenstenstaffgher

    cholldekkgher stenst... said, about 1 month ago

    I GOT IT! I GOT IT! The Tiger is a set up! The tiger is someone in disguise who is secretly wired to record all this drivel When the time comes, it’s curtains for the Bad Guy.
    Nooooo Biggie!!

  33. jtpozenel

    jtpozenel said, about 1 month ago

    Now it’s all starting to make sense. (?)

  34. Sydney Phillips

    Sydney PhillipsGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Well Cholly got it ….. Chicago got nothing at all !!

    Just shows how inefective “TALKS” really are.

    Ask current Dick Tracy standing in a Circus ring, Jimmy Carter or Neville Chamberlain waving a piece of paper !

  35. mumbles

    mumbles said, about 1 month ago

    It’s a “Murder on the Orient Express” scenario. Dame Agatha is spinning in her grave.

  36. doodlerjeff

    doodlerjeffGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Ok, this will be my first and last post here.

    I frequent several websites every day to read my daily comics. Dick Tracy was not one of them, but I could read it fairly regularly with the help of one of my favorite bloggers - the Comics Curmudgeon (joshreads.com).

    Starting with the robot storyline through the casino fiasco I was astounded by how bad the strip had gotten. Now what, a couple of months into perhaps the worst plotted and illustrated storyline in comics history I have been coming here the last week or so just to see the comments.

    This strip seriously needs to retire, or a shakeup of the artist/writers it is so bad. Today I realized that barring whatever statistics are gathered from newspaper readership, the numbers from website visits here (and elsewhere I presume) are responsible for keeping a strip going. My visit just to read comments, and every other person here who has commented regularly only help to keep this fiasco going. I don’t think anyone who looks at the numbers cares if those visiting the website hate the strip or not. They are just numbers to show to advertisers.

    So saying this, I will not be back. Not even to see any responses from this comment. Anyone else who really hates the way this strip has degenerated should do the same.

    Bye.

  37. tracyfan92

    tracyfan92 said, about 1 month ago

    As others have noted, the crunch comes soon!! When they actually get put into the Tiger’s cage (Saturday’s strip??) we will get to see if Sydney is right about how they escape. Where is Tarzan when they need him? I think I might have given up on this story if it wasn’t for the suspense waiting to see if Mr. Phillips correctly predicted another rerun. I can hardly wait!!!!

  38. VistaBill

    VistaBill said, about 1 month ago

    What a suspenseful story! Perhaps the pig on wheels will come to the rescue!

  39. RichardT

    RichardT said, about 1 month ago

    So the tiger is supposed to eat an emaciated DT, and a lady with skin disease for dinner? Someone call PETA.

  40. tracyfan92

    tracyfan92 said, about 1 month ago

    Good one RichardT!! LOL

  41. 436rge

    436rge said, about 1 month ago

    Tomorrow TCM at 9am will show two more chapters of a 1937 serial of Dick Tracy.

  42. Araldite

    AralditeGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Barb killed Louise because she wanted to kill Ringo first?? Well, what is she waiting for? Why isn’t she blasting away right now?

  43. avatarjk137

    avatarjk137 said, about 1 month ago

    Ugh… this is phenomenally bad. There is no way Locher had this planned when he wrote the strip. I’m going to go read a real comic, like Skin Horse.

  44. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Flight Suit, loved it!

  45. OldHipster

    OldHipster said, about 1 month ago

    OK, Dick that is Tracy, BOOK ‘em!

    Time is of the essence, like so much swill.

    Ya know?

  46. NyukNyuk2000

    NyukNyuk2000 said, about 1 month ago

    Yeah, it’s bad. Can’t say it’s not interesting, though. By the way, doodlerjeff, I’m not gonna stop reading Dick Tracy just because you tell me not to.

  47. safeway674

    safeway674 said, about 1 month ago

    I don’t know if this is story line has become confusing today or is it because it is Friday night and the “Bacardi” has something to do with it. Where is Barney Fife when you need him???

  48. LudwigVonDrake

    LudwigVonDrake said, about 1 month ago

    Reading Dick Tracy these days is like looking at that horrific accident on the side of the freeway: You know you shouldn’t look but you just HAVE to.