Dick Tracy by Dick Locher

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  1. ridenslide65

    ridenslide65 said, about 1 month ago

    Now it’s a BADGER!

    Tracy is freakin out! Yeah!!!!

  2. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Besides swallow nervously and break out into a sweat…

  3. achtungkitten

    achtungkitten said, about 1 month ago

    Oh yeah let’s just wait outside while our evil plan churns behind our backs. Nothing can possibly go wrong.

  4. Fer Lefer

    Fer Lefer said, about 1 month ago

    A tiger AND a panther…

    a sweating FBI agent… still without “hair fangs”

    and Ricardo is (still) without ideas.

    Ricardo, remember that you came to the circus to enjoy the show, far from police troubles, without weapons or hat, instead of FBI agent who came (supposedly prepared) to save Ringo from a trap… SO, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? DO SOMETHING!!!

    Meanwhile, I’ll take a look at Doonesbury, Shoe, Yenny, Gaturro and the meaning of Lila… I just can’t stand on my toes because the thrill!

  5. Llewellenbruce

    Llewellenbruce said, about 1 month ago

    I think Tracy just filled his pants.

  6. VistaBill

    VistaBill said, about 1 month ago

    “Good kitty…”

  7. barticle35

    barticle35Genius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    It was the tiger that said “gulp.” He just swallowed DT’s foot.

  8. Carlo Coratelli

    Carlo Coratelli said, about 1 month ago

    This is a good strip.

  9. watcha

    watcha said, about 1 month ago

    Aaaahhh, is that the lesser known tigerXbearXwolf that we finally get to see. We are so privileged.

  10. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Tracy, you’ve got to do something…else!

  11. Flight Suit

    Flight SuitGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Do something, Tracy! What, me? Yes, I’m a federal agent, but you’re forgetting that I’m also a woman, and may therefore swoon at any moment!

  12. Fearless_Fosdick

    Fearless_Fosdick said, about 1 month ago

    Suddenly, Tracy remembers the Matrix pack in his pocket. In no time at all, the tiger is mesmerized by some really cool card tricks.

  13. LudwigVonDrake

    LudwigVonDrake said, about 1 month ago

    ^ “Pick a card…any card!”

  14. OzzieJohn

    OzzieJohnGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Which reminds me, what ARE “thermal imaging cards”?

  15. tracyfan92

    tracyfan92 said, about 1 month ago

    Hey! Now DT is breaking out in that rash! We don’t see that too often. Note the plot thickening….they are gonna wait outside the tent so they don’t hafta watch the gore….
    Now that means that Syd is probably right and they are gonna climb up the cage?? I guess we’ll see that fairly soon or the next time we see DT and Ennen they will be Tiger Turds….who said that? Perhaps Locher will remember the Taser on DT’s wrist this time. At least to delay the Tiger so they can climb up the cage.

  16. fishbulb

    fishbulbGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Where are those drugged steaks when you need them? This is like Batman. Put Batman & Robin into the giant hour glass & leave so they can escape. The “cat” in panel 1 looks like the “hounds” in the Baskerville story. I bet the close ups of the tiger were all clip art.

  17. morrow

    morrow said, about 1 month ago

    Somehow or other, I like today’s installment. Incidentally, I wonder how Liam likes his website being used as a set-up AND sounding board for a non-member strip!

  18. neonleon59

    neonleon59Genius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Tracy emitted an audible “GULP” when he remembered that Tess had discovered the iPhone he had bought for his girlfriend, absent-mindedly using his family credit card for the purchase.

  19. jkebxjunke

    jkebxjunke said, about 1 month ago

    you would think that his 2 way wrist radio would have a panic button…… and gps locator…BTW where are all the other cops at? you would figure that someone gets killed and there should be more cops there than at a doughnut shop sale… and where is the fbi agents partner? this plot has more holes than swiss cheese…. oh and where is the pig on wheels? we want the pig on wheels!!!

  20. wndrwrthg

    wndrwrthgGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Tiger, tiger creeping slow
    About to devour Pops’ new foe
    Fearsome beast in a rage
    Oh look, tasty treats in the cage
    Ennen and Tracy too
    On their way to being tiger poo
    Claws will rend, blood will spurt
    Looks like Tracy’s in for one big hurt
    Circus freaks selling arms
    Not beguiled by Tracy’s charms
    Weeks and weeks of talking heads
    Louise Trapeze is happy to be dead
    Why we come here day after day
    Nothing changes to our dismay
    Plots that sicken, stories overlong
    Where did Locher go so wrong
    Tortured syntax, tired script
    Sometimes I just want to spit
    What new twist will the morrow bring
    Probably not a blessed thing.

  21. Sydney Phillips

    Sydney PhillipsGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    It’s all very simple, Tracy still have his Wrist Geenee ….
    TASER - the TIGER ! Tiger hair will be UP and he’ll be standing on his claws !

    But Locher carelessly forgot - SO, Tracy forgets too !

    Alternative 1 : Ennen still has her weapon Mr, Pops did the “forgeting” this time !

    Alternative 2 : Tracy (like in a recent story) has left his Wrist Geenee in “broadcast” mode. The Police Squad which had been playing with the Matrix Pack (?) and had dissapeared are about to re-appear again

    Otherwise relax ! And watch a cage GROW upwards !

    And while you wait those that can access the Archieves go back to the last panel of Sunday 1-21-07 Remember who Tess donated most of her inheritance to ?

    Go there and you’ll get a clue to solve ALL the current problems

  22. avatarjk137

    avatarjk137 said, about 1 month ago

    Not a bad strip today, although the silhouette is really weird in panel 2 and Ennen looks like a mustachioed Cleopatra in Panel 3.

    Sydney, I think we can only assume the current model of wrist Geenee doesn’t do bull. Maybe tasers burn out the battery too quickly, or perhaps it just didn’t make the budget; regardless, a taser meant for humans would be unreliable at best against the largest member of the cat family.

  23. Takiniteasy

    Takiniteasy said, about 1 month ago

    I’ve been away for a week … . . i can’t believe this isn’t resolved yet!

  24. kab2rb

    kab2rb said, about 1 month ago

    What I can’t understand why didn’t DT fight the clown over the gun with two there can over power one. FBI agents are suppose to be trained. Why let them in the tigers cage at all suspense I guess?

  25. captainzero

    captainzero said, about 1 month ago

    As long as this space is being used to plug other strips, here’s mine….

    http://www.daily-journal.com/bloggers/captainzerocomic/

    Thrills! Chills! Suspense! Intrigue! Music! Dancing! Hilarity! Romance! Drama! Adventure! And MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!

  26. Froxkrybra

    Froxkrybra said, about 1 month ago

    Tracy looks more scared then the female FBI agent does…

  27. puddleglum1066

    puddleglum1066 said, about 1 month ago

    So Mr. Pops is a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Dark Lords and Evil Geniuses (local 99), whose rules specify that once you’ve locked the good guy into the cage with the hungry animal (I give up guessing what it is now), you must then leave the room so he has a chance to escape…

    Scott Evil, where are you when we need you?

  28. captainzero

    captainzero said, about 1 month ago

    Yeah, I should’ve pointed out that there’s some political/social commentary in those.
    BTW, click on the strips to see a larger version. If you enjoy them there’s archives on the right that go back through 2005.

  29. jumbobrain

    jumbobrainGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Ooooookay, if I squint my eyes a little bit and try to forget that it’s taken some twelve weeks of characters standing around in the same spot slowly unveiling a plot with no characterization or logic and just look at Dick in the tiger cage I can maybe pretend for a few seconds that the strip is good again. Let’s see how long this lasts.

  30. fleeglebeagle

    fleeglebeagle said, about 1 month ago

    Where’s Robot Tracy when we need him!!!!!!!!! SHEESH!!

  31. Sydney Phillips

    Sydney PhillipsGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    wndrwrthg,

    That verse is easily a classis ! If you don’t mind, i’ll put it up on the DT Yahoo board shortly. Giving you credit of course

    The only change I can think of, is to drop the words “found” in the 2nd line, and “becoming” in the 6th. I believe it would “flow” more smoothly.

    It’s simply great !

  32. jtpozenel

    jtpozenel said, about 1 month ago

    Do cartoonist ever get fired?

  33. jumbobrain

    jumbobrainGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    JT: that’s a good question. Short answer, in most cases the strip is owned by the syndicate and they can technically do what they want. But I don’t think that happens very often.

    With the best comic strips, syndicates usually get that it’s the cartoonist that makes the strip work, and occasionally a “star” cartoonist will get ownership of his strip (Pogo, Prince Valiant, Lil’ Abner, to name a few). Charles Schulz got an agreement that no one else would ever do Peanuts, which is why we have reruns now. The syndicate threatened to fire Berke Breathed when he wouldn’t let them merchandise the hell out of Bloom County, but I think they knew they’d be killing the goose that was laying the golden eggs. Bill Watterson had similar battles over Calvin and Hobbes.

    But with old properties that the syndicate owns, it’s another story…they’re just commodities. Underground cartoonist Bobby London took over Popeye in the 80s and tried to modernize it, and King Features fired him after he did a strip that seemed to touch on the abortion debate.

    When Dale Messick retired from Brenda Starr, the new creative team wrote a convoluted, ridiculous story that resulted in a new writer announcing two years’ of stories had been a dream, but I don’t know what the backstory was there.

    Honestly, I think if Locher were going to be fired he would already have been..I mean, he’s doing a strip that’s lost 85% of its subscribers in recent years (which hits both the direct income and the value of the character for merchandising), and it’s clear from the posts here that while Dick Tracy has devoted fans, they are not enthusiastic about Locher’s work. But it goes on and on. I can only guess that TMS is so insulated and dysfunctional that they aren’t paying attention to what’s going on outside their offices.

    And as always, if anyone associated with the strip has an opinion, let us hear it!

  34. Matthew Hansel

    Matthew HanselGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Captain Zero:

    GREAT strip! Love it. As a wee lad, I grew up near Kankakee and on Sundays we used to get the Daily Journal.

    Bravo to you!

    MPH

  35. Matthew Hansel

    Matthew HanselGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    jtponzenel:

    Yes they do. Gould was FORCED off of Dick Tracy. He did not retire willingly. TMS came to him and said he could retire and get a pension, or they would cancel the strip and he’d get the Dick Tracy copyright.

    It turns out the Space years cost Chet dearly in terms of papers and the number of papers that dropped the strip. Added to that Chet’s almost over-the-top LAW AND ORDER theme of the early 1970s, and more liberal, and younger newspaper editors choose not the run the strip anymore, plus the declining interest in storystrips at the early part of the decade all made for bad news for the Dick Tracy franchise.

    MPH

  36. wndrwrthg

    wndrwrthgGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Sydney, thank you and by all means please feel free to re-post it. I took your advice and dropped “found” and changed “becoming” to “being” as you can see.

  37. Flight Suit

    Flight SuitGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Somebody flagged and removed my political comments. That’s totally lame.

  38. CougarAllen

    CougarAllen said, about 1 month ago

    You should have told him to do something BEFORE the tiger ate your legs….

    That doesn’t even look like a cat in Panel 2 – more like a badger, or maybe a Tasmanian devil.

    Of course Tracy still has his backup gun, Ms. Ennen still has two guns unless her backup gun was in an ankle holster and got eaten (along with her ankle), he still has his two-way wrist teevee (with Taser) and surely the FBI must have at least as good communication devices and concealed weapons as the local police department. Pepper spray, cell phones, telescoping batons…. Even so, this would be a suspenseful situation, were it at all plausible.

    Will the badger (or Tasmanian devil) and the tiger eat each other all up like the gingham dog and the calico cat? Will anyone come to see what’s all this noise and maniacal laughter? Will Barb Els notice what the clown is up to and shoot him for the same reason she shot Louise Trapeze? Will Tracy do something? Tune in next month … next year … next decade … something is BOUND to happen sooner or later … right? Right? RIGHT?!

    -Cougar :{)

  39. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    wndrwrthg, Bravo!

  40. captainzero

    captainzero said, about 1 month ago

    Flight Suit,
    Sorry about your flagged comment. I didn’t do it.

  41. OldHipster

    OldHipster said, about 1 month ago

    I had to wake up and go take a “fizz”.

    Nothing happening yet, so I’ll go back to bed….

    See ya!

  42. Flight Suit

    Flight SuitGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Captain Zero, I didn’t think you had. Sorry if my comment was unfair, though. I do tend to get on my high horse sometimes.

    Now then, who wants to talk about religion?

    ;-)

  43. farren

    farrenGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Nobody here, unless it’s to say “Dear God, please make this strip better”.