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1. 

   leakysqueaky712 said, about 1 month ago

   I told you Aunt Marg that I could stare down that tiger!!!

2. 

   Margueritem said, about 1 month ago

   Rhoda, you are the best!

   BTW, where have you been?

3. 

   leakysqueaky712 said, about 1 month ago

   Doing things I had no business doing. :-)))

4. 

   leakysqueaky712 said, about 1 month ago

   Hope all is well with you Aunt Marg.

5. 

   VistaBill said, about 1 month ago

   How much longer is this going to last? I might not be around long enough to see the dramatic ending!

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   barticle35 said, about 1 month ago

   Macy seems more like Fearless Fosdick every day.

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   dstufff said, about 1 month ago

   Yeah, tiger, stop that growling right now! (Like the tiger is going to listen to him?!?)

8. 

   dsped said, about 1 month ago

   Growl, tiger, growl!

9. 

   Gweedo Murray said, about 1 month ago

   Growl, growl, growl !

10. 

    Fer Lefer said, about 1 month ago

    endos, Locher, endos

11. 

    donaldo said, about 1 month ago

    What? You mean you’re not going to eat me? What? Could it be that some last minute distraction is saving me? What? You mean I’m not going to end up as cat food after all? What? What? What?

12. 

    CyberV said, about 1 month ago

    Am I the only one sick of Dick having to get rescued from danger? He’s supposed to be the star!

13. 

    Fearless_Fosdick said, about 1 month ago

    If Dick can just grab the tiger’s tongue, between him and fee fi pulling, they can turn it inside out.

14. 

    MoParMitch said, about 1 month ago

    I am haveing a hard time keeping up with all this action at such a rapid pace.

    sigh…………..

15. 

    fishbulb said, about 1 month ago

    Now the cage has shrunk so that it is the length of the tiger. And it’s not as if the tiger could spin around and bite the arms of the man holding his tail.

16. 

    canadaeh said, about 1 month ago

    the tiger wants out of the strip and is going after Dick and Jim

17. 

    tcambeul said, about 1 month ago

    tracy has prolly soiled himself.

18. 

    jakebb2 said, about 1 month ago

    I’m with MoParMitch. The excitement is killing me!! (Yawn)

19. 

    Flight Suit said, about 1 month ago

    It’s odd to refer to your victims as “tiger meat.” If a mouse is about to be eaten by a cat, you don’t call the mouse “cat meat,” do you?

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    wndrwrthg said, about 1 month ago

    A new day dawns, we stretch and yawn
    And stagger off to the head
    We sip our coffee, turn the monitor on
    And wonder if Tracy is finally dead
    But it’s all the same, a story so lame
    That little more can be said
    The tale is flat, and we marvel that
    Locher even bothers to get out of bed
    We’ll tune in tomorrow (much to our sorrow)
    And down the pathway we will be led
    Only to find, like every other time
    We should have stayed in bed instead

21. 

    Sydney Phillips said, about 1 month ago

    fishbulb,

    That’s a logical expectation. Felines (and most animals) would immediately try to spin around and get at whatever is impeding/holding them !

    Call it artistic license to give the Author a “pass” but watch the HEIGHT of the CAGE grow way beyond what’s necessary for animal exhibition.

    We’ve seen a variation of this “Tracy and the Tiger in a Cage” sequence before, and also with the cage conveniently growing HIGHER as the story progresses.

    See it in the Archives (Bird Gang story - 2003 - June 13 to 28)

    After Al Kinda and Queenie, now this ! .You have to wonder if when the Acolytes read these COPY CAT replays of earlier death scenes, IF they really think the use of PLAGIARIZED “material” represents SUPERB work ?

22. 

    Sydney Phillips said, about 1 month ago

    wndrthg,

    Need to join Margueritem in giving you high marks again for lifting this artistic tragedy to some relevance via poetic observation !

    A welcome contribution !

    Locher should send you a note of thanks !

23. 

    jtpozenel said, about 1 month ago

    Locher needs to be replaced.

24. 

    Sydney Phillips said, about 1 month ago

    For a minute there I thought it was MATTHEW posting !

25. 

    Joe Allen Doty said, about 1 month ago

    Someone with spiked leather wrist bands has the tiger by the tail.

    Writing that reminds me of Buck Owens’ song “Tiger by the Tail.”

26. 

    whardin1960 said, about 1 month ago

    The growl RINGO hears is Della Contessa’s stomach. After all it’s been two months since she or anyone else ate.

27. 

    Carlo Coratelli said, about 1 month ago

    I think tomorrow we see Tarzan.

28. 

    morrow said, about 1 month ago

    I’ve decided the best explanation for the tiger’s behavior lies in Tracy’s britches. If we could see Agent M&M, you’d see her begging the tiger to take her first.

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    jumbobrain said, about 1 month ago

    So this is at least the third story in a row where our hero finds himself about to meet his maker, only to be rescued by some implausible device that appears from nowhere (last time it was the King shooting Jack, the time before that it was the little robot coming out of the big robot…it probably goes back further than that, even).

    The lack of care and quality in this strip these days has become its most distinctive hallmark, really. Swap that Two Way Wrist Radio for a One Way Trip to Comic Strip Oblivion.

30. 

    Sydney Phillips said, about 1 month ago

    At another time, in another cage, with another Tiger coming, Locher drew him scurring up the bars using his belt around a bar to the higher safety on a trapeze bar.

    He still hasn’t used his WristGeenee to call for help or even tried his Taser. The sharp electrcal charges could discourage the Cat.

    But NO ! Super writer Locher “pretends” doing a “Sam Catchem” illusion on them … NONE of them EXISIST !

    And that, passing as “brilliant” craftsmanship is supposed to impress his readers (?) Perhaps some are, … cheering and applauding loudly around the Old Courthouse in Woodstock ! (?)

31. 

    Fer Lefer said, about 1 month ago

    “I can’t stand that growling! Stop it right now!”

    The tiger shuts up and turn its head to expect more orders from his TRUE master.

    That’s why Ricardo says “WHAT?”

    Tomorrow, Ringo tells the tiger to disarm Mr. Popo and escort both victims to the doughnut store, where all the SWAT team is having lunch/dinner/whatever.

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    Sydney Phillips said, about 1 month ago

    morrow,

    Thanks for the comment on Sunday !

    Today, I took what may be my last look a Mattie’s Apollo. And I’m still a bit puzzled. He says the strip is a HOMAGE as distinct from a PARODY, All I’ve been seeing though is a likeness of Batman WITHOUT the ears. Not a “whiff” of anything resembling Locher’s “Grouco” Marx - Dick Tracy !

    Remember Dan Dunn ? Me thinks Mattie done created Batman’s version of DAN DUNN. Only the lack of “ears” tell the difference. It’s like “Mathew” turn into “Marsh” (Norman, that is). As Locher has signaled elsewhere, life is always faster in the “duplication” lane ! Whatever the name you call it.

    Perhaps, Bob Kane is higher up in the ‘pecking order” than Herr SDICKLEGRUBER ? Perhaps, somewhere in Naperville a tear is shed (?)

33. 

    neonleon59 said, about 1 month ago

    Joe Allen Doty said, Writing that reminds me of Buck Owens’ song “Tiger by the Tail.”

    GROAN. Sadly, the use of that phrase is exactly what’s coming.

34. 

    Matthew Hansel said, about 1 month ago

    Sydney:

    Perhaps something is being lost in translation between Trinidad and the good ole’ US of A!

    APOLLO is clearly a HOMAGE to Chester Gould, Dick Locher and golden-age Batman artist Dick Sprang.

    Parody would mean that I’m somehow making fun of either Batman or Dick Tracy or both, and that is certainly not my goal and/or point in doing APOLLO.

    MY WHOLE point in doing the APOLLO strip is to provide SUPERHERO type entertainment in the vein of the gentlemen’s names above. Something that the KIDS can read and enjoy and which, long term, will hopefully be layered enough that ADULTS will enjoy it as well. I’m gunning for good old fashioned “escapist fiction”, which is really what ALL comic books/strips should be!

    The stories will probably have more in common with Chet and Batman writer Bill Finger. The artwork will definitely have more in common with Locher and Sprang (can you honestly LOOK at Apollo and not see a Locher influence in the art?).

    AND–Bob Kane is NOT an influence of mine at all. He was a slime ball who stole credit from everybody else for EVERYTHING that he did. Almost every piece of Batman artwork that he produced (including the cover to Detective Comics #27) was SWIPED from something else.

    MPH

35. 

    tracyfan92 said, about 1 month ago

    Thanks for the reference again Sydney. I actually enjoyed rereading that 2003 sequence. I had forgotten about Dove helping Tracy by feeding the Birds to that other blond Tiger. This one is colored better and is made to look larger but this is one phoney plot line. You mentioned that the cage (bird cage actually) grew taller. Actually the whole thing grew much larger during those frames. At first it only appeared large enough to hold one person (Tracy). Later Hawk and his brother are seen standing on a rather large circular base while Tracy is up on the roost above. Even the Tiger fits on the floor of that cage. Amazing how the whole cage grew during that sequence.

36. 

    Greatdane said, about 1 month ago

    When I started reading this circus story I was literally a year younger.

37. 

    Sydney Phillips said, about 1 month ago

    tracyfan92,

    Glad you found the reference interesting.

    As this story continus to unfold … see a Cage grow upward again.

    this is the most cowardly Dick Tracy has ever been presented. Locher has him throwing in the towel. As the girl appeals to him hesay = “I’m helpless ! We’re cat food !”

    Not a thought of calling for “back up” or trying to defend with his available Taser Gun. It’s sad how LOW, Locher has taken him !

38. 

    ridenslide65 said, about 1 month ago

    Apollo is a Jag Off and Bob Kane is a GOD!!

    Locher needs to go.

    The stench of Tracy’s shorts should keep the Tiger at bay long enough for Lt Teevo to text Tracy on the 2-Way Wrist Genie the best way to escape. (Put the Tiger to sleep like Locher is doing to us!)