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1. 

   ridenslide65 said, about 1 month ago

   NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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   VistaBill said, about 1 month ago

   “Can You get out?”… I thought they were locked in the cage. What are the clown and the others doing while this is going on? Sometimes I think I’m reading from two different comic strips.

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   Margueritem said, about 1 month ago

   That tiger should’ve turned around and taken a swipe at Fee Fi by now.

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   avatarjk137 said, about 1 month ago

   Our favorite monster clown doesn’t seem keen on interfering with the interference in his deathtrap. And don’t go saying he’s In Another Room, because this is supposedly one big tent. Maybe he is watching the action, and his gun was just eaten by the plot ahem I mean Della Con- ahem I mean the tiger.

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   Flight Suit said, about 1 month ago

   Panel Two: Fee Fi looks like he could be pulling on something else.

   Just sayin’.

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   jorizaga said, about 1 month ago

   I hope Fee Fi gets it… I mean just as Dick Tracy escapes… just to liven things up…

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   barticle35 said, about 1 month ago

   Pretty good pair of hands, anyway.

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   Llewellenbruce said, about 1 month ago

   Why don’t you tie his tail to the bars?

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   CyberV said, about 1 month ago

   Catch a tiger by the tail
   Only through this can Dick prevail
   This story needs a nip and tuck
   Because at present, it just sucks
   And while the tale just makes no sense
   At least it stays in present tense
   So Locher can keep his head held high
   While the rest of us go “oh why, God? Why?”
   The hero is helpless, the foils are lame
   the writer continues to play a very sick game
   Like a train wreck it is, still plodding on
   Will Ennen remember that she still has her gun?
   Fee Fi ‘s new star, and Tracy is out
   I hope the editor reads this particular bout
   It couldn’t be worse, I think we agree
   That’s we all wonder “Are they punishing me?”

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    watcha said, about 1 month ago

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhrrrrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh! What a load of ……..

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    Fearless_Fosdick said, about 1 month ago

    The closest way out is through the tiger’s digestive tract.

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    LudwigVonDrake said, about 1 month ago

    “Way to go, Fee Fi!”? That has to be one of the dumbest lines ever in the history of this strip.

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    shstrng said, about 1 month ago

    I am really enjoying this storyline. In a ” Plan 9 From Outer Space” sorta way.

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    poopa33 said, about 1 month ago

    They said it could be worse and sure enough it is

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    N7326 Foxtrot said, about 1 month ago

    Tie his tail to a bar and then go around and unlock the door to the cage.

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    MoParMitch said, about 1 month ago

    How many more days (weeks) will we have to see this same scene?

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    kab2rb said, about 1 month ago

    The clown and gang our outside the tent. How can DT and FBI get out of the cage or is it locked?

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    Joe Allen Doty said, about 1 month ago

    Since the tiger seems to be looking to his rear in the last panel, maybe he will attempt to attack the giant instead.

    Well, the FBI agent might have a pin that can be used to pick the lock on the tiger cage. Or Dick Tracy might have something in his pocket to pick the lock.

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    Sydney Phillips said, about 1 month ago

    A suburban Chicago paper, The Daily Herald stated that Dick Locher still does a lot of “penciling” for the strip, and Mattie earlier stated that he is still “involved” in the art.

    I take that to mean that he still does the character designs.The FACE of “Fee Fi” today (mid-panel) seems to confirm that assumtion as it bears a close resemblance to “Red Aurora” (July 29, 2007) in the Baron Von Klu Meister story. See it in the Archives !

    It probably accounts for the baby sized hands we see occasionally. As I have the impression that Brozman doesn’t have that defect.

    Happily too, despite the hypnotic influence Dicky seems to have over Mattie, and the latter’s “copy mania” obsession. He has, in his new strips managed to resist acquiring that embarrassing artistic habit !

    See ! I’m not such a bad guy after all. I do try to give CREDIT when it’s “earned” !

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    Matthew Hansel said, about 1 month ago

    Thanks, Sydney. I appreciate that.

    A minor clarification: Dick does rough pencil layouts (what would be equivalent to “breakdowns” in the comic book industry) and Jim is doing finishes, so Jim has a LOT of latitude over the drawings.

    This is similar to how Jack Kirby was working while at the peak of his powers in the mid-to-late 1960s. He was pencilling almost every book that Marvel produced. In those days what he was producing was more like BREAKDOWNS, wherein the inker did a lot of the finishing on the artwork, which is one of the many reasons that a Kirby page of the same vintage inked by Joe Sinnott or Dick Ayers or Vinnie Colletta all looked so radically different.

    MPH

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    Matthew Hansel said, about 1 month ago

    Re: Hands…again, Sydney…thank you.

    Neal Adams once told me that the ONLY things people TRULY notice in artwork are HANDS and FACES, so I’ve made it a point to study those artists who are particularly GOOD at both (mostly Jim Aparo, Gil Kane and John Byrne).

    I’ve made that observation to Dick, too.

    MPH

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    jtpozenel said, about 1 month ago

    How long has Tracey been at the circus now? A month or two?

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    Sydney Phillips said, about 1 month ago

    Mattie,

    You may recall a post I put upon the DT Yahoo board several months ago with a quote from the great Milton Caniff, to the effect that HE thought the most difficult thing to get “right” were hands. Yet, looking at his work no one would ever have thought so.

    It’s much too late for the Locher Leopard to change spots, and he’ll be retired from Dick Tracy a year from now. Plus, I don’t believe anyone, including the boys from Woodstock thing he’s even a shadow of Lee Falk !

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    Matthew Hansel said, about 1 month ago

    Sydney:

    Locher is a much, much different artist than Lee Falk (whose art I do not care for all that much), just as Locher is a much different artist than Gould and Fletcher were.

    Hands are one of those things that ARE hard to draw (I frequently will snap a quick photo with my digital camera or with my iPhone when I need reference) and a good many artists have spent lots of time erasing hands in an effort to get them RIGHT. Recently I put aside a daily strip for several days because I redrew the same had 18 times and just could NOT get it to look correct (I eventually did, but I am not totally satisfied with it).

    Remember, too, that many artists will use “cartoon” hands to try to deal with the complexity to draw “realistic” hands (one of the most jarring things to see is a cartoony strip with HYPER realistic looking items in them—one of my main “beefs’ with Fletcher’s work was he was a great cartoonist, but it takes me OUT of the strip to see a very cartoony hand hold a VERY realistic looking .44 Mag!).

    MPH

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    Sydney Phillips said, about 1 month ago

    Mattie,

    I must be getting old ! - - In fact I am old ! ;-)

    Lee Falk was not an artist (to the best of my knowledge ! ?). He was the Creator and Writer of Mandrake and the Phantom and had different artists on those strips over the years (eg. Phil Davis, Ray Moore, Wilson McCoy and Sy Barry).

    I believe Falk was renown for continuing to WRITE the strips into his LATE eighties, before passing on in 1999.

    But sorry to observe, it’s not that Dick Locher can’t draw hands properly (eg. His cover of “Dick Tracy’s Fiendish Foes”. Tracy’s hand with 2-Way Wrist Radio - is near perfect). So I have to assume he’s in too much in a hurry to do it right OR has an ingrained bad habit, and is too lazy to take the effort to do it right in the strips !

    I think I’m a fair person and will always give credit when due. But Locher has an awful lot to be sorry about in Dick Tracy, he’s made some poor changes and choices that have not served the strip well AND on this current story - he should just hang his head in shame !

26. 

    Barry J. Williams said, about 1 month ago

    I know that when people yank my tail, I tend to start barking…I’m just saying…

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    wndrwrthg said, about 1 month ago

    His mighty thews show the strain
    The plewds fall as a heavy rain
    His iron grip beginning to fade
    Tracy seems to shun his aid
    From whence did Fee Fi come
    That’s the question asked by some
    The tiger whirls, the tiger bites
    Causing his captor to go “Yikes”
    Shouting encouragement for what he sees
    Tracy again fails to flee
    Standing fast in the cage
    Again the target of the big cats rage
    Why does Tracy choose not to run
    Why does Enenen not use her gun
    His days of glory in the past
    Tracy now is fading fast
    We scream and cry, even cajole
    And wonder where this story will go
    Fear and disappointment is our lot
    The days move on, the story not.

    Great poem CyberV

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    BASSMANB0B said, about 1 month ago

    All the civil talk between Matthew & Sydney gives me hope for mankind!

    BB

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    jumbobrain said, about 1 month ago

    Someone over on Gasoline Alley suggested that Jim Scancarelli, who draws that strip, should take over Dick Tracy. And I agree, a brief episode in GA had Dick show up and it was way better than anything I’ve seen here lately. But then I thought, what if Locher and Brozman took over Gasoline Alley? The one up side is it would resolve the issue of characters aging in real time (Walt Wallet is now around 110) because nothing would ever happen.

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    Sydney Phillips said, about 1 month ago

    wndwrthg,

    Not taking sides (although I really am ;) but I think the competition brought ot the best in you. And you won’t have to push too hard for my vote !

    I particularly like that obsevation in the closing line !

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    MaxStarmanJones said, about 1 month ago

    Too bad the SWAT team Tracy sent for a couple of months ago left so early. I wonder if Tess and Bonnie have any idea what has transpired now. Actually, Bonnie’s idea was to get Tracy all involved at the circus, and then take Mom to go run up some more charges on the credit cards. Tracy has totally forgotten that someone maxed out his card before B.O. won all that money.

    And I still can’t believe that after someone was killed in front of hundreds of eye witnesses, that everyone just…uhhh…WENT HOME. No newspaper people, no local TV station to come investigate. Everybody must have gone home to watch Michael Jackson. After all, I think he was still alive when Bonnie took Mom and Dad to the circus.

32. 

    LudwigVonDrake said, about 1 month ago

    BB, either it’s hope for mankind or hell freezing over.

33. 

    OldHipster said, about 1 month ago

    watcha said, about 20 hours ago
    Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhrrrrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh! What a load of ……..

    TIGER POOP!

34. 

    ridenslide65 said, about 1 month ago

    Forget about the hands. This strip is a load of Carp.