Dick Tracy by Dick Locher

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  1. Flight Suit

    Flight SuitGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Crimestoppers:

    Yeah, so your local police department is now in the business of providing round-the-clock surveillance, free of charge? Might as well cancel your contract with that home security company.

    Panel Two:

    What’s President Obama doing in the cage?

    Lastly:

    “Snoopers?”

  2. Paul Jones

    Paul Jones said, about 1 month ago

    Please, don’t let the myserious off-panel voice be TracyBot; we don’t need clank-clank-AAARRRRRGGGGHHHH to accompany GROWL-ARRRRRGGGHHHH!!!

  3. wndrwrthg

    wndrwrthgGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Thanks Margueritem.
    My bet it is the elephant girl.

    The pucker factor was truly immense
    For Tracy in a trap that made little sense
    The tigers progress has been slowed
    By a circus giant both brave and bold
    Said Fee Fi with a determined lip
    As his mighty hands began to slip
    “No time for you to kvetch and pine”
    “Call for help or else the tiger will dine”
    “On your boney trembling body”
    “What do you mean, “where’s the potty?”
    Agent Ennen was royally pissed
    When she found that to his wrist
    Tracy had a device that would summon
    Law enforcement by the dozen
    Understandably, with a terrible rage
    She screamed at him in the cage
    “God you are such a great big stupid weenie”
    “All this time you’ve had on your Wrist Genie”
    “You‘re not a cop, just a big dummy”
    “We could end up in the tigers tummy”
    Her candor though, was surely lacking
    For in her purse a pistol she’s packing
    Can Tracy live down the shame
    Of being in this story so very lame
    Or will he just meander along
    And sing to us his siren song
    That draws us here each and every day
    Where we suffer in great dismay
    No reason can be discerned
    No lesson is to be learned
    As to why Locher will not simply quit
    But continues to produce this pile of

  4. VistaBill

    VistaBill said, about 1 month ago

    Yikes! Fee Fi’s developed gangrene in his right arm! Grab ahold of what? Now the clown’s calling the police! I’m afraid that all this is too much for my tired old brain to understand.

  5. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    wndrwrthg, you’ve said it all, I can’t add a thing.

  6. leakysqueaky712

    leakysqueaky712 said, about 1 month ago

    That tiger looks apoplectic in panel 1

  7. jumbobrain

    jumbobrainGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    wndrwrthg, I am astonished you can get so thorough and melodic a commentary up so fast. And it is really SO much better than the comic strip. Locher oughta be turning over his paycheck to you faster than Chet Gould is turning over in his grave.

    What else is there to say about today’s strip? The coloring is a little better than usual. I wonder how the clown can dial a cell phone while he’s holding a gun. And the “grab ahold,” whatever it is, is the same bleeep device that Locher used to introduce the pointless week of Fee Fi’s tail-holding.

    Gosh I wish this strip were being done better.

  8. dsped

    dspedGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Awesome! They broke out the big box of crayons.

    I think Karen’s choking on her gum, going from pale to green to purple like that.

  9. achtungkitten

    achtungkitten said, about 1 month ago

    My father is in alarm sales. Maybe I’ll print out this week’s Crimestoppers Textbook so he can have himself a good laugh.

  10. morrow

    morrow said, about 1 month ago

    Why doesn’t Macy climb out? The cage doesn’t have a top on it and it is barely higher than Macy. He’s had like a month now to get out. And why is Fe Fi doin’ it with one hand? Maybe trying to impress Agent M&M? Anyone could impress her after she’s had a dose (and a whiff) of the legendary hero. Talk about a wuss……!

  11. Fearless_Fosdick

    Fearless_Fosdick said, about 1 month ago

    Tie the tail to the bars.

  12. Michael McMillan

    Michael McMillan said, about 1 month ago

    Tracy’s days as a detective should be just about done. Can’t detect a murder done right in front of him, allowed himself and a female FBI agent to be forced into a tiger cage, and since then has spent much of his time screaming like a frightened school girl.

    The police department in this story has been a pitiable joke too. They left a crime scene UNPROTECTED! The entire force ought to be fired at once and the state police should take over police duties in that city. In the meantime, until that happens and you decide you want to commit a crime, you know what city to do it in.

  13. ridenslide65

    ridenslide65 said, about 1 month ago

    Flight Suit is on the Mark - There is an Obama in the cage!

    Fe-Fi - One Hand? Puhlease….

    wndwrthg - Thank you for that little poem. You have indeed said it all.

    What the heck - Snoopers? Why isn’t Ringo in the cage as well?

  14. Michael McMillan

    Michael McMillan said, about 1 month ago

    OK, I have to ask: Does DL even LIKE cops? Is he maybe one of those ’60s radicals who were against the police then and he never grew out of that?

    I ask because I’ve had a few moments to reflect on a couple of DT episodes here. This one now, and the one with the giant robots. In each case, DT was helpless and hopeless. He cowered and screamed like a girl, and depended on someone or something else that actually had some bravery to save his sorry posterior. As a cop, DT shows himself to be a disgrace.

    I wonder if DT’s job will be open soon. I think I could qualify, especially if you don’t actually have to be able to detect crime and all you have to do is stand around and talk too much and scream in terror the instant anything bad starts happening. I could do at least that well and probably a lot better at real police work, and I’ve never been a policeman.

  15. Araldite

    Araldite said, about 1 month ago

    It’s just not credible that Pops would call the police without even taking a quick peek to see what’s going on inside the tent.

  16. fishbulb

    fishbulbGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    It is possible to read last Sunday’s strip, cut to this one, and the story progresses slightly. The entire Monday-Saturday run was utterly unnecessary. Fee Fi’s hand(s) are in the cage-out of the cage. The cat looks as if it realized it could spin around in panel 5. Finally. Grab ahold? Now who? Teevo? Liz? Another double agent? How many people are secretly working against the clown in the flea circus? Has Banacek been brought in to find the missing SWAT team?

  17. Gweedo Murray

    Gweedo Murray said, about 1 month ago

    Good point fishbulb. Locher could lighten his work load by doing a Sunday only strip, which would give the ‘understory’ writers time to look for other comics that are flagging. the drawing looks decent here. The skin coloring, not so much. The green agent Ennen in panel 4 is appropriate as she is staring down the “jaws of death”.

    With a low, open top on that cage why couldn’t Tracy give the lady a boost up. Standing on his shoulders, she could be out and look for a gun or a heavy bar to pass through to Tracy. These haven’t been the kind of stories where I eagerly await the next installment. The after story writers are so good because they get great fertilizer.

  18. LudwigVonDrake

    LudwigVonDrake said, about 1 month ago

    Morrow, I’ve read ahead and you’ll find some continuity problems with your observation about the cage :)

  19. Joe Allen Doty

    Joe Allen Doty said, about 1 month ago

    Why do I get flamed and rudely treated when you guys tolerate those who write long essays that are nonsense?

    Maybe Jim Brozman, the real artist of the strip, is using the multicolor method used in the “Dick Tracy” movie which starred Warren Beatty and Madonna.

  20. morrow

    morrow said, about 1 month ago

    Ludwig! CONTINUITY PROBLEMS? With THIS strip? You gotta be joking! Does the other half of the cage have bars on top and Macy only sees that half? That, I can believe! Doncha know his britches smell sweet! That’s got to be turnin’ Agent Ennin on!

    Doty, it’s all nonsense; especially the posts!

  21. prrdh

    prrdh said, about 1 month ago

    It’s true that Dickieboy and Ennen should be able to climb over the top of the cage without any trouble, but that means that the tiger should have been able to jump out and feast on whomever any time during this dismal excuse for a story line (at least before Mr. Clean grabbed her tail).

  22. nighthawks

    nighthawksGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    joe allen, the reason you get trashed and some other folks comments are treated like genius is simple….you don’t belong to the tight little clique…….you can apply to become a member by going to the gocomics home site and click on the dicktracy commentclub button and fill out application.
    await 4-6 weeks for application to be processed. print out the application and put signed application in a paper sack and then go out in the backyard and

    SCREAM LIKE A CHICKEN!

  23. jtpozenel

    jtpozenel said, about 1 month ago

    When I go out of town, I call a circus giant to watch my house! After reading this strip, it seems like the better choice.

  24. Sydney Phillips

    Sydney PhillipsGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    wndrwrtg,

    You’ve done it again ! It’s amazing how prolific you are at creating verse nearly every day, while at the same time identifying all that’s wrong with the strip. You are the talented man !

    As a relatively new poster here I’m considering taking “nighthawks” advice on applyiny to become a member of the “clique”. That way, if I’m accepted, perhaps I won’t have to duck so often when posters like “jtpozenel” , Mattie (aka “Trapper John”) or Jeffery (aka “DLisagenius”) might cease firing “rockets” in my direction.

    Not sure about screaming like a chicken though !

    In the meantime, I’m glad Mattie is taking his abvice (from yesterday) on “The-Structure-Of-Man” Blog spot. It looks real good. Pity Locher never had the time to enhance his work with facilities like this.

    For the first time Fee Fi actually has (panel 4), the Tigers TAIL outside the cage. Opportunity to swing it around a bar.

    The Sunday coloring has gone to hell. Brozman ? If nothing else Locher did a passably good job of that.

  25. JanCinVV

    JanCinVVGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Sorry Flight Suit, can’t be the prez. Ears are too small.

  26. brine

    brineGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    The colors hurt my eyes and I’m color blind!!!

  27. 436rge

    436rge said, about 1 month ago

    Advice to all. Take one week off from viewing DT. When you come back next week you’ll find still…Not much has happend!

  28. CyberV

    CyberV said, about 1 month ago

    I’d write out a poem of my own, but really, there’s nothing new to be said.

    The strip’s a failure
    Far too ludicrous for words
    Locher should get canned

    …I love haiku.

  29. barticle35

    barticle35Genius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Like the magenta kitty.

  30. whardin1960

    whardin1960 said, about 1 month ago

    Flight Suit some smaller towns still do “house checks” when residents leave town. It doesn’t replace alarms and such (which are notorious for going off falsely, ask a police officer how much time they waste responding to them) but if an officer drives by and sees someone walking around the property or even entering or leaving, he then knows to check them out. Just make sure to give your date of return or you’ll get questioned like the Harvard professor earlier this year.

  31. Dennis Smith

    Dennis Smith said, about 1 month ago

    “I’ve got a tiger by the tail,it’s plain to see”.

    (BUCK OWENS)

  32. Michael McMillan

    Michael McMillan said, about 1 month ago

    Crimestoppers: Some towns have neighborhood watches. I’m not sure how good they actually are, but the idea of knowing your neighbors and watching out for each other seems like a reasonably good idea.

    About the idea of going out in my yard and screaming like a chicken: I’ll leave that to Dick Tracy. He seems to have that pretty well covered. If I do it here in the courtyard between apartment buildings, I guarantee there’ll be neighbors watching my every move from then on.

  33. redgrl7

    redgrl7 said, about 1 month ago

    This is a comic strip,and that is all what it is. But I do agree with you 436rge, I take longer breaks and come back to the strip. I’m glad Dick Tracy still runs.Dick Tracy does’nt run in my paper.

  34. CyberV

    CyberV said, about 1 month ago

    I dunno, redgrl7… I’ve seen Tracy run a LOT in the strip lately. Mostly from giant robots and card themed villains. He’d run from the Tiger if he could.

  35. Flight Suit

    Flight SuitGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Joe Allen Doty, I asked NotNormanChubsyWubsy why he keeps calling you an idiot, but he never responded. If somebody’s trashed you today, it appears their comment has been flagged and removed, ‘cause I haven’t seen it.

  36. Flight Suit

    Flight SuitGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    I beg to differ. I thought Doty’s “inside scoop” regarding gay cruising practices and a bar which had banned cruising to be quite interesting.

    This is going back a few weeks. Not sure how long it’s been; one day seems to blur into the next when you’re following DT!

  37. cholldekkgher stenstenstaffgher

    cholldekkgher stenst... said, about 1 month ago

    I’d write a limerick about this strip, but too much has been said and not enough has been done to limit the exposure to the Dick that is Tracey and all his faults.

  38. redgrl7

    redgrl7 said, 28 days ago

    CyberV,I was talking about that I can’t get Dick Tracy in the newspaper where I stay.