Dick Tracy by Dick Locher

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  1. jorizaga

    jorizaga said, about 1 month ago

    Jump Tracy… jump!

  2. Gweedo Murray

    Gweedo Murray said, about 1 month ago

    I think I feel a thrill coming on.

  3. fishbulb

    fishbulbGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    It has taken 2 trained law enforcement officers a week+ to look upwards. And why would there be a trapeze at that height dangling INTO a dangerous area like this? And Sunday’s panel 2 plainly shows the cage to be 1. Square and 2. Topless. Once again, objects change shape as needed in ….The Locher Zone. And of course, the clown and his cohorts in evil did not notice the escape route either.

  4. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    It’s magic, I tell you!

    (Or really lousy story writing…)

  5. VistaBill

    VistaBill said, about 1 month ago

    “Ye Gods!”, Ennen says as she discovers this escape route. Tracy’s speechless. Fee Fi tells ‘em what to do. I suppose this tale is nearing conclusion… possibly before Thanksgiving. I’ll miss the pig on wheels.

  6. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    The pig on wheels magically appears in the cage, so that they have something to stand on…

  7. barticle35

    barticle35Genius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Well, there’s only enough room on that trapeze for one person. Guess who it’s gonna be?

  8. Flight Suit

    Flight SuitGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Panel One:

    Agent Ennen’s eye looks like a “Gold Fish” cracker.

    Panel Two: Are we inside the cage, looking up at its ceiling, our are we outside, looking down at the roof, which has a trapeze sticking out of it, M.C. Escher style?

  9. VistaBill

    VistaBill said, about 1 month ago

    Margueritem said, “The pig on wheels magically appears in the cage, so that they have something to stand on…”

    Way to go Pig on Wheels! You’ll be the hero in this suspenseful (neverending) epic.

  10. VistaBill

    VistaBill said, about 1 month ago

    barticle35 said, “Well, there’s only enough room on that trapeze for one person. Guess who it’s gonna be?”

    It’ll turn into a “doublewide” before our very eyes!

  11. CyberV

    CyberV said, about 1 month ago

    I guess that makes this a dangling plot thread, huh?

    Trapeeze is dangling overhead
    Tracy’s filled with dread
    And if he doesn’t grab it, he will soon be dead
    But do we really care?
    When this tripe is Locher’s fare?
    Newcomers to this strip? RUN AWAY! BEWARE!
    The cage has changed it’s shape
    The hero’s fate in the hands of a human ape
    The strain transforming the color of his face to grape
    Why would someone do acrobatics in a tiger cage?
    The lack of logic pushes us into a rage
    I think I just felt my brain disengage.

  12. watcha

    watcha said, about 1 month ago

    Awesome! Really, just in the nick of time this comes to light. Not even MacGyver would have gotten out of this one.

  13. Fearless_Fosdick

    Fearless_Fosdick said, about 1 month ago

    I thought people who use the trapeze get shot.

  14. LudwigVonDrake

    LudwigVonDrake said, about 1 month ago

    Why would a trapeze be hanging over a tiger cage?

  15. LudwigVonDrake

    LudwigVonDrake said, about 1 month ago

    and let’s not forget that two days there wasn’t a roof to the cage.

  16. wndrwrthg

    wndrwrthgGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Somewhere in this great nation
    Comic readers cry with elation
    They jump for joy and shout with glee
    At the stories they get to see
    But where we gather all is sadness
    Here we’re tortured by this madness
    Changes occur from day to day
    But nothing in a credible way
    Tiger and elephant, some circus freaks
    We have stared at them these many weeks
    The cage was square, but now is round
    The errors, they seem to abound
    Threatening notes were changed to ransom
    The plot points became quite lissome
    Cops with guns, orders to protect
    People galore to suspect
    The police were there, now they’re not
    Perhaps they’re at the donut shop
    As the days turned into weeks
    Solutions he did not seem to seek
    Just endless panels of talking heads
    The next installment we did dread
    Tiger to panther and back again
    Oh my head, I need some aspirin
    A situation fraught with danger
    To this Tracy was no stranger
    But where once he was bold and wild
    Now he weeps like a little child
    Yes somewhere in this great land
    There are comics to beat the band
    But here it’s sorrow for you and me
    As we sit and lament that dick Tracy

  17. Ray C

    Ray CGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    My thought was that someone had just let the trapeze down into the cage. There may be another helper here, perhaps Louise’s partner.
    My bet is that Tracy will either hoist Ennen up and then follow her, or jump up and then reach down and grab her.The strip is named “Dick Tracy” after all.He has to do something heroic here.
    Either that or he will arm-wrestle her for first dibs. It would be more fun to see that.

  18. andyh40

    andyh40 said, about 1 month ago

    This story just continues to be a travesty!!! As LVD just said…there was no roff over the bleeep thing! And the trapeze thing is, as Sydney has pointed out, nothing but a rip-off of the Bird Gang/Tiger trap!

    Please…Editors…GET A NEW WRITER!

    Oh the humanity…!

  19. Sydney Phillips

    Sydney PhillipsGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    RICHARD E. LOCHER

    I’ve always been curious about what that “E” in the name stood for. Yesterday, “mumbles” inadvertently revealed it to us - “ENNUI”. Seems fitting! … Boredom from lack of interest or a sense of excitement … held in contempt !

    Dick “Ennui” Locher needs a DETOXIFYING treatment. There’s a Spa over in Brooklyn that does it in exotic style.. Banana tree leaves all over your back and a girl with a rolling pin to make sure some stuff goes in. It promises to rid him of addictive substances like SLOW abuse, tiresome REPETITION, and plaguing, ping pong CONTRADICTIONS that choke MOVEMENT out of his story lines.

    Then to see HIS weakness for what I’ve branded “coptyright-IS”. Look in on Tracy, at an earlier time, another Tiger, see yet another upward growing cage, another trapeze for safety ! All in the Red Hawk tale, June 14 and 20, 2003 (the Archives). A time when that YESTERDAY … becomes “TODAY”!

    “When it’s not ONE time … it’s TWO time !”

    Easy to COPY … no time or inclination to CREATE !

  20. ridenslide65

    ridenslide65 said, about 1 month ago

    Beyond stupid. This is just ridiculous.

  21. jumbobrain

    jumbobrainGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    DUMB, DE DUMB DUMB

  22. Fer Lefer

    Fer Lefer said, about 1 month ago

    I’m starting to think that the “it’s all a dream” plot is real…

  23. Araldite

    Araldite said, about 1 month ago

    What a sloppy job on Ennen’s face today.

  24. Davison77

    Davison77 said, about 1 month ago

    Fee Fi doesn’t look like much of a giant in panel 3.

  25. Carlo Coratelli

    Carlo Coratelli said, about 1 month ago

    Hi guys, this is my new comic strip:

    http://shockdom.com/open/carl/

  26. kab2rb

    kab2rb said, about 1 month ago

    If MacGyver was there I agree he would look around to find a way out.
    I think DT will jump to the trapeez and assist the FBI up and out then climb out himself. I hope he calls for backup.

  27. jtpozenel

    jtpozenel said, about 1 month ago

    Carlo Coratelli said:

    Hi guys, this is my new comic strip:

    http://shockdom.com/open/carl/

    —————————————————————————–

    Looks good, but do you have an English version?

  28. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Ray C, I vote for the arm wrestling!

  29. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Fearless_Fosdick Excellent observation.

  30. Sydney Phillips

    Sydney PhillipsGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Carlo,

    Liked what I saw on the “first look” at your new strip Frank Carter. In particular, the strip of September 29. The mid-panel has a delightful depth of vision and the art style looks Hergé and in the Tin Tin mode. Certainly the young female also supports that.

    Pity though I can’t follow the full story direction due to lack of understanding Italian.

    But I’d certainly like to see MORE from time to time

  31. MisngNOLA

    MisngNOLAGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    I left on vacation October 8th, got back on the 15th and was sick until today the 20th and Tracy is STILL in the cage with the tiger. Talk about sloooooooooooo-o-o–o–o—o—o—o—-o—-o—-o—–o—–o——o——-o——-w plot development.

  32. Ray C

    Ray CGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Margueritem: Do you think thumb wrestling would be more fair? To Tracy, that is.

  33. Fer Lefer

    Fer Lefer said, about 1 month ago

    congratulazioni , Carlo!

  34. cholldekkgher stenstenstaffgher

    cholldekkgher stenst... said, about 1 month ago

    Louise in death has left her trapeze
    For Tracy to escape in a breeze
    Fe-Fi, the Giant
    Has been reliant
    In helping the Dick to escape, if you please

  35. Flight Suit

    Flight SuitGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Carlo, I agree with Sydney that the art in your new strip brings back fond memories of Tin Tin. Not just the drawing, but also the color choices. It’s interesting to see how different this strip looks, compared to the black and white action strip you’d shown us quite some time ago.

    In both cases, you have this wonderfully intricate, three-dimensional depth of field going on, but all the cross-hatched shading in the black and white comic gave it a much grittier, darker feeling.

    Regardless, they’re both great. I just wish Google Language Tools worked on comics so I could read them!

  36. neonleon59

    neonleon59Genius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Ye Gods, this is bad.

  37. Carlo Coratelli

    Carlo Coratelli said, about 1 month ago

    Thanks, guys. I hope make a english version soon.

  38. jumbobrain

    jumbobrainGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Carlo,
    I’ll be looking forward to the English version…meanwhile my fiancee speaks a bit of Italian so I’ll ask her to translate.

    Visually though, I really like it. It evokes Herge, and Joost Swarte, both of whom are great. Good work. It goes without saying that I’d rather see you doing Dick Tracy.

    Speaking of Dick, can you believe this story is going on four months now? Four long months, all in one marathon session in the big top, no action, everything revealed through dialog, plot twists careening illogically out of the blue… I can’t believe people are being paid to create this, and that any newspapers still pay for it.

    Whoever is running TMS is a complete moron, to let such a singular and iconic trademark devolve into such pap.

  39. OldHipster

    OldHipster said, about 1 month ago

    Ye GODS!

    The plot thickens!

    When plots thicken, it goes slower

    This plot is so thick, it has stopped.

    Ya know?

  40. morrow

    morrow said, about 1 month ago

    Macy is such a wuss and wienie that he’ll jump up to catch the trapeze and tell Ennin there isn’t room for her up there. She needs to find her own trapeze. Meanwhile the tiger rears up on his hind legs and devours Macy, belches, and chokes on Macy’s implant. It cuts off the airway. The tiger keels over dead. Next story, please.

  41. MaxStarmanJones

    MaxStarmanJones said, about 1 month ago

    Crimestoppers textbook:

    Always leave a trapeze over a wild animal cage in case you have to get out at the last moment.

  42. Michael McMillan

    Michael McMillan said, about 1 month ago

    Sherlock Holmes has nothing to worry about here. For that matter, Inspector Clousue wouldn’t lose much sleep from this competition.

  43. chromosome

    chromosomeGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    They will probably get up, then dangle for a couple more weeks.

  44. Ronshua

    RonshuaGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    What a picture that envisions . Can’t …..couple more weeks ?