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   barticle35 said, 24 days ago

   That’s pretty horrible, all right. Even I can’t look.

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   achtungkitten said, 24 days ago

   Yikes, looks like the tiger got to Della’s face. Over here, officer! Bring your puke bag!

   Hey, Mr Pops is flashing The Shocker at the cop. That can land you in the back of a cruiser for one purpose or another.

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   Flight Suit said, 24 days ago

   “The Shocker?”

   Gee, I learn something new and disgusting every day:

   http://tinyurl.com/7z888

   At first glance, though, it looks more like Pops is flashing a Satanic hand gesture.

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   watcha said, 24 days ago

   It’s been pretty horrible for a while - about 3 months in fact

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   Carlo Coratelli said, 24 days ago

   I don’t understand this strip. Bleah.

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   Flight Suit said, 24 days ago

   This is something I’ve been wondering about for months, but have never bothered to ask:

   Why is it that every day, somebody ads to this strip the tags, “Death stalks the circus!” and “Hey Rube?”

   The first one I can understand, ‘cause it describes the current story. But “Hey Rube?” What does that mean? Somebody let me in on the joke, please.

   And now that I think about it…

   Why would somebody post “Death stalks the circus” every single day? Is this something that GoComics staff posts automatically when they upload the strip? Is it the work of some TMS shill?

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   Fearless_Fosdick said, 24 days ago

   Tigers have been known to eat clothes too.

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   JDG said, 24 days ago

   Hey Rube is the traditional cry for help at a carnival when a patron becomes out of control. It alerts the other carnival workers who come running immediately. Now they have paid security!

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   wndrwrthg said, 24 days ago

   Tracy was a ball of fire
   The danger had raised his ire
   Now he wanted to a attack the clown
   Where before he just backed down
   Still forgotten strapped to his wrist
   Was the device to call for an assist
   At the behest of Mr. Pops
   (he’s the one who called the cops)
   The officer approached the cage
   As the tiger snarled out it’s rage
   In the background there was swearing
   Because Ringos hat he was wearing
   Warned as to what he might see
   He stepped rather hesitantly
   What grisly sight would he behold
   What horrors were to unfold
   But just between me and you
   I’m thinking it’s tiger poo.

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    LudwigVonDrake said, 24 days ago

    We still have about a month more of this nonsense.

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    ridenslide65 said, 24 days ago

    “Juts look at this comic strip officer and tell me what you see. It’s just horrible I tell you, so horrible I can’t bear to look at it anymore”…….

    Love your stuff wndrwrthg. Keep it up.

12. 

    N7326 Foxtrot said, 24 days ago

    Nice teeth, tiger.

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    VistaBill said, 24 days ago

    Della says, “But Mr. Pops is armed!”. Where are Tracy’s and Ennis’ weapons? I suppose if they had any, they would have used them when they were near death in the cage. I suppose this story is almost over now… maybe another month or two at best.

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    jumbobrain said, 23 days ago

    Okaaay, looks like after four months we’re about to wrap up the Worst Dick Tracy Story Ever Written. Coming up next: the NEW Worst Dick Tracy Story Ever Written, I have a feeling.

15. 

    rac0308 said, 23 days ago

    For a minute there I thought the fat lady was going to sing on this story line.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 23 days ago

    The cop will only see the tiger in the cage.

    The horrible thing he will see is a funny looking tiger that keeps changing its looks every few minutes (as far as the “real” timeline in this story goes).

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    JanCinVV said, 23 days ago

    Almost looks like Mr Pops is flashing the “I Love You” sign (thumb, forefinger and pinky extended - combines the signs for I, L & Y).
    By the way, Tracy & his family arrived at the circus on July 18. The last time I went to the circus we were there for approximately 3 hours. But then, we didn’t witness a murder…..

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    kab2rb said, 23 days ago

    The clown Mr. Pops is pointing the way. And won’t Mr. Pops be surprise when DT and FBI show up and inform the other cop. DT will say place Mr. Pops under arrest for the murder of the trapeeze artist. And place ringmaster under protective custody before some clown tries to take him out.

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    idarke said, 23 days ago

    I’d like to hear Tracy’s line of thinking at this point. He couldn’t “get” the clown before, and the only thing different now is he has an exhausted giant and a fat lady waddling behind him.

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    Carlo Coratelli said, 23 days ago

    For Flightsuit: about the tags I think it’s the work of someone in TMS.

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    Carlo Coratelli said, 23 days ago

    For jumbobrain: this is the Number One of the Worst Dick Tracy Story of Ever!!!

22. 

    jtpozenel said, 23 days ago

    ZZZZZzzzzzzz……

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    andyh40 said, 23 days ago

    I also believe this story takes the award for being the only Tracy storyline that the character’s movement was limited to a 50 yard diameter…if that much.

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    jumbobrain said, 23 days ago

    I’ve been looking over some of the strips from when Mike Killian was writing…they’re not as good as Collins, but better than I expected. And WAY better than this. To recap the story:

    Tracy goes to the circus with his family. An aerialist is shot. The ringmaster turns out to be a whistleblower in the witness protection program. His friend, the clown, turns out to be a paroled felon that Ringo sent to prison. The aerialist turns out to be a hired assassin. An FBI agent shows up and says there are a lot of criminals in the circus. Tracy says Ringo is under his protection, and he has a plan to uncover the murderer. The clown pulls a gun and puts Tracy and the FBI agent in the tiger cage. The strong man holds the tiger’s tail while the fat lady lowers a trapese so Tracy can get out. The clown calls the police so he can frame Ringo. The police show up.

    All of this happens in the same space, in the same evening, and all exposition is revealed through dialog over about 13 weeks, with endless recycled lines (IT HAPPENED!) and random art (tent exteriors, tiger faces).

    I just can’t understand why anybody is getting paid for this stuff. It’s awful.

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    Carlo Coratelli said, 23 days ago

    It happened!

    sigh…

26. 

    dstufff said, 23 days ago

    Anyone can tell by the way Mr. Pops is talking that he set up this situation himself (except maybe the cops in DT’s world).

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    Flight Suit said, 23 days ago

    JDG, thanks for ‘splaining the “Hey Rube” thing. This gives me inspiration for a DT parody of the Beatles’ song, “Hey Jude.”

    JanCinVV, July 18? Really!? Good Lord, I had no idea it’d been so long! We were all so much younger, and the world a more innocent place, when this story arc began.

28. 

    Tigger said, 23 days ago

    Not for long as ‘Pops’ is about to be surprised when he thinks thetiger ate Macy nd FBI Agent

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    CougarAllen said, 23 days ago

    A long time ago, when a carnival (not a circus, a carnival) was raided by the police (illegal gambling, prostitution, whatever – a long time ago illegal things tended to go on at carnivals), the first carnie to spot the police would yell the code phrase, “Hey, Rube!” to warn the others. Like all such codes it soon became known to the police so it was replaced by newer codes a long time ago (before WWI if I recall correctly) but the phrase is still common in fiction and still valid in the popular imagination.

    Somebody has probably confused carnivals with circuses and thinks what’s going on throughout this adventure is comparable to the police raiding a 3 card monte game at a carnival and thinks it’s appropriate to tag the whole adventure with the same tag – so he can find the whole adventure to reread it, I guess? Why not just tag the first strip of the adventure and read from there chronologically? Well, it only takes one person to make a tag, and mentally challenged people are allowed to do it….

    -Cougar :{)

30. 

    morrow said, 23 days ago

    Sheer genius, eh Mattie boy?

31. 

    Flight Suit said, 23 days ago

    Cougar, thanks for the additional info!