Dick Tracy by Dick Locher

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  1. jumbobrain

    jumbobrainGenius_badge said, 15 days ago

    As abstract poetry written and illustrated by preadolescents, this almost works. As a comic strip…bleah.

  2. Flight Suit

    Flight SuitGenius_badge said, 15 days ago

    Speaking as somebody who’s been thrown into a tiger cage by a giant, I find this strip deeply offensive.

  3. Llewellenbruce

    Llewellenbruce said, 15 days ago

    The tiger won’t eat Mr. Pops. Clowns taste funny.

  4. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 15 days ago

    I like panel three today, nicely done.

  5. Flight Suit

    Flight SuitGenius_badge said, 15 days ago

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  6. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 15 days ago

    Flight Suit, you been hanging out with Teresa at Frog Applause? Speaking of which, where is today’s FA???

  7. achtungkitten

    achtungkitten said, 15 days ago

    Mr Pops looks to startled to even scream.

  8. Flight Suit

    Flight SuitGenius_badge said, 15 days ago

    Margueritem, I take that as quite a compliment!

  9. LudwigVonDrake

    LudwigVonDrake said, 14 days ago

    Tracy is relegated to play by play commentary.

  10. Carlo Coratelli

    Carlo Coratelli said, 14 days ago

    In the 2nd panel someone have a heart attack. And the clown jump.

  11. WaitingMan

    WaitingManGenius_badge said, 14 days ago

    Thank you Mr. Exposition. (with apologies to MST3K)

  12. wndrwrthg

    wndrwrthgGenius_badge said, 14 days ago

    Wow, that’s all one can say
    About what’s in the strip today
    Forgive me for being flip
    But this is a crock of…
    After you think you have become inured
    Your gaze falls on this loathsome…
    What could possess the people at TMS
    That they would publish this awful mess
    Perhaps they should call a doctor
    To check on the comatose Locher
    That can be the only explanation
    For this sordid abomination

  13. Maxine_Viller

    Maxine_Viller said, 14 days ago

    I hope the tiger doesn’t get indigestion.

    Then again, Panel Two reveals that the cage now contains not a tiger but a giant black fuzzy tribble. In which case Mr. Pops should have a soft landing and be safe…

    Unless he’s really a Klingon in disguise.

  14. idarke

    idarke said, 14 days ago

    Tune in tomorrow for more “Adventures of People in the Same Room as Dick Tracy”!

  15. toadwest

    toadwest said, 14 days ago

    Jumbobrain has an inkling, the dialog looks like some sort of haiku.

  16. Sydney Phillips

    Sydney PhillipsGenius_badge said, 14 days ago

    Tracy and Ennen couldn’t climb up the bars of the cage from the INSIDE to escape - - - BUT, the Clown and Fee Fi just zipped effortlessly UP the same vertical bars from the OUTSIDE (?)

    All curtesy Dick Locher “majic” …

    Count his CONTRADICTIONS, count them one by one,
    The number will surprise you, that Poppy Locher’s done
    Four months now he’s seen us grinding, just fussing daily cussing
    A beguiling, mezmerizing loafer, with a subtle gloating feeling over a comic strip he’s KILLING !

  17. BillTA

    BillTA said, 14 days ago

    Didn’t we see it coming that he was going to be done in by the tiger?

  18. CougarAllen

    CougarAllen said, 14 days ago

    Who is talking, and where is he? He’s higher than the top of the cage; we can see that much, and if the cage hasn’t morphed since yesterday it reaches almost to the top of the tent. Has someone climbed a tent pole?

    Tracy and Ennens were able to stand on the empty space between the bars. Mr. Pops isn’t even between the bars. Is he really falling? Why?

    -Cougar :{)

  19. Fer Lefer

    Fer Lefer said, 14 days ago

    … why Mr. Popo’s gun is smoking in Panel 2?

    … who forgot perspective classes in panel 2?

    … and who wants Locher and Brozman in that very cage?

  20. whardin1960

    whardin1960 said, 14 days ago

    Told ya so.

  21. James7344

    James7344 said, 14 days ago

    Quick Poll:
    When did you first realize that the clown was going to end up in the tiger’s cage in the end?
    1) When FeeFi picked him up.
    2) When he climbed the cage to get away.
    3) When he locked Tracy inside.
    4) When this story started.
    5) When Locher took over the strip.

    The man does like to telegraph things, doesn’t he?

  22. jtpozenel

    jtpozenel said, 14 days ago

    ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz……………

  23. Joe Allen Doty

    Joe Allen Doty said, 14 days ago

    Fee Fi was either shot in the arm pit or in the chest behind his left hand.

    Oh, I knew all along that Mr. Pops was going to end up behind bars, but, not behind the bars of a tiger cage.

    This strip seems like Dick Locher writes the script for the panels way in advance and then he sends them to Jim Brozman at another location. I almost think that they don’t even see each other at all.

  24. Froxkrybra

    Froxkrybra said, 14 days ago

    Awesome shot of Mr. Pops in the 3rd panel, seems like from that height, he’d be dead from the free fall he will be taking instead of by the tiger 4 lunch. I wasn’t sure what 2 think of this story at first, but I really liked how the way it’s developed. I guess if u want the Chester Gould artwork and storylines, u’re better off going back and reading the older stuff. With Gould we had lightning in a bottle, the likes of what we’ll never see again. That is why I can’t complain much about the way the strip is now. Yes, it can be disappointing at times, but it still is interesting 2 read. Otherwise if it wasn’t being read, no one would have anything 2 say…

  25. VistaBill

    VistaBill said, 14 days ago

    I want the pig on wheels!

  26. JPBecker

    JPBecker said, 14 days ago

    Well here it is Friday and we are still being tortured by this so called plot line. Any bets that we will still have Mr. Pops & co still around this time next Friday? And who didn’t know that Mr. Pops would fall into the cage? Where is PETA and the ASPCA? What has this poor tiger done to deserve this abuse?

    Chester Gould must be spinning in his grave seeing what they have done to his strip!

  27. BASSMANB0B

    BASSMANB0B said, 14 days ago

    Fee Fi looks alot like Daddy Warbucks today.

  28. BASSMANB0B

    BASSMANB0B said, 14 days ago

    “Use the force, Fee Fi, use the force”.

  29. BASSMANB0B

    BASSMANB0B said, 14 days ago

    Mr. Pops was glad he wore his anti gravity suit today.

  30. BASSMANB0B

    BASSMANB0B said, 14 days ago

    Dick hoped to one day get a job as a color commentator.

  31. BASSMANB0B

    BASSMANB0B said, 14 days ago

    Agent Ennis knew it was time to call Apollo the Defender to clean up the mess.

  32. BASSMANB0B

    BASSMANB0B said, 14 days ago

    Mr. Pops realized too late that he should have accepted the offer to join the Dick Tracy Staff.

  33. Sydney Phillips

    Sydney PhillipsGenius_badge said, 14 days ago

    And “JPBecker” realized too late that the story would not be over for another 2 and a half weeks (i.e. Nov 24)

  34. fishbulb

    fishbulbGenius_badge said, 14 days ago

    Tracy refused to shoot the dogs in the Baskerville “epic”. Wanna bet no one shoots the tiger before he turns Mr. Pops into Kaboom breakfast cereal? How convenient. Mr. Pops manages to drop his gun on a fortuitous cross bar out of his reach outside the top of the cage. This strip is an emetic.

  35. Sydney Phillips

    Sydney PhillipsGenius_badge said, 14 days ago

    On the Yahoo D.T. board it has just been reported that SHEL DORF has “passed on” !

    Shel was a lifetime Dick Tracy fan and in years gone by one of the few individuals who had a complete Dick Tracy collection. Some will remember him as the Editor of the Blackthorne Dick Tracy comics which reprinted a large block of Gould’s work. Perhaps even more than Spec Productions (the D.T. Fan Club).

    In another sphere not only was he a top artist but for years did that impecable “lettering” for Milton Caniff”s Steve Canyon comic strip, up to the time of the latter’s death.

    I corresponded with him occasionally and was the happy recipient of photocopies of a few Canyon Sunday pages prior to publication date !

    As Mattie will know, Shel’s Tracy “collection” was donated to the Dick Tracy Museum in Woodstock, with our long absent Jeff Kersten as custodian.

    The “real” Dick Tracy World has lost another soldier.

    R.I.P. Shel !

  36. BASSMANB0B

    BASSMANB0B said, 14 days ago

    Fishbulb, that explains Mr. Pops fingers.

  37. BASSMANB0B
  38. Matthew Hansel

    Matthew HanselGenius_badge said, 14 days ago

    Part of Shel’s DICK TRACY newspaper clippings collection is in my computer room, as I scan the Sunday pages for the SUNDAY PROJECT thing that Jeff and I do.

    As Jeff pointed out to me the other day, at least poor Shel will no longer have to suffer.

    RIP

    MPH

  39. Matthew Hansel

    Matthew HanselGenius_badge said, 14 days ago

    Joe Allen Doty:

    My understanding is that Locher writes the strips and provides Brozman with a rough pencil layout of the artwork and that Brozman is doing the lettering and the final art.

    I would imagine that Brozman is either picking up the strips/boards every week (or couple of weeks) or that Locher is mailing them to him (Dick and Jim don’t live that far from each other).

    MPH

  40. jumbobrain

    jumbobrainGenius_badge said, 14 days ago

    RIP Shel indeed.

    I am myself curious where Brozman came from. It seems logical that he knew Locher, and was picked by Locher rather than TMS, much the same way that Locher was tapped by Gould. Which, given the state of the strip, seems like a bad approach. I think if TMS were to call “open auditions” for a new team on Dick Tracy they could generate some interest and enthusiasm…maybe even enough to get the strip popular again.

    There are a lot of big-name cartoonist who I imagine would love a chance to do Tracy (just as they line up to do Batman in the comic books). Though I am sure Tracy doesn’t generate enough income for many of them. But if I were TMS, I would get innovative and do something like contract with different teams and have them do stories…much as Neil Gaiman did with his “Sandman” books. This goes against newspaper desires, to have a steady, unchanging product. But let’s face it, newspapers are on the decline, Tracy is in the pits, and there is nothing to lose by trying a radical approach. If nothing changes, Tracy is on his way out anyway.

  41. Matthew Hansel

    Matthew HanselGenius_badge said, 14 days ago

    Brozman knew Locher’s son, John (who died while assist his dad on Dick Tracy). John and Jim went to school together at Northern Illinois University (where I went to school, too!)

    A slight clarification, too, Chet did not pick Locher. TMS picked Locher. Chet just helped convince Dick to take over the art on the strip.

    And, I’ve spoken to some TRULY big named cartoonists and they do NOT want to attempt to do Dick Tracy under the current format or editorial guidelines. Several, who would be PERFECT for the strip, have told me they simply will not work under the conditions underwhich the current newspaper industry demands.

    MPH

  42. Sydney Phillips

    Sydney PhillipsGenius_badge said, 14 days ago

    But Mattie, you do know from the D.T.Yahoo board that very shortly writer Mike Curtis with top artist Joe Stanton are currently arranging to put up a NEW Dick Tracy story (Return of Willie the 5th and Flyface)

    It’s no secret that it’s with a “VIEW” of trying to impress TMS and take on the job when Locher retires next year.

  43. DonnieTevault

    DonnieTevault said, 14 days ago

    Matt:

    All joking aside…

    After reading Apollo, I do hope that you’d consider trying to get the Dick Tracy job.

    Your story is coherent, the artwork is good, and your hero is doing an actual police investigation. With DT, I’m sure you’d do a better job than the current team.

  44. countoftowergrove

    countoftowergrove said, 12 days ago

    I called it!