Dick Tracy by Dick Locher

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  1. Flight Suit

    Flight SuitGenius_badge said, 13 days ago

    “Talk the situation out?”

    That’s Locher’s solution to everything!

  2. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 13 days ago

    That tiger’s look is too much, LOL!

  3. barticle35

    barticle35Genius_badge said, 13 days ago

    In this state at least, there is no need to call the police in a fender bender unless there is physical injury. You would only be wasting their time.

  4. big G 3469

    big G 3469Genius_badge said, 13 days ago

    The Tiger look almost like Clarance The Crossed Eyed Lion from Daktari!

  5. Flight Suit

    Flight SuitGenius_badge said, 13 days ago

    barticle35 said:

    In this state at least, there is no need to call the police in a fender bender unless there is physical injury. You would only be wasting their time.
    ——————————————————————–

    Yeah, they’re too busy watching people’s houses for them while they’re on vacation.

  6. Llewellenbruce

    Llewellenbruce said, 13 days ago

    It’s rerun Sunday again.

  7. jumbobrain

    jumbobrainGenius_badge said, 13 days ago

    Sunday Dick Tracy’s have always been redundant, so that papers can run either just dailies or just the Sunday. But the way this plot moves, it seems like a paper could run just one daily strip a week and not miss much.

    And I have to say, for whatever reason the art has been getting worse and worse…a big problem in a strip that has such bad writing to start with. Simple matters of scale and perspective are dead wrong, and the more subtle things like composition and anatomy and visual storytelling are just not there at all.

    I really wonder how much longer this strip can survive under these circumstances.

  8. Gweedo Murray

    Gweedo Murray said, 13 days ago

    Daktari.

  9. Flight Suit

    Flight SuitGenius_badge said, 13 days ago

    Gweedo, those close-ups of Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Cat looked awfully familiar!

  10. VistaBill

    VistaBill said, 13 days ago

    Unbelievable! Let’s have the pig on wheels back!

  11. wndrwrthg

    wndrwrthgGenius_badge said, 13 days ago

    Oh look, it’s a Sunday strip
    The color, man, is really a trip
    Obviously not for the placid
    They say it’s like being on acid
    The strip a happy sheen
    The giant is even a jolly green
    The tiger looks on with delight
    Thinking he will eat tonight
    The continuity though still is lacking
    The writer soon they should be sacking
    Though you may find this hard to believe
    The pig on wheels I did perceive
    Pink and with a tail that curly-cued
    It was in fact a bar-b-que
    Standing in front of a downtown shop
    There it was, I kid you not
    Though loath I am to admit
    I did not take a picture of it

  12. Michael McMillan

    Michael McMillan said, 12 days ago

    Now that I think of it, I’ve seen one of those things too. In Dekalb, by a small grocery store, they had “Pigs on Wheels” barbecues. You could either rent or buy one as it suited you.

  13. canadaeh

    canadaeh said, 12 days ago

    Fee Fi and Pops should’ve read the Crimestoppers and talked it out calmly.

  14. CougarAllen

    CougarAllen said, 12 days ago

    Possibly the stoopidest Grimegobber’s Tipsbook ever. If you don’t want to have a rage problem on your hands the LAST thing you want to do is get into any unnecessary talk with the driver who hit you. Get his information with as little unnecessary talk as possible. Leave it to the insurance companies’ lawyers to “talk the situation out.” They know how to do that without coming to violence over it. That dork who hit you may not.

    -Cougar :{)

  15. Joe Allen Doty

    Joe Allen Doty said, 12 days ago

    On Thursday, Mr. Pops shot Fee Fi while he was being held up above the giant’s head.

    But today, the clown shoots Fee Fi while he is falling.

    This strip is redundant in the fact that Jim Brozman is never consistent in how he draws the panels.

  16. Joe Allen Doty

    Joe Allen Doty said, 12 days ago

    If the driver of the larger vehicle in the Crimestoppers Textbook works for a company and he is the one with the road rage, the operator of the smaller vehicle needs to contact the driver’s company and report him.

  17. ninmas

    ninmas said, 12 days ago

    wow, we just spent a whole week reviewing this. i might as well just read sundays only!

  18. LudwigVonDrake

    LudwigVonDrake said, 12 days ago

    Time to recap the crap.

  19. g6793

    g6793Genius_badge said, 12 days ago

    NotNorman: Yeah, if for no other reason than the police would probably show up without being called.

    It looks like Mr Pops is tiger chow…guess we have to wait and find out what happens next…any bets on if this story will wrap up before Thanksgiving??

  20. jtpozenel

    jtpozenel said, 12 days ago

    ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz……………

  21. LudwigVonDrake

    LudwigVonDrake said, 12 days ago

    Why does Fee Fi have toes for thumbs?

  22. jumbobrain

    jumbobrainGenius_badge said, 12 days ago

    I just noticed Special Guest Artist Picasso, who apparently drew the cop next to Tracy.

  23. EatDickTracySandwiches

    EatDickTracySandwiches said, 12 days ago

    I’ve never seen a tiger with jowls before.

  24. Sydney Phillips

    Sydney PhillipsGenius_badge said, 12 days ago

    That’s a great line Jumbo !
    “But the way this plot moves it seems like a paper could run just one daily strip a week and not miss much”

    You have “nailed” the Locher limitation that continues to frustrate readers. Glacial movement in story progress compounded by depressing, Dicky duplication. Why must he feel that readers need to see every “move” repeated three or four times ?

    On the D.T.Yahoo board I did an exercise on the Braces (2008) story editing out unnecessary repeat panels and managed to cut the presentation by some 25% without losing one iota of information.

    As a writer he seems satisfied to repeat nonsense, What’s difficult to understand is his unwillingness to spend a little time perusing the writing “style” of Gould and Collins to learn some simple techniques and “improve” his own. It seems so simple and logical ! But he doesn’t lift a finger. He’s happy as Pappy blithly producing “Boogu-Yagga” (a Jamaican word) on which you can guess the meaning.

    And puzzling, TMS’s easy tolerance of this unacceptable poor QUALITY of work for a strip like Dick Tracy, derisively dumbed down but still there buoyant and bristling with untapped potential.

    Someone on this board a few months ago speculated that TMS has, in the light of Warren Beatty’s court action, “declined” to take more positive steps on the strip.

    We have to wonder if there is not some truth in that conjecture !

  25. Araldite

    Araldite said, 12 days ago

    Cage rage

  26. jumbobrain

    jumbobrainGenius_badge said, 12 days ago

    Syndey, yeah, it’s a mystery. Regardless of the situation with Beatty, I just see no logic at all in allowing an iconic character to dry up like this. Plenty of syndicates have scoffed at the artistic value of comics, but I’ve never heard of one scoffing at the financial value.

    And in the event that Jim Brozman does read these comments, here’s something that might help: EC Comics Legend Wally Wood’s “22 Panels That Always Work, or some interesting ways to get some variety into those boring panels where some dumb writer has a bunch of lame characters sitting around and talking for page after page”:

    http://joeljohnson.com/images2/wallywood22panel2560.jpg

  27. xxtrainmanxx

    xxtrainmanxx said, 12 days ago

    I’ve been reading Dick Tracy comics since the 1950’s. I still find them great to read. Thanks for making it possible.

  28. Tigger

    TiggerGenius_badge said, 12 days ago

    Tiger appears to be drooling at the prospect of Free Diner

  29. MrBriberysShrunkenHeads

    MrBriberysShrunkenHeadsGenius_badge said, 12 days ago

    I was hoping the strongman would replace DT as the main character, as he has done all the work in this story.

    DT has become a narration of DL’s life in retirement.

    Sunday comics used to be a joy of stark contracts, especially black, white, yellow, red. These are nightmares of clashes. I applaud the artists for vexing me so! Well done.

    I will wash my eyes with bleach now. Much better.

  30. Matthew Hansel

    Matthew HanselGenius_badge said, 12 days ago

    Jumbobrain:

    Locher has a copy of that Wally Wood’s 22 panels. I gave him a copy of it a few years ago.

    Interesting to note, Wally did NOT put that together, but rather it was assembled by one of his assistants in Wally’s later years (I believe it was Larry Hama).

    MPH

  31. LudwigVonDrake

    LudwigVonDrake said, 12 days ago

    Is that the Jolly Green Giant in the fourth panel?

  32. VistaBill

    VistaBill said, 12 days ago

    Dick Tracy, Agent Ennen, and the policeman appear to be spectators without the power to do anything here (except for Tracy…he provides the play-by-play commentary). I haven’t seen Ennen the past couple days. Maybe she went to powder her nose.

  33. morrow

    morrow said, 12 days ago

    “Ye Gods!” It happened!

  34. Sydney Phillips

    Sydney PhillipsGenius_badge said, 12 days ago

    “DT has become a narration of DL’s life in retirement”

    Much studied thought must have gone into that insightful statement by Mr.Bribery. I glean a subtle suggestion of a lot of talk and little meaningful action at home, rignt there in Napereville. The analysis has a ring of truth to it.

    Not to say the man is not busy churning out a lot of stuff … rubbish stuff that is, “shrunken head” style, while using the mouth of Tracy as a megaphone for his daily grunts, observations and ramblings.

    It wasn’t lost on me that on 1-21-2007 in the Dr. Figment Froid story he scripted Tess donating the major chunk of her $5 million inheritance to “Alzheimer’s Research Group.

    Seems like an appropriate “choice” for a Writer who has completely “FORGOTTEN”, what the Dick Tracy comic strip is all about !

  35. R_Noonan63

    R_Noonan63Genius_badge said, 12 days ago

    Must be the Worlds Largest Cage.

  36. VistaBill

    VistaBill said, 12 days ago

    R_Noonan63 said, “Must be the Worlds Largest Cage.”

    Big enough to hold several “ligers”…

    http://dalesdesigns.net/hercules.htm

  37. fishbulb

    fishbulbGenius_badge said, 12 days ago

    Why warn Fee Fi about the clown’s gat? Didn’t he hear the clown shooting at Tracy? Why didn’t he squeeze Mr. Pops wrist and disarm him? How did Della Contessa get up onto the cage? How did Tracy, Ennen, Fee Fi, and Della all get down from it? If they climbed down, why didn’t Tracy and Ennen climb up on the inside? No logic at all. And that has to be the slowest falling clown ever.

  38. VistaBill

    VistaBill said, 12 days ago

    fishbulb said, “…How did Della Contessa get up onto the cage? How did Tracy, Ennen, Fee Fi, and Della all get down from it? If they climbed down, why didn’t Tracy and Ennen climb up on the inside? No logic at all. And that has to be the slowest falling clown ever.

    Someone mentioned an escalator a few days ago.

  39. jumbobrain

    jumbobrainGenius_badge said, 12 days ago

    MPH- that’s interesting about the 22 panels. Makes sense really, since Wood’s strength wasn’t so much in composition as in his rendering and imagination. I’ve heard varying stories about how much of Wood’s work was done by assistants in later years…certainly his peak was in the early days at EC.

    Either way, I wish more of it were applied here. While I’ve been harping on the writing for months, the art really seems to be slipping the last few weeks. I never liked Locher’s style as much as Gould’s or Fletcher’s, but he did the job and even a few years ago it was much, much better than this.