Dick Tracy by Dick Locher

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Flight Suit said, 17 days ago

“And the tiger hasn’t been fed since we closed!”

Which was back in June. I’m calling the Humane Society.

Meanwhile, it look’s like Barb’s finally turned up.
leakysqueaky712 said, 17 days ago

Panel 2 looks like Toodie and Muldoon of “Car 54 where are you”
VistaBill said, 17 days ago

Ringo’s back! Is he still handcuffed? Pops isn’t falling very quickly. Tracy and the police officer should have time to realize that they could use pepper spray or even shoot the tiger. Maybe Barb Els will use her rifle. I don’t recall the police taking it from her. Where’s Ennen? Ringo also speaks of the circus being closed. If it closed, why are the performers still in their show attire?
Margueritem said, 17 days ago

VistaBill, if he brings back the Pig On Wheels, all will be forgiven.
VistaBill said, 17 days ago

Margueritem said, “VistaBill, if he brings back the Pig On Wheels, all will be forgiven.”

You have me figured out, don’tcha Margueritem?
barticle35 said, 17 days ago

That cat is a little late for Halloween. Don’t try to make sense of this. Any of it.
Llewellenbruce said, 17 days ago

I said Pops would’nt hit the floor until at least Tuesday.
VistaBill said, 17 days ago

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Margueritem said, 17 days ago

Holy Moly, that piggy is pricey!
VistaBill said, 17 days ago

Margueritem said, “Holy Moly, that piggy is pricey!”

Yes. They’re probably more expensive now that they have become popular with Dick Tracy readers.
YoullNeverHearFromMe... said, 17 days ago

As I said around a week ago: the cop should shoot the tiger ASAP to prevent what could happen.
Flight Suit said, 17 days ago

Sadly, that’s what the cops in San Francisco actually did, all to save the lives of some dirtbags. Lowlifes are a dime a dozen. Endangered tigers are hard to come by.

VistaBill, that Amazon link’s hilarious! Be sure to check out my customer review of the product!
Michael McMillan said, 16 days ago

I wouldn’t worry about the tiger. If the police do shoot it, it will take at least a week for the bullet to reach the tiger. By that time, the tiger will have (a) observed the bullet, (b) turned to eating the clown, (c) taken another look at the approaching bullet, (d) taken another few bites of clown and finally (e) stepped aside and watched the bullet fall to the ground, probably with a bemused look on its face. This is the DT comics, after all.
watcha said, 16 days ago

Flight Suit - what happened to that story? I remember last that those idiots who were teasing the tiger were going to take the Zoo to court. Being down here in Africa I struggle to ding any more info on what happened.
Fearless_Fosdick said, 16 days ago

is pops kosher?
LudwigVonDrake said, 16 days ago

Tracy seems startled by this turn of events. He shouldn’t be though…it happened yesterday and the day before and…
Flight Suit said, 16 days ago

Watcha, the two surviving idiots got some huge settlement, something to the tune of $600,000, I think. They’ve been in lots of trouble with the law since then, first with a bunch of stolen merchandise being found in one of their homes, leading to grand theft charges, and more recently, with a drunk-driving arrest, during which cocaine was found in the car.

These guys are not geniuses.
rshive said, 16 days ago

It’s a looong fall to the floor of the cage. Remember how long it took Tracy to jump up to reach the trapeze?

Deliver us from tigers. Amen.
kab2rb said, 16 days ago

Doesn’t the action of falling remind of someone parachauting free falling? With strips everything is in slow motion. Will DT and cop just stand there or take action and save the Mr. Popps the clown to arrest for murder?
wndrwrthg said, 16 days ago

He falls through the air with the greatest of ease
His eminent death is merely a tease
His position changes with each passing day
All Tracy can do is stand there and bray
The tiger changes his looks almost as much
And is now thinking that it’s past time for lunch
People appear to view the final death knell
Ringo, who’s in custody and murderous Barb-el
They came running at the sound of gunfire
Hoping to see what is about to transpire
The story has become more and more muddled
That’s because the writer is greatly befuddled
His skills, they have become sadly remiss
And each passing day just adds to the list
Each day we are treated to this drek
While Locher laughs as he picks up his check
jumbobrain said, 16 days ago

So Locher will point out the patently obvious (pops is in the cage) while ignoring the other patently obvious (“since the circus closed” is, in comic strip time, the same very long day since this sorry story started…though it has been interminably since July for us hapless readers).

And, um, Barb Ellis was fingered as the shooter months ago. Why is she just standing there?
Froxkrybra said, 16 days ago

Now correct me if I’m wrong, but out of all the people in that group watching Mr.Pops fall thru the cage 2 a starving tiger, doesn’t at least 1 of them have a gun so the tiger doesn’t have a “Popsicle” 4 lunch?
YoullNeverHearFromMe... said, 16 days ago

Yeah seriously, Pops told Ringo months ago that Barb murdered Louise because Barb wanted to be the one to kill Ringo.

Now Barb is just casually standing around?
captainzero said, 16 days ago

Why worry about the tiger when he probably won’t survive the fall? What is that, an 80-foot tall cage?
Sydney Phillips said, 16 days ago

Of course it “stinks” Chubsy !

Karen Ennen turned on her sprinkler system on the way up raining down on the Tiger as Dick left a large unbankable deposit. Now, Mr. Pops is firing goat “marbles” from his stage gun on the way down. Pop ! Pop ! Pop !

In the meantime the PETA Representative is outside the cage making sure that when the Policeman eventually asks if he should shoot, that Tracy does a “Baskerville” again and says NO ! Better to call in Animal Control after Pops is dead, as the life of a Tiger is more important than that of humans, even inhuman ones.

And all this time back in Naperville Locher rolls over with laughter at the rage and gullibility of readers to take his work, SO “seriously” WHEN as he “pops” out a few, he tells his Woodstock acolytes) - “it’s only a comic strip”!

Code words for - “I can do any bleeep in Dick Tracy”!

He does ! And that’s why it stinks !
Fer Lefer said, 16 days ago

Panel 1: Tigger, better eat what’s in front of your mouth… and chew Locher and Brozman very slowly…
… about Pops being kosher, I don’t think that the tiger’s got its circumcision… or that Ringo has tryied to perform it.
… and with Barb’s face, she looks like the pig in wheels is holding her by the tail. Not much to worry, Ringo!
Sydney Phillips said, 16 days ago

Study the “body position” of Mr.Pops as he falls from that height. He’s coming down bottom first. Apparently, lacking the agility to get his legs down. He’s a dead man! - broken back! - crushed skull !

I don’t blame Brozman, for as Mattie revealed Locher does the rough penciling. Poor Jim with all his other faults just obeys his masters voice and only does the “inking”. Dick has a propensity for faulty anatomy and now (with age), a compulsive fear of losing “CONTROL” “Little hands” point directly to DL’s involvement !

Sharply restricted, Jim probably functions little better than a C-3PO Android in carrying out his art duties. We have a man boxed in with “Locheritis”

So, don’t be surprised if after all this, Mr.Pops (Tiger neutered?) leaves the cage largely under his own steam and stands uninjured, cuffed, and ready for prision.

But then you’ll need to wait, for with “snail pace” Dicky conducting, this tit-bit” incermental, movement may drag on for TWO weeks !!!

The placement of the signatures in panel 1, may be a sign of a subtle rebellion building up in a restricted Artist.
Joe Allen Doty said, 16 days ago

And, people accuse me of being verbose?
OldTracy said, 16 days ago

I taut I taw a puddy tat.

Sure looks like a kitty to me.
kreniigh said, 16 days ago

Look at where Tracy and the cop are staring in panel two. If the perspective in that panel is to be believed, they’re looking at a birdcage in the foreground.
mumbles said, 16 days ago

tracy must have grabbed a salad over the weekend, his weight’s coming back
jtpozenel said, 16 days ago

ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz……….
Sydney Phillips said, 16 days ago

This guy with an Avatar like Raul Castro has been sleeping for over a week ! My pal, Warren “nodding off” Christopher would be proud of him

Yet, it’s easy to sympathize with the condition
Flight Suit said, 16 days ago

ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz…….

What? Come on you guys, I had kind of a late night! Just lemme snooze for another three or four weeks, OK?
Thraceguy said, 16 days ago

Pops was cat chow weeks ago, what ever happened to the other characters, Gertie and the guy who lived under the freeway bride, BO Plenty?
VistaBill said, 16 days ago

Flight Suit said, “VistaBill, that Amazon link’s hilarious! Be sure to check out my customer review of the product!”

I love it! You don’t really have one, do you? If you do, I’m envious.
Sydney Phillips said, 16 days ago

LOCHER’S YELLOW RUBBER DUCKIE MEDALS are back !

And of all places (it seems) in his “Political Cartoons”! Look at the current one (STILL up from yesterday). That sure looks like it’s crafted as a “MEDAL” on that Fort Hood soldiers chest ! There is a time and place for these things.

Now, I’m not too familiar with these things, but cant recall any genuine Army recognition in a duck shape. TAKE a LOOK ! It’s viewable on THIS GoComics board !

Here’s another thing that most are unaware off ! Today, Locher’s “signature” on the strip where the letter “O” facing the “C” touch each other, ther’s an adjoining GAP giving the appearance of two nipples on two breasts facing each other. You may think it’s “just that way”, no special significance. That is. until you compare his old signature for years to a newly “evolved” one with those characteristics. They abruptly started - -

In Daily Strips Monday Jan.9th, 2006
(Compare back to Saturday Jan. 7th, 2006)
In Sunday strips on Feb 5th, 2006
(Compare back to Jan.29th,2006)
2006 (and before) to the pronounced “change” that occured when he started signing the strip WITHOUT Mike Kilian.

The evolved new signature featuring the facing “nipples and teats have been with us since !

COMPARE in the Archives ! The man’s “thinking” on the subject is facinating!
Matthew Hansel said, 16 days ago

Sydney:

Your OBSESSION with breast shapes says far, far more about somebody who “sees” them everywhere than it does about the artist.

You are drawing conclusions based on nothing more that mind-reading speculation on your part and presenting them as cold hard fact. Your conclusions are laughable and a seedy attempt to further discredit Dick Locher as a breast obsessed artist.

I find that extremely distasteful.

MPH
DonnieTevault said, 16 days ago

“Panel 2 looks like Toodie and Muldoon of “Car 54 where are you””

Ah yes…

Gunther Toodie and Francis Muldoon.

I have a cat who always goes around making “Ooh, ooh” noises, so I named him Gunther, in Toodie’s honor.
DonnieTevault said, 16 days ago

Something I just thought of…

It seems that DT must have a low regard for the criminal justice system. Since I’ve started reading comics again, he hasn’t done a lick of actual police work. Instead, he just dawdles around until the criminals die of some freak accident. In at least a few of the cases, these freak accidents came about due to DT’s gross criminal negligence.

So, I wonder…

Could DT be deliberately offing the criminals so that they won’t have a chance to stand trial? Could he be running his own version of the “Star Chamber”?
countoftowergrove said, 16 days ago

leakysqueaky712 said, about 17 hours ago

Panel 2 looks like Toodie and Muldoon of “Car 54 where are you

OO! OO! Mr. Pops is falling so silently.
Matthew Hansel said, 16 days ago

DonnieTevault:

While there is little actual police work done in the current DT strip, you comments got me to thinking of the show I think NBC should add to its LAW AND ORDER franchise: LAW AND ORDER: THE LAWSUITS for all the people who are falsely accused and arrested in each episode!

MPH
morrow said, 16 days ago

Donnie, if you are waiting for Macy to do police work, it will happen right after the tiger stands up on his hind legs and barks.
Flight Suit said, 16 days ago

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VistaBill said, 16 days ago

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Flight Suit said, 16 days ago

Thankew, VistaBill! In answer to your question, I do not, in fact, own a Pig On Wheels. The customer review I posted on Amazon was completely fraudulent.

For those who may have missed it, here again is my advertisement for the Pig On Wheels:

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VistaBill said, 16 days ago

You don’t have a Pig on Wheels, Flight Suit. I don’t have a Pig on Wheels. I wonder what my wife would say if I spent $220 for one? I’m not going to find out. I’ll skip the Pig on Wheels for now. Perhaps Mattel will see how popular they are and make a toy one.
Margueritem said, 16 days ago

Sydney, that duck on the medal implies that the soldier was ‘a sitting duck’.
VistaBill said, 16 days ago

Flight Suit, you have a really nice collection of “toys”! I’ve admired the JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank for a couple years now and I noticed that you have one!
Flight Suit said, 16 days ago

Why, thank you! I hope my review was helpful!

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