Neil2009

Neil Wick Free

I'm busy with too many things, so Dick Tracy is the only strip I read regularly these days.

Recent Comments

  1. about 14 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    Pouch doesn’t know everything. The last we saw of him he wasn’t in a good place. Maybe he hasn’t fully recovered from that.

  2. about 15 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    Good morning™, all!

    Tracy couldn’t get much of anything out of Blowtop and I doubt Sam will do any better, but I guess it’s worth a try.

  3. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

    It doesn’t do much to advance the story, but some papers do not have Sunday comics or even a Sunday edition, so a little bit of repetition is inevitable.

  4. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

    It’s usually best to avoid drawing actual brand name products for various reasons.

  5. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

    Well, you don’t need a actual artist to do that, but Junior has the skills.

  6. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

    The Chicago Tribune dug up a strip from April 9, 2017. I have no idea why they wouldn’t have run the normal strip, but they might have chosen that one because it works as a self-contained joke, not needing strips from days before or after.

  7. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

    Maybe the Trib needs more lead time that they are getting. Contrary to popular opinion, the Chicago Tribune gets their strips from Tribune Content Agency like everybody else. It’s a separate company, although it may be in the same building.

  8. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

    Junior has used a computerized drawing tablet in the police station before, but today he is back to using a piece of paper on a clipboard.

  9. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

    He’s drawing from the description. If the outcome looks like one of the “tops” it’s because that’s the description. It would be useless for him to conclude that it looks like Flattop’s sister before even drawing it.

  10. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

    I agree. Sam is doing a perfectly good job, despite all the joking about him in the comments lately.