John has a long moustache. The violins of autumn wound my heart with their monotonous langour.
All I can figure is, Longhair is really an undercover police agent and he’s waiting for Thick to give him the proper countersign. After all there is clearly a vast conspiracy among the local homeless population which requires the utmost care in investigatory work.
You want a real crime, Spacy? Ask Longhair why he stole Jughead’s hat.
Radish, his hair is too short for Che Guacamole. I think Thick looks more like Fidel. Maybe he’s expressing his long-suppressed and ill-informed admiration for the leader of a police state.
And once again we see Homeless Guy as only a silhouette. If this is an effort to hide his identity, it’s pointless. As in “At this point nobody gives a flying Dubuque if he’s D-cubed, the Unabomber or Alley Oop.”
Dit dit dit dah, Das Normandie
Tracy seeks derelict camaraderie
From hardscrabble Dubuque he does hail
Man this plot is a colossal fail
Tracy is such a master of disguise
No-one he meets will ever be wise
His cover story is beyond belief
It is nothing more than comic relief
The tears we shed do not come from laughs
But from this strips oh so many gaffes
Insipid in its delivery, absurd in its conception
Though there are those who don’t share my perception
Staggering, stumbling, twisting and turning
The strip leaves us all with a great yearning
It creates a void that can never be filled
Our ardor for it long has go has been chilled.
Thanks you, P.P., Bill T., Beefeater, Fusnr, for your very kind comments.
Sydney, thanks, but I am not worthy of such a lofty title.
So what happens for the Sunday recap? Will the Locher Mess Monster retcon the past week and insert a panel where we’re belatedly told that Thick asked Boy Toy for a description of Homeless Guy? Will Testicle Chin appear and tell Thick that the serial number on the K-note appears on the list he got from the bank when blahblahblah? Will Liz facepalm herself for saying “You could fool me?” How low will Slimedroppers read on the stupidometer?
And next week, how will the strip avoid revealing Homeless Guy’s ID? Will Thick spend the whole week stumbling around Skid Row in his search? Or will they meet, at which point Homeless Guy pulls a gun, then shoots Thick in the left shoulder as he flees in a drizzle of bullets? “A clue, a definite clue!” Thick will think. “It is a sign of criminal behavior when a badly-sketched character makes bullets move at a cop! And how on Earth did Homeless Guy see through my disguise?”
The only time there is any marginal story movement is Tuesday to Saturaday (18 out of 28 panels per week).. Sunday is a ‘recap’ of the previous week (with an ‘occasional’ panel forward) And Mondays - are a ‘reminder’ of what happened the previous week.
The Sunday pages are done a few weeks in advance and the daily strips are filled in later. Author Dick L’Hack has never bothered to ‘learn the art’ of having interesting forward story movement on Sundays to keep the story interesting.
He takes the ‘easy way out’ following the ‘letter of the law’ of TMS to ensure that newspapers that carry the Sunday only, don’t get left out interpreted as repeat the previous week.
It seems apparent he lacks the innovation and skill readers once had with the work of Gould and Collins
Just as long as we don’t have to endure a week of Thick and Jughead exchanging their beatnik poetry.
Locher has given us one clue, however. Homeless Guy is speaking with someone on the phone. Ergo he has an accomplice. If he is D-cubed, then it means someone knows he is alive, and the least-unlikely accomplice is Sue Doko.
BillThompson said, “Locher has given us one clue, however. Homeless Guy is speaking with someone on the phone. Ergo he has an accomplice. If he is D-cubed, then it means someone knows he is alive, and the least-unlikely accomplice is Sue Doko.”
Nice theory, but you’re giving Locher WAY too much credit! :)
I know, neonleon59, I give the Locher Mess Monster far too much credit and he is yet to make any payments on his account. But I like to treat DT as an actual mystery, where the clues mean something and the plot has a goal. This way I can feel even more astonished by L’ocher’s L’atest L’unacy. Things happen because L’ocher needs an excuse to fill in the blank panels.
My guess du jour is that D-cubed developed a conscience after being seduced by Miss Sue Doko, who will prove to be some kind of horrible college-educated activist. His wife, who in reality is the brand-old villainess Scrotum Face, saw him planning to fritter away his fortune on good deeds and plotted to have him murdered while he went jogging. However D-cubed turned the tables and killed her assassin and is now living undercover to escape further murder attempts because that’s so much safer than hiring bodyguards or calling the police.
saucy1121, that report comes from the only incompetent reporter in Nappingville. All the other Nappingville papers say that the F’amous F’eces F’linger is actually Locher and Brozman, who decided to do their artwork outdoors today.
I’m still waiting to see a ’CLUE’ crafted by Locher (intended or unintended) produce anything of ’merit’ or real consequence in solving a case in his strips.
Read any story, it’s been mostly window dressing, a form of (swiss cheese style) ’FAKING’ (or ‘intentionally’ misleading), to create the ’illusion’ that a detective is conducting real police work there !
I can’t prove you wrong, Sydney Phillips, because you’ve got the evidence and logic on your side. Although I would argue that Locher isn’t creating the illusion of a detective at work. Illusions have the power to fool people and so far only Liz has been fooled by Thick’s act.
Sydney Phillips, the gocomics archives go back to April of 2001. I looked at the first two arcs.
Crime #1 involved a blowgun dart tipped with cyanide. Absurd, both in the choice of toxins and in the stated effects of cyanide. The crime took place aboard a 747 and was committed by a woman who masqueraded as a stewardess. No one saw her fire the dart even though she was standing in the aisle. The air crew didn’t know she was a ringer. Tracy leaped to conclusions like a Mexican jumping bean on acid.
Crime #2: The Mistress of Death. Only Spacy can enter a crime scene and fail to notice three burned corpses at his feet. The corpses are not properly identified before they’re cremated. Spacy later IDs one by analyzing the DNA in the cremains. This is after he insults Testicle Chin for finding a crucial piece of evidence. Finally God Herself intervenes by striking the Mistress of Death with lightning. I guessed that the Reverend Righteous was guilty of something because he had a geek name and because I’d seen Dragnet 1987.
I started to read the third story, but I just finished dinner and didn’t want to look at a hood who eats snails.
Logic goes over the side. Sue Doko will be convicted of something because she has a funny name.
Panel-Panner over 13 years ago
Why isn’t Thick fighting real crime?
For example:
THE DAILY BLAST
ELMO FOUND IN SESAME STREET LOVE NEST!
TRACY ARRESTS KATY PERRY ON MORALS CHARGES!
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ over 13 years ago
Aha! The homeless guy (3D?) has a smart phone!
Panel-Panner over 13 years ago
Dubuque. Why is it always Dubuque? Why not Fon du Lac or Sheybogan? I hope Dubuque sues!
margueritem over 13 years ago
What about Lake Namakagon?
rshive over 13 years ago
Yup. Dubuque Spacy, that’s me.
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ over 13 years ago
Maybe 3D’ll share his Wild Irish Rose wine with the “new” guy!
OldTracy over 13 years ago
Why isn’t Spacy investigating an ACTUAL crime like the rotted body found on a stage?
Steve Bartholomew over 13 years ago
Homeless guys always talk in fragmentary sentences.
Fusnr over 13 years ago
I think he found it, yes thats Locher and his partner’s name on the back of the jacket. Tracy gets paid off and finds a new writer.
Bill Thompson over 13 years ago
John has a long moustache. The violins of autumn wound my heart with their monotonous langour.
All I can figure is, Longhair is really an undercover police agent and he’s waiting for Thick to give him the proper countersign. After all there is clearly a vast conspiracy among the local homeless population which requires the utmost care in investigatory work.
You want a real crime, Spacy? Ask Longhair why he stole Jughead’s hat.
Bill Thompson over 13 years ago
Radish, his hair is too short for Che Guacamole. I think Thick looks more like Fidel. Maybe he’s expressing his long-suppressed and ill-informed admiration for the leader of a police state.
And once again we see Homeless Guy as only a silhouette. If this is an effort to hide his identity, it’s pointless. As in “At this point nobody gives a flying Dubuque if he’s D-cubed, the Unabomber or Alley Oop.”
wndrwrthg over 13 years ago
Dit dit dit dah, Das Normandie Tracy seeks derelict camaraderie From hardscrabble Dubuque he does hail Man this plot is a colossal fail Tracy is such a master of disguise No-one he meets will ever be wise His cover story is beyond belief It is nothing more than comic relief The tears we shed do not come from laughs But from this strips oh so many gaffes Insipid in its delivery, absurd in its conception Though there are those who don’t share my perception Staggering, stumbling, twisting and turning The strip leaves us all with a great yearning It creates a void that can never be filled Our ardor for it long has go has been chilled.
Thanks you, P.P., Bill T., Beefeater, Fusnr, for your very kind comments. Sydney, thanks, but I am not worthy of such a lofty title.
Bill Thompson over 13 years ago
So what happens for the Sunday recap? Will the Locher Mess Monster retcon the past week and insert a panel where we’re belatedly told that Thick asked Boy Toy for a description of Homeless Guy? Will Testicle Chin appear and tell Thick that the serial number on the K-note appears on the list he got from the bank when blahblahblah? Will Liz facepalm herself for saying “You could fool me?” How low will Slimedroppers read on the stupidometer?
And next week, how will the strip avoid revealing Homeless Guy’s ID? Will Thick spend the whole week stumbling around Skid Row in his search? Or will they meet, at which point Homeless Guy pulls a gun, then shoots Thick in the left shoulder as he flees in a drizzle of bullets? “A clue, a definite clue!” Thick will think. “It is a sign of criminal behavior when a badly-sketched character makes bullets move at a cop! And how on Earth did Homeless Guy see through my disguise?”
rmax4131 over 13 years ago
Is Left Dubuque near Right Dubuque?
sydney over 13 years ago
The only time there is any marginal story movement is Tuesday to Saturaday (18 out of 28 panels per week).. Sunday is a ‘recap’ of the previous week (with an ‘occasional’ panel forward) And Mondays - are a ‘reminder’ of what happened the previous week.
The Sunday pages are done a few weeks in advance and the daily strips are filled in later. Author Dick L’Hack has never bothered to ‘learn the art’ of having interesting forward story movement on Sundays to keep the story interesting.
He takes the ‘easy way out’ following the ‘letter of the law’ of TMS to ensure that newspapers that carry the Sunday only, don’t get left out interpreted as repeat the previous week.
It seems apparent he lacks the innovation and skill readers once had with the work of Gould and Collins
Saucy1121 Premium Member over 13 years ago
Real life crime in Naperville. http://apnews.excite.com/article/20100918/D9IA15EO0.html
Nighthawks Premium Member over 13 years ago
Tracy does sound like Tonto……or Frankenstein
Des Moines……GOOD! Dubuque….. BAD!
LudwigVonDrake over 13 years ago
The hard streets of Dubuque.
psam over 13 years ago
What about Hurley? Why can’t he be from Hurley?
JCFremont over 13 years ago
Aw… Mongo straight!
Bill Thompson over 13 years ago
Just as long as we don’t have to endure a week of Thick and Jughead exchanging their beatnik poetry.
Locher has given us one clue, however. Homeless Guy is speaking with someone on the phone. Ergo he has an accomplice. If he is D-cubed, then it means someone knows he is alive, and the least-unlikely accomplice is Sue Doko.
neonleon59 over 13 years ago
BillThompson said, “Locher has given us one clue, however. Homeless Guy is speaking with someone on the phone. Ergo he has an accomplice. If he is D-cubed, then it means someone knows he is alive, and the least-unlikely accomplice is Sue Doko.”
Nice theory, but you’re giving Locher WAY too much credit! :)
trekkermint over 13 years ago
tracy has dressed up like a - fort knox’s fidel teddy bear b - che guevara, or at least the tshirt meme version c - unemployed stargate extra
Bill Thompson over 13 years ago
I know, neonleon59, I give the Locher Mess Monster far too much credit and he is yet to make any payments on his account. But I like to treat DT as an actual mystery, where the clues mean something and the plot has a goal. This way I can feel even more astonished by L’ocher’s L’atest L’unacy. Things happen because L’ocher needs an excuse to fill in the blank panels.
My guess du jour is that D-cubed developed a conscience after being seduced by Miss Sue Doko, who will prove to be some kind of horrible college-educated activist. His wife, who in reality is the brand-old villainess Scrotum Face, saw him planning to fritter away his fortune on good deeds and plotted to have him murdered while he went jogging. However D-cubed turned the tables and killed her assassin and is now living undercover to escape further murder attempts because that’s so much safer than hiring bodyguards or calling the police.
Bill Thompson over 13 years ago
saucy1121, that report comes from the only incompetent reporter in Nappingville. All the other Nappingville papers say that the F’amous F’eces F’linger is actually Locher and Brozman, who decided to do their artwork outdoors today.
sydney over 13 years ago
It’s been 5 years now …
I’m still waiting to see a ’CLUE’ crafted by Locher (intended or unintended) produce anything of ’merit’ or real consequence in solving a case in his strips.
Read any story, it’s been mostly window dressing, a form of (swiss cheese style) ’FAKING’ (or ‘intentionally’ misleading), to create the ’illusion’ that a detective is conducting real police work there !
Prove me a liar !
Bill Thompson over 13 years ago
I can’t prove you wrong, Sydney Phillips, because you’ve got the evidence and logic on your side. Although I would argue that Locher isn’t creating the illusion of a detective at work. Illusions have the power to fool people and so far only Liz has been fooled by Thick’s act.
Bill Thompson over 13 years ago
Panel-Panner, if Thick fought real crime then this strip would turn into Frankenstein, with the Creature turning against its (latest) creator.
gillbillvolume1 over 13 years ago
Fake beard and mustache .. nah i can’t tell thats Tracy at all !
Bill Thompson over 13 years ago
Sydney Phillips, the gocomics archives go back to April of 2001. I looked at the first two arcs.
Crime #1 involved a blowgun dart tipped with cyanide. Absurd, both in the choice of toxins and in the stated effects of cyanide. The crime took place aboard a 747 and was committed by a woman who masqueraded as a stewardess. No one saw her fire the dart even though she was standing in the aisle. The air crew didn’t know she was a ringer. Tracy leaped to conclusions like a Mexican jumping bean on acid.
Crime #2: The Mistress of Death. Only Spacy can enter a crime scene and fail to notice three burned corpses at his feet. The corpses are not properly identified before they’re cremated. Spacy later IDs one by analyzing the DNA in the cremains. This is after he insults Testicle Chin for finding a crucial piece of evidence. Finally God Herself intervenes by striking the Mistress of Death with lightning. I guessed that the Reverend Righteous was guilty of something because he had a geek name and because I’d seen Dragnet 1987.
I started to read the third story, but I just finished dinner and didn’t want to look at a hood who eats snails.
Logic goes over the side. Sue Doko will be convicted of something because she has a funny name.