Aha! Virgil Ohso is going to the embassy after all! Tracy wants the wide angle photographer to take shots of the crowd as they show up, from a distance… huh? Wouldn’t the embassy security cameras have the entire affair?
Actually I think a telephoto lens would be better for taking photos at a distance, but then again maybe it was also damaged in the FLOOOOOOMMMM. Gurgle Morning VistaBill & Margueritem.
What make and model of automobile is Virgil traveling in? The only place I’ve ever seen such an asymmetrical, lop-sided car is in certain forms of oval, dirt-track racing, where the race car spends almost its entire life turning in just one direction.
Why is the photographer wearing lipstick, and why didn’t Tracy call in this photographer to snap pics of the crowd during the last caper at the circus?
Thank you Carlo, your work is always a welcome thing. To anybody who wants to see how cars are supposed to look, just check some of the previous installments of Carlo’s comic!
A wide angle lens taking pictures from afar
Makes me think the whole thing will be fubar
But what else would you expect Tracy to do
I mean, really the strip is all one big snafu.
Well, Virgil is on his way and as noted before Locher gets credit for the idea of a photographer at the scene of the crime - to hopefully spot those that may have come to “view” their foul deeds. Not unlike the suspects seen at those recent recent Church “fires” (in Texas I believe?).
But today’s strip reminds that the Author hasn’t bothered to provde any sense of “motive” for Virgil’s “expensive” and convoluted action. Small matter, but it would have rounded out the tale much better.
The art presentations continue to DETERIORATE.., now at a “practising” High School level suggesting a low quotient of talent !
The careless detail in panel 2 tells it all, and by now TMS must be realizing that as the Chinaman said : “Good t’ing don’t come cheap”. Brozman seems more comfortable as a “talking heads” man surrounding “them’ with fragmentary, incomplete backgrounds
One must to hope that he has only a one year “trial” contract. After a year at best he seems a third rate performer unable to carry the strip anywhere with unappealing rudimentary art, as TMS now begins to realize they have painted themselves into a ”CORNER” - Locher style. Year end approaches with the latter’s 5 year contract coming to an end - and at age 81 he will go off into retirement..
What will happen to this GREAT strip? It’s “potential” is still great, the number of posters here attest to that, and under the RIGHT team could recover some of it’s lost appeal and many newspapers. The easy “option” of going to reprints of older strips would be a sad one. And already they are currently being done in Book form by IDW Publishing.
We have just witnessed a bomb go off at this affair…in a foreign embassy…an attempt on the ambassador’s life…and the crime scene hasn’t been cordoned off…the ball hasn’t been cancelled!
This whole thing is just so stupid! I can’t believe the editors at TMS approved such tripe!
Actually I think a telephoto lens would be better for taking photos at a distance, but then again maybe it was also damaged in the FLOOOOOOMMMM. Gurgle Morning VistaBill & Margueritem.
It wasn’t the lens that was damaged; if anything, it was Tracy’s brain. He was the one that ordered the wide angle lens, remember. Of course, he always has been a few longnecks short of a sixpack.
Since this is at night, after the images taken with the wide angle lens are blown up to show individual faces they’ll be totally unrecognizable, a half dozen pixels per inch. Way to go, Tracy!
You know, the idea that the first thing a detective would do at the scene of a crime like this is go out and take pictures instead of, like, question people and figure out where the violin came from is so inane, I won’t even mention that if you were going to do that, you’d want a telephoto, not a wide-angle lens.
Honestly, this strip is like written by monkeys or something.
You are quite right Jumbo, He had originally instructed that no one should leave or enter - implying that he would do some “questioning.” Problem is that in Locher’s story plan nothing would be gained there … so, he takes a “short cut” and Tracy is already out on the street with the photographer, where the Author’s planned action will take place.
I wish he would apply that sort of rapid fire “pacing” to all aspects of his stories. Had Sam Catchem been there (?) he could have left him inside to do those investigations off camera, and at least give the appearance of sound detective work. Obviously, focus on his Editorial Cartoons is more rewarding !
For he usually bugs us with a writing style “plagued” with unnecessary REPETITION - till we bawl, e.g. …like having Harmonic threaten (by count) a dozen times, so far, to “kill his son” !
Heck ! - You’d think after five or six times we’d get the message (?)
I have to agree that Tracy’s request for a wide-angle lens on Sunday doesn’t make him appear very bright, when he’s is looking to take pictures from a distance.
LordDogmore said, “Actually I think a telephoto lens would be better for taking photos at a distance, but then again maybe it was also damaged in the FLOOOOOOMMMM. Gurgle Morning VistaBill & Margueritem.”
G’morning, LordDogmore (a bit late). I bet Tracy wants the photos for his photo album!
Tracy wants the wide angle photographer to take shots of the crowd as they show up. What crowd? Is he referring to the people attending the function? The crowd that heard the “floooom” and is coming to see what happened? If that’s the case, he’ll get a photo of Virgil Ohso and Half Note in the car with the sideways steering wheel and bowling ball wheels. That should create suspicion! Isn’t DT going to seek medical attention to make sure he’s ok. After all, he was caught in the “floooom”!
R_Noonan63 said, “When ever on TV they show someone getting close to a big Floooom! they go Deaf and have a Ringing in their ears.”
The guests at the embassy are fortunate that when the window glass shattered, it didn’t go inside the embassy but was drawn into the floooom. That’s why nobody was injured… except for the deafness and ringing in their ears.
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ almost 15 years ago
Aha! Virgil Ohso is going to the embassy after all! Tracy wants the wide angle photographer to take shots of the crowd as they show up, from a distance… huh? Wouldn’t the embassy security cameras have the entire affair?
margueritem almost 15 years ago
VistaBill, they were probably destroyed in the FLOOOOOOMMMM!
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ almost 15 years ago
margueritem said, “VistaBill, they were probably destroyed in the FLOOOOOOMMMM!”
Gurgle! G’morning, margueritem. I’d forgotton about the “floooooommmm”!
Llewellenbruce almost 15 years ago
“Smile Virgil, You’re on “Candid Camera”.
LordDogmore almost 15 years ago
Actually I think a telephoto lens would be better for taking photos at a distance, but then again maybe it was also damaged in the FLOOOOOOMMMM. Gurgle Morning VistaBill & Margueritem.
margueritem almost 15 years ago
Gurgle, glubb, spew ‘morning LordD!
FLIGHT SUIT almost 15 years ago
What make and model of automobile is Virgil traveling in? The only place I’ve ever seen such an asymmetrical, lop-sided car is in certain forms of oval, dirt-track racing, where the race car spends almost its entire life turning in just one direction.
FLIGHT SUIT almost 15 years ago
Also:
Why is the photographer wearing lipstick, and why didn’t Tracy call in this photographer to snap pics of the crowd during the last caper at the circus?
coratelli almost 15 years ago
http://shockdom.com/open/carl/2010/03/02/striscia-13/#respond
FLIGHT SUIT almost 15 years ago
Thank you Carlo, your work is always a welcome thing. To anybody who wants to see how cars are supposed to look, just check some of the previous installments of Carlo’s comic!
watcha almost 15 years ago
Wow Mr. Coratelli - that is really good. Love it!
geoffreyricho Premium Member almost 15 years ago
The strange looking car runs on two bowling balls instead of tires.
wndrwrthg almost 15 years ago
A wide angle lens taking pictures from afar Makes me think the whole thing will be fubar But what else would you expect Tracy to do I mean, really the strip is all one big snafu.
sydney almost 15 years ago
Well, Virgil is on his way and as noted before Locher gets credit for the idea of a photographer at the scene of the crime - to hopefully spot those that may have come to “view” their foul deeds. Not unlike the suspects seen at those recent recent Church “fires” (in Texas I believe?).
But today’s strip reminds that the Author hasn’t bothered to provde any sense of “motive” for Virgil’s “expensive” and convoluted action. Small matter, but it would have rounded out the tale much better.
The art presentations continue to DETERIORATE.., now at a “practising” High School level suggesting a low quotient of talent !
The careless detail in panel 2 tells it all, and by now TMS must be realizing that as the Chinaman said : “Good t’ing don’t come cheap”. Brozman seems more comfortable as a “talking heads” man surrounding “them’ with fragmentary, incomplete backgrounds
One must to hope that he has only a one year “trial” contract. After a year at best he seems a third rate performer unable to carry the strip anywhere with unappealing rudimentary art, as TMS now begins to realize they have painted themselves into a ”CORNER” - Locher style. Year end approaches with the latter’s 5 year contract coming to an end - and at age 81 he will go off into retirement..
What will happen to this GREAT strip? It’s “potential” is still great, the number of posters here attest to that, and under the RIGHT team could recover some of it’s lost appeal and many newspapers. The easy “option” of going to reprints of older strips would be a sad one. And already they are currently being done in Book form by IDW Publishing.
sydney almost 15 years ago
It’s interesting to note how cavalier and casual the characters are dressed against a backdrop of the worst winter America has seen in decades (?)
What do we see - a scarf on Virgil and a cap and open shirt on the photographer. The exhaust emissions from the car don’t even reflect winter.
andy.vaughn almost 15 years ago
We have just witnessed a bomb go off at this affair…in a foreign embassy…an attempt on the ambassador’s life…and the crime scene hasn’t been cordoned off…the ball hasn’t been cancelled!
This whole thing is just so stupid! I can’t believe the editors at TMS approved such tripe!
They just keep getting better!!!
veldy almost 15 years ago
Is that steering wheel really positioned sideways?
prrdh almost 15 years ago
LordDogmore said, about 7 hours ago
Actually I think a telephoto lens would be better for taking photos at a distance, but then again maybe it was also damaged in the FLOOOOOOMMMM. Gurgle Morning VistaBill & Margueritem.
It wasn’t the lens that was damaged; if anything, it was Tracy’s brain. He was the one that ordered the wide angle lens, remember. Of course, he always has been a few longnecks short of a sixpack.
Since this is at night, after the images taken with the wide angle lens are blown up to show individual faces they’ll be totally unrecognizable, a half dozen pixels per inch. Way to go, Tracy!
jumbobrain almost 15 years ago
You know, the idea that the first thing a detective would do at the scene of a crime like this is go out and take pictures instead of, like, question people and figure out where the violin came from is so inane, I won’t even mention that if you were going to do that, you’d want a telephoto, not a wide-angle lens.
Honestly, this strip is like written by monkeys or something.
Morrow Cummings almost 15 years ago
Jumbobrain, Liam sez not to attack the other posters for sensitivity reasons. You hurt my feelings.
leakysqueaky712 almost 15 years ago
morrow said, 14 minutes ago
Jumbobrain, Liam sez not to attack the other posters for sensitivity reasons. You hurt my feelings
I’m offended by that avatar………..Child pleeeze!!!!!!!!
http://tinyurl.com/yzrqon6
stopgap almost 15 years ago
Big heads, small out of proportion hands.
sydney almost 15 years ago
You are quite right Jumbo, He had originally instructed that no one should leave or enter - implying that he would do some “questioning.” Problem is that in Locher’s story plan nothing would be gained there … so, he takes a “short cut” and Tracy is already out on the street with the photographer, where the Author’s planned action will take place.
I wish he would apply that sort of rapid fire “pacing” to all aspects of his stories. Had Sam Catchem been there (?) he could have left him inside to do those investigations off camera, and at least give the appearance of sound detective work. Obviously, focus on his Editorial Cartoons is more rewarding !
For he usually bugs us with a writing style “plagued” with unnecessary REPETITION - till we bawl, e.g. …like having Harmonic threaten (by count) a dozen times, so far, to “kill his son” !
Heck ! - You’d think after five or six times we’d get the message (?)
margueritem almost 15 years ago
Carlo’s comic is action packed!
jpozenel almost 15 years ago
I have to agree that Tracy’s request for a wide-angle lens on Sunday doesn’t make him appear very bright, when he’s is looking to take pictures from a distance.
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ almost 15 years ago
LordDogmore said, “Actually I think a telephoto lens would be better for taking photos at a distance, but then again maybe it was also damaged in the FLOOOOOOMMMM. Gurgle Morning VistaBill & Margueritem.”
G’morning, LordDogmore (a bit late). I bet Tracy wants the photos for his photo album!
countoftowergrove almost 15 years ago
Is there yet another leap in logic of this story? What’s with the hitherto unknown photographer? How did Macy get dried out and his clothes changed?
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ almost 15 years ago
Tracy wants the wide angle photographer to take shots of the crowd as they show up. What crowd? Is he referring to the people attending the function? The crowd that heard the “floooom” and is coming to see what happened? If that’s the case, he’ll get a photo of Virgil Ohso and Half Note in the car with the sideways steering wheel and bowling ball wheels. That should create suspicion! Isn’t DT going to seek medical attention to make sure he’s ok. After all, he was caught in the “floooom”!
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ almost 15 years ago
R_Noonan63 said, “When ever on TV they show someone getting close to a big Floooom! they go Deaf and have a Ringing in their ears.”
The guests at the embassy are fortunate that when the window glass shattered, it didn’t go inside the embassy but was drawn into the floooom. That’s why nobody was injured… except for the deafness and ringing in their ears.