Well at least Tracy has closed the distance between himself and the D’buckworths. I can’t imagine what could have changed his mind about running away. Probably it’s the fact that the gun isn’t currently being pointed in his direction. Or maybe he’s remembering his previous flirtations with Mrs. D and figures he’s safe because she’s sweet on him.
I guess she forgot the part where someone exposed the execs at We’re -Lyin’ for fraud, and where D-cubed phoned his accomplice and gave money to a senator. But this could be a good sign. Now that she’s flinging around wild and weird accusations, maybe the Locher Mojo will cause her to vanish like the Feds did.
What’s that look on D-cubed’s face? “Will quittin’ time never arrive?” “C’mon, Sue Doko, play Yoko One to my John Lennon, get me out of the hairy mess the Beatles have become!”
Barticle 35, by my count this is Day 94 of Realism Held Hostage.
When I discovered this site like two years ago, I was excited to see Dick Tracy was still running. But after following it for most of that time, I’m just sad at how truly bad it is. The art is sloppy and repetitive and the writing is unimaginative at best and utterly senseless at worst. Characterization is nonexistent and continuity disregarded from day to day and sometimes within a single strip.
When you think about the impact this strip has had on American culture, and the potential it still has if it were done with some passion and flair, well, it’s just really sad. I wish we could all comment every day on how interesting it is, instead of how awful.
Now where did all of the many undercover bums get off to again? Maybe they’ll be back en masse tomorrow.
Some films are so bad that they’re good. This strip is so bad as to defy description. I’d rather see Moon Maid riding the pig-on-wheels while eating giant escargot than any more of this continuity.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch … will we ever find out about the corpse in the morgue? [That was a rhetorical question. Although I am still waiting to learn who died in the snowy car crash last year. Just stubborn, I guess.]
To me, the beauty of the long-ago strip was its artful combination of science fiction (wrist phones et al) with its real-time crime stories. Now, we have neither a vision of the world to come nor compelling story lines. Alas.
Yet I return day after day after day. In large part to read comments by clever people. Thanks for making my days more entertaining than any bureaucrat has a right to expect.
Wow, Penny wins the award for the ONLY character in this comic who has a pretty good grasp of what’s going on:
“My husband was supposed to be implementing a well thought out plan to make us both rich, but instead he went spinning out on some completely ridiculous, totally asinine tangent that makes no sense to any rational person whatsoever!
Oh, and he took the Police and the Feds with him.”
@jumbobrain: I left this strip just before Christmas when “Deke Bracey” snap the cuffs on the clown in the “It Happened!” storyline (Late June-mid December 2009). After the demise of the Annie strip this past June, I came back. Not just to read the strip, but also to read the every day-to-day thrashing (and poetry) about this strip by the posters. And I love that!
Yep, Penny is the only credible one in the bunch. Go baby; you rock! Now unload that clip to show ‘em who’s boss! Start with Macy! Be the envy of every woman on the planet with a dead husband and a standing ovation from the public! GO PENNY!
I’d love to know exactly when 3D turned around from running and came back to be threatened by his wife. And where the feds went. And why I bother expecting logic from this strip.
You’re right, JCFremont! Those aren’t drops of cold sweat on her face, they’re water! Dorothy and Toto blew into town and the kid knew what to do! Now will Thick have enough sense to grab the ruby slippers and put them to good use? Put ‘em on, Thick, which is better than having Locher put us on with this farce of a strip! Click your heels three times, wake up in bed and rediscover that you’re Dick Tracy!
Just as long as it doesn’t turn out that Pistol Packin’ Penny is Sue Doko in disguise, and her make-up is melting in the heat of this October night, and she now has to explain why she’s trying to frame Mrs. D’apostrophe. “It’s not like anyone is going to frame this artwork, now is it? And this way Locher doesn’t have to explain why Penny popped up from nowhere!”
Between the eyes. That’s her best chance with that .25 Unfortunately Thick is a carrier of the Malaysian Brain Rot, with which he infected Penny during their long chats back in August. Its symptoms include cold sweats, squinting and irrational behavior. Tomorrow she’ll have to ask D-cubed how to chamber a round and what to do about that safety thingie.
Penny ain’t gonna kill anyone until she sets the hammer. Just like a woman! (The Great Bleeper bleeped out what I originally said you do to a hammer to get it to fire).
morrow, look at the position of the hammer in panels #1 and #3. The hammer is flopping around all by itself. Any weapon so badly-maintained is a greater threat to its user than its target. That’s not such a bad thing here. With a bit of luck Penny will make the gun go bang. When the gun Netnannys up the slug will bag D-cubed and the debris from the malfunction will nail the missus. That’s two extraneous characters eliminated for the low price of one bullet.
After she told Thick and the ME that Butterfly McCorpse was her husband, we never saw Penny wear black. Maybe that’s no longer traditional for new upper-class widows, but it seems odd. In a real mystery story it would have been a clue.
Meanwhile, no matter how hard she strains at that trigger, ain’t nothing going to happen with the safety on and the chamber empty.
Now where did all of the many undercover bums get off to again? Maybe they’ll be back en masse tomorrow.
Some films are so bad that they’re good. This strip is so bad as to defy description. I’d rather see Moon Maid riding the pig-on-wheels while eating giant escargot than any more of this continuity
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ about 14 years ago
Things are not improving!
Steve Bartholomew about 14 years ago
How many days now, since nothing has happened?
margueritem about 14 years ago
Com’on Penny, pull the trigger already!
FLIGHT SUIT about 14 years ago
Well at least Tracy has closed the distance between himself and the D’buckworths. I can’t imagine what could have changed his mind about running away. Probably it’s the fact that the gun isn’t currently being pointed in his direction. Or maybe he’s remembering his previous flirtations with Mrs. D and figures he’s safe because she’s sweet on him.
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
Give him the gun, Penny–one bullet at a time!
I guess she forgot the part where someone exposed the execs at We’re -Lyin’ for fraud, and where D-cubed phoned his accomplice and gave money to a senator. But this could be a good sign. Now that she’s flinging around wild and weird accusations, maybe the Locher Mojo will cause her to vanish like the Feds did.
What’s that look on D-cubed’s face? “Will quittin’ time never arrive?” “C’mon, Sue Doko, play Yoko One to my John Lennon, get me out of the hairy mess the Beatles have become!”
Barticle 35, by my count this is Day 94 of Realism Held Hostage.
jumbobrain about 14 years ago
When I discovered this site like two years ago, I was excited to see Dick Tracy was still running. But after following it for most of that time, I’m just sad at how truly bad it is. The art is sloppy and repetitive and the writing is unimaginative at best and utterly senseless at worst. Characterization is nonexistent and continuity disregarded from day to day and sometimes within a single strip.
When you think about the impact this strip has had on American culture, and the potential it still has if it were done with some passion and flair, well, it’s just really sad. I wish we could all comment every day on how interesting it is, instead of how awful.
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ about 14 years ago
Things aren’t going very well for the D’Buckworths…
brinrik about 14 years ago
Her problem is jealousy. He’s worth a buck and she’s only worth a penny.
JCFremont about 14 years ago
Oh, I don’t know, I still think these two crazy kids can work things out.
LudwigVonDrake about 14 years ago
The only thing that would make this better is if this conversation took place in the big top. Where’s Gorgo the Strong Man to break Penny’s neck?
btmosley about 14 years ago
Groan.
Now where did all of the many undercover bums get off to again? Maybe they’ll be back en masse tomorrow.
Some films are so bad that they’re good. This strip is so bad as to defy description. I’d rather see Moon Maid riding the pig-on-wheels while eating giant escargot than any more of this continuity.
neonleon59 about 14 years ago
Is Penny doing a striptease to distract everybody? Looks like she’s lost her top between panels 1 and 3.
China60 about 14 years ago
barticle35 said: How many days now, since nothing has happened?
Answer: Since the day that Locher took over the strip.
Warren Snaider Premium Member about 14 years ago
Meanwhile, back at the ranch … will we ever find out about the corpse in the morgue? [That was a rhetorical question. Although I am still waiting to learn who died in the snowy car crash last year. Just stubborn, I guess.]
To me, the beauty of the long-ago strip was its artful combination of science fiction (wrist phones et al) with its real-time crime stories. Now, we have neither a vision of the world to come nor compelling story lines. Alas.
Yet I return day after day after day. In large part to read comments by clever people. Thanks for making my days more entertaining than any bureaucrat has a right to expect.
Dr. Midnight about 14 years ago
Wow, Penny wins the award for the ONLY character in this comic who has a pretty good grasp of what’s going on:
“My husband was supposed to be implementing a well thought out plan to make us both rich, but instead he went spinning out on some completely ridiculous, totally asinine tangent that makes no sense to any rational person whatsoever! Oh, and he took the Police and the Feds with him.”
Lyons Group, Inc. about 14 years ago
@jumbobrain: I left this strip just before Christmas when “Deke Bracey” snap the cuffs on the clown in the “It Happened!” storyline (Late June-mid December 2009). After the demise of the Annie strip this past June, I came back. Not just to read the strip, but also to read the every day-to-day thrashing (and poetry) about this strip by the posters. And I love that!
Morrow Cummings about 14 years ago
Yep, Penny is the only credible one in the bunch. Go baby; you rock! Now unload that clip to show ‘em who’s boss! Start with Macy! Be the envy of every woman on the planet with a dead husband and a standing ovation from the public! GO PENNY!
CyberV about 14 years ago
I’d love to know exactly when 3D turned around from running and came back to be threatened by his wife. And where the feds went. And why I bother expecting logic from this strip.
billdi Premium Member about 14 years ago
yeah give him the gun penny – shoot! shoot! shoot!
JCFremont about 14 years ago
Um, Penny? You seem to be melting. You might want to look into that.
Midnite about 14 years ago
Is that 3-D in the middle panel? When did they catch up with him?
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
You’re right, JCFremont! Those aren’t drops of cold sweat on her face, they’re water! Dorothy and Toto blew into town and the kid knew what to do! Now will Thick have enough sense to grab the ruby slippers and put them to good use? Put ‘em on, Thick, which is better than having Locher put us on with this farce of a strip! Click your heels three times, wake up in bed and rediscover that you’re Dick Tracy!
Just as long as it doesn’t turn out that Pistol Packin’ Penny is Sue Doko in disguise, and her make-up is melting in the heat of this October night, and she now has to explain why she’s trying to frame Mrs. D’apostrophe. “It’s not like anyone is going to frame this artwork, now is it? And this way Locher doesn’t have to explain why Penny popped up from nowhere!”
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
Between the eyes. That’s her best chance with that .25 Unfortunately Thick is a carrier of the Malaysian Brain Rot, with which he infected Penny during their long chats back in August. Its symptoms include cold sweats, squinting and irrational behavior. Tomorrow she’ll have to ask D-cubed how to chamber a round and what to do about that safety thingie.
Morrow Cummings about 14 years ago
Penny ain’t gonna kill anyone until she sets the hammer. Just like a woman! (The Great Bleeper bleeped out what I originally said you do to a hammer to get it to fire).
llong65 about 14 years ago
WOW!!! Haven’t seen this many comments on D T in a very long time. Usually plot is too boring to comment on;.
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
morrow, look at the position of the hammer in panels #1 and #3. The hammer is flopping around all by itself. Any weapon so badly-maintained is a greater threat to its user than its target. That’s not such a bad thing here. With a bit of luck Penny will make the gun go bang. When the gun Netnannys up the slug will bag D-cubed and the debris from the malfunction will nail the missus. That’s two extraneous characters eliminated for the low price of one bullet.
veldy about 14 years ago
neonleon wondered if Penny was doing strip tease? Anyone ever seen a dog throw up?
Midnite about 14 years ago
Who holds a gun like that anyway? So up and close to her face, isnt that a safety hazard?
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
After she told Thick and the ME that Butterfly McCorpse was her husband, we never saw Penny wear black. Maybe that’s no longer traditional for new upper-class widows, but it seems odd. In a real mystery story it would have been a clue.
Meanwhile, no matter how hard she strains at that trigger, ain’t nothing going to happen with the safety on and the chamber empty.
runar about 14 years ago
Give me the gun. This story is so bad I want to shoot myself.
countoftowergrove about 14 years ago
btmosley said, about 13 hours ago
Groan.
Now where did all of the many undercover bums get off to again? Maybe they’ll be back en masse tomorrow.
Some films are so bad that they’re good. This strip is so bad as to defy description. I’d rather see Moon Maid riding the pig-on-wheels while eating giant escargot than any more of this continuity
Are you saying Locher is the Ed Wood of funnies?
SimonPenn about 14 years ago
GREAT Dick Tracy comic strip today. Solid drawings of America’s Favorite Detective!
Just a wonderful strip that continues to get better everyday.
trekkermint about 14 years ago
ed wood, roger corman - trashy cheap fun this not so much
they’re collecting bodies in the morgue of the forgotten