Thick, leave the snarking to the experts and stick to what you do best, whatever that may be–pizza delivery boy?
Mordred sits on the passenger side of the car, so why does his seat belt emerge from the center of the passenger compartment? Is there a new design out there, made to inconvenience passengers?
Mordred is clearly sitting on the right side, i.e., the passenger side, of the car. Why, then, is his seat belt positioned as though the shoulder belt is going up toward the left side of the car? And why does the shoulder belt just stop at his shoulder? It’s bad enough that it’s on the wrong side, but it isn’t even anchored to any part of the car’s structure!
Bill, in case you didn’t see my comment on yesterday’s installment, right after your last one, I wanted to let you know that any time a long URL is not formatting properly when you paste it here, you can just go to http://tinyurl.com/ and use it to generate an alternate URL that won’t get broken when you post it on GoComics.
Though aware of the danger
Posed by Dr. Mordred
Dick Tracy had better watch it
Or he’s going to wind up dead
He’s not a real bright guy
Just let me say
Dick Tracy you numbskull
This may be your last day
The standards are lowering
For pity sakes
Proving Dick Tracy
No longer has what it takes
New lows for Dick Tracy
Looks like things have gone awry
And Locher I do blame
For the demise of our guy
Do you hear me Dick Tracy
Heed what I say
Closure is coming
Your near your last day.
Thank you Bill Thompson, margueritem, billdi, and Rene_Simard
I sort-of hope that DT isn’t coming to an end. Not because I want to keep mocking this trash, but because I dislike the idea that Dick Tracy will end as an ineffectual feep done in by a character-free bad guy.
A mask. Not even a scary mask. Just round, blank goggles–oops, today they have fierce scowly-shape. And no hint as to what makes Dr. Mordred so dangerous. Is he a serial killer who preys on wary, experienced law-enforcement officers? All we get here is feeble insults, like two ex-lovers at the exhausted end of their last argument. With that in mind, here’s another song for them:
Ludwig Von Drake, there may be a hint about that in the preview that neonleon59 linked to the other day. The question is, will Locher remember to make use of the chain’s great weight?
They’re riding in an ordinary car. It doesn’t even have the bullet-proof partition that I thought came standard with all police vehicles these days. OK, maybe not quite ordinary, since this model comes with the special “Locher Morphing Switch” which allows it to look like it was made from three or four other cars by a bored teenager and his friends on a Saturday afternoon.
Question: Would you give a ride to the most dangerous serial killer in the country in YOUR car? Even if he was restrained like Mordred is supposed to be?
Rightwing, there is generally some time between trial and sentencing. Usually it’s several weeks. This is in the real world, not in Locherland.
Locherland varies from real-world practice in that he’s having the trial in one location and sentencing in another, mostly this is done in the same court by the same judge. The reason for the variance this time is that Mordred has so many enemies that want him dead that his own safety had to be considered— so they chose the most dangerous, idiotic way to transfer a prisoner they could find.
VistaBill said, “Things are moving along. Is tomorrow the day Tracy comes upon the policeman with the stop sign and tells him about the four cars with flat tires?”
Michael McMillan, I think the real problem is that Locher is too lazy to do an action-oriented strip. He’d have to draw something other than empty streets and facial close-ups. It’s much easier for him to have people stand and talk about a featureless, immobilized villain.
I don’t know why TMS tolerates it. Maybe they think Warren Beatty will win his suit, and they want Locher to destroy the Dick Tracy image. Or–more likely, I think, given the recent shuffle–TMS cut its expenses by not having an editor supervise the work.
“I’m gripping the edge of my seat … NOTHING has happened again !
It’s been the same way since this mini sequence kicked off on November 24 -Tracy: “Fill me in Chief”
It’s taken over 30 panels to start the journey - all punctuated with effectively the same dialogue, just worded differently, over and over every day
Then, no time to arrive in Riverton, by Dec. 6 and 7 the ‘pick up’ was complete.
Now the return journey (of 52 miles) with Mordred starts another ’humdrum’ segment, a Twilight Zone of relative inactivity - just driving and ‘talking’ inconsequential things, just like we had the day before, and the days before that
We’ll be stuck with this ‘talk-scape’ for 3 weeks (i.e. 45 daily panels). And nothing NEW will happen before Christmas Day.
No SPOILER ALERT necessary, unless you need one to tell you, nothing meaningful will occur in this new Twilight Zone
thick: your weird reputation is as bad as the weather; or is it that the weird, bad weather is as bad and weird as your reputation, or maybe your badness and weirdness… whatever, those chains get me so excited!
why is spacy so concerned about froggy’s reputation? how do you wrap up a reputation in chains? reputation has nothing to do with it – he’s a convicted serial killer and the most hated man in the universe!
anyway on a more serious note, John Kovaleski, whose Bo Nanas strip ended this year (sniff), needs some help. He writes:
“My 14-year-old nephew Nick was diagnosed with leukemia this Fall and so I’m offering $2 off (until December 31) on all Bo Nanas books, with the proceeds going to defray expenses. Got someone who’s hard to shop for? Why not give the gift of monkey. You can find more info at the link below:
http://kovaleski.wordpress.com”
just thought i’d pass the word while pondering the fairness of it all.
thanks again WW
Why does Tracy keep mentioning 40 lbs. of chains??
———————————————————————–
Maybe it has something to do with “Tennessee” Ernie Ford’s 16 tons.
I think it keeps surfacing in the Dickster’s consciousness as he sees all the snow on the road. It may become necessary to take them off the Doc and put them on his tires.
BTW, I thought the existence and capabilities of the wrist geenee were more or less classified information. In any case, babbling about it to a convicted felon seems just the sort of idiotic lapse of judgment we’ve come to expect from the Great Detective.
Come Christmas Day this tale would have already run 90 daily panels. And most will agree that nothing much has happened … just a mask, talking and driving and more talking - in the rain. Not so ?.
Easy how the inexperienced can waste time.
Back in 1942 Gould introduced Jacques a gang boss that kidnapped Tracy from Debby Thorndike’s home, threw him down a Caisson and (car) bumper pushed a huge granite rock into the hole which slipped … slowly down to crush the Detective.
Tracy would escape and later in a shoot out hit Jacques in the arm and arrest him. The villain would later escape and at the Bird Club in another shoot out Tracy would eventually kill Jacques.
ACTION packed from start to finish ! - Memorable death trap. Two shoot outs …
And all packed into just - 72 daily panels !
COMPARE. Come Dec. 24 — this story with - 90 daily panels. And how much has been achieved ???
Seems the story is still wobbling along in ‘start up’ mode (?)
Bill Thompson over 13 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJZggGqLEd4
Thick, leave the snarking to the experts and stick to what you do best, whatever that may be–pizza delivery boy?
Mordred sits on the passenger side of the car, so why does his seat belt emerge from the center of the passenger compartment? Is there a new design out there, made to inconvenience passengers?
FLIGHT SUIT over 13 years ago
Mordred is clearly sitting on the right side, i.e., the passenger side, of the car. Why, then, is his seat belt positioned as though the shoulder belt is going up toward the left side of the car? And why does the shoulder belt just stop at his shoulder? It’s bad enough that it’s on the wrong side, but it isn’t even anchored to any part of the car’s structure!
FLIGHT SUIT over 13 years ago
Bill, in case you didn’t see my comment on yesterday’s installment, right after your last one, I wanted to let you know that any time a long URL is not formatting properly when you paste it here, you can just go to http://tinyurl.com/ and use it to generate an alternate URL that won’t get broken when you post it on GoComics.
thejensens over 13 years ago
For someone sedated he is very talkative.
Yesterday, the wrist geenee looks likes bad tv reception.
margueritem over 13 years ago
Zzzzzzzzzz-zzzzzzz
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ over 13 years ago
Things are moving along. Is tomorrow the day Tracy comes upon the policeman with the stop sign and tells him about the four cars with flat tires?
Steve Bartholomew over 13 years ago
Sticks and stones can break my bones, but whips and chains excite me.
Bill Thompson over 13 years ago
Flight Suit, thanks for the pointer. (It’s too bad that “Judge Parker” petered out–for a moment it verged on terrific satire.)
mrbribery over 13 years ago
Mordred is sitting to Spacy’s right, but Spacy is addressing Mordred from HIS right in the last panel.
And Mordred’s reputation is wrapped in 40 lbs of chains. Shoulda wrapped his body instead.
wndrwrthg over 13 years ago
Though aware of the danger Posed by Dr. Mordred Dick Tracy had better watch it Or he’s going to wind up dead He’s not a real bright guy Just let me say Dick Tracy you numbskull This may be your last day The standards are lowering For pity sakes Proving Dick Tracy No longer has what it takes New lows for Dick Tracy Looks like things have gone awry And Locher I do blame For the demise of our guy Do you hear me Dick Tracy Heed what I say Closure is coming Your near your last day.
Thank you Bill Thompson, margueritem, billdi, and Rene_Simard
LudwigVonDrake over 13 years ago
Why does Tracy keep mentioning 40 lbs. of chains??
Bill Thompson over 13 years ago
Another good one, Wonder Warthog.
I sort-of hope that DT isn’t coming to an end. Not because I want to keep mocking this trash, but because I dislike the idea that Dick Tracy will end as an ineffectual feep done in by a character-free bad guy.
A mask. Not even a scary mask. Just round, blank goggles–oops, today they have fierce scowly-shape. And no hint as to what makes Dr. Mordred so dangerous. Is he a serial killer who preys on wary, experienced law-enforcement officers? All we get here is feeble insults, like two ex-lovers at the exhausted end of their last argument. With that in mind, here’s another song for them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSRj9bF_faA
Bill Thompson over 13 years ago
Ludwig Von Drake, there may be a hint about that in the preview that neonleon59 linked to the other day. The question is, will Locher remember to make use of the chain’s great weight?
mjmsprt40 over 13 years ago
They’re riding in an ordinary car. It doesn’t even have the bullet-proof partition that I thought came standard with all police vehicles these days. OK, maybe not quite ordinary, since this model comes with the special “Locher Morphing Switch” which allows it to look like it was made from three or four other cars by a bored teenager and his friends on a Saturday afternoon.
Question: Would you give a ride to the most dangerous serial killer in the country in YOUR car? Even if he was restrained like Mordred is supposed to be?
mjmsprt40 over 13 years ago
Rightwing, there is generally some time between trial and sentencing. Usually it’s several weeks. This is in the real world, not in Locherland.
Locherland varies from real-world practice in that he’s having the trial in one location and sentencing in another, mostly this is done in the same court by the same judge. The reason for the variance this time is that Mordred has so many enemies that want him dead that his own safety had to be considered— so they chose the most dangerous, idiotic way to transfer a prisoner they could find.
neonleon59 over 13 years ago
VistaBill said, “Things are moving along. Is tomorrow the day Tracy comes upon the policeman with the stop sign and tells him about the four cars with flat tires?”
Actually, YES!
Bill Thompson over 13 years ago
Michael McMillan, I think the real problem is that Locher is too lazy to do an action-oriented strip. He’d have to draw something other than empty streets and facial close-ups. It’s much easier for him to have people stand and talk about a featureless, immobilized villain.
I don’t know why TMS tolerates it. Maybe they think Warren Beatty will win his suit, and they want Locher to destroy the Dick Tracy image. Or–more likely, I think, given the recent shuffle–TMS cut its expenses by not having an editor supervise the work.
Dr. Midnight over 13 years ago
I liked the mask Mordred had in the other dimension better than this one. The one with round eyeholes with rectangular slanted slits.
Safeway: Maybe in this dimension they didn’t sedate Mordred like they did in the other dimension.
CougarAllen over 13 years ago
How long do we have to wait? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n20U8hWHSE
steveyorkdesigns over 13 years ago
A “weird” reputation?
Tracy’s already said more to Mordred than he has to Tess in the past 4 years.
woodworker318 over 13 years ago
LudwigVonDrake said, about 6 hours ago
Why does Tracy keep mentioning 40 lbs. of chains??
———————————————————————– Maybe it has something to do with “Tennessee” Ernie Ford’s 16 tons.
OldTracy over 13 years ago
No one has mentioned handcuffs. You don’t suppose … .
sydney over 13 years ago
“I’m gripping the edge of my seat … NOTHING has happened again !
It’s been the same way since this mini sequence kicked off on November 24 - Tracy: “Fill me in Chief” It’s taken over 30 panels to start the journey - all punctuated with effectively the same dialogue, just worded differently, over and over every day
Then, no time to arrive in Riverton, by Dec. 6 and 7 the ‘pick up’ was complete.
Now the return journey (of 52 miles) with Mordred starts another ’humdrum’ segment, a Twilight Zone of relative inactivity - just driving and ‘talking’ inconsequential things, just like we had the day before, and the days before that
We’ll be stuck with this ‘talk-scape’ for 3 weeks (i.e. 45 daily panels). And nothing NEW will happen before Christmas Day.
No SPOILER ALERT necessary, unless you need one to tell you, nothing meaningful will occur in this new Twilight Zone
http://www.cbs.com/classics/thetwilightzone/video/
billdi Premium Member over 13 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG9pvAUBKlU
thick: your weird reputation is as bad as the weather; or is it that the weird, bad weather is as bad and weird as your reputation, or maybe your badness and weirdness… whatever, those chains get me so excited!
why is spacy so concerned about froggy’s reputation? how do you wrap up a reputation in chains? reputation has nothing to do with it – he’s a convicted serial killer and the most hated man in the universe!
anyway on a more serious note, John Kovaleski, whose Bo Nanas strip ended this year (sniff), needs some help. He writes: “My 14-year-old nephew Nick was diagnosed with leukemia this Fall and so I’m offering $2 off (until December 31) on all Bo Nanas books, with the proceeds going to defray expenses. Got someone who’s hard to shop for? Why not give the gift of monkey. You can find more info at the link below: http://kovaleski.wordpress.com”
just thought i’d pass the word while pondering the fairness of it all. thanks again WW
prrdh over 13 years ago
woodworker318 said, about 1 hour ago
LudwigVonDrake said, about 6 hours ago
Why does Tracy keep mentioning 40 lbs. of chains??
———————————————————————– Maybe it has something to do with “Tennessee” Ernie Ford’s 16 tons.
I think it keeps surfacing in the Dickster’s consciousness as he sees all the snow on the road. It may become necessary to take them off the Doc and put them on his tires. BTW, I thought the existence and capabilities of the wrist geenee were more or less classified information. In any case, babbling about it to a convicted felon seems just the sort of idiotic lapse of judgment we’ve come to expect from the Great Detective.
sydney over 13 years ago
Come Christmas Day this tale would have already run 90 daily panels. And most will agree that nothing much has happened … just a mask, talking and driving and more talking - in the rain. Not so ?.
Easy how the inexperienced can waste time. Back in 1942 Gould introduced Jacques a gang boss that kidnapped Tracy from Debby Thorndike’s home, threw him down a Caisson and (car) bumper pushed a huge granite rock into the hole which slipped … slowly down to crush the Detective.
Tracy would escape and later in a shoot out hit Jacques in the arm and arrest him. The villain would later escape and at the Bird Club in another shoot out Tracy would eventually kill Jacques.
ACTION packed from start to finish ! - Memorable death trap. Two shoot outs … And all packed into just - 72 daily panels !
COMPARE. Come Dec. 24 — this story with - 90 daily panels. And how much has been achieved ??? Seems the story is still wobbling along in ‘start up’ mode (?)
sydney over 13 years ago
40 lbs in chains ? The repetition ? Locher thinks his readers are all TWITS, we don’t ‘get it’, and so he has to wave it under our noses …
He’s a six gun repeater !
When he shows deep water up ahead he want’s us to remember - ‘weight’ !
Bill Thompson over 13 years ago
Sydney Phillips, you have to wonder if Locher will remember the weight of those chains when Thicky & Froggy are playing neck-deep in freezing water.
sydney over 13 years ago
Tomorrow … was the first Cop a dream (?)