It’s not so much that we’re defensive whiners and are bawling and sniveling about how mean you are, but more curiosity as to why you spend so much time reading and following a strip you obviously do not like.
Your negative comments about a strip you clearly follow tells us much more about you (none of it good) than it does about the strip.
Maybe it’s like the fascination of watching a train wreck in slow motion?
Personally, I think Locher loves it. This strip gets more comments than any of the others I read, except maybe Pibgorn.
Personally, I love the strip. But I also like being able to critique it, as well. Last year, there was a guy named BNM who got so worked up because readers would complain about the different aspects of the strip (like the months Locher spent in the Haunted House story, or how he forgot what he wrote last week and contradicted himself), that he started frothing at the mouth. One reader created a wonderful story, in which the mouth-frother was the central character, and it made the site (and strip) more entertaining. I, too, critique it; but it’s entertaining, as well. BNM had an average of maybe 3 posts a day. Of which, all were critical of the other posters.
Locher has to do it deliberately, just to drive you nuts. He reads this stuff and laughs the whole time. No one could accidently draw someone handcuffed in one panel, free in the next and then handcuffed in the third.
Its a shame Go comics doesnt publish classic Tracey, as well as the new. Maybe that would motivate Locher to try to be a little more, oh, I dont know. Just get him to TRY!
Look, if you Dick Tracy haters can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all! There ARE still people like myself who like this strip and that’s my right isn’t it? Some of you out there need to learn to respect different tastes! As for how realistic the strip is drawn, how about “Annie”? How many people do you know have blank eyeballs and can still see out of them? But I have no problem with it because after all it is only a comic strip!
Locher couldn’t get away with the old strips. Gould was pretty lenient with the violence (which I thought added realism to the story). Locher himself said his hands were tied with today’s political correctness. Every time he tries a little gore on, he risks getting his knuckles rapped. He said all this in an interview not to long ago. As he says on the right side of this very screen, he tried to bring Tracy into the present. Crooks are a different breed than the Chicago hoods Elliot Ness used to fight. He’s trying; I just wish his attention to detail was a little better. I don’t think he is playing with us, though.
Grokenstein, I have nothing against constructive criticism and yes “Dick Tracy” is not perfect. But I still say today’s stories are better that those terrible “Moon Maid” stories. By the way, I long passed the 3rd grade, in fact, I graduated from business college with degrees in General Clerical, Accounting, and Data Processing. No, I’m no rocket scientist,but I know not to stoop to personal insults just because some one disagrees with me.
jtrue about 16 years ago
It’s not so much that we’re defensive whiners and are bawling and sniveling about how mean you are, but more curiosity as to why you spend so much time reading and following a strip you obviously do not like.
Your negative comments about a strip you clearly follow tells us much more about you (none of it good) than it does about the strip.
Ray_C about 16 years ago
Maybe it’s like the fascination of watching a train wreck in slow motion? Personally, I think Locher loves it. This strip gets more comments than any of the others I read, except maybe Pibgorn.
Morrow Cummings about 16 years ago
Personally, I love the strip. But I also like being able to critique it, as well. Last year, there was a guy named BNM who got so worked up because readers would complain about the different aspects of the strip (like the months Locher spent in the Haunted House story, or how he forgot what he wrote last week and contradicted himself), that he started frothing at the mouth. One reader created a wonderful story, in which the mouth-frother was the central character, and it made the site (and strip) more entertaining. I, too, critique it; but it’s entertaining, as well. BNM had an average of maybe 3 posts a day. Of which, all were critical of the other posters.
LudwigVonDrake about 16 years ago
At least we critique the strip and NOT the other posters.
Is Liz(z) turning into a unicorn in the second panel?
Durak Premium Member about 16 years ago
Locher has to do it deliberately, just to drive you nuts. He reads this stuff and laughs the whole time. No one could accidently draw someone handcuffed in one panel, free in the next and then handcuffed in the third.
Its a shame Go comics doesnt publish classic Tracey, as well as the new. Maybe that would motivate Locher to try to be a little more, oh, I dont know. Just get him to TRY!
Steve Bartholomew about 16 years ago
This strip is fascinating in the same way as “Plan Nine From Outer Space.” Beware of radiation from wrist TVs.
Dberrymanal1 about 16 years ago
Look, if you Dick Tracy haters can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all! There ARE still people like myself who like this strip and that’s my right isn’t it? Some of you out there need to learn to respect different tastes! As for how realistic the strip is drawn, how about “Annie”? How many people do you know have blank eyeballs and can still see out of them? But I have no problem with it because after all it is only a comic strip!
Morrow Cummings about 16 years ago
Locher couldn’t get away with the old strips. Gould was pretty lenient with the violence (which I thought added realism to the story). Locher himself said his hands were tied with today’s political correctness. Every time he tries a little gore on, he risks getting his knuckles rapped. He said all this in an interview not to long ago. As he says on the right side of this very screen, he tried to bring Tracy into the present. Crooks are a different breed than the Chicago hoods Elliot Ness used to fight. He’s trying; I just wish his attention to detail was a little better. I don’t think he is playing with us, though.
Dberrymanal1 about 16 years ago
Grokenstein, I have nothing against constructive criticism and yes “Dick Tracy” is not perfect. But I still say today’s stories are better that those terrible “Moon Maid” stories. By the way, I long passed the 3rd grade, in fact, I graduated from business college with degrees in General Clerical, Accounting, and Data Processing. No, I’m no rocket scientist,but I know not to stoop to personal insults just because some one disagrees with me.