Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 09, 2009

“And the tiger hasn’t been fed since we closed!”

Which was back in June. I’m calling the Humane Society.

Meanwhile, it look’s like Barb’s finally turned up.

Panel 2 looks like Toodie and Muldoon of “Car 54 where are you”

Ringo’s back! Is he still handcuffed? Pops isn’t falling very quickly. Tracy and the police officer should have time to realize that they could use pepper spray or even shoot the tiger. Maybe Barb Els will use her rifle. I don’t recall the police taking it from her. Where’s Ennen? Ringo also speaks of the circus being closed. If it closed, why are the performers still in their show attire?

VistaBill, if he brings back the Pig On Wheels, all will be forgiven.

Margueritem said, “VistaBill, if he brings back the Pig On Wheels, all will be forgiven.”

You have me figured out, don’tcha Margueritem?

That cat is a little late for Halloween. Don’t try to make sense of this. Any of it.

I said Pops would’nt hit the floor until at least Tuesday.

Get a “Pig on Wheels” for $220 at Amazon…

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002SPU460

(or a vinyl sticker for $4.99).

Holy Moly, that piggy is pricey!

Margueritem said, “Holy Moly, that piggy is pricey!”

Yes. They’re probably more expensive now that they have become popular with Dick Tracy readers.

As I said around a week ago: the cop should shoot the tiger ASAP to prevent what could happen.

Sadly, that’s what the cops in San Francisco actually did, all to save the lives of some dirtbags. Lowlifes are a dime a dozen. Endangered tigers are hard to come by.

VistaBill, that Amazon link’s hilarious! Be sure to check out my customer review of the product!

I wouldn’t worry about the tiger. If the police do shoot it, it will take at least a week for the bullet to reach the tiger. By that time, the tiger will have (a) observed the bullet, (b) turned to eating the clown, (c) taken another look at the approaching bullet, (d) taken another few bites of clown and finally (e) stepped aside and watched the bullet fall to the ground, probably with a bemused look on its face. This is the DT comics, after all.

Flight Suit - what happened to that story? I remember last that those idiots who were teasing the tiger were going to take the Zoo to court. Being down here in Africa I struggle to ding any more info on what happened.

is pops kosher?

Tracy seems startled by this turn of events. He shouldn’t be though…it happened yesterday and the day before and…

Watcha, the two surviving idiots got some huge settlement, something to the tune of $600,000, I think. They’ve been in lots of trouble with the law since then, first with a bunch of stolen merchandise being found in one of their homes, leading to grand theft charges, and more recently, with a drunk-driving arrest, during which cocaine was found in the car.

These guys are not geniuses.

It’s a looong fall to the floor of the cage. Remember how long it took Tracy to jump up to reach the trapeze?

Deliver us from tigers. Amen.

Doesn’t the action of falling remind of someone parachauting free falling? With strips everything is in slow motion. Will DT and cop just stand there or take action and save the Mr. Popps the clown to arrest for murder?

He falls through the air with the greatest of ease His eminent death is merely a tease His position changes with each passing day All Tracy can do is stand there and bray The tiger changes his looks almost as much And is now thinking that it’s past time for lunch People appear to view the final death knell Ringo, who’s in custody and murderous Barb-el They came running at the sound of gunfire Hoping to see what is about to transpire The story has become more and more muddled That’s because the writer is greatly befuddled His skills, they have become sadly remiss And each passing day just adds to the list Each day we are treated to this drek While Locher laughs as he picks up his check

So Locher will point out the patently obvious (pops is in the cage) while ignoring the other patently obvious (“since the circus closed” is, in comic strip time, the same very long day since this sorry story started…though it has been interminably since July for us hapless readers).

And, um, Barb Ellis was fingered as the shooter months ago. Why is she just standing there?

Now correct me if I’m wrong, but out of all the people in that group watching Mr.Pops fall thru the cage 2 a starving tiger, doesn’t at least 1 of them have a gun so the tiger doesn’t have a “Popsicle” 4 lunch?

Yeah seriously, Pops told Ringo months ago that Barb murdered Louise because Barb wanted to be the one to kill Ringo.

Now Barb is just casually standing around?

Why worry about the tiger when he probably won’t survive the fall? What is that, an 80-foot tall cage?

Of course it “stinks” Chubsy !

Karen Ennen turned on her sprinkler system on the way up raining down on the Tiger as Dick left a large unbankable deposit. Now, Mr. Pops is firing goat “marbles” from his stage gun on the way down. Pop ! Pop ! Pop !

In the meantime the PETA Representative is outside the cage making sure that when the Policeman eventually asks if he should shoot, that Tracy does a “Baskerville” again and says NO ! Better to call in Animal Control after Pops is dead, as the life of a Tiger is more important than that of humans, even inhuman ones.

And all this time back in Naperville Locher rolls over with laughter at the rage and gullibility of readers to take his work, SO “seriously” WHEN as he “pops” out a few, he tells his Woodstock acolytes) - “it’s only a comic strip”!

Code words for - “I can do any bleeep in Dick Tracy”!

He does ! And that’s why it stinks !

Study the “body position” of Mr.Pops as he falls from that height. He’s coming down bottom first. Apparently, lacking the agility to get his legs down. He’s a dead man! - broken back! - crushed skull !

I don’t blame Brozman, for as Mattie revealed Locher does the rough penciling. Poor Jim with all his other faults just obeys his masters voice and only does the “inking”. Dick has a propensity for faulty anatomy and now (with age), a compulsive fear of losing “CONTROL” “Little hands” point directly to DL’s involvement !

Sharply restricted, Jim probably functions little better than a C-3PO Android in carrying out his art duties. We have a man boxed in with “Locheritis”

So, don’t be surprised if after all this, Mr.Pops (Tiger neutered?) leaves the cage largely under his own steam and stands uninjured, cuffed, and ready for prision.

But then you’ll need to wait, for with “snail pace” Dicky conducting, this tit-bit” incermental, movement may drag on for TWO weeks !!!

The placement of the signatures in panel 1, may be a sign of a subtle rebellion building up in a restricted Artist.

I taut I taw a puddy tat.

Sure looks like a kitty to me.

Look at where Tracy and the cop are staring in panel two. If the perspective in that panel is to be believed, they’re looking at a birdcage in the foreground.

tracy must have grabbed a salad over the weekend, his weight’s coming back

ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz……….

This guy with an Avatar like Raul Castro has been sleeping for over a week ! My pal, Warren “nodding off” Christopher would be proud of him

Yet, it’s easy to sympathize with the condition

ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz…….

What? Come on you guys, I had kind of a late night! Just lemme snooze for another three or four weeks, OK?

Pops was cat chow weeks ago, what ever happened to the other characters, Gertie and the guy who lived under the freeway bride, BO Plenty?

Flight Suit said, “VistaBill, that Amazon link’s hilarious! Be sure to check out my customer review of the product!”

I love it! You don’t really have one, do you? If you do, I’m envious.

LOCHER’S YELLOW RUBBER DUCKIE MEDALS are back !

And of all places (it seems) in his “Political Cartoons”! Look at the current one (STILL up from yesterday). That sure looks like it’s crafted as a “MEDAL” on that Fort Hood soldiers chest ! There is a time and place for these things.

Now, I’m not too familiar with these things, but cant recall any genuine Army recognition in a duck shape. TAKE a LOOK ! It’s viewable on THIS GoComics board !

Here’s another thing that most are unaware off ! Today, Locher’s “signature” on the strip where the letter “O” facing the “C” touch each other, ther’s an adjoining GAP giving the appearance of two nipples on two breasts facing each other. You may think it’s “just that way”, no special significance. That is. until you compare his old signature for years to a newly “evolved” one with those characteristics. They abruptly started - -

In Daily Strips Monday Jan.9th, 2006 (Compare back to Saturday Jan. 7th, 2006) In Sunday strips on Feb 5th, 2006 (Compare back to Jan.29th,2006) 2006 (and before) to the pronounced “change” that occured when he started signing the strip WITHOUT Mike Kilian.

The evolved new signature featuring the facing “nipples and teats have been with us since !

COMPARE in the Archives ! The man’s “thinking” on the subject is facinating!

“Panel 2 looks like Toodie and Muldoon of “Car 54 where are you””

Ah yes…

Gunther Toodie and Francis Muldoon.

I have a cat who always goes around making “Ooh, ooh” noises, so I named him Gunther, in Toodie’s honor.

Something I just thought of…

It seems that DT must have a low regard for the criminal justice system. Since I’ve started reading comics again, he hasn’t done a lick of actual police work. Instead, he just dawdles around until the criminals die of some freak accident. In at least a few of the cases, these freak accidents came about due to DT’s gross criminal negligence.

So, I wonder…

Could DT be deliberately offing the criminals so that they won’t have a chance to stand trial? Could he be running his own version of the “Star Chamber”?

leakysqueaky712 said, about 17 hours ago

Panel 2 looks like Toodie and Muldoon of “Car 54 where are you

OO! OO! Mr. Pops is falling so silently.

Donnie, if you are waiting for Macy to do police work, it will happen right after the tiger stands up on his hind legs and barks.

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Flight Suit said, “BECAUSE YOU DEMANDED IT: FBI Special Agent Karen Ennen, in association with NNN (Naperville Novelties & Notions, LLC) are proud to announce the limited edition, decorative FUNNY DEAD DUCK:”

A perfect companion to the Pig on Wheels!

Thankew, VistaBill! In answer to your question, I do not, in fact, own a Pig On Wheels. The customer review I posted on Amazon was completely fraudulent.

For those who may have missed it, here again is my advertisement for the Pig On Wheels:

http://kraptastrophe.blogspot.com/2009/11/who-you-gonna-call-pig-on-wheels.html

It should be noted, however, that the one on Amazon has an even lower carbon hoof-print.

You don’t have a Pig on Wheels, Flight Suit. I don’t have a Pig on Wheels. I wonder what my wife would say if I spent $220 for one? I’m not going to find out. I’ll skip the Pig on Wheels for now. Perhaps Mattel will see how popular they are and make a toy one.

Sydney, that duck on the medal implies that the soldier was ‘a sitting duck’.

Flight Suit, you have a really nice collection of “toys”! I’ve admired the JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank for a couple years now and I noticed that you have one!

Why, thank you! I hope my review was helpful!

The Pig On Wheels may be pricey, but you can pick up one of these for about $20:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0Iw7j6TU5A

Of course, you have to assemble and paint it yourself.

Yeah, I have to agree with Matthew on the breast thing…I doubt Locher meant that at all. That same sort of baseless accusation was made by Freddy Wertham in “Seduction of the Innocent,” the book which almost destroyed the comic book industry in the 1950s (and pushed its best publisher, EC, out of the industry). Ham Fisher even doctored Lil’ Abner strips in an effort to discredit his archnemesis Al Capp.

There’s more than enough to criticize in this strip’s pedantic, inconsistent, slow-moving and mind-fryingly tedious writing and increasingly slipshod drawing without accusing Locher of peppering it with subliminals. Frankly I think that would make Dick Tracy more interesting.

And as long as I’m linking to stuff on YouTube, take a gander at this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gJ_9FMYI00

I’d never seen that before. I dare say it commits most of the current strip’s crimes and then some. To wit,

Totally implausible physics?

Check!

Absurd criminal scheme that makes absolutely no sense?

Check.

Even more absurd, totally implausible trickery on the part of the good guys?

Check.

Dick Tracy sitting around and doing nothing while the bad guy’s foiled by other people or random bad luck?

Check.

Add to this human hands that are less misshapen, yet have only four fingers, and racial stereotyping that’s almost too inept to be offensive.

Flight Suit says check it out!

Flight Suit, you know where all the good stuff is! Thanks for sharing.

Why thank you, VistaBill! I think that means I spend too much time on the Web. I have collected much good stuff here:

http://www.betterstream.com/artist/brendan/

I’m not presumptuous enough to suggest that my original videos are anything to get excited about, but click on my playlists for “Movie Trailers” or “Vintage Advertising,” and you’ll see some real cheesy gems from my personal collection…

Flight Suit said, “Why thank you, VistaBill! I think that means I spend too much time on the Web. I have collected much good stuff here…”

Wow! BTW, I also spend too much time on the web. Keeps me off the streets!