Okay, so maybe there was another script they were supposed to be using, that was actually interesting and exciting and made sense and didn’t have Dick Tracy being stupid and helpless, and they decided to just run the last week of that script after making us suffer through this drek all summer.
SInce when does a circus own land. Last time I checked the circus was at Madison Square Garden. Are they trying to buy that? It will be at the Boston Garden Next week. Then the plan starts all over. Pretty soon, stupid Britney Spears will have no place for a concert because the circus owns all the land……
I think your assumption on the Tiger eating the Pig on Wheels is a sound one. The poor creature was starved and thrice denided !
By contrast Tracy continues making wild accusations without a shred of evidence in the style of a Judge summimg up just before sentencing.
In local parlance ”ALL man guilty” ! Sentencing next week !
More seriously Locher needs to stop changing his facts from week to week as he goes along. Read the text above and compare the contradictions below :
8-08-09 (Tracy to Ringo):”Let me get this straight. you’re the Owner and Ringmaster of the O’Connell Circus”…10-30-09 (Mr,Pops - shouting):”You’re not taking me in ..* this is MY Circus, mine all *mine”! (and repeated in 2 other panels)
Today’s statements suggest none of them OWN the Circus. DL needs to take care, on the heels of so many distortions readers may begin to “believe” he is slipping into dotage
Considering the caliber of these acts, I hardly think they needed a murder to scare off customers. If anything, a few murders might increase the audience.
Maybe the “property” is the tent, the animals, cages, clown car, and the PIG ON WHEELS!!! That’s it!! They wanted the world’s only PIG ON WHEELS! The greatest circus attraction since Gargantua.
To paraphrase myself (if I may): This strip is Brenda Starr with bad art.
Ray C said, “Maybe the “property” is the tent, the animals, cages, clown car, and the PIG ON WHEELS!!! That’s it!! They wanted the world’s only PIG ON WHEELS! The greatest circus attraction since Gargantua.”
I’m still sticking with the “Killer Clowns from Space” theory.
The “property” in question is the “tent” itself, which is in fact not a tent at all but an alien space ship. Mr. Pops (an alien who just looks like a clown) lost it to Ringo during a poker game (part of Ringo’s FBI witless protection training was how to cheat at cards), and cooked up this scheme to get it back before the Alien Police come to arrest him and haul him away in the Pig on Wheels.
As for Agent Enema, she’s clearly some other non-human species, but given her inaction for the seventeen years or so that this story’s been dragging on, she must be related to those “watchers” who show up on “Fringe.” (Oh wait–last night one of the “watchers” actually DID something. Agent E. can’t be one of them after all…)
N7326 Foxtrot,
Yours is the most cogent question on this story as it ends. It concisely sums up all that is wrong and a message for Author Dick Locher pointing out his major writing flaw. I’ll repeat it below:
”So sfter watching this thing for four months it has to be explained to us? “
Perhaps that’s why at the begining there was this big hullabaloo about what HAPPENED (?) - we don’t see it in the story, so now it’s expalanation time !
Don’t you realize that’s where Locher seems to get his “highs” ?
“Agent Ennen,the most useless character in the history of comics”?
She’d have a hard time beating “message man”, Detective Lt. Teevo for that spot. He displaced the renown “Useless Eustace” on his arrival back in 2007 !
It was a significant Locher triumph in creating nonsense !
margueritem almost 15 years ago
Somehow, this explanation doesn’t quite seem to fit with all we’ve endured up until this point…
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ almost 15 years ago
I’m confused!
leakysqueaky712 almost 15 years ago
Huh??? I am so lost with this explanation. ………………Why are we even here??
FLIGHT SUIT almost 15 years ago
You eff with the bull, you get the horns!
Llewellenbruce almost 15 years ago
I think Locher is scaring off readers too.
Steve Bartholomew almost 15 years ago
So it was the tiger all along!
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ almost 15 years ago
barticle35 said, “So it was the tiger all along!”
You could be right. The tiger does have a dishonest look in his eyes!
BTW, has anyone fed the tiger yet?
margueritem almost 15 years ago
I just hope that the tiger didn’t eat The Pig on Wheels when we weren’t looking…..
FLIGHT SUIT almost 15 years ago
Panel Two is clearly a pig’s-eye-view:
As we speak, the Pig On Wheels is heroically rolling towards the circus tent’s entrance!
jumbobrain almost 15 years ago
Okay, so maybe there was another script they were supposed to be using, that was actually interesting and exciting and made sense and didn’t have Dick Tracy being stupid and helpless, and they decided to just run the last week of that script after making us suffer through this drek all summer.
Anybody got a better explanation?
coratelli almost 15 years ago
Close this strip, please.
LudwigVonDrake almost 15 years ago
Now they want the property? What happened to the blackmailing?
HankF almost 15 years ago
How’d he figure it out so quickly?
fishbulb almost 15 years ago
Circuses travel. They don’t own the property on which they perform! How many ridiculous explanations are we going to get for this mess?
ridenslide65 almost 15 years ago
How convenient that Tracy is making up a story right before our very SORE eyes!
ridenslide65 almost 15 years ago
SInce when does a circus own land. Last time I checked the circus was at Madison Square Garden. Are they trying to buy that? It will be at the Boston Garden Next week. Then the plan starts all over. Pretty soon, stupid Britney Spears will have no place for a concert because the circus owns all the land……
sydney almost 15 years ago
margueritem
I think your assumption on the Tiger eating the Pig on Wheels is a sound one. The poor creature was starved and thrice denided !
By contrast Tracy continues making wild accusations without a shred of evidence in the style of a Judge summimg up just before sentencing.
In local parlance ”ALL man guilty” ! Sentencing next week !
More seriously Locher needs to stop changing his facts from week to week as he goes along. Read the text above and compare the contradictions below :
8-08-09 (Tracy to Ringo):”Let me get this straight. you’re the Owner and Ringmaster of the O’Connell Circus”… 10-30-09 (Mr,Pops - shouting):”You’re not taking me in ..* this is MY Circus, mine all *mine”! (and repeated in 2 other panels)
Today’s statements suggest none of them OWN the Circus. DL needs to take care, on the heels of so many distortions readers may begin to “believe” he is slipping into dotage
FLIGHT SUIT almost 15 years ago
ridenslide65, good catch! If we wanted to be extremely generous, we might suppose that Tracy’s referring to the Circus’s intellectual property.
“Intellectual” is certainly one of the first words that comes to mind when I think of this strip.
Araldite almost 15 years ago
What?!?! This is the most absurd story I’ve ever read. Today’s strip convinces me Locher is suffering from dementia.
Karl Hiller Premium Member almost 15 years ago
OMFG. Tell me this is a parody, please!
This has now topped the rock-em sock-em robots plot for utter nonsense, and that was a low bar to get under.
idarke almost 15 years ago
Considering the caliber of these acts, I hardly think they needed a murder to scare off customers. If anything, a few murders might increase the audience.
linsonl almost 15 years ago
So, after watching this thing for four months, it has to be explained to us?
Froxkrybra almost 15 years ago
I said in the beginning all clowns are evil…
jpozenel almost 15 years ago
ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz……….
smithstar4 almost 15 years ago
So it was agent Ennen all along who is secretly in love with Ringo. I didn’t trust her from the start.
kab2rb almost 15 years ago
DT does what he does best sums it up fast. Let’s everyone hang themselves.
Ray_C almost 15 years ago
Maybe the “property” is the tent, the animals, cages, clown car, and the PIG ON WHEELS!!! That’s it!! They wanted the world’s only PIG ON WHEELS! The greatest circus attraction since Gargantua. To paraphrase myself (if I may): This strip is Brenda Starr with bad art.
OldTracy almost 15 years ago
Agent Ennen has just set the record as the most useless character in the history of comics!
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ almost 15 years ago
Ray C said, “Maybe the “property” is the tent, the animals, cages, clown car, and the PIG ON WHEELS!!! That’s it!! They wanted the world’s only PIG ON WHEELS! The greatest circus attraction since Gargantua.”
Three cheers for the Pig on Wheels!
FLIGHT SUIT almost 15 years ago
Well I guess enough time has elapsed that I can bring this up again, since y’all keep clamoring for it:
http://kraptastrophe.blogspot.com/2009/11/who-you-gonna-call-pig-on-wheels.html
While you’re there, why don’t you give me a real thrill and subscribe to, or “follow” my blog?
puddleglum1066 almost 15 years ago
I’m still sticking with the “Killer Clowns from Space” theory.
The “property” in question is the “tent” itself, which is in fact not a tent at all but an alien space ship. Mr. Pops (an alien who just looks like a clown) lost it to Ringo during a poker game (part of Ringo’s FBI witless protection training was how to cheat at cards), and cooked up this scheme to get it back before the Alien Police come to arrest him and haul him away in the Pig on Wheels.
As for Agent Enema, she’s clearly some other non-human species, but given her inaction for the seventeen years or so that this story’s been dragging on, she must be related to those “watchers” who show up on “Fringe.” (Oh wait–last night one of the “watchers” actually DID something. Agent E. can’t be one of them after all…)
sydney almost 15 years ago
N7326 Foxtrot, Yours is the most cogent question on this story as it ends. It concisely sums up all that is wrong and a message for Author Dick Locher pointing out his major writing flaw. I’ll repeat it below:
”So sfter watching this thing for four months it has to be explained to us? “
Perhaps that’s why at the begining there was this big hullabaloo about what HAPPENED (?) - we don’t see it in the story, so now it’s expalanation time !
sydney almost 15 years ago
OldTracy,
Don’t you realize that’s where Locher seems to get his “highs” ?
“Agent Ennen,the most useless character in the history of comics”?
She’d have a hard time beating “message man”, Detective Lt. Teevo for that spot. He displaced the renown “Useless Eustace” on his arrival back in 2007 !
It was a significant Locher triumph in creating nonsense !
LudwigVonDrake almost 15 years ago
Sigh…
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ almost 15 years ago
Things are starting to make sense now. Fortunately, Sunday’s strip will be here soon and I can see the week’s recap (in color)!