Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 01, 2009

You know, I am beginning to believe that the Naperville police and fire forces were the guys that provided air cover for the Bay of Pigs. I shall not enumerate the inconsistencies that are prevalent in todays strip, suffice to say they are many.

A recap in (Angel)Glorious color!

Umm, I thought she wanted “Love Fire” Perfume?

Wasn’t her car airborne the other day??

Let’s stand around and watch her burn up. That goes by the Policeman motto I’m sure!

If Tracy is calling in for assistance wouldn’t that mean Liz(z) would be aware of what’s going on? Yesterday Tracy was filling her in on all the hi-jinks.

I’m not seeing that one thing. Did it burn up in Angelglorius’s car???

Just spotted it. In the snowbank,panel 4. Apparently it wasn’t wearing it’s seatbelt. Poor thing was ejected from the car.

Dang it, Grok. I was going to point out how Tracy had no way of knowing Angel-whatever’s ties to Big/Major/Super Oil, but you beat me to it!

Not to mention how the Crimestoppers Textbook obviously puts apprehending perps over saving lives.

Puhleeeze folks.A little slack for Tracy.It is after all,just a comical strip. If you want reality go to Hollywood.Or better yet Washington D.C.HAR de HAR HAR !

I thought the car went “CLONK” not ‘thunk’. any accident re-constructionist knows that a ‘thunk’ will not set a car ablaze. It takes a major “CLONK” to do that. and speaking of major CLONKS….. aahhh never mind…

Man, Tracy looks real freaky looking in panel #6, where he says the fire’s too hot for rescue, with only half his face showing, brrrr….

damifino59 says” “Puhleeeze folks a little slack for Tracy, it is after all just a ‘COMICAL’ strip. etc”.

Well “dami” I’m not sure how long you have been around or been reading the current strip but your choice of word IS (may I add, inadvertently?) “right on”.

COMICAL (definition): “Funny to the extent of being absurd, ESPECIALLY if unintended.”

I agree with that definition! We have that in abundance in DT every day. Problem is the Author has too much “slack”, enough to be seen to be producing “SLACK” work in the strip every week. A paucity of care, focus, attention to detail and rigor. Many readers believe the strip has slipped into being the kind of “comical”, AS ‘defined’ above. It’s not something to laugh about “dami”, NO “HAR HAR”, try “BOO HOO - BOO HOO”!

Have readers noticed what I call the new “LOCH FAD” (not located off Glascow, Scotland; but try Chicago Ill.) ie Locher’s latest artistic “fad” … large, popping-out eyes? We saw them as a main feature in the Braces ‘design’ and then in Noll’s one eye appearance, NOW,… see how Tracy ‘goggles’ them at every opportunity in this story. eg.See the last two panels today. Some seasons ago the ‘LOCH FAD’ was a “bashed-in” back-of-the-neck fashion design (see: Cellphone-2005, Al Kinda-2006 and Figment Froid-2006)

Don’t be surprised if our next villain is named … ‘GOGGLE EYES’. (and for good reason!)

We’re going backwards now. Great, just great.

Grok is right, How did Tracy know about Big/Super/Major Oil?

Where in the heck is CIA man? Oh I know, he bought a refurbished TomTom from Circuit City and now he’s lost in the back country somewhere.

I thought the CIA man was in the car that got hit.

Yes, tommys, the poor mammary was not wearing its seat belt, and got ejected, but it did escape the inferno, which would have melted it instantly. It now lives to face another Sunday.

YE GODS!

That pretty much says it all!!!

Hey Sydney, I bet you made a new friend today. Damifheknows was only making a point. We don’t need you to rip him apart and analyze his comments. I’ll bet you’ve made one or two typos or perhaps choosen the wrong word before. I know I have.

Damifiknow59 - Welcome to Dick Tracy. Most folks here prefer to rip the comic apart because they simply can’t leave it alone long enough to enjoy it. If you can get over that they’re really a pretty good lot, even Sydney. You should go back into your comment and edit it abit, that would really make Sydneys whole post look, well, comical.

YE GODS! ok, story aside, DL in most cases, shows he is no amateur , his action scenes , smoke and fire rendering, shading and dark and colorful backgrounds are sometimes well- done…the second panel is kinda cool, a good scene shift to an observer from an elevated position..well done….

BUT,why oh why doesn’t he take the time to get the hands right?…the next to last panel looks like DT’s hand is de-evolving! the fingers are starting to grow back together like flippers! hmm..could be a new story line …DT slimes back into the ooze from which his ancestors sprung!.. oops! no offense to the creationists!

I thought on thursday the cars went

I have been reading Dick Tracy since the 1950’s and I have a personalized Dick Tracy drawing on Chester Gould’s personal Dick Tracy stationary with a note written to me by Chester Gould. Re: comments being made on Sunday, March 1, 2009. Folks - Chill out. This is a cartoon for entertainment purposes. It is a Sunday Comic and what do you do on Sunday, you relax. You don’t get bent out of shape and analyze a comic strip. Dick Locher does Dick Tracy like Chester Gould did. You see it in the style of the drawings, how a story is played out and even thef way the criminals are named. I applaude Dick Locher and his talents. If the Dick Tracy comic causes you so much anxiety, then stop reading it.

Hey damifino59. No hard feelings. If you are new a big welcome! It’s just that line about “it’s just a comic strip”, it’s a favorite line Locher has schooled his desciples to use when “ALL is lost”, and there is no viable excuse for one of his big “goofs”. They use it all the time and for a moment there, I thought you were a cut from the same bolt of cloth! Welcome again. Hope you posr often.

And Oh! Dypak, I make typos all the time. It’s a way of paying for my many sins ;)

PS. I intend no disrespect, but wish DL would pay as much attention to meaningful “detail” and pacing in the strip as he does to concealing that unimportant family “memorial” every Sunday in the strip.

Didn’t anyone notice Tracy’s vintage car? I would guess that’s a 1936 Plymouth, or thereabouts. I’m amazed the car could stay up in a high speed chase. It may be time to press the city council to get him a better car. No seat belts, though…

My morning is not complete until I read these comments….. outstanding. I have Vol 1 through 6 with 7 on order. A great addition to any library.

If chet gould read some comments today regarding his and the present artists comic strip ability, the autographed note back. Some of his most weak efforts (Say Edward Nuremoh) would leave stuff like this gasping. Even that Nuremoh story MOVED, and did more in a month than most of the recent things do in 3. Any comparison is ludicrous whether in character or story line. Puh=leeze

Dypak, thank you for assuageing Sidney’s comment to damifino. They made me a bit uncomfortable also. and sidnye, that sort of attitude is what greeted me here in my early days also as well as over at Pibgorn more recently when I innocently responded to what I thought was a simple opinion sampling, which in actuality turned out to be some sort of bizzare witch hunt. Maybe y’all could just keep that attitiude over in certain comics and we’all will read the warning signs before we come. I don’t agree or even like some of the opinions expressed in gocomic ville, but dammitman, everyone has a right to them and everyone more importantly has a right to feel comfortable somewhere.

Sydney, you’re a class act. I hope you can tell from my tone of voice I’m not being sarcastic or anything here. Thanks for taking the time to explain. I’m pretty much a DT novice, no where in the league of all you pros (no pun intended). Sometimes it’s easy for us newbies to get intimidated. Cheers!

So, does this mean the story line is finished? What about the oil company? What about Ethan Noll and his illegal chemistry set? Will Diet Smith be on the hook for covering Noll’s tracks? Loose ends abound!

Panel one. Tracy suddenly remembers he has a wrist gizmo and uses it to call for back up. Which will never arrive. Again.

Okay, that’s it for this continuity, I guess. Will we go to a new story or will loose ends, such as who is the terrorist, what will happen to Dr. Noll, his formula, the woman who got burned by the perfume, and any number of other unanswered questions and hanging plot threads be tied up?

If Mr. Gould were writing this, we would already have an inkling of the new storyline/villain using a little trick called fore shading. It seems obvious what’s next is anyone’s guess.