The duck is back! Panel 2 in the picture frame in the upper right corner. What happened to Liz(z)? The shrunken hands/arms are also back. Tracy in panel 2 needs an orthopedic surgeon.
Is that Lizz behind the desk or Rosie O’Donnell?
Too many mistakes/horrors to even comment on them all today….
Is that a teletype machine in the last panel? Didn’t they go out with 8 Track Tapes?
The Money bag with the $$ signs returns again…
B.O. has a radioactive “GLOW”
Tracy is finger-ing something all right. Too bad it smells like S$&T
Snotpickers Grab Bag - The thief could have One-Eye.
This strip looks like it’s drawn by a committee. Panel 2 is plain crude. Panel 3 is another paste-up. DT’s jaw in 4 is about to burst. The last 3 panels are better, as if drawn by someone else. Crimeslopper’s text book was done by another person entirely.
The Tracy’s silhouette in the second panel it’s horrible!!! But the normal hand holding a phone in the 1st panel it’s good. And Tracy face is very good.
Today’s nitpicker notebook makes me wonder what the real danger of carying lots of money into a casino may be. I think the kid is looking square at it! Also, could someone tell me why a casino would wait ‘till the next day to payoff? And deliver it in person?
I’m thinking the money thing may have to do with counterfeiting…why else would the casino just let B.O. win megabucks, bring it to his home, etc etc etc?
Dick Tracy was the lead character in a Saturday Night Live skit called “Save The Funnies” last night. My generation seems to understand the threat that the collapsing newspaper industry could have on the comic strips we grew up with. My parents generation seem to whine and nit pick about the strip.
Fishbulb asked: “Since when do casinos deliver?” At the casino around here the answer is “quite often.” They use a ticket system instead of dumping out quarters or tokens from the slot machines. If you have a big win you call an attendant and he’ll bring the money to you. That’s what happened when my mom won $2800 on a 2 cent machine a few weeks ago.
Jeff, Sorry I missed “Saturday Night Live” and “Dick Tracy”.
No need to confess I’m a couple or more, generations ahead of the current one but still “complain” and for very good reason.
No doubt some will scour a variety of statistical data to absolve Dick Locher and Mike Kilian from presiding over the demise of the strip. They will try to imply that it is all a CHANGE in readers’ taste. Don’t mind that Blondie (not a continuity strip) lost hundereds of papers when Chic Young died, but “simple” wise change by his son brought it back and it now “towers” with 2,600 newspapers world-wide. On the other side of the coin under K and L, Tracy slipped from 300 down to fifty.
“Quality’ just isn’t there. Yes! There has been “change” but the results say it has NOT been for the better. THE FACT THAT IT STILL SURVIVES, IS A TRIBUTE, MORE to the original “concept”, “characters” and “ideas” Gould created than “caretaker” efforts. People read the strip “fingers crossed” hoping to see again, what they once had !
Some will see this Board as comprised of a bunch of cranky “nit pickers” incapable of appreciating Locher’s “worth”, but it is in fact, a vocal microcosm of a much larger view and repeatedly reflected in poll after newspaper poll that advises DROP Dick Tracy. It’s not “quality” anymore ! And drop it, they did ! Estimates of “readership” of 23 millioon are in my view, poppycock.
The advent of “Jim Brozman” may be way too little, and just too late!
If Liz is Chief of Police why in the last panel she has Captains Bars on her shirt collar.
There should be Stars or an Eagle depending on some police dept rankings.
I don’t read garbage every day, apparently many of YOU do. I read what Sydney suggested in his post - a creative vehicle that exists only as a daily tribute to a great man and his creation. A creation that has sold billions of newspapers over 78+ years but today sells only the deeply held principles of its creator.
The art work has been less than spectacular and the writing and story line a bit off. The strip as was done originally by Chester Gould was a real work of art even back in the days just after his retirement DT still had much going for it even in the 80s an 90s but lately, since 2005 or so this strip has met with a lot of criticisms. Dick Locher may still have his fans and defenders but it is a very shrinking percentage.
Groovy, baby! Coins are back at NJ’s oldest casino
By WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press Writer
Fri Apr 3, 5:21 pm ET
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – It used to be the signature sound of gambling: the clacking of coins spilling into metal trays on slot machines. But newer electronic machines that spit paper vouchers or credit winnings to cards now emit only canned noise.
Now Atlantic City’s oldest casino is bringing back the real clang amid indications that some gamblers miss the way things used to be.
“You think you’re playing a real slot machine here,” said Jeanette Snell of Union, who won two $25 jackpots less than five minutes after she started playing Friday at Resorts Atlantic City. “This feels like a game; the other ones, it’s just losing money.”
She cashed out soon afterward, enjoying the clacking sound as 47 $1 coins spilled into a metal tray at the bottom of her machine. She grabbed an oversized plastic cup — they used to be EVERYWHERE in Atlantic City casinos — and scooped up her winnings.
“This is real money!” she said. “I like this better.”
Resorts is banking on others liking it, too. It became the nation’s first legal casino outside Las Vegas when it opened in 1978 and has since seen more than 14,000 slot machines come and go.
Its coin experiment is definitely swimming against the tide in the casino industry, where nearly 90 percent of the 900,000 or so slot machines in use in north America do not accept or pay out in coins. None of Atlantic City’s 33,010 other slot machines use coins, though a small handful use tokens for high-denomination bets.
The trend accelerated in 2003 when the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa opened in Atlantic City as the resort’s first coinless casino. Casinos liked the fact that the new machines didn’t jam nearly as often, had to be maintained far less, and best of all, required fewer employees. No longer was it necessary to pay workers to stock machines with coins, transport them to or from cash cages, count and roll them.
“It’s very time-consuming and costly to run coins,” said Christopher Downey, Resorts’ director of slot operations. “As soon as this technology became available, the industry grabbed onto it.”
Resorts opened eight of the coin machines this week, and will add others if they catch on. The casino, with one of the oldest customer bases in Atlantic City, has been doing well with a nightclub called “Boogie Nights,” where ’70s disco rules.
They used the “Boogie Nights” retro theme for the slot machines as part of a deliberate appeal to older players.
Some of them gamble at the Skyline Restaurant and Casino in Henderson, Nev., where half of the 420 slot machines use coins. Those machines generate about 15 percent more revenue than do the paper voucher ones, said general manager Mike Young.
“It fills a niche, particularly for the older player,” he said. “They just love the coins. They like to get their hands dirty, they like to cash out, they like to hear the money drop into the trays.”
Nonetheless, coinless slots are the future of the industry, said Ed Rogich, vice president of IGT, a leading slot machine manufacturer.
“There was that casual player who liked the sound of the coins and being able to handle them and the sound of hearing the coins clinking into the tray,” he said. “But today that’s been replaced by flat-screen TV panels or LCD panels of fireworks and celebratory noises, and people like that, too.”
margueritem about 15 years ago
The story has advanced, and I like Liz’ new look. Panel 1, a normal hand holding a phone in a normal manner.
wndrwrthg about 15 years ago
Use B.O.? Gee Tracy are you going to place a civilian in jeopardy?
SGIBeachbum about 15 years ago
The duck is back! Panel 2 in the picture frame in the upper right corner. What happened to Liz(z)? The shrunken hands/arms are also back. Tracy in panel 2 needs an orthopedic surgeon.
margueritem about 15 years ago
MoParMitch: So it is. I didn’t even look for it today.
ridenslide65 about 15 years ago
OMG!!!! The Hands!! The Head!!!!
What the heck is going on around here?!?!?!?!
Is that Lizz behind the desk or Rosie O’Donnell? Too many mistakes/horrors to even comment on them all today…. Is that a teletype machine in the last panel? Didn’t they go out with 8 Track Tapes? The Money bag with the $$ signs returns again…
B.O. has a radioactive “GLOW”
Tracy is finger-ing something all right. Too bad it smells like S$&T
Snotpickers Grab Bag - The thief could have One-Eye.
Steve Bartholomew about 15 years ago
This strip looks like it’s drawn by a committee. Panel 2 is plain crude. Panel 3 is another paste-up. DT’s jaw in 4 is about to burst. The last 3 panels are better, as if drawn by someone else. Crimeslopper’s text book was done by another person entirely.
riley05 about 15 years ago
Can someone tell me the duck story? I arrived after it started…
TapiocaHead about 15 years ago
HHmmm, this is the first time I have seen the fabled Police Chief. Methinks the strip name should be changed to Dick and the Dyke.
coratelli about 15 years ago
The Tracy’s silhouette in the second panel it’s horrible!!! But the normal hand holding a phone in the 1st panel it’s good. And Tracy face is very good.
fishbulb about 15 years ago
Since when do casinos deliver?
LudwigVonDrake about 15 years ago
Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. Tracy looks different in each panel and Liz(z)’s hand in the fourth panel is a mess. Is that Jamie Farr in the last panel?
Morrow Cummings about 15 years ago
Today’s nitpicker notebook makes me wonder what the real danger of carying lots of money into a casino may be. I think the kid is looking square at it! Also, could someone tell me why a casino would wait ‘till the next day to payoff? And deliver it in person?
g6793 about 15 years ago
I’m thinking the money thing may have to do with counterfeiting…why else would the casino just let B.O. win megabucks, bring it to his home, etc etc etc?
Durak Premium Member about 15 years ago
Crimestoppers handbook ignores the fact that the real thieves are the ones running the casino in the first place.
jkersten about 15 years ago
Dick Tracy was the lead character in a Saturday Night Live skit called “Save The Funnies” last night. My generation seems to understand the threat that the collapsing newspaper industry could have on the comic strips we grew up with. My parents generation seem to whine and nit pick about the strip.
brine Premium Member about 15 years ago
When did an Asian man replace Liz(z) as the Chief??? I know I was on vacation, but I did read all the strips!!!
rmax4131 about 15 years ago
I agree with TapiocaHead. I miss the Lizz that wore the miniskirts, the big hair, and the eyes that only Mr Gould and Mr Fletcher could draw.
margueritem about 15 years ago
Anthony 2816 says:
Can someone tell me the duck story? I arrived after it started…
~ From what I understand, it’s in memory of Dick Locher’s son, who died. It doesn’t look anything like a duck, more like a mammary.
Akenta about 15 years ago
Anthony 2816Pro says: Can someone tell me the duck story? I arrived after it started…
From what I remember reading here, Locher adds it to this strip in memory of his son.
riley05 about 15 years ago
A duck in the shape of a symbolic mammary is supposed to make me think of his son?
Um, didn’t work.
bmckee about 15 years ago
Fishbulb asked: “Since when do casinos deliver?” At the casino around here the answer is “quite often.” They use a ticket system instead of dumping out quarters or tokens from the slot machines. If you have a big win you call an attendant and he’ll bring the money to you. That’s what happened when my mom won $2800 on a 2 cent machine a few weeks ago.
coratelli about 15 years ago
Sorry guys, but I don’t see duck on the sunday pages. Where is?
sydney about 15 years ago
Jeff, Sorry I missed “Saturday Night Live” and “Dick Tracy”.
No need to confess I’m a couple or more, generations ahead of the current one but still “complain” and for very good reason.
No doubt some will scour a variety of statistical data to absolve Dick Locher and Mike Kilian from presiding over the demise of the strip. They will try to imply that it is all a CHANGE in readers’ taste. Don’t mind that Blondie (not a continuity strip) lost hundereds of papers when Chic Young died, but “simple” wise change by his son brought it back and it now “towers” with 2,600 newspapers world-wide. On the other side of the coin under K and L, Tracy slipped from 300 down to fifty.
“Quality’ just isn’t there. Yes! There has been “change” but the results say it has NOT been for the better. THE FACT THAT IT STILL SURVIVES, IS A TRIBUTE, MORE to the original “concept”, “characters” and “ideas” Gould created than “caretaker” efforts. People read the strip “fingers crossed” hoping to see again, what they once had !
Some will see this Board as comprised of a bunch of cranky “nit pickers” incapable of appreciating Locher’s “worth”, but it is in fact, a vocal microcosm of a much larger view and repeatedly reflected in poll after newspaper poll that advises DROP Dick Tracy. It’s not “quality” anymore ! And drop it, they did ! Estimates of “readership” of 23 millioon are in my view, poppycock.
The advent of “Jim Brozman” may be way too little, and just too late!
Darrell Francis Premium Member about 15 years ago
If Liz is Chief of Police why in the last panel she has Captains Bars on her shirt collar. There should be Stars or an Eagle depending on some police dept rankings.
jkersten about 15 years ago
I don’t read garbage every day, apparently many of YOU do. I read what Sydney suggested in his post - a creative vehicle that exists only as a daily tribute to a great man and his creation. A creation that has sold billions of newspapers over 78+ years but today sells only the deeply held principles of its creator.
436rge about 15 years ago
The art work has been less than spectacular and the writing and story line a bit off. The strip as was done originally by Chester Gould was a real work of art even back in the days just after his retirement DT still had much going for it even in the 80s an 90s but lately, since 2005 or so this strip has met with a lot of criticisms. Dick Locher may still have his fans and defenders but it is a very shrinking percentage.
LudwigVonDrake about 15 years ago
Groovy, baby! Coins are back at NJ’s oldest casino
By WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press Writer Fri Apr 3, 5:21 pm ET ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – It used to be the signature sound of gambling: the clacking of coins spilling into metal trays on slot machines. But newer electronic machines that spit paper vouchers or credit winnings to cards now emit only canned noise. Now Atlantic City’s oldest casino is bringing back the real clang amid indications that some gamblers miss the way things used to be. “You think you’re playing a real slot machine here,” said Jeanette Snell of Union, who won two $25 jackpots less than five minutes after she started playing Friday at Resorts Atlantic City. “This feels like a game; the other ones, it’s just losing money.” She cashed out soon afterward, enjoying the clacking sound as 47 $1 coins spilled into a metal tray at the bottom of her machine. She grabbed an oversized plastic cup — they used to be EVERYWHERE in Atlantic City casinos — and scooped up her winnings. “This is real money!” she said. “I like this better.” Resorts is banking on others liking it, too. It became the nation’s first legal casino outside Las Vegas when it opened in 1978 and has since seen more than 14,000 slot machines come and go. Its coin experiment is definitely swimming against the tide in the casino industry, where nearly 90 percent of the 900,000 or so slot machines in use in north America do not accept or pay out in coins. None of Atlantic City’s 33,010 other slot machines use coins, though a small handful use tokens for high-denomination bets. The trend accelerated in 2003 when the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa opened in Atlantic City as the resort’s first coinless casino. Casinos liked the fact that the new machines didn’t jam nearly as often, had to be maintained far less, and best of all, required fewer employees. No longer was it necessary to pay workers to stock machines with coins, transport them to or from cash cages, count and roll them. “It’s very time-consuming and costly to run coins,” said Christopher Downey, Resorts’ director of slot operations. “As soon as this technology became available, the industry grabbed onto it.” Resorts opened eight of the coin machines this week, and will add others if they catch on. The casino, with one of the oldest customer bases in Atlantic City, has been doing well with a nightclub called “Boogie Nights,” where ’70s disco rules. They used the “Boogie Nights” retro theme for the slot machines as part of a deliberate appeal to older players. Some of them gamble at the Skyline Restaurant and Casino in Henderson, Nev., where half of the 420 slot machines use coins. Those machines generate about 15 percent more revenue than do the paper voucher ones, said general manager Mike Young. “It fills a niche, particularly for the older player,” he said. “They just love the coins. They like to get their hands dirty, they like to cash out, they like to hear the money drop into the trays.” Nonetheless, coinless slots are the future of the industry, said Ed Rogich, vice president of IGT, a leading slot machine manufacturer. “There was that casual player who liked the sound of the coins and being able to handle them and the sound of hearing the coins clinking into the tray,” he said. “But today that’s been replaced by flat-screen TV panels or LCD panels of fireworks and celebratory noises, and people like that, too.”
KidHuevos about 15 years ago
Liz looks like she’s drinkin’ from a flask in that middle panel.
countoftowergrove about 15 years ago
Wow! The art today regressed to something out of Whiz Comics. Tracy looks vaguely like Captain Marvel and Liz looks like an angry Billy Batson.
fleeglebeagle about 15 years ago
Geez – and I was looking for a duck on Liz’s mammaries…