Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 22, 2009

Is the FBI now looking for the cyber bomber? Back to my question. Why does someone threaten someone else for going to the cops, when the crime they commited is the reason the cops showed up? All I ask is a logical answer.

This is too much….bangs head on desk.

I stayed up for this??!??

Flightsuit, whatever makes you think that’s the FBI? The sign on the door clearly says FB. Stands for Feeble Brains, I think.

Or maybe it’s Fox Broadcasting?

In Italy when we don’t understand the main word is: Boh…

The third panel is from the old storyline with the old spy, remember? It’s the same!

Panel two: That is not his tie, that is his pony tale.

In most mysteries I have seen on the tube there is a person who is the one they want you to think is the killer in this it is Mr Pops I think. I think the killer is >BANG< >.<

Circus travels from town to town. Clearly there is some sort of peanut smuggling across state lines that the Feds are interested in. They had an informant in Louise, and she was ready to break the case wide open before she was murdered.

The FBI always turns to DT to solve their crimes

flightsuit: You had the audacity to tread on sacred ground with readers of FBOFW. On DT, you would get flagged for saying something NICE about somebody’s hand in Panel 2 or claiming that the plot was being advanced.

Flightsuit: I’m in an extremely active online FOOB snarking community. The stories some of my fellow snarkers have about their run-ins with FBOFW fanatics (as well call them, the Kool Aid Nation) are insane .. they make the occasional DT fans that pop up here look tame.

I think the events of the third panel will disappear and we’ll never hear about it again. Remember the credit card statement and the iPhone?

FBI : “Why is our man so important ?”

Ultimately NO reason at all. Just some contrived Locher text to spike up sme interest in a dull NAPersville story

Often, when he cant decide what TO DO NEXT. He plays a CIA or an FBI card The equivalent of a $500,000. bet in a Casino. It attracts attention FOR readers are tired after SIX weeks of seeing only Mandrake the Magician’s HAT and a few Circus “freaks” all STANDING in ONE spot – talking !

OzzieJohn is right about no villain (a VOID, a missing personality). It’s a story Locher calls a MYSTERY actually a euphemism for “I can’t think up a good Rouge for the story”- need time, so we’ll have a “mystery” – BINGO ! – just a “creative” design HOLIDAY. Really a Lazy method of fooling the Editors at TMS.

Only at the end is the Villain revealed, The looks ? Just like the bland incidental characters Gould called “Ed”

Someone asked what we would change to make this better. I would move the story along a little faster. I look at the other serials I read - Rex Morgan and Judge Parker. And they move slowly too, but it seems like something happens everyday (or at least very few days where nothing new is added).

This arc here with so many possible villians, why not a back story on each one everyday?

I guess added the FBI was something new. But after the CIA thing before, I’m not too excited.

Maybe FB is short for foob?

flightsuit I double dog dare ya to say something bad about the ‘Cathy’ strip.

Tomorrow we see the giant sign on the FBI building, I’d bet. Their cars will undoubtedly have huge letters on the doors. And, if I know Locher, we’ll see 100 copies of the building. Their guy? Who knows……. it might be BO.

I think that “Gil Thorp” is lacking for comments, only 6 so far today.

TIME FOR A “COMPARISON” Gould’s “GOLD” vs Locher’s Circus “Monopoly” Money (I’m biased!)

We’re looking at the first 100 (daily) panels, which arrived in panel # 1 TODAY, against the same number in Gould’s Little Face (1941) story. This compares number of KEY activities and panel times needed to same. A description allows YOU to determine who’s “cutting the mustard”, an who’s not.

A chart prepared shows NINE, KEY action activities in Little Face and only THREE in the Circus Story OVER THE 100 panels And murder in panel 44..

In Little Face - Crime (shooting) by panel 5 and machine gun murder in panel 41, in Circus girl declared dead in panel 44

SEVEN further “action” items occur in Little face , while the only thing that happens at the Circus is a “Death Threat” note arriving, which Tracy inexplicably calls a Ransome note (?)

Among those seven, Reporter Balivan at bedside of shot driver finsout where stolen jewels are hidden. Later he gets te water torture at a fire hydrant from the gang to talk”. gang member “JC’s” upper body set on fire by Little Face for infingement..

Then Tracy in a Death trap “hanging on” for life, way up on a scafolding on side of building. Bravely rescued by Trpeze artist “Loma” hanging down on rope.. Little Face in attempted getaway trapped in back lid of Taxi and plunges into Lake.

Meanwhile over at the Circus “GREAT BALLS of FIRE, what EXCITEMENT ! Women crying, Men wet, running for the toilet

In that time we saw “Little Face” the villain’s face, 17 times at the Circus still NO villain, instead only a Mandrake’s HAT and the face below seen 23 times”

That folks is what Dick Tracy has come to !

63 great comments on Calvin and Hobbes.

Flightsuit - I think you need a new hobby dude….