Meet BUZZ …
436rge said :
“As a kid I always thought Lizz looked sexy and hot. Now she is in a rather butchy looking police uniform”
436rge, You’ve put your finger right on the Locher “CHANGE” button. We’ve had a subtle sexual transformation here ! It all began with Kilian and DL looking to “remake” the strip in a more “modern” form. Code for transplanting his OWN images and ideas OVER Gould’s characters.
Locher knew Stan Drake of “The Heart of Juliet Jones” fame. The latter had two “models”. Prudish Juliet and what was then THE sexiest female in comics i.e. Juliet’s sister EVE.
Sadly, Locher picked the wrong one. He picked the Juliet “shell” as his replacement. Long dresses, flattened bust-line, no more”sexy” flash of thigh or intriguing turn of ankle. Secretarial stiff, moves with plenty prude – just, NO rude !
This was all in the wake of converting the “appearance” of Junior Tracy to that of his son, John (of rubber duckie fame). This may have been the “motivator” as even Patton was deemed to need “modification” after having looked the same way for 61 years !
Lizz’s appointment as Chief may have tipped the scales. Hair was cropped noticably shorter and Li-ZZ was seemingly morphed into what looked like “Bu-ZZ” !
Now we have Chief BuZZ Worthington-Grove, circling a 1930’s looking, Naperville Police Station (like Astronaut, Buzz Aldrin?), inhabiting an old, derelict Space Coupe
I could write a book about this misguided “assault” (on artistic and unique personalities) and near destruction of the great Dick Tracy comic strip. Hundreds of papers dropped the strip following these “improvements” !
Bonnie was at University (Not a Police Academy) in a - 2004 Terrorist story (Fiendish Fred and Gnash), she was also in the following Kilian story (J. Kindly Goodfellow), with one Maggie Irish. She hasn’t appeared since!
Meet BUZZ … 436rge said : “As a kid I always thought Lizz looked sexy and hot. Now she is in a rather butchy looking police uniform”
436rge, You’ve put your finger right on the Locher “CHANGE” button. We’ve had a subtle sexual transformation here ! It all began with Kilian and DL looking to “remake” the strip in a more “modern” form. Code for transplanting his OWN images and ideas OVER Gould’s characters.
Locher knew Stan Drake of “The Heart of Juliet Jones” fame. The latter had two “models”. Prudish Juliet and what was then THE sexiest female in comics i.e. Juliet’s sister EVE.
Sadly, Locher picked the wrong one. He picked the Juliet “shell” as his replacement. Long dresses, flattened bust-line, no more”sexy” flash of thigh or intriguing turn of ankle. Secretarial stiff, moves with plenty prude – just, NO rude !
This was all in the wake of converting the “appearance” of Junior Tracy to that of his son, John (of rubber duckie fame). This may have been the “motivator” as even Patton was deemed to need “modification” after having looked the same way for 61 years !
Lizz’s appointment as Chief may have tipped the scales. Hair was cropped noticably shorter and Li-ZZ was seemingly morphed into what looked like “Bu-ZZ” !
Now we have Chief BuZZ Worthington-Grove, circling a 1930’s looking, Naperville Police Station (like Astronaut, Buzz Aldrin?), inhabiting an old, derelict Space Coupe
I could write a book about this misguided “assault” (on artistic and unique personalities) and near destruction of the great Dick Tracy comic strip. Hundreds of papers dropped the strip following these “improvements” !
Bonnie was at University (Not a Police Academy) in a - 2004 Terrorist story (Fiendish Fred and Gnash), she was also in the following Kilian story (J. Kindly Goodfellow), with one Maggie Irish. She hasn’t appeared since!