Light the clock tower? Would it not make sense if beeg steenky clock would starts to works first before lighting it up? Why would anyone wants to lights a clock which stop working? Even if it show correct time twice a day.
The clock hasn’t been lighted since 1941 – to avoid being a beacon for German or Japanese bombers… And the governor himself calls to say, “Hey why don’t you throw the switch and turn it on again?”
The timing is one of those miracle coincidences that have become a crutch for… No, rather they’ve become a wheel chair to carry creaky story lines forward.
The lights haven’t been used in 84 years. Checking out the wiring and making it safe would take weeks and cost $$$. And it would bring no profit in for Totten and the Two Fox Plaza project. The governor calls and asks them to drop paying work which will help revitalize a decaying area of community in Tracyville – employing workers and providing valuable commercial space – and work on a difficult piece of charity that does nothing but add a bit of publicity?
Who put that asinine request in to the mayor? (For whom getting the Plaza open would be more important?) Who advanced it to the governor? Is this Tracy or strictly impossible coincidence?
“Please tell the governor that the clock tower is a low priority on the Two Fox Project. We will assess the viability and costs associated with lighting the clock when we’ve got the essentials finished.”
That make’s less sense (if at all possible) than the rest of this plotless, rambling, so called storyline.
Why would the mayor’s office have to forward a request from the governor’s office? Doesn’t the governor’s office have a phone?
About the only good thing I can say about Eric Costello’s style of writting; is it has cured my insomnia. By the third panel I’m sound asle zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
1- PERSONAL ASSISTANT DARLENE: Mr. Totten? FRED SR: WHO ELSE WOULD IT BE YA BLAMED…Whadaya want?
2- PERSONAL ASSISTANT DARLENE: Is Fred Jr. seeing anyone? Do you think he might be interested in dating me? I think…
3- FRED JR:Waving hand and mouthing “NOOOO!”PERSONAL ASSISTANT DARLENE: …we’d get on like a house on fire, don’t you? FRED SR: I think a DATE is a splendid idea, Darlene. I’ll order him to do it right away. CLICK
…WELL – YOU HIRED THAT IDIOT SO THERE’S SOME PAYBACK FOR YOU, YOU SIMPERING…
Well, I’m back from my cruise vacation and I still see that nothing much is happening in the story. I’m glad I didn’t miss much.
We had a great time with good weather every day. I got to know several of the performers on the ship. In one event on the ship, the cruise director held a Tarzan yelling contest in which another passenger and I were selected by the audience as the two best. He brought us and our wives onstage and interviewed us. The other couple did a pretty normal interview (name, where are you from, etc.). When he interviewed me, (I am a good ad libber) I gave funny answers that caused tremendous laughter in the audience (when I first started out, I did work as a stand-up commedian). I even broke up the cruise director.
Then the cruise director said that to determine which couple won, we both had to do a dance off. My wife and I did OK but the other couple was fantastic in my opinion and should have won. But the cruise director said I was funniest but the other couple were the best dancers so he asked for applause for the winner and the audience chose me and my wife. We won a trophy and a bottle of champagne.
Following the show, the cruise director asked me why I was so easy and confident onstage. I gave him one of my cards which has the movies I have appeared in printed on it. After that, I was the darling of the entertainers on the ship, particularly the commedians who thought I was the funniest person ever to compete in the Tarzan contest compared to other cruises. They told my wife and me that when they got off shift, they hung out in the ship’s piano bar after midnight and invited us to join them. So, our late-nights were spent having fun with the performers, singing and joking. We were cruising with my wife’s two cousins and their husbands, who went to bed early every night (well, we are all mid 70s) while my wife and I partied with the entertainment crew.
It was a great trip, but I am happy to be home as well as to Tracyville.
My fellow A.D.D. members I have bad news and I’m not sure how to say this… We’ve lost our friend and fellow A.D.D. member, JoshHere. I got a e-mail from his brother and he told me what happened. I still can’t believe it. Right now, I’m at a loss for words. I’m sorry to deliver this terrible news. :(
firestrike1 4 days ago
does Daddy Totten ALWAYS have a schitt attitude when someone from the city comes or calls for a meet?..
Brian Premium Member 4 days ago
“Ix-nay on the ock-clay Pops!”
Neil Wick 4 days ago
Good morning™, everyone!
Daddy is going to light the clock tower, but Junior is waving his hand: “No, no, no!” Too late, it has to happen.
SHAKEDOWNCITY 4 days ago
The “timing” is quite debilitating.
avenger09 4 days ago
“And the beat goes on”
An EC story has no hills or valleys, only flat ground.
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray 4 days ago
Good morning™, Annoying Bothersome Pesty Phone Calls !
Pops is a busy man who has no time for trivial inanities while sonny nervously objects to the clock lighting.
Gent 4 days ago
Light the clock tower? Would it not make sense if beeg steenky clock would starts to works first before lighting it up? Why would anyone wants to lights a clock which stop working? Even if it show correct time twice a day.
Auntie Clockwise 4 days ago
I’ve had a “what-the-!&*?” moment while I examined the treatment of the head of the figure on the lower right side of panel #1.
The profile of the figure’s face looks like some kind of rubbery mask to me.
The entire goings on with the graphic (nonverbal) stuff on the figure on the lower right side of panel #1 baffle me.
For me, on the lower right area beneath the figure’s skull and blonde wavy hair, appears to represent part of a block of cartoon/comic strip cheese.
That area of panel #1 looks like an attack of mediocre surreallism.
billyk75 4 days ago
The storyline is interesting but ridiculous.
IvanB.Cohen 4 days ago
These Totten’s are they doing shady business? Some mentor the father is.
Space_cat 4 days ago
But, that is where the bomb is! Stupid politicians, always throwing a wrench in someone’s evil plans… except their own!
BigDaveGlass 4 days ago
Is it going to be a towering inferno?
crobinson019 4 days ago
Are we sure Junior is a Totten?
Tradewinds309 4 days ago
Totten the Pooh. “Oh, bother.”
LawrenceS 4 days ago
The clock hasn’t been lighted since 1941 – to avoid being a beacon for German or Japanese bombers… And the governor himself calls to say, “Hey why don’t you throw the switch and turn it on again?”
The timing is one of those miracle coincidences that have become a crutch for… No, rather they’ve become a wheel chair to carry creaky story lines forward.
The lights haven’t been used in 84 years. Checking out the wiring and making it safe would take weeks and cost $$$. And it would bring no profit in for Totten and the Two Fox Plaza project. The governor calls and asks them to drop paying work which will help revitalize a decaying area of community in Tracyville – employing workers and providing valuable commercial space – and work on a difficult piece of charity that does nothing but add a bit of publicity?
Who put that asinine request in to the mayor? (For whom getting the Plaza open would be more important?) Who advanced it to the governor? Is this Tracy or strictly impossible coincidence?
“Please tell the governor that the clock tower is a low priority on the Two Fox Project. We will assess the viability and costs associated with lighting the clock when we’ve got the essentials finished.”
h.v.greenman 4 days ago
That make’s less sense (if at all possible) than the rest of this plotless, rambling, so called storyline.
Why would the mayor’s office have to forward a request from the governor’s office? Doesn’t the governor’s office have a phone?
About the only good thing I can say about Eric Costello’s style of writting; is it has cured my insomnia. By the third panel I’m sound asle zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Another Take 4 days ago
Fred Sr never quite finishes an insulting complaint, does he.
Another Take 4 days ago
1- PERSONAL ASSISTANT DARLENE: Mr. Totten? FRED SR: WHO ELSE WOULD IT BE YA BLAMED…Whadaya want?
2- PERSONAL ASSISTANT DARLENE: Is Fred Jr. seeing anyone? Do you think he might be interested in dating me? I think…
3- FRED JR: Waving hand and mouthing “NOOOO!” PERSONAL ASSISTANT DARLENE: …we’d get on like a house on fire, don’t you? FRED SR: I think a DATE is a splendid idea, Darlene. I’ll order him to do it right away. CLICK
…WELL – YOU HIRED THAT IDIOT SO THERE’S SOME PAYBACK FOR YOU, YOU SIMPERING…
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] 4 days ago
MOVIE QUOTE—-
“She’s the television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows is what comes to her over her TV set”
William Holden—-NETWORK—1976
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] 4 days ago
On November 20,2024,musician/composer Any Paley died at age 72. Most famous for work with SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS.
But obit says he played major part in putting together the soundtrack for 1990 DICK TRACY movie.(Choosing the artists)
Born in Halfmoon,New York(!?!?)—“with a population of 50 people and 200 cows”.
That Wichita Guy! 4 days ago
Wave bye bye!
Ray Toler 4 days ago
Well, I’m back from my cruise vacation and I still see that nothing much is happening in the story. I’m glad I didn’t miss much.
We had a great time with good weather every day. I got to know several of the performers on the ship. In one event on the ship, the cruise director held a Tarzan yelling contest in which another passenger and I were selected by the audience as the two best. He brought us and our wives onstage and interviewed us. The other couple did a pretty normal interview (name, where are you from, etc.). When he interviewed me, (I am a good ad libber) I gave funny answers that caused tremendous laughter in the audience (when I first started out, I did work as a stand-up commedian). I even broke up the cruise director.
Then the cruise director said that to determine which couple won, we both had to do a dance off. My wife and I did OK but the other couple was fantastic in my opinion and should have won. But the cruise director said I was funniest but the other couple were the best dancers so he asked for applause for the winner and the audience chose me and my wife. We won a trophy and a bottle of champagne.
Following the show, the cruise director asked me why I was so easy and confident onstage. I gave him one of my cards which has the movies I have appeared in printed on it. After that, I was the darling of the entertainers on the ship, particularly the commedians who thought I was the funniest person ever to compete in the Tarzan contest compared to other cruises. They told my wife and me that when they got off shift, they hung out in the ship’s piano bar after midnight and invited us to join them. So, our late-nights were spent having fun with the performers, singing and joking. We were cruising with my wife’s two cousins and their husbands, who went to bed early every night (well, we are all mid 70s) while my wife and I partied with the entertainment crew.
It was a great trip, but I am happy to be home as well as to Tracyville.
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] 4 days ago
Junior doesn’t appear to like the idea——maybe he should wave semaphore flags to get Pop’s attention
And if that’s supposed to be Mayor Armstrong,her physical appearance has changed drastically
Darwin's Theory 4 days ago
If this story turns out like previous ones, someone will die falling from the clock tower!
David Rickard Premium Member 3 days ago
500 quatloos Totten Jr is a Bluebeard, and all his dead wives are in the clock tower.
General Trelane (Ret.) Premium Member 3 days ago
We need a VengeyTale to spice this dud up .
iggyman 3 days ago
I got my power back. so I’m back! Did anyone miss me?!
zerorest 3 days ago
I smell Nazis.
markwillman4 3 days ago
My fellow A.D.D. members I have bad news and I’m not sure how to say this… We’ve lost our friend and fellow A.D.D. member, JoshHere. I got a e-mail from his brother and he told me what happened. I still can’t believe it. Right now, I’m at a loss for words. I’m sorry to deliver this terrible news. :(
tsull2121 3 days ago
Why would the governor go thru the mayor’s office to set this up?