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1. about 13 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Perhaps it is nostalgic, but to me, having Sam Catchem, Pat Patton, etc.. IS Dick Tracy! If newer characters are needed, then I say start a newer, and different strip. And another aye vote for black &white! Color for Sundays only.

2. about 13 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Having been away from the strip for quite awhile, I was pleasantly surprised to see it has been restored closer to the original conception of Tracy by Chester Gould! The art certainly has more depth and substance in the hands of Staton and Curtis.

3. about 16 years ago on Dick Tracy

   I guess I can see the fun in all of the criticism of the Dick Tracy strips-if you like a “campy” approach-and I see it as such. But as a long time fan, I don’t like it in that way. I liken the present day strip to the very bad Batman TV show. Corny and “campy”

4. about 16 years ago on Dick Tracy

   I suppose that, thankfully, we are not all alike as individuals. What I think is just dreadful, someone else thinks is great. Granted, that Chester Gould had his moments of very bad anatomy also, but was not consistent in that way. He meant the strip to be a serious comment of good triumphing over evil. Then, again, he too strayed from the original intent of the strip with the ridiculous “moon maid” story. However, this freakishly idea of a giant robot Tracy is too much!

5. about 16 years ago on Dick Tracy

   I thought Chester Gould’s departure from the Dick Tracy premise in his “moon maid” storyline was awful, but this giant Dick Tracy robot hokum is much worse. The strip’s appearance seems, to me, is being done by someone who has lost interest in it. This slapped out drawing style, complete with incorrect perspective (Tracy’s arms and hands in panel one) looks to me like someone who is hurriedly utilizing some kind of “shorthand” visual depiction. I think margueritem and I are on the same page-give me Chester Gould reprints, if this is all we’re going to get in the “contemporary” Dick Tracy.

6. about 16 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Maybe you are right, Jeff K., no use prolonging the criticism of the strip. Guess it is something that we still have Tracy around. Although it pales from the original. I reiterate, that I think the idea of ressurecting the Chester Gould strips through reprints is a good idea.

7. about 16 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Tracy’s nose couldn’t be more smashed flat against his face! Still don’t like the sawed-off fingers on the petite little hands. The thumb of Diet Smith seems to be out of joint.I guess I was spoiled by Chester Gould’s version of Tracy.

8. about 16 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Tracy’s physical appearance looks a LITTLE similar to that of Chester Gould’s rendition in this strip-minus,of course, the under-sized nose and the thick blobby eyebrows.And the pacing of the story line seems to be moving at a snail’s pace.

9. about 16 years ago on Dick Tracy

   I don’t recall Diet Smith as being so portly. (at least in the original Chester Gould strips) I’ll have to say one thing though, in Mr. Locher’s defense, it isn’t easy cranking out a Sunday page. Though I don’t like his drawing style, he does make good use of -what I perceive- as PhotoShop. It gives a certain amount of luminescence to the page.

10. about 16 years ago on Dick Tracy

    morrow, maybe you are right, the two-way wrist radio would be outdated, but maybe that could be overlooked; the content of the strip, I think, would more than make up for that one thing. Don’t you think?