Recent Comments

1. over 6 years ago on Dick Tracy

   So, he’s Terry Beatty? Is Kato’s first name Gary, by any chance?

2. over 8 years ago on Dick Tracy

   So Tracy had already met Walker. Interesting.

3. almost 9 years ago on Dick Tracy

   A man named Forsythe is playing a man named Jones. Forsythe playing Jones. Forsythe p. Jones. Is by any chance an Archie reference?

4. over 10 years ago on Gasoline Alley

   So far this hypnosis is a new device to recap some of the strip’s past.

5. almost 11 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Vitamin debuted in the Captain Video Show? That’s a retcon. In his first appearance in the strip, during the Flattop sequence (a few years before CV aired) he was already a well-established thespian (not to mention middle aged).

6. almost 11 years ago on Gasoline Alley

   Nina is pointing off-panel.

7. almost 11 years ago on Dick Tracy

   I do not like this very much. I’m afraid I stick to the “old school” approach to the adventure hero: he should have no immediate family. Besides, I remember during the Collins-Locher years Tracy saying once his father’s name was also “Richard”.

8. over 11 years ago on Dick Tracy

   I love the reintroduction of old characters as the next man (providing the next man is a Dick Tracy fan, of course), but Nellie Wheaton is older than Sparkle Plenty. She was already a teenager (1943) before Sparkle was even born (1947), for cryin’out loud.

9. over 11 years ago on Gasoline Alley

   I recognize Happy Hooligan (the guy with the bean can on his head). Ignatz the Mouse is on the roof.

10. over 11 years ago on Gasoline Alley

    That Rufus! He’s an animal! :-)