Is that supposed to be Homeless Guy, he of the famous thousand-dollar handouts? No wonder Thick never bothers with real detective work. He’s got Locher to pull a rabbit out of his hat, and pull the hats as well.
I’m assuming that by dumb luck or bad writing Thick is speaking with the homeless man mentioned in the newspapers.
Thick should recognize Mr. D’B from photographs. I doubt Mr. D’B was a successful businessman who never had his photo taken, especially for a business news article or PR release. I doubt Mr. D’B’s features have changed that much since he hit the streets.
Whoever the homeless person is, he has to be dumber than a box of hammers not to recognize Thick’s mug.
This would be a great time for the “special forces” (that team is also on the case, remember?) to show up and confront Thick and the homeless man. When Thick reaches for his badge, special forces shoots both Thick and the homeless man in a hail of bullets, letting God sort out all the details later.
Don’t you like a logical, happy ending? (Compare it to what Locher pulls out of his backside when this story wraps up.)
We read today’s strip with some dismay
Thick has lost his jaunty beret
It was there only yesterday it must be said
Covering up his little pointy head
Oh what a cruel twist of fate
There is no covering for his pate
The sounds of his flatfeets
Echo down those mean streets
Thousand dollar bills he hopes to find
He really is out of his mind
Mingling with those less fortunate than he
He seeks to end the good Samaritans’ spree
His uses his razor-like wit to blaze a path
Pity his efforts are effective only by half
Cruising the streets dressed as a bum
He hopes that he will finally get him some
Clues that will help break this case
But I think he’ll fall flat on his face.
Panel-Panner, remember that Thick knows that D-cubed is dead and buried. After all, the widow identified Butterfly McCorpse as her husband, and why would someone who stood to inherit hundreds of millions of dollars lie to the cops?
Of course if Locher gives a flying fornication about continuity, some day he’ll have Thick announce that he figured it out ages ago, based on evidence the readers never saw. But with Locher, things like continuity, clues and logic are old hat.
Following up on a couple of comments from yesterday.
The “sideways” belief: I met an idiot who really believed such nonsense. He said to me: “Yeah, I know it’s true what they say,” and then demonstrated the difference with his hand flattened out, first moving it up and down, then sideways to show the difference. A virgin redneck.
I agree that Locher should avoid the Dragnet camp. Dragnet was made with the help of the LAPD but obviously the LAPD wanted to use the show to drive certain points across (marijuana leads to hard drugs). I don’t notice any blatant politics in Locher’s DT writing but I do see he doesn’t have any understanding of basic police work and the way people on the street speak. A writer should learn from experts or others in the know, even if they’re bums on the street.
Panel-Panner, Locher is so murky that I can’t tell his politics from this strip, either. It’s possible to read almost anything into it. In some ways Bizarro Tracy is like a Rorschach test, which might explain the artwork.
So what’s next? Does Thick let out a pre-arranged signal to have Liz or the widow or somebody enter the scene and appear to need help, so Thick can help them and thereby con He-Who-Gives-Money into showing himself? Or do we go straight to the shoot-and-cower scene? That would be the perfect cap to the latest developments.
Van Dork, after racking up seven hat jokes here, I finally realized what happened. Just before Thick spoke he must have thought “If there’s an actual development of any sort today, I’ll eat my hat!”
Hey BillThompson! Locher’s politics are about as far right as you can get, and every once in a while, it shows in the strip. If you drew a line connecting his age (80+) and the heyday of octogenarians (the 1950’s), that ought to explain a lot of details in this strip.
He’s trapped in a 1950’s time warp. Eisenhower Republican if I ever saw one!
morrow, I’ve seen some of Locher’s editorial cartoons and his attitudes show there. But unless he throws his hat in the ring here, I want to keep my mouth shut and not provoke any arguments. That would distract everyone from the more important matter of laughing at the train wreck he’s made of Dick Tracy.
We should all respect Mr. Locher’s age, (unless we’re
older than he is) but how about
retiring Mr. Locher and bringing the old Dick Tracy
series back for a new generation? We could start
with Flat Top or even earlier.
Pannel-Panner, I’d have to say that your ‘take’ about - “Special Forces” showing up is really prescient, that is, if I’m to believe our ’Simon-Pentimento’ who I understand holds regular promotional STRATEGY meetings with Dicky L. in Naperville, and so, he should be in the know !
It will be a ‘Special’ force I’m told, but like all things in ‘modern’ Dick Tracy in will take a few more weeks of going (nowhere) in circles with Locher’s ‘pen’ before the BIG feature moment materializes.
morrow: “He [Locher]’s trapped in a 1950’s time warp. Eisenhower Republican if I ever saw one!”
Not so. If he were truly and Eisenhower Republican, he’d be way to the left of the current crop of R’s, and for that matter, most of the D’s. Don’t forget that Ike supported Social Security, maintained a maximum tax rate of over 90 percent for the extremely wealthy, started huge government-spending projects like the Interstate system, and warned against the military-industrial complex. Since the end of WWII, this nation has drifted (in the words of Ed Meese, Nixon’s attorney general) “so far to the right you won’t recognize it.”
Oh lord, now the door to politics has been opened.. Right here and now, I’m slamming it shut!
BillThompson said, about 6 hours ago
morrow, I’ve seen some of Locher’s editorial cartoons and his attitudes show there. But unless he throws his hat in the ring here, I want to keep my mouth shut and not provoke any arguments. That would distract everyone from the more important matter of laughing at the train wreck he’s made of Dick Tracy.
Now something else that we do dread
Politics has reared its ugly head
Doonesbury and Non Sequitur too
Are oft mired in this witches brew
No matter what Lochers views may be
There is one thing on which we can agree
Well except for Simple Simon Penn
But about him, where does one begin
The joy and exuberance he does exude
Makes me wonder what they put in his food
Now we return to the issue at hand
Political talk should be canned
Your pans and praises of the strip should suffice
To fill the column with comments in a trice
There I said it, now I’m done
Time for me to go have some fun.
Panel-Panner, morrow, thank you very much.
Bill T., thank you also, and you do it so much better.
SimonP - Thanks for you keen insight and for sharing all those wonderful ‘tips’ on the Dick Tracy strip which most readers here have difficulty seeing or finding each week.
Your posts remove the blinding scales from our eyes. Even today, you said “check it out”, take a second look- and BEHOLD, there it was in panel 2, the first ‘floating sidewalk’ ever - in the comic strip !
Keep it up ! Would have ‘missed’ it, if you hadn’t made me look again.
You were indeed the first to spot it, Tigger, with nothing but Locher’s two vague sketches of a homeless person and a headline. If only more of the clues had equal significance!
And what continuity errors await us tomorrow? Will Thick top himself? Will the transient continue to part his hair down the middle? Is he indeed D-cubed? Such thrills! Such anticipation! Hold onto your hats, everyone!
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
Such action! Such drama! And my hat’s off to whoever takes care of continuity!
FLIGHT SUIT about 14 years ago
Wow, Tracy really IS cruising!
Steve Bartholomew about 14 years ago
I thought this was s’posed to be family oriented.
margueritem about 14 years ago
Tracy’s cruisin’ for a bruisin’…
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
Is that supposed to be Homeless Guy, he of the famous thousand-dollar handouts? No wonder Thick never bothers with real detective work. He’s got Locher to pull a rabbit out of his hat, and pull the hats as well.
Fusnr about 14 years ago
Did Brenda Starr go to this town ? She is not in any strip the last two nights that I have checked.
Panel-Panner about 14 years ago
I’m assuming that by dumb luck or bad writing Thick is speaking with the homeless man mentioned in the newspapers.
Thick should recognize Mr. D’B from photographs. I doubt Mr. D’B was a successful businessman who never had his photo taken, especially for a business news article or PR release. I doubt Mr. D’B’s features have changed that much since he hit the streets.
Whoever the homeless person is, he has to be dumber than a box of hammers not to recognize Thick’s mug.
This would be a great time for the “special forces” (that team is also on the case, remember?) to show up and confront Thick and the homeless man. When Thick reaches for his badge, special forces shoots both Thick and the homeless man in a hail of bullets, letting God sort out all the details later.
Don’t you like a logical, happy ending? (Compare it to what Locher pulls out of his backside when this story wraps up.)
wndrwrthg about 14 years ago
We read today’s strip with some dismay Thick has lost his jaunty beret It was there only yesterday it must be said Covering up his little pointy head Oh what a cruel twist of fate There is no covering for his pate The sounds of his flatfeets Echo down those mean streets Thousand dollar bills he hopes to find He really is out of his mind Mingling with those less fortunate than he He seeks to end the good Samaritans’ spree His uses his razor-like wit to blaze a path Pity his efforts are effective only by half Cruising the streets dressed as a bum He hopes that he will finally get him some Clues that will help break this case But I think he’ll fall flat on his face.
You are welcome Bill T.
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
Panel-Panner, remember that Thick knows that D-cubed is dead and buried. After all, the widow identified Butterfly McCorpse as her husband, and why would someone who stood to inherit hundreds of millions of dollars lie to the cops?
Of course if Locher gives a flying fornication about continuity, some day he’ll have Thick announce that he figured it out ages ago, based on evidence the readers never saw. But with Locher, things like continuity, clues and logic are old hat.
Panel-Panner about 14 years ago
WW:
I’ve never read a poem where the poet pointed out a continuity error. Where is that beret?
I really like the imagery in these lines:
“The sounds of his flatfeets “Echo down those mean streets”
Great job.
Panel-Panner about 14 years ago
BillThompson:
Following up on a couple of comments from yesterday.
The “sideways” belief: I met an idiot who really believed such nonsense. He said to me: “Yeah, I know it’s true what they say,” and then demonstrated the difference with his hand flattened out, first moving it up and down, then sideways to show the difference. A virgin redneck.
I agree that Locher should avoid the Dragnet camp. Dragnet was made with the help of the LAPD but obviously the LAPD wanted to use the show to drive certain points across (marijuana leads to hard drugs). I don’t notice any blatant politics in Locher’s DT writing but I do see he doesn’t have any understanding of basic police work and the way people on the street speak. A writer should learn from experts or others in the know, even if they’re bums on the street.
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
When it comes to details in his scenes And the way real people chat Locher clearly doesn’t know beans– But keep that under your hat.
(with a tip of my hat to Wonder Warthog)
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
Panel-Panner, Locher is so murky that I can’t tell his politics from this strip, either. It’s possible to read almost anything into it. In some ways Bizarro Tracy is like a Rorschach test, which might explain the artwork.
So what’s next? Does Thick let out a pre-arranged signal to have Liz or the widow or somebody enter the scene and appear to need help, so Thick can help them and thereby con He-Who-Gives-Money into showing himself? Or do we go straight to the shoot-and-cower scene? That would be the perfect cap to the latest developments.
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
Resolved: That we need to chip in and buy Locher a clue. All in favor say “Aye!”
The resolution passes unanimously! Let’s get the collection going! Somebody pass the hat!
OzzieJohn about 14 years ago
Can’t. Locher forgot to draw it.
veldy about 14 years ago
Speaking of hats, where did Spacy’s go?
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
Van Dork, after racking up seven hat jokes here, I finally realized what happened. Just before Thick spoke he must have thought “If there’s an actual development of any sort today, I’ll eat my hat!”
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
Oh, and let’s give Locher a big hand for the transient’s mysteriously migrating shoulder strap.
But what’s the point in pointing out continuity errors to Locher and Brozman? All they’d say would be “Bah! Homburg!”
Morrow Cummings about 14 years ago
Hey BillThompson! Locher’s politics are about as far right as you can get, and every once in a while, it shows in the strip. If you drew a line connecting his age (80+) and the heyday of octogenarians (the 1950’s), that ought to explain a lot of details in this strip.
He’s trapped in a 1950’s time warp. Eisenhower Republican if I ever saw one!
Exceptionally good poem today, WW!
Donaldo Premium Member about 14 years ago
maybe Tracy needs to have a chat with Mary Worth
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
morrow, I’ve seen some of Locher’s editorial cartoons and his attitudes show there. But unless he throws his hat in the ring here, I want to keep my mouth shut and not provoke any arguments. That would distract everyone from the more important matter of laughing at the train wreck he’s made of Dick Tracy.
Morrow Cummings about 14 years ago
BT, agreed! Morrow
akado2000 about 14 years ago
We should all respect Mr. Locher’s age, (unless we’re older than he is) but how about retiring Mr. Locher and bringing the old Dick Tracy series back for a new generation? We could start with Flat Top or even earlier.
SimonPenn about 14 years ago
GREAT Dick Tracy comic strip today. Solid drawings of America’s Favorite Detective!
The first panel’s a Home Run on the character and the homeless guy in the last panel shows wonderful emotion. Just love the strip today.
If you love today’s fantastic all-new Dick Tracy comic strip, CHECK IT OUT tomorrow for more great comics!
Great Stuff! CHECK OUT THE FUN!
CougarAllen about 14 years ago
Action? A little less conversation, a little more action … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0vXxH1IEmQ
-Cougar :{)
countoftowergrove about 14 years ago
“we’re pretty much on our own around here.” Congratualtions, Macy. You found some action!
sydney about 14 years ago
Pannel-Panner, I’d have to say that your ‘take’ about - “Special Forces” showing up is really prescient, that is, if I’m to believe our ’Simon-Pentimento’ who I understand holds regular promotional STRATEGY meetings with Dicky L. in Naperville, and so, he should be in the know !
It will be a ‘Special’ force I’m told, but like all things in ‘modern’ Dick Tracy in will take a few more weeks of going (nowhere) in circles with Locher’s ‘pen’ before the BIG feature moment materializes.
browngsa about 14 years ago
@ Fusnr: Brenda is on comicskingdom.com in color.
puddleglum1066 about 14 years ago
morrow: “He [Locher]’s trapped in a 1950’s time warp. Eisenhower Republican if I ever saw one!”
Not so. If he were truly and Eisenhower Republican, he’d be way to the left of the current crop of R’s, and for that matter, most of the D’s. Don’t forget that Ike supported Social Security, maintained a maximum tax rate of over 90 percent for the extremely wealthy, started huge government-spending projects like the Interstate system, and warned against the military-industrial complex. Since the end of WWII, this nation has drifted (in the words of Ed Meese, Nixon’s attorney general) “so far to the right you won’t recognize it.”
margueritem about 14 years ago
Oh lord, now the door to politics has been opened.. Right here and now, I’m slamming it shut!
BillThompson said, about 6 hours ago
morrow, I’ve seen some of Locher’s editorial cartoons and his attitudes show there. But unless he throws his hat in the ring here, I want to keep my mouth shut and not provoke any arguments. That would distract everyone from the more important matter of laughing at the train wreck he’s made of Dick Tracy.
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morrow said, about 6 hours ago
BT, agreed!
Morrow
I agree with Morrow and BT, NIX on the politics.
wndrwrthg about 14 years ago
Now something else that we do dread Politics has reared its ugly head Doonesbury and Non Sequitur too Are oft mired in this witches brew No matter what Lochers views may be There is one thing on which we can agree Well except for Simple Simon Penn But about him, where does one begin The joy and exuberance he does exude Makes me wonder what they put in his food Now we return to the issue at hand Political talk should be canned Your pans and praises of the strip should suffice To fill the column with comments in a trice There I said it, now I’m done Time for me to go have some fun.
Panel-Panner, morrow, thank you very much. Bill T., thank you also, and you do it so much better.
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
And once again Simon Pinhead proves that he’ll repost the same old rubbish at the drop of a hat.
margueritem about 14 years ago
WW, wonderful as always!
sydney about 14 years ago
SimonP - Thanks for you keen insight and for sharing all those wonderful ‘tips’ on the Dick Tracy strip which most readers here have difficulty seeing or finding each week.
Your posts remove the blinding scales from our eyes. Even today, you said “check it out”, take a second look - and BEHOLD, there it was in panel 2, the first ‘floating sidewalk’ ever - in the comic strip !
Keep it up ! Would have ‘missed’ it, if you hadn’t made me look again.
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
You were indeed the first to spot it, Tigger, with nothing but Locher’s two vague sketches of a homeless person and a headline. If only more of the clues had equal significance!
And what continuity errors await us tomorrow? Will Thick top himself? Will the transient continue to part his hair down the middle? Is he indeed D-cubed? Such thrills! Such anticipation! Hold onto your hats, everyone!