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In Cthulhuâs name, let the arrest signal the changing of the arc! Usually Locher follows an arrest with a mixture of annoying scenes from the next arc and self-congratulatory jokes to wind up the old.
On 25 November 2009 Flight Suit said this about the placement of Locherâs signature on a character:
âIâm guessing a Dick Locher/Jim Brozman leather jacket would fetch a pretty penny!
âOr a very weirdly drawn penny.â
âA very weirdly-drawn Pennyâ is a remarkably prophetic statement.
Hey I just got it! Thick ainât addressing the Dâumbasses in panel #3! Heâs speaking to the evil cabalistic sign of Locher and Brozman! See how they shrink even as Thickâs mighty wrath causes his head to swell like a Macyâs parade balloon!
Meanwhile, how is Thickâs health? If this is the end, it means heâs missed his seasonal chance to flee in terror. Without that exercise how will he manage to open the newspapers that give him the next arcâs clues?
Betcha didnât know that Locher used to ghostwrite dialogue for Noel Coward. Not many people do, but itâs evident from expert analysis of the dialogue in this continuity.
Itâs rumored that he also used to rule panel borders for Milton Caniff, but that is as yet unconfirmed.
This arc has been like a sitcom episode where Ozzie schemes to get away from Harriet for the weekend, or Lucy befuddles Ricky with her latest get-rich-quick gimmick, or Joe Friday lusts after Frank Gannon. Of course it all collapses in utter inanityâbut at long last a cop shows up and busts the Battling Bickersons for public stupidity. There hasnât been a moment so welcome since the cast of Seinfeld ended up behind bars.
Pity it wonât last. I donât think âbig schemeâ is recognized as a crime anywhere in the US. Thick could get them on a grab-bag of chargesâthe recent gunplay, the Butterfly McCorpse business, making false statementsâbut with the sloppy investigation he ran, a good defense lawyer should get the Dâweebs out of jail at once. Thatâs cool, though. Someone can introduce them to the ME. That could be a fun social event.
Given Locherâs rabid anti-liberal bias, the only âschemeâ that he could consider âcriminalâ in this case is that of a rich person giving away money to the poor.
He was at once the judge and jury
And he screamed in his fury
âJâaccuse, you evil scum
Just where do you think your coming from
You two think that your so great
Youâll soon be wards of state
And your grand nefarious scheme
Is now small potatoes, so it seemsâ
The feds had long since faded away
Their jurisdiction did not come into play
All their hours spent on the case
Were in the end a colossal waste
Little Dicky thought he was a hero
But everyone viewed him as a zero
But he can be forgiven for his confusion
Reality to him is just an illusion.
In Cthulhuâs name, let the arrest signal the changing of the arc! Usually Locher follows an arrest with a mixture of annoying scenes from the next arc and self-congratulatory jokes to wind up the old.
On 25 November 2009 Flight Suit said this about the placement of Locherâs signature on a character:
âIâm guessing a Dick Locher/Jim Brozman leather jacket would fetch a pretty penny!
âOr a very weirdly drawn penny.â
âA very weirdly-drawn Pennyâ is a remarkably prophetic statement.
ââââââââââââââ
Should I be thrilled that youâre remembering and quoting my comments, or should I worry that, not unlike a member of the 9/11 truth movement talking about the Bush regime, you are accusing me of having prior knowledge of Locher and Brozmanâs impending attack upon our sanity?
Regarding todayâs installment, Dick says, ââŚYou were in on your husbandâs scheme!â
Well, yeah, Dick, Penny specifically said as much while she was waving her gun around. So donât go acting like you figured something out, âcause you didnât!
Corpse on the stage at the Science Museum, Butterfly McCorpse in the morgue - - - how many unexplained stiffs is Locher-mess monster gonna pile up ? ? ?
I think Locher has found the nadir in his portfolio. Here, he started off like a house afire with what could have been a stellar (thatâs not saying much) story and he messed it up to the point it was worse than his worst one. Thatâs a hard act to follow. If he has the nerve to do another, I promise you itâll be worse, yet.
He was even given a second chance with the intro of âThick, The Wolfmanâ. And he blew that! The new character could have howled at the moon and all that neat stuff. But no, Locher stayed true to form and blew it.
He missed another opportunity to change the direction of his opus. He had the opportunity to start a steamy relation with Penny and he blew that, too. Already equipped with handcuffs, he could have pulled out his rubber Batman suit and gotten kinky.
Alas, he knows not what he missed. (borrowing a âsighâ from Mattie.)
and donât you DARE call Matthew mattie.
that is not his name and he did NOT authorize it in any way shape or form! you have been warned, at the risk of being flagged!
On October 18, some guy with cool shades told a harness bull something along the lines of âGet over there; thereâs trouble brewingâ. Maybe thatâs the officer Big Dick is telling to make the arrest. Three weeks for a Chicago-area cop to finish with his detour at the donut shop sounds about right.
Again, goes to show that people just like to complain. I really donât understand why most of the readers here even bother reading the strip when all they do is gripe about itâŚ
wwcameralab Why donât you just tell us - whatâs so pleasing and entertaining, rather than complaining at what are honest reactions to patently poor (and illogical) QUALITY.
Most readers here rememberDick Tracy when it was one of the most admired strips in America.
Did you read it then ?
The strip needs Writers and Arists who can bring QUALITY and INTEREST back to the presentation :
(e.g. http://plainclothescomics.com/ then, click on âMajor Crime Squadâ)
The best strips in the world (Annie, Cathy, and Cleats) are gone while this dreck along with Daddyâs Home and Frog Applause are still around, constipating the internet!
Maybe the officer is one of the special forces that was working on the case. Either that or there is a revolving door for people to come and go. Or another matrix.
The new word of the day is âOh Dearâ I was getting tired of âHomelessâ Such Dynamic words this strip has. Maybe Locher will use the word âPokeyâ Penny is going to the pokey. For you younger readers, you may not have heard this term before. Here is the meaning:
The name Pokey can mean the word âjail,â from the altered word âpogieâ or âpoorhouseâ from 1891. The name can also mean confined, shabby, slow or dull, from the word âpokeâ dating from 1856.
Maybe we can say this strip is Pokey - slow, dull and shabby????
@prrdh, The person saying âThereâs trouble brewing over thereâ was DâBuckworth running away. But for some unexplained reason, he returned to the scene where Tracy and federal officials were discussing his case. Not that they presented any problems for him. They were all waiting for someone else to arrest him.
Flight Suit, I found your comment by accident, while looking at the ways Locher ended other arcs. I think the evidence is entirely against you having any knowledge of Locherâs dire plans. My guess du jour is that he reads these comments. He stockpiles some for future reference, while he uses others to guide his arcsâguide them away from any form of logic. âWouldnât want to make sense! Wouldnât want anyone to solve the mystery! But a weirdly-drawn penny ⌠. could make a villain out of that!â
Unless his editor has ordered Locher to drop this bizarre arc at once, as evidently happened with the Mistress of Death story, weâre in for several weeks of incoherent explanations and inept wordplay. We wonât be out of this thicket until Locher starts to insert a new character into the strip. And, jeeze, what if Thick announces that this arrest is only the start of the ârealâ investigation?
Anthony 2816, as a liberal myself, I donât think Locher is showing a special anti-liberal bias. I think he hates everyone equally. He comes across as a cranky old man who hates a world that refuses to take his advice. (I was going to point you to his 31 October editorial cartoon, but itâs been replaced with an anti-Carter slam. Even Locher must have realized that showing Uncle Sam as a criminal facing execution was unAmerican.)
Sydney Phillips, the one pleasing element in todayâs strip is the wrathful way in which Thick looks down at the names of Locher and Brozman, and denounces them as criminals.
wwcameralab - we meet and critique the strip daily. Now if you have a different place to meet, weâll take you up on it! Especially if you have hot coffee and warm donuts! Wherever we meet, we are pretty sure to critique the work. Sometimes we give Locher a standing ovation. He gets those several times a year on the days that he announces the current storyline ends. And sometimes we boo and hiss if his work is sloppy and he shows laziness in his artwork. Iâve heard that has happened, too. But we like each other and get along - unless someone calls another a Magpie. We are ALL important here!
morrow, if Locher actually remembers to put Pistol Packinâ Penny in the slammer, her cellmate just has to be Barb Els from the circus arc.
Iâd suggest the tiger from the same arc, but that would be cruel to the cat. And the hairball it would throw up after eating Penny does not bear contemplation.
Iâve been following this since its inception, and while I always thought this strip was very bad, it has now become worse than the worst possible. I only read it now to get the pithy remarks of fellow masochists.
WellâŚ.I hope during the âexplanation periodâ or whatever you want to call itâŚsomeone tells us what 3D is guilty of, instead of a few vague references to things, and tells us why he was faking his death to begin with (Câmon, giving away $1,000 bills would tip people off.) Iâm still confusedâŚ
g6793, Locher has a bad habit of skipping rational explanations. I think the real explanation for this garbage lies in Locherâs bile and arrogance. He doesnât believe he can do anything wrong.
I can imagine explanations that might make a kind of sense. Perhaps Dâoggydoo wanted to be declared dead because, uh, heâs a great humanitarian and if he died, his wealth would go to a foundation that would sponsor charities ⌠a foundation Sue Doko would run ⌠with the wealth out of his wifeâs reach ⌠while he secretly encourages people to do good deeds.
Of course Locher just shot holes in that explanation, while violating Chekovâs dictum about what to do with a gun (I have my own dictum about what Locher can do with that gun.)
OldTracy over 14 years ago
Officer? Is there some law enforcement person there who carries a gun?
Bill Thompson over 14 years ago
âOkay, detective ⌠uh ⌠whatâs the charge?â
Never mind the charge! Just Mirandize both of them, with special emphasis on their right to remain silent!
And who is Thick speaking to? Did the Lost Patrol finally reach Alley Zinderneuf?
Bill Thompson over 14 years ago
Maybe Thick is hallucinating. Werewolves get like that around the time of the new moon.
At least now Thick can go home and clean up, just in time for Tess to take him to a showing of Les Miserables.
margueritem over 14 years ago
âYou are both criminalsâŚâ Such profound dialogâŚ
Vista Bill Raley and Comet⢠over 14 years ago
Is there a police officer or does Tracy think he sees one? Is Tracy turning into the Wolfman? Are we near the end of this tale?
Bill Thompson over 14 years ago
In Cthulhuâs name, let the arrest signal the changing of the arc! Usually Locher follows an arrest with a mixture of annoying scenes from the next arc and self-congratulatory jokes to wind up the old.
On 25 November 2009 Flight Suit said this about the placement of Locherâs signature on a character:
âIâm guessing a Dick Locher/Jim Brozman leather jacket would fetch a pretty penny!
âOr a very weirdly drawn penny.â
âA very weirdly-drawn Pennyâ is a remarkably prophetic statement.
Bill Thompson over 14 years ago
Hey I just got it! Thick ainât addressing the Dâumbasses in panel #3! Heâs speaking to the evil cabalistic sign of Locher and Brozman! See how they shrink even as Thickâs mighty wrath causes his head to swell like a Macyâs parade balloon!
Meanwhile, how is Thickâs health? If this is the end, it means heâs missed his seasonal chance to flee in terror. Without that exercise how will he manage to open the newspapers that give him the next arcâs clues?
LudwigVonDrake over 14 years ago
What Officer? I thought there were a rotating number of homeless people, Penny, 3D and Dickie standing around chatting?
JCFremont over 14 years ago
In the second panel, why are both Penny and Greg Allman tilting to the right?
The shining, disembodied face of Tracy in that last panel is freaking me out.
btmosley over 14 years ago
Betcha didnât know that Locher used to ghostwrite dialogue for Noel Coward. Not many people do, but itâs evident from expert analysis of the dialogue in this continuity.
Itâs rumored that he also used to rule panel borders for Milton Caniff, but that is as yet unconfirmed.
veldy over 14 years ago
Theyâll both be out before stick gets home
Bill Thompson over 14 years ago
This arc has been like a sitcom episode where Ozzie schemes to get away from Harriet for the weekend, or Lucy befuddles Ricky with her latest get-rich-quick gimmick, or Joe Friday lusts after Frank Gannon. Of course it all collapses in utter inanityâbut at long last a cop shows up and busts the Battling Bickersons for public stupidity. There hasnât been a moment so welcome since the cast of Seinfeld ended up behind bars.
Pity it wonât last. I donât think âbig schemeâ is recognized as a crime anywhere in the US. Thick could get them on a grab-bag of chargesâthe recent gunplay, the Butterfly McCorpse business, making false statementsâbut with the sloppy investigation he ran, a good defense lawyer should get the Dâweebs out of jail at once. Thatâs cool, though. Someone can introduce them to the ME. That could be a fun social event.
riley05 over 14 years ago
Given Locherâs rabid anti-liberal bias, the only âschemeâ that he could consider âcriminalâ in this case is that of a rich person giving away money to the poor.
Filthy liberals! Book âem, Dano!
wndrwrthg over 14 years ago
He was at once the judge and jury And he screamed in his fury âJâaccuse, you evil scum Just where do you think your coming from You two think that your so great Youâll soon be wards of state And your grand nefarious scheme Is now small potatoes, so it seemsâ The feds had long since faded away Their jurisdiction did not come into play All their hours spent on the case Were in the end a colossal waste Little Dicky thought he was a hero But everyone viewed him as a zero But he can be forgiven for his confusion Reality to him is just an illusion.
Thanks all, for your comments.
FLIGHT SUIT over 14 years ago
BillThompson said, about 6 hours ago
In Cthulhuâs name, let the arrest signal the changing of the arc! Usually Locher follows an arrest with a mixture of annoying scenes from the next arc and self-congratulatory jokes to wind up the old.
On 25 November 2009 Flight Suit said this about the placement of Locherâs signature on a character:
âIâm guessing a Dick Locher/Jim Brozman leather jacket would fetch a pretty penny!
âOr a very weirdly drawn penny.â
âA very weirdly-drawn Pennyâ is a remarkably prophetic statement. ââââââââââââââ
Should I be thrilled that youâre remembering and quoting my comments, or should I worry that, not unlike a member of the 9/11 truth movement talking about the Bush regime, you are accusing me of having prior knowledge of Locher and Brozmanâs impending attack upon our sanity?
Regarding todayâs installment, Dick says, ââŚYou were in on your husbandâs scheme!â
Well, yeah, Dick, Penny specifically said as much while she was waving her gun around. So donât go acting like you figured something out, âcause you didnât!
Clevite Kid Premium Member over 14 years ago
Corpse on the stage at the Science Museum, Butterfly McCorpse in the morgue - - - how many unexplained stiffs is Locher-mess monster gonna pile up ? ? ?
Morrow Cummings over 14 years ago
I think Locher has found the nadir in his portfolio. Here, he started off like a house afire with what could have been a stellar (thatâs not saying much) story and he messed it up to the point it was worse than his worst one. Thatâs a hard act to follow. If he has the nerve to do another, I promise you itâll be worse, yet.
He was even given a second chance with the intro of âThick, The Wolfmanâ. And he blew that! The new character could have howled at the moon and all that neat stuff. But no, Locher stayed true to form and blew it.
He missed another opportunity to change the direction of his opus. He had the opportunity to start a steamy relation with Penny and he blew that, too. Already equipped with handcuffs, he could have pulled out his rubber Batman suit and gotten kinky.
Alas, he knows not what he missed. (borrowing a âsighâ from Mattie.)
Nighthawks Premium Member over 14 years ago
and officer, take Dick Locher away while your at it
Nighthawks Premium Member over 14 years ago
and donât you DARE call Matthew mattie. that is not his name and he did NOT authorize it in any way shape or form! you have been warned, at the risk of being flagged!
(mattie doesnât like being called mattie)
prrdh over 14 years ago
On October 18, some guy with cool shades told a harness bull something along the lines of âGet over there; thereâs trouble brewingâ. Maybe thatâs the officer Big Dick is telling to make the arrest. Three weeks for a Chicago-area cop to finish with his detour at the donut shop sounds about right.
steveyorkdesigns over 14 years ago
âQuick, somebody pin her down and handcuff her for me!â
sydney over 14 years ago
Where is the long arm of the Law (?) â âOfficerâ ?? When, did they arrive ?
As wndrwrthg asks, where are the Feds ? After that impressive âflashingâ of the badges - theyâve simply faded away
And BillT queries again âwhatâs the_ chargeâ? and _when and how was the crime committed ?
âThe Big Scheme ??â
It all seems so vague.
wwcameralab over 14 years ago
Again, goes to show that people just like to complain. I really donât understand why most of the readers here even bother reading the strip when all they do is gripe about itâŚ
sydney over 14 years ago
wwcameralab Why donât you just tell us - whatâs so pleasing and entertaining, rather than complaining at what are honest reactions to patently poor (and illogical) QUALITY.
Most readers here remember Dick Tracy when it was one of the most admired strips in America.
Did you read it then ?
The strip needs Writers and Arists who can bring QUALITY and INTEREST back to the presentation : (e.g. http://plainclothescomics.com/ then, click on âMajor Crime Squadâ)
billdi Premium Member over 14 years ago
oh dear, and after all weâve meant to each other and all iâve done for you!
Lyons Group, Inc. over 14 years ago
The best strips in the world (Annie, Cathy, and Cleats) are gone while this dreck along with Daddyâs Home and Frog Applause are still around, constipating the internet!
sydney over 14 years ago
We are now on the cusp of 2 weeks of the USUAL over-expanation, some in âcloudyâ, memory panel boxes !
WW - nailed it brilliantly 2 days ago when he wrote :
âAnd now weeks of âexplanationâ are soon to follow ⌠All of which will be extremely shallowâ
jumbobrain over 14 years ago
I wish I could be as lousy at my job as these guys are, and still get paid for doing it.
woodworker318 over 14 years ago
Maybe the officer is one of the special forces that was working on the case. Either that or there is a revolving door for people to come and go. Or another matrix.
thejensens over 14 years ago
The new word of the day is âOh Dearâ I was getting tired of âHomelessâ Such Dynamic words this strip has. Maybe Locher will use the word âPokeyâ Penny is going to the pokey. For you younger readers, you may not have heard this term before. Here is the meaning:
The name Pokey can mean the word âjail,â from the altered word âpogieâ or âpoorhouseâ from 1891. The name can also mean confined, shabby, slow or dull, from the word âpokeâ dating from 1856.
Maybe we can say this strip is Pokey - slow, dull and shabby????
marvee over 14 years ago
@prrdh, The person saying âThereâs trouble brewing over thereâ was DâBuckworth running away. But for some unexplained reason, he returned to the scene where Tracy and federal officials were discussing his case. Not that they presented any problems for him. They were all waiting for someone else to arrest him.
Bill Thompson over 14 years ago
Flight Suit, I found your comment by accident, while looking at the ways Locher ended other arcs. I think the evidence is entirely against you having any knowledge of Locherâs dire plans. My guess du jour is that he reads these comments. He stockpiles some for future reference, while he uses others to guide his arcsâguide them away from any form of logic. âWouldnât want to make sense! Wouldnât want anyone to solve the mystery! But a weirdly-drawn penny ⌠. could make a villain out of that!â
Unless his editor has ordered Locher to drop this bizarre arc at once, as evidently happened with the Mistress of Death story, weâre in for several weeks of incoherent explanations and inept wordplay. We wonât be out of this thicket until Locher starts to insert a new character into the strip. And, jeeze, what if Thick announces that this arrest is only the start of the ârealâ investigation?
Anthony 2816, as a liberal myself, I donât think Locher is showing a special anti-liberal bias. I think he hates everyone equally. He comes across as a cranky old man who hates a world that refuses to take his advice. (I was going to point you to his 31 October editorial cartoon, but itâs been replaced with an anti-Carter slam. Even Locher must have realized that showing Uncle Sam as a criminal facing execution was unAmerican.)
Bill Thompson over 14 years ago
Sydney Phillips, the one pleasing element in todayâs strip is the wrathful way in which Thick looks down at the names of Locher and Brozman, and denounces them as criminals.
Morrow Cummings over 14 years ago
wwcameralab - we meet and critique the strip daily. Now if you have a different place to meet, weâll take you up on it! Especially if you have hot coffee and warm donuts! Wherever we meet, we are pretty sure to critique the work. Sometimes we give Locher a standing ovation. He gets those several times a year on the days that he announces the current storyline ends. And sometimes we boo and hiss if his work is sloppy and he shows laziness in his artwork. Iâve heard that has happened, too. But we like each other and get along - unless someone calls another a Magpie. We are ALL important here!
Whacha think Pennyâs new cellmate looks like?
Bill Thompson over 14 years ago
morrow, if Locher actually remembers to put Pistol Packinâ Penny in the slammer, her cellmate just has to be Barb Els from the circus arc.
Iâd suggest the tiger from the same arc, but that would be cruel to the cat. And the hairball it would throw up after eating Penny does not bear contemplation.
goodyart over 14 years ago
Iâve been following this since its inception, and while I always thought this strip was very bad, it has now become worse than the worst possible. I only read it now to get the pithy remarks of fellow masochists.
g6793 over 14 years ago
WellâŚ.I hope during the âexplanation periodâ or whatever you want to call itâŚsomeone tells us what 3D is guilty of, instead of a few vague references to things, and tells us why he was faking his death to begin with (Câmon, giving away $1,000 bills would tip people off.) Iâm still confusedâŚ
Bill Thompson over 14 years ago
g6793, Locher has a bad habit of skipping rational explanations. I think the real explanation for this garbage lies in Locherâs bile and arrogance. He doesnât believe he can do anything wrong.
I can imagine explanations that might make a kind of sense. Perhaps Dâoggydoo wanted to be declared dead because, uh, heâs a great humanitarian and if he died, his wealth would go to a foundation that would sponsor charities ⌠a foundation Sue Doko would run ⌠with the wealth out of his wifeâs reach ⌠while he secretly encourages people to do good deeds.
Of course Locher just shot holes in that explanation, while violating Chekovâs dictum about what to do with a gun (I have my own dictum about what Locher can do with that gun.)