Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 13, 2010

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    Bill Thompson  over 14 years ago

    Will somebody drop a house on her already?

    Panel #2 shows Locher at his creative best: it is a mirror image of a panel from 18 August. As for the numbers in that panel, that isnā€™t the date, itā€™s the year this arc started. AD or BC, I couldnā€™t say.

    Why does Thick want Dā€™ipstick to attach the fake tattoo from the body to the confession? Aside from having a high ā€œickā€ factor, does this mean that Thick expects a handcuffed man to dig up a grave and excise some rotting flesh from a corpse?

    And never mind that Penny already confessed to the scam with the stiff. Has there ever been any proof or testimony that Dā€™oggydoo has a tattoo? Would it matter?

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    Bill Thompson  over 14 years ago

    Iā€™ll repeat a comment I made in yesterdayā€™s forum: what if Cranky Jesus is supposed to be Warren Beatty? What if this whole arc is Locherā€™s feeble effort to lampoon Beatty over the lawsuit for the rights to Dick Tracy?

    The laughable thing about Tribuneā€™s charges is that they say the rights reverted to them because Beatty has made ā€œno creative useā€ of Dick Tracy. Have they looked at this strip in the past decade?

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    margueritem  over 14 years ago

    They can get the funeral director for abetting,,,

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    OldTracy  over 14 years ago

    And now for all you people who have been keeping up with it, the official count is NINE. Thatā€™s right. Mrs. 3-D is now on her 9th set of earrings in the 10 minutes of actual time for this scene to take place. For all those who canā€™t afford all those earrings youā€™ll be glad to know that for the very first time, she has recycled a pair.

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    jumbobrain  over 14 years ago

    Iā€™d like a full confession from Locher about why he is trying to kill Dick Tracy.

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    FLIGHT SUIT  over 14 years ago

    Locher longs for the good old days when cops werenā€™t required to advise suspects of their Miranda rights.

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    thejensens  over 14 years ago

    ā€œGreat Caesar ā€˜s ghost!ā€, as Perry White, editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet used to say on the old Superman tv show in the 1950ā€™s

    I suppose we will spend the next week watching the capture of the Funeral Director.

    Penny didnā€™t say ā€œOh Dearā€ today.

    As I mentioned in an earlier post, this story has been going on since july 22. At this rate, my son will done university before it is over.

    They should putting Locher in the morgue.

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    Bill Thompson  over 14 years ago

    Sheā€™s eager to confess to a relatively minor felony, isnā€™t she? Gee, Thick, think she might be lying again? Has anyone had the sense to handcuff her, too?

    There are about seven weeks left til the end of the year and, please, Locherā€™s retirement. So far heā€™s averaged one plot twist per week. Waste one week at the end of the year for the obligatory bad jokes and stupid banter, and that leaves six lame surprises in the future. Yeesh.

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    mjmsprt40  over 14 years ago

    Right Wing, I have a suspicion that Locher got his tray support notion from his kitchen cabinets. Drawers are supported on slides, and I fancy that Locher has the same idea about morgue tables. That at least makes some sense in a story which has precious little of that commodity.

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    Bill Thompson  over 14 years ago

    I did an image search for mortuary freezers. Within the limits of Locherā€™s crude drawing skills, the slide-out trays look like what he has there. See, for (non-gross) example:

    http://www.opacity.us/image924morguefreezer.htm

    http://plymouth.gumtree.com/plymouth/68/65887368.html

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    JCFremont  over 14 years ago

    Hey, Bill, thanks for the mortuary freezer link! I appreciate that the racks on that model are removable for cleaning purposes, but itā€™s the evapoway pan for condensate removal that really sold me. I could definitely use one of those babies in my kitchen.

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    Dr. Midnight  over 14 years ago

    Panel one: Well, it finally happened. Everyone has disappeared from the scene.

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    Morrow Cummings  over 14 years ago

    OK; I see Locherā€™s logic. In 7 weeks he retires, so he will drip out answers to the obvious holes in his story. The tattoo - thatā€™s one. I canā€™t wait ā€˜till he gets to the contradictory ones. Cā€™mon seven weeks! If 3D is so smart, why doesnā€™t he tell Penny to shut up? He obviously can afford a lawyer. Even Algonquin C. Calhoun could get him off the rap.

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    Araldite  over 14 years ago

    The only interesting thing about this strip is what will happen at the end of December.

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    CougarAllen  over 14 years ago

    I guess the reason Mrs. D keeps ducking in and out of the sewer is so she can change earrings. But why do all the others keep ducking in and out of the sewer?

    -Cougar :{)

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    JoeTrom  over 14 years ago

    Is Locher retiring? If so, does anyone have an idea who will take over?

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    Clevite Kid Premium Member over 14 years ago

    ā€¦ and Locher will tie the stiff with the tattoo to the dead body on the stage at the Science Museum ā€¦

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    LudwigVonDrake  over 14 years ago

    The only ā€œactionā€ in this strip lately was when Tracy tackled 3D and then it was forgotten about the next day.

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    Bill Thompson  over 14 years ago

    Rightwingmoron, Locher is just lazy. He could give a few details that at least hint at the slide mechanism for the freezer, but itā€™s quicker for him to draw a sheet over the cadaverā€“even though that sheet would get tangled in the mechanisms. He has the same concept of illustration as a kindergartener who puts the ā€œimportantā€ elements into a picture. Thick accuses someone of a crime? Show a scowl and a pointing hand! Someone has a pistol? Draw a Walther PPK again. And again, and again. Just draw it bigger when the threat is real big.

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    Bill Thompson  over 14 years ago

    So far Locher has brought back two old factors: the wife and Butterfly McCorpse. The butterfly tattoo obviously means a lot to him. Maybe he took its ā€œinspirationā€ from ā€œPapillon.ā€ It might have been the start of Thickā€™s ā€œlogicā€ in going undercover:

    In Locherā€™s world, do billionaires have tattoos? No. Ergo the corpse was not Dā€™umbell. It was a criminal. So the alleged victim had to be alive. He was known to be tough and a fighter, so he killed his attacker. His wife was an accomplice because she lied about a tattoo he couldnā€™t have (remember that when Thick assaulted Dā€™ippy, he demanded to see his shoulder.)

    Weā€™ll get a weekā€™s worth of talk about the body and why a billionaire would find safety on the streets. The explanation for the money giveaway will be equally tedious. The ex-partners and Sue Doko are two other pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that Locher will jam into place.

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    Nimblejack  over 14 years ago

    I canā€™t believe that this idiotic non-story has been running since late July! Locherā€™s retirement canā€™t come soon enough, and heā€™s set the bar so low that just about any replacement will be seen as an improvement.

    Iā€™d love to see Tribune hire someone who can actually draw and write a decent comic strip and who respects the strip and its history, but I suspect thereā€™s another Locheresque hack waiting in the wingsā€¦after all, why start paying for competence now?

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    tsouthworth  over 14 years ago

    What the Hā€¦ is a ā€œfakeā€ tattoo? A temporary one? Or is the word duplicate too long to fit in the balloon?

    Aackā€¦sheā€™s back! Where has the missus been hiding on an open city sidewalk for 5 days? Plus she already confessed her part with the funeral director on Oct 29. Sigh.

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    Bill Thompson  over 14 years ago

    Will TMS continue this strip after Locher goes? TMS is part of the Tribune bankruptcy mess, which started several years ago and is still dragging out. Theyā€™ve got money even though theyā€™re in chapter 11. But if you think theyā€™re any good at running a business, check out this:

    http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/83578/court-approves-tribune-bonus-plan

    The only positive thing in there is that they exclude the head of TMS from the bonuses. At least they recognize that the man who continues to give us Dick Locher hasnā€™t earned a bonus.

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  24. Josette   13 march 2016   c
    Bill Thompson  over 14 years ago

    That first panel is a repeat, too, except for those wavy lines on the one eggcrate. Those lines ā€¦ could they beā€“NEON NOODLE! Heā€™s up to his old tricks again!

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