With Austin’s talk with Bribery left unresolved for now, and new characters intro-ed here, I’ve decided that talk from 3 weeks ago is the start of this new story. When I’ve decided a new story’s started, I do a list of every Tracy story on GoComics. Unfortunately, soon after I started doing this GC imposed a stupid, asinine character limit of only 2000 characters which includes every letter, space, punctuation, & html, which means I have to do this over several posts. I’ll do my initial introduction in this post and start the list in the next one, because otherwise, I can’t even get past the second year.
My notes are fairly simple. Just my name for the story (usually the name of the main villain or villains, unless they just aren’t the emphasis) followed by the dates the story began and ended. If someone was the main villain for more than one story, I add a “II” and so on to emphasize this. If more than one villain from a past story are in the same story committing major crimes, I include them altogether. Finally, for the two cases of more than one villain with the same name (Chameleon, Mr. Crime) I add, “The Second” in front of their names.
Minit Mysteries Note: at the request of people who wanted to see these listed here, I’ve decided to make a separate post for them to keep the listing of Mike Curtis stories in as few posts as possible.
At the start of the GoComics archive, the writer was the late Mike Kilian. Personally, I like his work on Tracy and think he’s very underrated. At the very least, he knew how to tell a story in the daily strip format where every day, something happens that moves the story along, a quality his successor sorely lacked. I recommend anyone here who hasn’t read these stories to check them out.
Looks like a big-time drug ring is blowing into town and freezing out the little guys! I’d like to see Honeymoon & Crystal get involved (with or without permission) in taking down Vortex, while Lee Ebony and maybe even Lafayette Austin go undercover. Is it too soon for Lafayette and Crystal to bond while fighting crime? Or just because of their names, how cool would it be to see Polar Vortex vs. Blaze Rize? That’d be a hot storyline!
With Bribery on lockdown it’s not like he’s going anywhere. So his segment will keep. What Staton and Curtis could do for starters are flashback episodes showing how Bribery had reconstructive surgery after being dropped through the prison’s workshop via an Space Coupe ejection tube in June 1967. The strip could new characters as opposed the cameo appearances of recycled ones. After all this is the 21st century.
I am amazed at how they are right next to the school building and admin. hasn’t acted tho’ they might have already called it in and tomorrow we will see MCU called into action by Chief Patton.
Okay, I’m no more sure than many others here whether she is Polar Vortex; her boss is Polar Vortex; or her organization (a.k.a. drug gang) is Polar Vortex. I’m not even sure Polar Vortex need be female if it’s a person. But what is clear is that Polar Vortex, who- or whatever, is moving in on that schlub’s turf. If he is part of a gang, things will get hot very soon. If he is an “independent contractor” his loss will not be noticed. And the most likely victims, if gang shootings break out, are of course innocent bystanders, such as the little children of that school. It’s the story of Chicago that I read in the news or hear on radio every day. And I do mean every day. (As a not-entirely-unrelated sidebar, I note that two-term mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel announced today that he will not run for a third term….)
Rod Gonzalez about 6 years ago
A pusher banished.
Her name is Polar Vortex.
She’s taking over.
HarryCK about 6 years ago
Good morning™, Strongarms !
Aaaand here comes competition !
jonahhex1 about 6 years ago
She definitely knows how to get her point across.
Cheapskate0 about 6 years ago
Nice bus. Want to see its underside?
boboscar about 6 years ago
“And now for something completely different.”
With Austin’s talk with Bribery left unresolved for now, and new characters intro-ed here, I’ve decided that talk from 3 weeks ago is the start of this new story. When I’ve decided a new story’s started, I do a list of every Tracy story on GoComics. Unfortunately, soon after I started doing this GC imposed a stupid, asinine character limit of only 2000 characters which includes every letter, space, punctuation, & html, which means I have to do this over several posts. I’ll do my initial introduction in this post and start the list in the next one, because otherwise, I can’t even get past the second year.
My notes are fairly simple. Just my name for the story (usually the name of the main villain or villains, unless they just aren’t the emphasis) followed by the dates the story began and ended. If someone was the main villain for more than one story, I add a “II” and so on to emphasize this. If more than one villain from a past story are in the same story committing major crimes, I include them altogether. Finally, for the two cases of more than one villain with the same name (Chameleon, Mr. Crime) I add, “The Second” in front of their names.
Minit Mysteries Note: at the request of people who wanted to see these listed here, I’ve decided to make a separate post for them to keep the listing of Mike Curtis stories in as few posts as possible.
At the start of the GoComics archive, the writer was the late Mike Kilian. Personally, I like his work on Tracy and think he’s very underrated. At the very least, he knew how to tell a story in the daily strip format where every day, something happens that moves the story along, a quality his successor sorely lacked. I recommend anyone here who hasn’t read these stories to check them out.
TBC cuz GC decided to suck now
blunebottle about 6 years ago
POLAR VORTEX: “A polar vortex is an upper level low-pressure area lying near the Earth’s poles.”
I get a sense it’s getting rather chilly around there…
artsyguy65 about 6 years ago
Looks like a big-time drug ring is blowing into town and freezing out the little guys! I’d like to see Honeymoon & Crystal get involved (with or without permission) in taking down Vortex, while Lee Ebony and maybe even Lafayette Austin go undercover. Is it too soon for Lafayette and Crystal to bond while fighting crime? Or just because of their names, how cool would it be to see Polar Vortex vs. Blaze Rize? That’d be a hot storyline!
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 6 years ago
I’d like to stop the some Drug War and blow them out of the streets. Oh and shot gun to remove their agents from the school.
SKJAM! Premium Member about 6 years ago
Polar is likely to be more successful at the drug trade based on the “looking cool” factor (or whatever the young’uns use instead of “cool” now.)
fhoffman01 about 6 years ago
Polar Vortex? Pretty cool. harhar
Knightman Premium Member about 6 years ago
And Polar Vortex just breezes in and controls the drug trade???
Good Morning People Against Drug Dealers
crobinson019 about 6 years ago
Polar Vortex is here to bring the “Snow” to the Snowflakes
jrankin1959 about 6 years ago
Is that her name or that of who she represents? (I would have named her Rooster Head…)
BeniHanna6 Premium Member about 6 years ago
In Chicago they don’t bother with words, problem solved with a driveby, too bad about the innocents in the cross fire.
IvanB.Cohen about 6 years ago
With Bribery on lockdown it’s not like he’s going anywhere. So his segment will keep. What Staton and Curtis could do for starters are flashback episodes showing how Bribery had reconstructive surgery after being dropped through the prison’s workshop via an Space Coupe ejection tube in June 1967. The strip could new characters as opposed the cameo appearances of recycled ones. After all this is the 21st century.
HarryCK about 6 years ago
I am amazed at how they are right next to the school building and admin. hasn’t acted tho’ they might have already called it in and tomorrow we will see MCU called into action by Chief Patton.
Sisyphos about 6 years ago
Okay, I’m no more sure than many others here whether she is Polar Vortex; her boss is Polar Vortex; or her organization (a.k.a. drug gang) is Polar Vortex. I’m not even sure Polar Vortex need be female if it’s a person. But what is clear is that Polar Vortex, who- or whatever, is moving in on that schlub’s turf. If he is part of a gang, things will get hot very soon. If he is an “independent contractor” his loss will not be noticed. And the most likely victims, if gang shootings break out, are of course innocent bystanders, such as the little children of that school. It’s the story of Chicago that I read in the news or hear on radio every day. And I do mean every day. (As a not-entirely-unrelated sidebar, I note that two-term mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel announced today that he will not run for a third term….)