This is gonna seem weird, but Spouse Number Two bears a striking resemblance to British actress Mary Morris… who, ironically, was cast as a Number Two in the cult classic TV series The Prisoner (the episode is Dance of the Dead if you wish to verify).
All we have seen so far is a recap and slight retcon of a 1935 Chester Gould story. The characters of Cut, Muscle and Maw are from that tale as is the Mayor of Homeville and the basic situation. The retcon of the story has been the adding Big Boy to the family and naming him Gabe Faroni (his name in the movie was Alphonse Caprice—sort of like Alphonse “Capone” get it?). I don’t believe originally Big Boy had a last name in the strip.
Gould began the story with Cut’s last name as “Faroni” and later, unexplained and possibly a mistake, called him “Faron” for the rest of the story. This attempts to explain Gould’s mistake. I also believe that all the half-brother stuff is new. If Big Boy was based on Capone, the Maw episode was reminiscent of Ma Barker and her sons. (Side Note: Ma Barker came from Ash Grove, Missouri where my late sister used to run an accounting business.) Ma Barker had 4 criminal sons. This retcon has given Maw Faron 4 criminal sons.
But the recap of that tale is now over and it appears we are going to get a connection to some other old story attempting to retcon them together in some way (probably by associating the name “Cut” with the mentioned slasher although all of the Faron brothers in the story plus Maw were killed in the end). Another serial killer so soon is a bit repetitive but is likely a better constructed story than the Barnabas Tar arc.
I don’t see the point of adding comic strip dopplegangers of the two real life authors and Jim’s getting so down in the weeds in the comments section about how he created their names.
This is all just fanboy stuff with Jim trying to create his own canon by retconning things that happened so long ago that they no longer matter. This is not a Minit Mystery just a long-winded retcon. I am starting to not see the point of all of this.
Is Officer Hart’s murder to be attributed to the Suburban Slasher? Or is it a completely separate incident? With only a little over a week left in the MM, I don’t see that we have time for old-time Tracy to solve all these, nor even for present-day interviewee Tracy to describe all in detail.
Hurry! Hurry! Scurry! Scurry! We don’t want to be late for a very important date!
22ph over 5 years ago
This is not Minit Mystery. This is Minit History
22ph over 5 years ago
Mama Famon is the Godmother :D
HarryCK over 5 years ago
Good morning™, past cases raconteur !
Even with the Anglo name change, that guy has Dayglo written all over him.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
Too bad they didn’t use this as the preamble to the story.
Knightman Premium Member over 5 years ago
YAWN!!!
Neil Wick over 5 years ago
Good morning™, interviewers!
We’ve had lots of background information as to the situation in the town. Now, we are getting to a murder mystery that Tracy had to solve.
jrankin1959 over 5 years ago
This is gonna seem weird, but Spouse Number Two bears a striking resemblance to British actress Mary Morris… who, ironically, was cast as a Number Two in the cult classic TV series The Prisoner (the episode is Dance of the Dead if you wish to verify).
tsull2121 over 5 years ago
Misplaced quotation mark
tsull2121 over 5 years ago
Panel two looks like Pat Patton in drag LOL!
Don Bagert Premium Member over 5 years ago
Wait – there’s a murder? Did the killings start at the same time those two big-city cops arrived in town? LOL j/k
Ray Toler over 5 years ago
Joe has done an excellent job of recreating the original Gould panels during this recap of a 1935-36 story.
buckman-j over 5 years ago
Minit History? Minit revisionist history more like it.
Ray Toler over 5 years ago
All we have seen so far is a recap and slight retcon of a 1935 Chester Gould story. The characters of Cut, Muscle and Maw are from that tale as is the Mayor of Homeville and the basic situation. The retcon of the story has been the adding Big Boy to the family and naming him Gabe Faroni (his name in the movie was Alphonse Caprice—sort of like Alphonse “Capone” get it?). I don’t believe originally Big Boy had a last name in the strip.
Gould began the story with Cut’s last name as “Faroni” and later, unexplained and possibly a mistake, called him “Faron” for the rest of the story. This attempts to explain Gould’s mistake. I also believe that all the half-brother stuff is new. If Big Boy was based on Capone, the Maw episode was reminiscent of Ma Barker and her sons. (Side Note: Ma Barker came from Ash Grove, Missouri where my late sister used to run an accounting business.) Ma Barker had 4 criminal sons. This retcon has given Maw Faron 4 criminal sons.
But the recap of that tale is now over and it appears we are going to get a connection to some other old story attempting to retcon them together in some way (probably by associating the name “Cut” with the mentioned slasher although all of the Faron brothers in the story plus Maw were killed in the end). Another serial killer so soon is a bit repetitive but is likely a better constructed story than the Barnabas Tar arc.
I don’t see the point of adding comic strip dopplegangers of the two real life authors and Jim’s getting so down in the weeds in the comments section about how he created their names.
This is all just fanboy stuff with Jim trying to create his own canon by retconning things that happened so long ago that they no longer matter. This is not a Minit Mystery just a long-winded retcon. I am starting to not see the point of all of this.
Ray Toler over 5 years ago
Good article:
http://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2019/04/dick-tracy-and-two-week-minute-guest.html
Sisyphos over 5 years ago
Is Officer Hart’s murder to be attributed to the Suburban Slasher? Or is it a completely separate incident? With only a little over a week left in the MM, I don’t see that we have time for old-time Tracy to solve all these, nor even for present-day interviewee Tracy to describe all in detail.
Hurry! Hurry! Scurry! Scurry! We don’t want to be late for a very important date!