Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 12, 2009

I told you Aunt Marg that I could stare down that tiger!!!

Rhoda, you are the best!

BTW, where have you been?

Doing things I had no business doing. :-)))

Hope all is well with you Aunt Marg.

How much longer is this going to last? I might not be around long enough to see the dramatic ending!

Macy seems more like Fearless Fosdick every day.

Yeah, tiger, stop that growling right now! (Like the tiger is going to listen to him?!?)

Growl, tiger, growl!

What? You mean you’re not going to eat me? What? Could it be that some last minute distraction is saving me? What? You mean I’m not going to end up as cat food after all? What? What? What?

Am I the only one sick of Dick having to get rescued from danger? He’s supposed to be the star!

If Dick can just grab the tiger’s tongue, between him and fee fi pulling, they can turn it inside out.

I am haveing a hard time keeping up with all this action at such a rapid pace.

sigh…………..

Now the cage has shrunk so that it is the length of the tiger. And it’s not as if the tiger could spin around and bite the arms of the man holding his tail.

the tiger wants out of the strip and is going after Dick and Jim

tracy has prolly soiled himself.

It’s odd to refer to your victims as “tiger meat.” If a mouse is about to be eaten by a cat, you don’t call the mouse “cat meat,” do you?

A new day dawns, we stretch and yawn And stagger off to the head We sip our coffee, turn the monitor on And wonder if Tracy is finally dead But it’s all the same, a story so lame That little more can be said The tale is flat, and we marvel that Locher even bothers to get out of bed We’ll tune in tomorrow (much to our sorrow) And down the pathway we will be led Only to find, like every other time We should have stayed in bed instead

fishbulb,

That’s a logical expectation. Felines (and most animals) would immediately try to spin around and get at whatever is impeding/holding them !

Call it artistic license to give the Author a “pass” but watch the HEIGHT of the CAGE grow way beyond what’s necessary for animal exhibition.

We’ve seen a variation of this “Tracy and the Tiger in a Cage” sequence before, and also with the cage conveniently growing HIGHER as the story progresses.

See it in the Archives (Bird Gang story - 2003 - June 13 to 28)

After Al Kinda and Queenie, now this ! .You have to wonder if when the Acolytes read these COPY CAT replays of earlier death scenes, IF they really think the use of PLAGIARIZED “material” represents SUPERB work ?

wndrthg,

Need to join Margueritem in giving you high marks again for lifting this artistic tragedy to some relevance via poetic observation !

A welcome contribution !

Locher should send you a note of thanks !

Locher needs to be replaced.

For a minute there I thought it was MATTHEW posting !

The growl RINGO hears is Della Contessa’s stomach. After all it’s been two months since she or anyone else ate.

I think tomorrow we see Tarzan.

I’ve decided the best explanation for the tiger’s behavior lies in Tracy’s britches. If we could see Agent M&M, you’d see her begging the tiger to take her first.

So this is at least the third story in a row where our hero finds himself about to meet his maker, only to be rescued by some implausible device that appears from nowhere (last time it was the King shooting Jack, the time before that it was the little robot coming out of the big robot…it probably goes back further than that, even).

The lack of care and quality in this strip these days has become its most distinctive hallmark, really. Swap that Two Way Wrist Radio for a One Way Trip to Comic Strip Oblivion.

At another time, in another cage, with another Tiger coming, Locher drew him scurring up the bars using his belt around a bar to the higher safety on a trapeze bar.

He still hasn’t used his WristGeenee to call for help or even tried his Taser. The sharp electrcal charges could discourage the Cat.

But NO ! Super writer Locher “pretends” doing a “Sam Catchem” illusion on them … NONE of them EXISIST !

And that, passing as “brilliant” craftsmanship is supposed to impress his readers (?) Perhaps some are, … cheering and applauding loudly around the Old Courthouse in Woodstock ! (?)

morrow,

Thanks for the comment on Sunday !

Today, I took what may be my last look a Mattie’s Apollo. And I’m still a bit puzzled. He says the strip is a HOMAGE as distinct from a PARODY, All I’ve been seeing though is a likeness of Batman WITHOUT the ears. Not a “whiff” of anything resembling Locher’s “Grouco” Marx - Dick Tracy !

Remember Dan Dunn ? Me thinks Mattie done created Batman’s version of DAN DUNN. Only the lack of “ears” tell the difference. It’s like “Mathew” turn into “Marsh” (Norman, that is). As Locher has signaled elsewhere, life is always faster in the “duplication” lane ! Whatever the name you call it.

Perhaps, Bob Kane is higher up in the ‘pecking order” than Herr SDICKLEGRUBER ? Perhaps, somewhere in Naperville a tear is shed (?)

Joe Allen Doty said, Writing that reminds me of Buck Owens’ song “Tiger by the Tail.”

GROAN. Sadly, the use of that phrase is exactly what’s coming.

Thanks for the reference again Sydney. I actually enjoyed rereading that 2003 sequence. I had forgotten about Dove helping Tracy by feeding the Birds to that other blond Tiger. This one is colored better and is made to look larger but this is one phoney plot line. You mentioned that the cage (bird cage actually) grew taller. Actually the whole thing grew much larger during those frames. At first it only appeared large enough to hold one person (Tracy). Later Hawk and his brother are seen standing on a rather large circular base while Tracy is up on the roost above. Even the Tiger fits on the floor of that cage. Amazing how the whole cage grew during that sequence.

When I started reading this circus story I was literally a year younger.

tracyfan92,

Glad you found the reference interesting.

As this story continus to unfold … see a Cage grow upward again.

this is the most cowardly Dick Tracy has ever been presented. Locher has him throwing in the towel. As the girl appeals to him hesay = “I’m helpless ! We’re cat food !”

Not a thought of calling for “back up” or trying to defend with his available Taser Gun. It’s sad how LOW, Locher has taken him !

Apollo is a Jag Off and Bob Kane is a GOD!!

Locher needs to go.

The stench of Tracy’s shorts should keep the Tiger at bay long enough for Lt Teevo to text Tracy on the 2-Way Wrist Genie the best way to escape. (Put the Tiger to sleep like Locher is doing to us!)