Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 24, 2009

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    margueritem  over 15 years ago

    Love his expession in panel 2. He looks very surprised to be getting a kiss.

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    wndrwrthg  over 15 years ago

    margueritem, perhaps it is her breath.

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    margueritem  over 15 years ago

    You’re most likely right, WW.

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    drwatson  over 15 years ago

    Actually, the expression is almost exactly like he has just been stabbed from behind by Gertie

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    LudwigVonDrake  over 15 years ago

    Gertie needs to make up her mind whether she’s happy with B.O. or not.

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    andy.vaughn  over 15 years ago

    I like Gertie’s look; she’s back to her ugly old self…but this team will have to start getting their proportions right. Panel two looks like a convention of dwarfs! Come on guys…please!

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    fishbulb  over 15 years ago

    I tire of seeing the panel of Sunny Dell Acres over and over. How about giving us the panel of Doc Noll’s smoldering house just for old times sake?

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    prasrinivara  over 15 years ago

    Probably right watson–well, the truth oft hurts.

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    pauls_1_99  over 15 years ago

    Hey B.O.: DEVO called…They wanted their hat back (Panel 2)

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    sydney  over 15 years ago

    Another “paste-up” panel today of Sunny Dell today. All the revealing (carbon-copy) snowflakes that shout “guily!”, are there exactly like on March 6th. Every flake frozen in the same place. Lets call it, picking up “bad habits” fast. They have aN insidious way of “killing” good intentions. And I had just quietly complimented Brozman for not using any “repeats” or “paste-ups” last Sunday. But then the “text”, written by Locher still has SOME measure of influence. It does point the direction to what is drawn.

    Jim Brozman’s great BANE is mimicing Locher faulty areas of art (hands, proportions) and the short-cut seduction of “paste-up” panels. There is no better example than DL in the business.

    One possibility is that if TMS is satisfied with the current art and if Brozman has a good story outline for the next tale DL will will “retire”

    B.O. feels like a man again, he brought home the bacon and is falling all over in love again

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    coratelli  over 15 years ago

    Sidney, I’m disagree with you. The artwork of the strip is improved in the last days.

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    Froxkrybra  over 15 years ago

    In panel 2, B.O.’s look is priceless, he is definitely thinking of getting some from Gertie…

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    sydney  over 15 years ago

    Carlo 1 says: “Sidney I’m disagree with you. The art work of the strip is improved over the past few days”.

    Yes Carlo, to a small degree it has, … but look at the SIZE of Gertie’s hand in the middle panel today. If she puts her wrist joint on her chin how far UP would her fingers reach? Lucky if they touch the nose. Try the same thing with YOUR hand. Your fingers will go above the brow and half-way up your forehead.

    PROBLEM? Gertie’s hands are drawn at HALF-SIZE. For a long time that has been a regular mistake by Locher. He draws “flawed” hands. Don’t want Jim Brozman to “mimic” and continue that error. Nor should readers wish him to continue those (photo-copied ?) “paste-up” panels of the Sunny Dell House as we see in the third panel. It’s an EXACT likeness of FIVE earlier drawings of the house, All snow-flakes in identical position in each one.

    That’s unprofessional short-cut work, as I see it. The above points are my objections.

    That’s as “simple” as I can make it. Don’t mind that they have others on this board that see this QUALITY of work as that of a “genious”. ;-) You have to wonder how “seriously” they take their own coments.

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    Nighthawks Premium Member over 15 years ago

    Sydney, actually the hands and fingers in panel 2 are fairly normal sized FOR THE BODY.. youre correct that if the chin rests on the palm the fingers go up over the eyebrows, and in this case they wont, but its because the HEAD is far far too large for the body and so is BO’s for that matter

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