I’ve been reading D i c k (can you believe they bleep that word?) Tracy off and on since my childhood almost 60 years ago, when I marveled at the bullets exiting from the back of villains’ heads whenever Tracy shot them. I watched the strip deteriorate as Chester Gould aged, and it came back somewhat after Locher and Collins took over and did away with the foolish Moonmaid storyline. But this horribly done sequence convinces me that it is time for Locher to hang it up, like T.K. Ryan recently did for Tumbleweeds. If the syndicate can find someone willing to continue the strip ala Prince Valiant, fine–tho I’d be afraid they’d just follow the cheaper course of rerunning strips from decades ago. It might be better to have D i c k (Tracy and/or Locher) retire to Florida and end the strip forever.
I’ve been reading D i c k (can you believe they bleep that word?) Tracy off and on since my childhood almost 60 years ago, when I marveled at the bullets exiting from the back of villains’ heads whenever Tracy shot them. I watched the strip deteriorate as Chester Gould aged, and it came back somewhat after Locher and Collins took over and did away with the foolish Moonmaid storyline. But this horribly done sequence convinces me that it is time for Locher to hang it up, like T.K. Ryan recently did for Tumbleweeds. If the syndicate can find someone willing to continue the strip ala Prince Valiant, fine–tho I’d be afraid they’d just follow the cheaper course of rerunning strips from decades ago. It might be better to have D i c k (Tracy and/or Locher) retire to Florida and end the strip forever.