Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 09, 2009

In an Interview back in 1995, Locher, as he briskly “polished” his artistic spurs (mind you, sitting comfortably on 350 ‘inheritied’ newspapers and ‘high priced’ Max Collins’ back gone. He saw good fortune just ahead and confidently stated : “I’m not quite as rich as Chester was. My intention is to make Tracy grow and grow … more papers better stories, more action, more intrigue and to keep the viewer guessing”.

But as we all know the road to hell is paved with good intentions (moreso, if you ‘think’ you know what you are doing, but really don’t). The only part of DL’s above objective that was achieved was having the readers “GUESSING” ! Indeed, they still are! (?) We further know that at the time of Kilian’s death, the team had “squandered” (?) their inheritance of 350 newspaper and were by then down to a measly 50. Senior partner Dick Locher, if nothing else, is well “equipped” from personal experience to write about a “get-rich-quick” plan. Like his character B.O. He pulled that left-hander lever too often, “gambled” with what seemed dazzling, but untested “change”. Sadly,(As Locher now knows), only “lemons” rolled up. He lost. Now, at 50 papers it’s only (as Gertie says) “butter and egg” money left in the Dick Tracy comic strip? Shed a tear for a real life Vitamin Flintheart … another “ham”! (?)

Locher “paved” the road. He likes it ! He learnt little from Gould. It’s too late to help him ! Let him continue his “well-intentioned” journey to it’s logical destination!

P.S. LudwigVonD easily wins today’s “J. Hennessy Tucker Award” for seeing through DL’s flawed picture, and noting that an area previously, heavily covered with SNOW (which Angelorious had to drive through), now looks like a sunny Spring morning in May. Not a snow flake in sight.