That was the simple track that all Gould’s stories followed.
Early **crime (usually in first 72 daily panels)
Chase (hunter) sequence with a miriad of variations which consumed aprox. 70 percent of story … and
Capture of death
Max Collins followed Gould in using this formula. The next writer Mike Kilian (from mid 1993) dropped the CHASE sequence, on his death late 2005 Locher the Artist commenced the writing and followed Kilian’s style.
RESULT: Modern stories are “afflicted” with several dull, “Drawn out - GAPS”, seasoned with verbal REPETITION and little discernable story MOVEMENT !
We are in one of those gaps NOW (every ‘modern’ story carries this FLAW) … slow pacing and the writer despite his unique association, simply never “got it”, or is distraced by his Editorial Cartoons to realize what blights the strip.
He worked with both Gould and Collins, he picked up some ideas on the ART side but learned little in other the areas where it counted (artistic “attention deficit disorder”?)
Locher will be age 81 in early June and his “contract” on Tracy expires this year end.
TMS would be well advised to use Jay Maeder, now out of a job as they are closing down Annie. Maeder wrote the Official Biography of Dick Tracy, and knows the strip and it’s original style as good as anyone around.
Brozman needs to get a pink slip, and TMS needs to focus on getting the DT future in order … or it will go the way of Annie soon.
And that would be a great SHAME for a great property.
CRIME …. “CHASE” …. and …. CAPTURE !
That was the simple track that all Gould’s stories followed.
Early **crime (usually in first 72 daily panels)
Chase (hunter) sequence with a miriad of variations which consumed aprox. 70 percent of story … and
Capture of death
Max Collins followed Gould in using this formula. The next writer Mike Kilian (from mid 1993) dropped the CHASE sequence, on his death late 2005 Locher the Artist commenced the writing and followed Kilian’s style.
RESULT: Modern stories are “afflicted” with several dull, “Drawn out - GAPS”, seasoned with verbal REPETITION and little discernable story MOVEMENT !
We are in one of those gaps NOW (every ‘modern’ story carries this FLAW) … slow pacing and the writer despite his unique association, simply never “got it”, or is distraced by his Editorial Cartoons to realize what blights the strip.
He worked with both Gould and Collins, he picked up some ideas on the ART side but learned little in other the areas where it counted (artistic “attention deficit disorder”?)
Locher will be age 81 in early June and his “contract” on Tracy expires this year end.
TMS would be well advised to use Jay Maeder, now out of a job as they are closing down Annie. Maeder wrote the Official Biography of Dick Tracy, and knows the strip and it’s original style as good as anyone around.
Brozman needs to get a pink slip, and TMS needs to focus on getting the DT future in order … or it will go the way of Annie soon.
And that would be a great SHAME for a great property.