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Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 20, 2010
May 19, 2010
May 21, 2010
CRIME âŠ. âCHASEâ âŠ. and âŠ. CAPTURE !
That was the simple track that all Gouldâs 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 Kilianâs style.
RESULT: Modern stories are âafflictedâ with several dull, âDrawn out - GAPSâ, seasoned with verbal REPETITION and little discernable story MOVEMENT !
We are in one of those gaps NOW (every âmodernâ story carries this FLAW) ⊠slow pacing and the writer despite his unique association, simply never âgot itâ, 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 âattention deficit disorderâ?)
Locher will be age 81 in early June and his âcontractâ 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 itâs 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.