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1. almost 15 years ago on Tom Toles

   Designed to be confoundingly confusing, Goldman Sachs structured these “debt instruments” so that if they made a profit, most of it would be skimmed off by Goldman Sachs. If they lost money, the buyer would take most of the loss. That’s why they were so confusing-to hide this structure.

2. almost 15 years ago on Dick Tracy

   i before e, except after c. It’s wierdo- not weirdo.

3. almost 15 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Whoa! Strap me in so I don’t fly off!

   What happened? The plot is actually moving along from one day to the next! It’s no longer a still-life.

4. about 15 years ago on Dick Tracy

   This strip needs a kind of viagra, to hold our interest up.

5. over 15 years ago on Dick Tracy

   A quote from Shakespear says it all:

   “…a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing.”

6. over 15 years ago on Dick Tracy

   How can you read ahead, LVD?

7. over 15 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Hopefully, the tiger will eat Tracy, and put an end to this abominable strip.

8. over 15 years ago on Dick Tracy

   I’ve been reading some Chester Gould DT collected reprints for comparison, and I find that as bad as Locher’s DT is, Gould’s work is not that much better.

   He doesn’t recap nearly as much as Locher, and his plots are tighter and less tedious, but they still have holes and unreasonable plot twists, and continuity slip-ups.

   For some reason, Gould enjoyed drawing grotesque characters. For him, a bad person should look different from other people. In spite of their efforts to conceal their character, it should always pop out as some neurotic tendency, or strange physical feature.

   This is what Gould emphasized, and his storys seem to be mostly only vehicles for utilizing his love of drawing grotesque faces. Kind of what Pablo Picasso would create if he had to make his money making cartoons, instead of single paintings. His talent was in painting, not in story-telling. Gould is like that, too.

   A well-written comic strip doesn’t need constant recaps. It shows great lack of confidence in writing ability. Maybe it’s Locher’s way of compensating for his lack of plot, this constant recapping.

   It’s almost as though Locher has has morphed himself into his own Dick Tracy character: Recap Man. Recap Man’s grotesque feature is that he always re-explains himself, exasperatingly moving two steps forward and one step back.

9. over 15 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Mr. Crimestopper model seems to have his zipper on the back of his pants! Or; he’s got back pockets on the front of his pants.

10. over 15 years ago on Dick Tracy

    I think Locher should be in the Witless Protection Program, because if we ever get ahold of him….