Oh come on now. I can’t go back and find it, but I know there were times I let you know I agreed with you. At least, that is my best memory. Anyway, thanks for letting Firestrike know that he crossed the line with the vulgar comment. I really do wish everyone here would keep it clean.
Ray, I agree with your overall comment 100%. Of course, there are times when the strip itself, or other comic strips, get into political territory with the story line. It’s happened on Annie, and recently the Phantom, on that other comic strip site, has been using obvious caricatures of real-life celebrities and political figures in whole story lines. If the writers here at Dick Tracy try to be relevant by having politicians as characters in the story, we will all need to be careful not to cross the line with our comments.
By the way, as to your comment about "Editorial cartoons that would probably welcome " comments, Go Comics recently shut down all comments on all editorial cartoons, probably because things were getting nasty too often.
If in the course of a murder investigation the police uncover something that may be terrorist related, they certainly would (and should) follow up on that. I think that’s what is going on here, but the poor writing leaves us surmising too much.
By the way, the Go Comics Nanny Bot did not like the use of the common expression for hinting at something without really saying it, which expression involves the way a kitten walks very softly.
I just saw a Walker, Texas Ranger re-run last night from the year 2000 that dealt with this same thing – an ex military guy with a warped sense of national security, with racial overtones. They didn’t have to “hint” at it. The bad guys came right out and said what they believed. – But it was very obvious who the bad guys were. Crime and detective fiction, by definition, has people doing bad things.
I have read that Chester Gould ran into this same problem occasionally when world events coincidentally seemed to be mirrored in whatever story was running in Dick Tracy at the time – even though he had submitted the current story weeks before whatever was happening in the real world. But, there was always an outcry that it was the strip that was fostering violence.
Yes! The quality of the audio (which is the whole point of a “phone”) is much better when I’m talking to my sister long distance. We both have cell phones, and we use them when we need to, but I can hear people much easier on a landline. (Although, even the “landline” is actually digital, I guess. But it is hardwired.)
I have to say – Oliver’s attitude seems like light years away from Harold Gray’s concept. Oliver always left Annie in good hands when he left, and then something unforeseen would happen. When eventually he learned of Annie’s trouble, he would move heaven and earth to rescue her. The stories weren’t always plausible, but we never saw Oliver strolling along, saying “Ho hum. Maybe I’ll see Annie again someday”.
Oh come on now. I can’t go back and find it, but I know there were times I let you know I agreed with you. At least, that is my best memory. Anyway, thanks for letting Firestrike know that he crossed the line with the vulgar comment. I really do wish everyone here would keep it clean.