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1. almost 3 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Reminds me of the 1947 movie, “Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome”. Especially like the shading of the backgrounds and CoffyHead banging the wall to emphasize his point. Somebody should tell him that by one estimate every eighty cigarettes smoked one mutation per lung cell occurs. If you have not seen the movie you might give it a glance. Nice allegorical names, Dr. A. Tomic (a chemist) and Dr. learned (his assistant), to get things started. Tracy’s world either has no Sun since most scenes have, a dreamy, claustrophobic closeness to them, or it’s always night. Tess is there, but no Junior, except for cartoons in the intro.

2. almost 3 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Great tough guy art and dialog the last three days. Hoping for more tomorrow. If we squint, hold our breath, suspend thought we are almost transported to that long ago era of Gould and his magic touch, based on his sincere dislike of crime and criminals. The scenes have an ambiance of “Mean Streets” or “Goodfellas” or even “A Bronx Tale”. All that’s missing is a sound tract of 50’s – 60’s music, and darker, less solid coloring and more shading of the panels. I guess the phrase might be, “Too antiseptic”. The scenes are so bright one almost needs sun glasses. Incidentally, CoffeeHead should be called, “Mook”. “What’s a Mook?” Maybe, Martin Scorsese or Robert De Niro are not busy right now and they could come in as directors. (Incidentally, I know what a “Mook” is – I was just inserting some appealing dialog from a scene in Mean Streets for fun.)

3. almost 3 years ago on Dick Tracy

   “Criminals are a superstitious lot!!’ Jackets are not cool!!

4. almost 3 years ago on Dick Tracy

   “Don’t look at me!!

5. almost 3 years ago on Dick Tracy

   A world without sound effects. No crickets!! No birds!!. I’ll add them – “chirp!”; “tweet”. Now I can sleep. “ZZZZZZZZ!!”

6. almost 3 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Nice silencer!!

7. almost 3 years ago on Dick Tracy

   What happened to, “Bang!! Bang!! Bang Bang!!”?

8. almost 3 years ago on Dick Tracy

   The, “Eyes” have it!

9. almost 3 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Loyal Fans Enjoy!!! Yesterday’s panels and today’s panel one today!!! – Doesn’t get much than this in today’s mediocre culture!!! Thanks Pleger and Curtis!!

10. almost 3 years ago on Dick Tracy

    Guest writer wrote ten words. I hope Mark did not strain himself.