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If the people responsible for http://www.lasagnacat.com/ get tired of skewering Garfield, I think this should be their next target.

Episode two:

I now have a copy of The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy, by Chester Gould.

It belonged to my Dad. I've gotten quite immersed in it from time to time.

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I now have a copy of The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy, by Chester Gould.

It belonged to my Dad. I've gotten quite immersed in it from time to time.

Have you seen the strip lately? Check out the current, Bill Locher-created strip, and it will blow your mind. Notice how in my parody, there are continuity errors from one panel to the next, and everybody's hands are hideously misshapen? All of that is derived from the actual Dick Tracy strip as it currently exists. I'm sure it would be interesting to compare and contrast the current strip and the Chester Gould originals.

I've been reading Freak Brothers comics since I was maybe six or seven years old! I love those dirty damned hippies! I never payed much attention to who the author and/or illustrator was. I do recall some of the later Freak Brothers adventures getting kind of weird, though. Was Mavrides responsible for the story in which Phineas founded the "Fundaligionism" cult?

via The Comics Curmudgeon

Despite being quintessentially American in subject matter and politics, Dick Tracy is always on the verge of becoming some kind of Weimar-era expressionist film in tone and presentation, and the current plotline, in which Tracy’s daughter Bonnie Braids (really!) insists on taking her parents to the circus, is no exception; one assumes that “Here’s where the clown fires into the air and a surprise falls out of the sky” sounded less stilted in the original German. And anyone who finds clowns even slightly unsettling will be seeing panel two, in which a grim-faced, dead-eyed specimen cocks his gaily painted musket at the ready, in their dreams for weeks to come.

Wait, did I say that Dick Tracy was like German expressionist film? Now that we have an elaborately dressed ringmaster responding to a tragic scene by repeatedly shouting “It happened!”, I’m updating that assessment to David Lynch.

It’s nice of Dick to address our no-doubt-implicated-in-the-crime-but-still-emotionally-tortured ringmaster as “Mr. Ringmaster.” He knows that it costs him nothing to be polite, just as it will cost our overburdened court systems nothing when he executes everyone involved without trial in front of hundreds of horrified onlookers.

I've been thinking. Since recent presidents and others have been making noise about going to Mars or returning to the Moon, I think it's high time that Dick Tracy went back to the Moon.

Bren, it's up to you to write the petition.

OK, here's today's incomprehensible Sunday recap:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/ … uit/dt.gif

A commenter on GoComics.com had previously speculated that the strip never makes sense, and has glaring, bizarre continuity errors, because the creator's assistant at some point dropped the pages on the floor, then hurriedly put them back together as best she could, and submitted them in the wrong order.

Based on this theory, a commenter by the name of Cougar Allen today suggested the following:

Remember about the secretary dropping the strips and failing at trying to put them in order? Looks like each panel of today’s strip was on a separate page….

For hours of amusement: Print out today’s strip, cut it up into panels, and see if you can reassemble the panels into an order that makes sense.

No fair putting two wide panels next to each other, or two narrow ones – your re-ordered comic must fit into the same space as the original.

-Cougar :{)

P.S. If you don’t have a printer you can do the same thing in Photoshop.

Which I have done. Observe how, with a little re-arranging, the strip suddenly makes sense:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/ … sAgain.jpg

"Victims? Don't go all emo on me. Look down there..."

Tallgeese, that's brilliant! Is that your own handiwork? If not, where'd you find it?

Also, could you please remind me which movie that dialogue came from? I recall seeing that scene. Two guys riding a Ferris wheel, if I recall. Was it a Hitchcock film or something?

That is from The Third Man, I wish I could take credit for it but I found it at Something Awful.