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jkahless wrote:

Makes sense, anyone here carrying a gun is either an undercover cop or more likely a criminal.

why not both?

Before you report  a clown you suspect is packing heat, make sure he isn't just happy to see you. You'd be surprised how often people make that mistake.

Pariah, interesting feedback! The daily commenters are constantly going on and on about how wonderful the strip used to be. I wouldn't know, 'cause I never used to read it.

I'm sure it was at least coherent back then. Now?

"Not so much" doesn't even express it. "Not at all" is about right.

Some commenters have put forward the theory that Dick Tracy suffered a traumatic brain injury, was forced to retire years ago, but doesn't remember this, and everything we're seeing in the strip are his feverish hallucinations as he "plays cop" and the people around Dick humor him out of sympathy.

There really is no other working explanation for the endless continuity errors and bizarre, psychedelic imagery which currently characterize the strip.

Dick Tracy - the short arm of the law.

"See a gun hidden on someone?"
If I see it, it is not hidden.

I think Locher ran out of actual tips and sanity years ago and is now just making smurf up from his demented hallucinations.

"If you see Gurkhas slouching in the street, alert your colonial governor!"

"When your pants are failing, garnish them with seasonal vegetables."

Sadly, nobody has given him the answer on how to draw proportional arms.

I just posted the following comment on the GoComics DT page. Even if you have no interest at all in DT, this video is totally worth watching:

Oh boy! My friend Kamio just shared with me the following link, which is NSFW (not safe for work), due to the constant swearing:

http://screwattack.com/AVGN/2008/DickTracy

Notice how every one of this guy's complaints about Dick Tracy the video-game perfectly mirror all of your complaints about Dick Tracy the comic strip! From the inane premise to the shoddy police work to the endless, excruciating monotony, to the bizarre artwork, complete with characters whose appearances mysteriously change from one moment to the next, to the continuity errors, it's all there!

The game was officially based on the Warren Beatty movie, but it sure seems to me like it really brings the current comic strip to life.

If a tepid, frustrating, endless living death can be thought of as life, that is.

It almost makes you wanna check and see if Locher and Brozman were the lead programmers!

Yeah, but the clown's smoking blunderbuss wasn't the murder weapon! It was Barb Ells who fired the fatal shot, in unison with Mr. Pops firing his blank, that killed Louise Trapeze!

What we're all still waiting for is the funny dead duck which Bonnie Braids promised we'd see back in June or July when the current story began.

Yep, June or July. That was so long ago, I hardly even remember what was going on in the world. I've aged considerably reading this story arc!

Dude if you haven't been reading Rex Morgan MD recently you've been missing out.