I still subscribe to the Hungry Horse News – there is an ongoing effort to get the site of the aluminum company cleaned up, involving the EPA, the Montana DEQ, and various citizens’ groups.
I always enjoyed visiting my parents when they lived there. The folks at the newspaper were very kind to me, allowing me to visit the back shop on their press day, since I was in the printing industry myself.
I thought the comments from those who knew the second Pruneface story indicated that Xylon was introduced in that second story. Tracy says it was developed by Roloc Bard, and I’m pretty sure he was not in the original Pruneface story.
Rick Fletcher gave Tracy that type of trench coat when he first took over for Chester Gould – it appears during the winter months of the story about Big Boy’s revenge. I don’t have access to much of Fletcher’s run on the strip, so I don’t know if he always drew the coat that way.
Just finished re-reading the famous “Model” story by Gould. The cop who was killed by the parking meter juvenile bandits was named “Murphy” during the week and something like “O’Toole” on Sunday. This did not change the force of the story – a cop was killed and now Model’s brother was in serious trouble. I think it’s another example of Gould having to write the Sunday pages ahead of the daily strips because of more lead time at the color printers.
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.
I still subscribe to the Hungry Horse News – there is an ongoing effort to get the site of the aluminum company cleaned up, involving the EPA, the Montana DEQ, and various citizens’ groups.
I always enjoyed visiting my parents when they lived there. The folks at the newspaper were very kind to me, allowing me to visit the back shop on their press day, since I was in the printing industry myself.