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Dick Tracy Notes, 8/11/2024
a year ago
General
A Peek Into My Mind. Be Afraid.
I got (and get!) a real charge out of today's Dick Tracy, since it's the start of a two-week Minit Mysteries arc with a friend of long-standing, the one, the only Leo Batic doing the artwork.
Something of a departure for the strip, since the action takes place in Buenos Aires (Leo tips us off to that in the drop panel, showing a street scene with the Obelisco in the background). A famous tango dancer has been found -- dead! Dead by a gunshot to the head. A senior uniformed officer thinks it suicide, but the very shrewd detective inspector on the Buenos Aires force has his suspicions. He is able, however, to call in a famous colleague, in town for a conference -- the celebrated Dick Tracy!
Oh, that artwork in the second panel, showing the dead tango dancer dancing the tango with his partner!
https://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2024/08/11
Something of a departure for the strip, since the action takes place in Buenos Aires (Leo tips us off to that in the drop panel, showing a street scene with the Obelisco in the background). A famous tango dancer has been found -- dead! Dead by a gunshot to the head. A senior uniformed officer thinks it suicide, but the very shrewd detective inspector on the Buenos Aires force has his suspicions. He is able, however, to call in a famous colleague, in town for a conference -- the celebrated Dick Tracy!
Oh, that artwork in the second panel, showing the dead tango dancer dancing the tango with his partner!
https://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2024/08/11
Major Matt Mason
~marmelmm
As I commented on the strip, the art brings to mind the classic postwar detective strips such as X-9...
EOCostello
~eocostello
OP
I'd look, except with 111 comments (as of 10.16 am), I know that hunting for your thought is like digging through 50 pounds of wet spraint.
bfl
~bfl
Speaking of which: is it just me, or do the comments on Dick Tracy strips tend to be needlessly obnoxious and self-referential?
EOCostello
~eocostello
OP
There's a whole group on that comment board that engage in irrelevant personal in-jokes that are funny, I suppose, to two or three. A major reason I don't read 'em. (It's up to 173 comments, now, as of 1.37, meaning the circle-jerking must be going full blast.) Josh Fruhlinger over at Comics Curmudgeon isn't a whole lot better, though he can be insightful at intervals. There is one fellow, Joseph Nebus, who follows the DT strip on his blog that seems to take things somewhat seriously.
bullet crow
~chuckfiala
I like the feel of this Sunday.
EOCostello
~eocostello
OP
It is interesting that, for some reason, it came out differently in the colouring, with a somewhat softer, old-fashioned look which has eye appeal. I think you've got your finger on something.
bullet crow
~chuckfiala
Other than Tracy's coat, the strip isn't in primary colors.
