Art is a bit weird (IMO) but Dick Tracy is still active in 2010!
BTW does anyone have a link to the panel where Dick Tracy outlined Groovy Grove’s police fighting suit designed like Samurai armor? This is 30+ years old at least.
Great!
How often does Moon Maid show up in the strip?
Now that cellphones with cameras and video screens are ubiquitous, what does he wear on his wrist now?
And he always looked rather blocky, but in that strip, he looks like an Easter Island monolith.
For some reason I know this one. (Was still popular in the 80’s back in the old country)
She does not appear anymore.
After the sci-fi period of the comic ended and Chester Gould retired, Moon Maid was only in the background and later was killed for real with a car bomb that was setup for Tracy.
She doesn’t. Apparently, she died in 1978, victim of a car bomb meant for Tracy.
ETA: Sorry, should I have spoilered that?
Ninja me, will you, GIGObuster?
Okay, Junior later remarried, this time to Sparkle Plenty, daughter of B.O Plenty and Gravel Gertie (and one hot chick, let me tell you).
How do ya like them apples?
Does he still fly around in a magnetic air car? It’s the 21st century, after all. Dick Tracy has to have a flying car.
It’s “active” in ony the very loosest sense of the word. It still runs in the Chicago Tribune. I’ve finally given up reading it. The pacing of the strip is slow as molasses; and the general plots almost always shape up as this:
- Tess complains about Dick never being around
- Dick is about to take Tess out for an evening / trip, when some crime crops up
- Dick gets to the scene, gets imperiled, then faces off with the bad guy
- Dick and the bad guy spend 3 weeks of strips getting ready to shoot each other
- Dick shoots the bad guy
Ehh.
My hometown newspaper (the Plattsburgh Press-Republican) apparently doesn’t have much of a comic strip budget. That or they have real old-fashioned tastes. They still carry strips like Dick Tracy, The Phantom, Marmaduke, and Tiger.
Hm, interesting, I had no idea. That’s very cool.
Back in the nineties, his two-way wrist radio was upgraded to a WristGenie. It has all the capabilities of his old watch plus a powerful mini computer that takes mini cd’s.
I agree that the strip seems glacial in pace now compared to the collections I’ve read from the fifties. This is also true of Prince Valiant.