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Of course there’s a hidden staircase behind the shelving in the closet, classic.
One thing I’ve come to appreciate about Chester Gould’s writing is that he is an expert on setting up cliffhangers. Every strip Doug has shown has ended with me wanting to know what happens next.
The thing that interests me the most is that not all of the strips ended on a note of tension or danger. The above is a perfect example of that.
As a wannabe writer, I find this to be something of a revelation as I’d previously thought that cliffhangers had to be like the Best of Both Worlds, part one; with the audience worried about the characters safety.
I’m eagerly awaiting the next strip. Thanks for posting these Doug!
They are really fascinating. It’s an art form that is going away. I was just looking at Milton Caniff’s “Steve Canyon”, another great one… and Caniff is a brilliant illustrator as well. We may take a look at Steve Canyon on the blog here. In case you don’t know, Steve Canyon is about a USAF trouble shooter. An all time classic adventure strip.
Doug, I just got off the phone with Milton Caniff’s nephew Harry Guyton, and we are greenlighting Steve Canyon making a comic strip appearance (a’la Dick Tracy) here on your blog. Congratulations, the runway’s clear for takeoff!
John!
That’s hugely exciting! Thank you, and please pass my thanks along to Harry! I can’t wait to start running “Steve Canyon”!
Folks, “Steve Canyon” is an Air Force adventure classic! There is no doubt that Gene Roddenberry was reading it while devising Star Trek.
I’m thrilled to be able to introduce this classic adventure strip to a new audience, and reacquaint those of us who grew up with Colonel Canyon, to the storytelling genius of Milton Caniff!
Doug
Whoa, way-cool, Steve Canyon. Oh yeah…
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I can’t imagine the guilt this guy must have been living with all these years! I can’t imagine living in a single room for that long, being nothing but skin and bones! Guess he and Jade had never crossed a detective the likes of Dick Tracy before!
I can’t wait to hear how it all went down!
Almost 50 years that guy’s been living like that with the guilt. Can’t wait to hear what he has to say! Again, I agree with Mr. Boardman…scary sometimes!
“Keep you eyes on him while I park my air car.” That’s right up there with “multitudinous assemblage of bubbles” for the quote of the day.
Oops, forgot to end the italics, and I can’t fix my posts on here.
Fixed
Cool! I keep thinking I can, but there’s no edit button!
I just have to deal with mistakes like the other mortals on here….
I know… sucks when you don’t have it. I’ve gotten really spoiled.
Now haven’t there been indications of the fireplace, a dumbwaiter and now the spiral staircase? Lots of secret passages in this old place!
Anyone else roar with laughter at that first panel? I’m dying over here.
What was it that tickled your funny bone? I like the air car comment.
I thought it was pretty funny that he keeps trying to shoot those old bullets, even when Dick is coming through the window…”click”.
Kinda sad that he was trying to shoot himself, though. We could do a discussion on the effects of long term guilt…nah.
Hm, I guess I got it backward. I thought Smitz was the killer, not the victim. But then, come to think of it, when Jade indicated the photo of Jade Sr. and Smitz, he pointed to the shorter man believed to be Smitz when he mentioned his father. I figured that meant he’d seen Smitz as a father figure, but I guess the simpler answer is that the attributions in the photo were reversed, or that they reversed identities so that it would seem that Jade was the one who’d been lost at sea. Or something like that. Hopefully the next few strips will clarify things.
“Hey, Daddy, read me what Jeffy and PJ are saying today in ‘Family Circus!’ Wait…is that a gun in that man’s mouth? What’s he doing, Daddy?”
David – No kidding! I remember my father complaigning to my mother that Tracy was often too graphic for kids to be reading. Pretty tame though compared to what any kid can turn up on the Internet. Once upon a time, the funny pages were dominated by adventure strips that could get quite serious! The funny pages today are a shadow of their former self.