I've been reading the daily strip and for the most part I can follow it, but lately I've been seeing characters or hearing them referred to and I'm not sure who they are. I have to check and then I find out that they are often descendants of the originals. I think we're dealing with second or third generation descendants of the original Tracy villains. Today they mentioned Screwball who was Cueballs brother and I'm still not to sure who Notta is. Anyone else having trouble following the history of the characters?
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I wish one of the two area papers carried Dick Tracy. From everything I’ve heard and what little I’ve seen, Joe Staton has really breathed new life into it. What I’d really like is for it to be collected (in a book, I mean). I tried reading it online for a while, but it was just too unnatural for me.
I know Flattop’s family tree is rather extensive. Cueball was a villain from the serials, not the comic strip (or not Gould’s version of it, anyway). Notta doesn’t sound familiar to me, but if she’s one of the current characters I wouldn’t know her.
I follow it on Gocomics every day
http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/
and it's been good, especially since they made Little Orphan Annie Honeymoon's best friend.
Notta bears a striking resemblance to Dr. Zy Gote from the Fletcher/Collins Years.
It appears as if the same character (now Dr. Zygote) was in the strip in 2013.
But wait a minute... there was a female character with a similar little beard during the Gould years, but I'm blanking on her name. I'll try to remember to check Tracy's rogues gallery tonight. Do you know Notta's last name?
That sounds interesting about Little Orphan Annie being Honeymoon's best friend. Okay, you talked me into it. I'll start following online for a while.
NOTE: "Tim Sail" = "Tim Sale"?
This Dick Tracy Wiki has much information. Notta is Notta Chin Chillar. Dick and Sam call her Notta Fallar in recent strips. That was her maiden name. From my quick look at the GoComics archive, it appears the current storyline started Apr. 07.
Chin Chillar! That's who I was thinking of (male or female, though? I don't recall). If her maiden name was Fallar, her father is probably Purdy Fallar, a minor Gould villain.
Thanks for the starting point. I went back to mid-December and found another. I may take a running leap at the current story (and continue on from December, I mean).
Purdy was her brother. She had a husband, George Chin Chillar, who looked like her.
In Gould's storyline Purdy was frozen on the moon, and an attempt to revive him failed. In the current storyline he's in Notta's care, in a vegetative state.
I’ve been doing some catching up on break and, yes, I just discovered the February 19th strip reveals Notta as Purdy’s sister. (“Notta Fallar.” Get it?) Here are some other updates/changes I have noticed…
Dick Tracy’s Two-Way Wrist Radio TV Computer has now been replaced with a “Wrist Wizard” which not only projects 3-D images, it also controls “Sunbugs” (miniature surveillance drones).
“Crimestoppers Textbook” has been replaced with “Tracy’s Hall of Fame” (profiles of notable law enforcement officers from around the world).
Junior Tracy has been restored to his “classic” look (I realize that happened some time ago), and his deceased wife has been given the name “Mysta.”
I've not been following the strip, but I can say there was a long-running "Return of the Moon Maid?" storyline. Annie ended with an unresolved storyline, and I assume the storyline that brought Warbucks and Annie into Dick Tracy built on that.
Without giving too much away, the Return of Moon Maid isn't what it sounds like.
As I've said on other threads, for something like $8(US) a year I subscribe to Go Comics. I keep up with Dick Tracy and have gone back and read much of the earlier Joe Staton stuff. The Annie and Warbucks stories are fun.
Luke Blanchard said:
I just finished reading the X-Ray Specs and Spicy Condiment story. Specs is derivative of 3-D MaGee, but Spicy Condiment is inspired. Then the Mole (whose first name is "Louis" apparently) got married to a woman named "Rose"... which bring me up to April 7.
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