It is the craziest shit in a time when DICK TRACY was all about the crazy shit. But one could take that in a way then as a relief, because when Tracy did deal with crime and so forth, he was more fascist than he ever had been before. He and Al Capp both turned pretty calcified and Nixonian law-and-order around the same time. You see a lot of references in Gould's case in how Gilbert Shelton satirized him.