Gil Thorp, 2/16/26

What's going on in Gil Thorp? I'm not talking about the day-to-day plot; I'm talking about the near-future background setting, where the heavily armed "New Milford" PD lacks a monopoly on legitimate violence and must negotiate with authorities in schools, which remain separate, self-governed jurisdictions like medieval European universities. I guess we should've known that we were dealing with a landscape where centralized constitutional government had broken down completely when it turned out that the local juvenile detention facility doubled as a gladiatorial combat arena.

Dick Tracy, 2/16/26