Allan Showalter, the man who nominated Dick Tracy for McHenry County Seal takes after the great detective.

The Heck of a Guy blogger has uncovered a nefarious plot.

What stimulated his brain?

This Big Boy sign:

I didn’t know we had any Big Boy restaurants in McHenry County, but with prices of retail property depressed, maybe one has popped up on Route 14 in Crystal Lake that I did not notice.

”The ‘Big Boy’ referenced in the sign,” Showalter reports, “turns out to be the same Big Boy whose gang killed Tess Trueheart’s father, who hatched multitudes of criminal conspiracies, and who was one of Tracy’s primary enemies prior to his reported death in 1978.“

“And, indeed,” he continues, “the entire campaign has been funded by those miscreants found in Dick Tracy’s rouge’s gallery (many of whom were modeled on his fellow McHenry County citizens) and who were known by their deformities, such as Flattop Jones, a hitman with a large flat head. Other co-conspirators include The Blank, Pruneface, Shakey, Pear Shape, Upward Lee-Mobile, and Trendy.

“That Tracy has acquired dozens of enemies, of course, is the direct result of his spending the past 76+ years tracking down and capturing or killing villains.

“The multiplicity of lawbreaking opponents is directly proportional to Tracy’s successful career in law and order …

“… which makes each of those signs and each of those criminals another endorsement of