Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 14, 2013

Good morning all…

Happy π Day everyone!

She looks like Toad, 15 years into the future!!

hmmm…. I wonder if the Cinnamon Night will make an appearance?

A personal gripe here: Too many people call a dog a ‘service dog’ just so that they can bring them every place they go. True service dogs are highly trained, and wear vests when they are working. I had a therapy dog, and together we visited hospital patients once a week. He was well trained, and had to pass a rigorous test to become a therapy dog.

Given the strange videos that have been received at HQ. Wouldn’t it be logical that they would have instructed the commanders of the local police stations, during roll call, instruct officers to be on the lookout for a weird looking guy wearing glasses with numbers on them?

The people with true service dogs aren’t in question. You can see that the dogs are working, and are easily identifiable.

“Madrigal Days” Is that anything like a Renaissance Faire?

Given that Cookie Duster is a villain, there’s good reason to doubt his claim that his terrier is a service dog.

Are the family we see in the long shot from above and behind in panel 1 the Tracys, attending the renaissance fair? Is Mr. Jumbles planning some sort of ambush attack? Something is about to happen!

My sister has a service dog. She and her husband are both subject to epileptic seizures, and the dog— a mixed-breed terrier— is sensitive to that and alerts when a seizure is imminent. I’ve little doubt that dog has saved both of their lives on occasion.

which tracy family tho sisyphos? definitely not dick, tess and joe…maybe junior, sparkle, honeymoon and jewel, but i dont think so. i’m thinking the first panel is just to set up the scene as to where jumbler is and where his CRIME is going to take place. as for the mention of pricing? well thats easy enough.. multiply that amount by how many people could be inside and that would be quite the haul for jumbler if he steals the admission gate. also, what I’M wondering about is why the archer in panel one is carrying a BRIEFCASE with him as well as a bow and quiver?!?!?!?

I wonder how long it will be before someone snootily comments (in the strip) that Jumble’s outfit is “out of period.”

For your listening enjoyment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dpe—fqOHw

The words spoken at the end are actually the intro to his next song “Soolaimon”.

Actually it is illegal to question anyone about their service dog. If they say it is a service dog it is a service dog according to Federal law. Personally I thing service dogs should have to wear a special tag, but I didn’t make the law.

think

@ Stagger Lee, from yesterday: Using the additive color system (mixing colors produced by light) your primary colors are red, blue and green, with secondaries of cyan, yellow and magenta**********************With one system yellow is not primary, with the other green is not primary. Red, yellow, blue, and green are shown in his Sunday outfit. You’ve gotta settle on one system or the other :-)

For the most part, I would prefer the dogs over the people in my store. However, dogs never seem to have the proper ID when buying alcohol.

I, personally, don’t see any crime yet. Sure, Jumble looks weird. I guess if he was in California, he’d fit the norm. I guess we just have to heed Forest Gump’s observation about the box of chocolates!

Are we so sure that Crypto isn’t a service dog?

Sorry, hit the wrong key. Wasn’t finished. Maybe Jumble requires a service dog after all. We don’t really know him yet. But then…what kind of service might he perform? And as to the primary colors – after having worked in theatrical lighting for many years I can say without doubt that the primary colors of light are: Red, Blue, and Green.

Sorry – I meant how does he see THROUGH glasses with big numbers on them.

Agreed, BASSMANBOB6 – I gave Mr. Locher a pass, too because (a) if you take a look at the bigger picture, namely his earliest DT work with Max Allan Collins (he stepped-in following Rick Fletcher — one of my favorite DT illiustrators -untimely passing), was his best DT stuff – I suspect Locher’s son (who also passed-away during that era) worked with him on those strips. And, of course, his political cartoons…(b) Locher was a better illustrator than he was a story teller – this was evident after Mike Kilian died, several years ago (and when the overall quality of the strip began to decline) — I believe Locher was doing more of the writing towards the end (and Jim Brozman was doing the illustrating — I could be wrong).© In a world of dying newspapers, he managed to keep Dick Tracy afloat, which gave Curtis/Staton the opportunity to carry-on to the excellence we have, today…

Catching up after a few days’ business travel. I’m guessing Jumbler’s suit is rigged to rearrange (jumble) itself continually. Quite the flashy dresser.

The pastry from yesterday’s strip looks to me like a cream horn (also called simply a “horn”). On the other hand, today is “Pi Day” (3/14) so maybe it’s a piece of pie. (Note also that Mr. J’s spectacular spectacles display “3” and “1,” the first digits of pi.)

Other numerical clues, aside from the emphasis on prime numbers other readers have noted, have me baffled. (“29” thwarted my alphabet-code theory.) They do suggest, however, that Jumbler is as obsessed with numbers as he is with word games. (Maybe he has a moll somewhere called Sue Doku?)

On that note, there’s some potentially interesting math behind the ticket-taker’s word balloon: Using the common convention of “half-price for kids,” the $20 charge for the family of four would mean adult tickets cost $6.6666666… and kids’ $3.333333…. (Both prices have infinite repeating decimals — and the kids’ price is “1” divided by “3”.) $7 per adult and $3 per kid is likelier, but given all the irrational goings-on, I thought it worth a mention.

Hey, I’ve told you before, don’t pet the service dog. They are not a pet but a necessity for folks like me.

The old Sarge

I think the pastry clue refers to the crescent shaped croissant; wasn’t the shape inspired by the Moslem crescent seen during the crusades?

THX BB

Hey! Jumble would look weird here in California, too, lol!

There are differences between primary additive colors and primary subtractive colors. Look up those terms if you haven’t heard them. It’s worth the exercise to get educated.