Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 26, 2014

Well, I admit I’m confused!

But, I must admit: “transmitting tower”, “vantage point”, & “Montana Joe”’s whereabouts, I am intrigued!

Good morning fellow DT fans

I’m baffled as well. Why is he doing this? All he needs is a good lawyer and, if somehow convicted anyway, to buy a pardon. I mean, he has money.

Perfect vantage point? Maybe if he’s picking the spot to land when he plunges to his doom off the tower…..

Good morning, DT fans!Chester Gould’s Tracy would have fired…

Climbing the tower only means Tabby will be trapped. Not sure why he thinks this will give him an advantage, but his actions don’t seem very rational to me. Unless I’m missing something?

Well, if it’s a “vantage point” he wants then there must be something he wants to see. Maybe an escape route? I really don’t see how he could escape with two police right there.

I couldn’t figure out what happened to Montana Joe yesterday, but it seems he has escaped. I wonder if he’s on the roof. The truck is still there which seems to confirm that Gertie lied and that it really is her truck, because Joe didn’t use it to escape.

In the real world, cops aren’t supposed to fire on fleeing suspects, but I can’t wait to see what happens next. Climbing the tower doesn’t seem like a smart move, and why did Angus go to the radio station in the first place? On an unrelated topic, one of Annie’s favorite places was the Broadcast Ranch.

☼….. ☻ When he gets about ¾ the way up that ladder put a slug in his back side DT! Then ole Tabby A. will be ♪ … ♫ and then he will come ↓ with a thud.

Bad Idea, it didn’t work for King Kong and it won’t work for Angus.

The only explanation for this bizarre turn of events that I can see is that Tabby Angus is, like Cody Jarrett, completely addled at this point; and if he won’t go out in a blaze of glory as James Cagney did in 1949, maybe he’ll end up taking a spectacular dive. (I don’t think there is any logical reason to think Montana Joe might be up there, but who knows where he has gone?)

I concur with many of the sentiments above – this story arc is really making no sense. ‘Confused’ is how I would characterize it. Probably as a result of juggling too many simultaneous plots.

So – let me get this straight – Tabby allegedly realizes that he has been ratted out after all and flees (casually) on horseback to a radio station, where he impulsively decides to steal a car and abandon his thirsty prize racehorse. He then commits additional crimes (assault and battery, attempted kidnapping, illegal possession of a firearm) in full view of witnesses, definitively overpowers two armed members of the MCS, who for some reason repeatedly hesitate to shoot him, and flees to the top of the radio station’s transmitter tower, which has a perfect vantage point for an as-yet-unrevealed part of his scheme. Is that correct?

Sorry, guys; I’ve been reading Dick Tracy since 1959 (Flyface’s first appearance) and even in the darkest days of the previous administration one didn’t find this much confusion and as many WTF moments as we are seeing here. I hope it gets better, but pulling a rabbit out of this hat is going to be tough. Obviously, Montana Joe will be involved in the finale, whatever that is going to be.

Who’s writing this story—Mike Curtis’ third-grade son? None of Angus’ actions the last two weeks have made any sense, and yes, Gould’s Dick Tracy would have fired to keep Angus from fleeing, especially after Angus had threatened Tracy’s daughter-in-law at gunpoint only minutes earlier.

This storyline is bad.

Confusion it is! Maybe since the tower has an antenna and lots of power going to it, maybe Angus will get electrocuted. On second thought that would make since in the real world. So that won’t happen. Perhaps he will dive into a swimming pool with no water. Not happening, because that makes sense in the confusing comic strip.

Think about it. Tabby Angus seems to deal in ringers, like his racehorses. I suspect this is a double of his, drugged up and with orders to cause as much chaos as possible, while Angus slips away.

Careful, Angus —that’s how the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) got it… and you don’t regenerate.

This is just all over the place. Even with the complicity of his blackmail victim, if Angus was this sloppy and chaotic the rest of the time he never would have gotten away with everything he has. Nor would the Blackhearts be willing to deal with him. This is just all wrong. The only thing I predict with any confidence is that the Plenty’s will wind up in possession of Spark Plug.

“Aha! I can escape in this police car… ooh, shiny tower! I think I’ll climb it!”I’m sure something’s up. (no pun intended).BTW, Angus has done this climbing a tower before…

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Why didn’t Sam shoot him right on the spot, when Angus crashed that chair on Tracy’s head? Maybe the streets would have less crooks on them if the PoPo would actually use their weapons instead of letting them go (ala Blackjack)! Or, did the ammunition shortage get to the Police Department, too?

It’s like The A-Team….. Lotsa shooting; but no killing. It’s more PC to shoot blanks.

I like the uncertainty of this…anything can happen..

There is some evidence that Hitler actually retired to Argentina along with other Nazis. Yes, the evidence is weak [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=did+hitler+escape+to+argentina], but when there is no body – people will speculate.

For that matter, since no one was allowed to see the alleged body of Osama Bin Laden dumped in the ocean, I’m not convinced he’s dead.

Angus’ actions do seem odd but perhaps we don’t know everything. Interesting how everyone was loving this story and how fickle everyone quickly turns when something unusual happens. I prefer a “wait and see” attitude before jumping to conclusions.

I think what we’re seeing here is that the syndicate has asked Joe and Mike to have a shorter story run on this one, when they had this planned out for a longer period of time. It reads like a bit of editorial influence to me (like being told you have a two hour movie to write, and, halfway through, you’re told, “No, it’s only 90 minutes—wrap things up quicker.”

You’re all forgetting that Angus is great at crimes that require thought and planning: premeditated murder (via Nightmare), money laundrying, blackmail (Clark), contract murders (Rosato), etc. But now he’s on the run – and he’s not used to improvising. Expect bad decisions.-Montana Joe (and his concussion) could be anywhere – even checking the tower, if he thought they were knocked off the air.He could become Angus’ last victim.

No, Tracy, you can’t shoot an unarmed man in the back.

“Yeah, if Chet Gould directed, the monkey’d have been dead already!”________________________

Not only would Tracy have shot Angus, we would have seen the bullet trail leaving Tracy’s gun and going through Angus. How times have changed. It occurs to me that more violence is shown now on TV.

Whatever is going on here, I realize that no matter how logical or methodical someone might be, that can all go out the window when they are in a panic. This is precisely where Angus finds himself.

Usually cops who do that get off anyway. One day soon they will be encouraged to kill more__________________It’s a fine line to toe. Cops are either considered to be practitioners of police brutality or else too soft on criminals.

Let’s hope Angus doesn’t pull a “Queenie” and execute a swan dive off the tower right into a smoke stack.

now angus can see his horse eat tracy and sam

WDQP is an AM station. And it’s transmitting. .The tower is a good place to fry yourself.

The truck’s still being there only means that Joe hasn’t used it. After being knocked unconscious, he may be too woozy to drive.

After after reviewing, I see that Angus said Joe didn’t have his keys on him, so that would have stopped him driving. Maybe Angus wants to go up on the tower to see where Joe went, but I’m not sure for what purpose.

setting up a Blackheart ambush?

Now it looks like he’s going out in the same way as Crewy Lou.

You said: “If he was rational, he wouldn’t be a criminal in the first place.”-—————I agree entirely.Prisons are full of people who thought they were smarter than everyone else.

Tabby Angus’ feline side is taking over…he’s a bit large to climb a tree like a scared cat though. But hey…a ladder!

To me, he’s saying the tower is the perfect place to have a “Last stand”, tower shooters are probably the hardest mass-murderers to capture, without casualties.

Warning! I previously tried to post this comment, but inadvertently hit the wrong key and lost the comment. So this may result in a double post.I am surprised that no one has remarked on the similarity between this strip and the Clint Eastwood / Tyne Daly movie, "The Enforcer’ in which the cornered villain, Bobby Maxwell, drags the mayor of S.F. halfway up to the guard tower at Alcatraz. Inspector Callahan then blasts Maxwell with a Law’s Rocket. Exit Bobby Maxwell, RIP Tyne Daly.