Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 25, 2010

As long as you’re not wearing an underwear bomb, you should be just fine.

How many weapons were hidden in violin cases back in the 20s? You bet for a string quartet!

Leaky, how did your team do?

facing the American public - now that is more scary than a bomb exploding at the embassy!

GM Aunt Marg & Flight Suit. ……………just got home about half hour ago. Trying to wind down. We won. And I mean B A R E L Y 31-28 overtime. Were headed to the Superbowl. I’m off to bed. Later for you good people.

Piano trios go right through. NEVER trust a string quartet.

Panel 3 : Is that Nothing Yonson’s brother doing Security for the Embassy ?

The art in the Sunday pages happily has a more polished look yet daily strips continue to appear like rough penciling (Locher), being inked over with little change (Brozman) and passed off as finished art.

Just as it was with Kilian, Locher is the Senior Partner (also signing his name to the strip), and I believe *he* (?) cuts the final proofs sent to TMS, implicitly approving it.

It’s really identifying who has the final responsibility. In the earlier partnership when Kilian obviously goofed (e.g. - on 4 occasions forgetting to “name” the main villain) - Locher the senior practioner never appeared to notice it, and seemingly skedaddled away from the responsibility, leaving this reader with the “impression” that it wasn’t his, Locher’s “call” or obligation - so, let it go.

But as I’ve noted above (in both cases) the final product carries (carried) his “approving” signature.

For some reason, I thought it was Indianapolis, Leaky. But congratulations to the Saints. It should be a good game, if you guys can figure out how to handle Peyton Manning.

The guy in the middle panel forgot to add, “Kemo Sabe”. If he ain’t a dead ringer for Tonto………

They must first pass through security to meet the Salahi’s inside who have come in through the back door.

morrow is right - Tonto is in the ‘band”, And is sidekick is looking more and more like Grandma Moses.

Panel two: “What’s the BIG DEAL”! Ha! Another witty card pun!!!

Oh, wait, that was the last lame story. Never mind.

Sigh…this art has now reached the point where I seriously have trouble telling one character from another. Plus the fact that we only ever see talking heads doesn’t help.

I mean c’mon, even Dilbert manages full bodies, and that’s about as basic as comic art gets!

Leaky, did they throw a parade? I have a friend in Metairie, who tells us about all the spontanious parades in NOLA. Congratulations! I’m trying to picture you with a LA accent. ;-)

Marg, it was absolute pandemonium!!! Crowds on Bourbon street rivaled that of Mardi Gras.

Ray C…….your right. That will be a daunting task.

This party is finally starting.

They save a lot of money having the embassy right at the airport.

Al Capone’s boys carried their tommy-guns in Violin Cases acording to the old TV show,”The Untouchables”.