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

“Terror Squad?” Don’t they have those in places like El Salvador?

Yeah, and Napperville, too.

I would also like an explanation. Please.

Tracy you’re all wet.

ha ha, this is too funny. I can find so many holes in this, but for today I am just going to sit back and enjoy the ride

The ambassador is okay.

Everyone move along.

Nothing more to see here.

News travels fast in Naperville.

The invaders ran through the halls Their shadows cast against the walls On foreign soil they did tread Terror was theirs to spread Many laws they were breaking An international incident in the making Their failure to secure the scene Allowed the entry of a news team Where were the embassy guards in all of this All the excitement they did miss They don’t exist it would seem Just something from a dream Explanations were demanded A voice off panel so commanded Will the terror squad stick around Or will they go for do-nuts downtown Will Virgil the Sontaran make the scene When he sees the ambassador on the screen The windows shattered with the blast Hitting no-one with shards of glass Was it that they lived a charmed life Or another error with which the strip is rife.

Soap bubbles and bowling pins in the first frame, hope he doesn’t have an itchy finger in the 2nd, and in the 3rd-no you tell them.

Wonder how the Battle Royal Main Event is coming along?

What had Sarah Palin written on his hand in the first panel?

I see that Tucker has two medals now. Terror Squad, eh? Someone’s asking for an explanation… the ambassador, perhaps. This is getting exciting! Maybe we’ll get to see Virgil Ohso’s remarks tomorrow.

Tracy finally has a real assignment, to go and talk to the TV stations. That should be just about his speed.

Terror Squad??? What happened to SWAT?

HE wants an explanation?? So do we…. and we’ve been very patient.

Mr. French says everybody should stay calm, including us.

WW is a Genius.

That’s quite a conspicuous V-neck on the “terror squad” guy’s bulletproof vest. “SHOOT ME HERE”

He obviously hasn’t been taught what the trigger guard is for.

It doesn’t matter; Locher will forget all about the “terror squad” and they’ll evaporate and leave Dick to face the tiger alone.

If anyone cares, they’re not called SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) teams any more, at least in my area, but the name hasn’t been changed to “terror squad” either. It’s SRT, Special Response Team. It sounds much less alarming to announce to the media “We’ve called in the Special Response Team.”

Of course they wear real bulletproof vests, without the fashionable V-neck styling seen here, and they know why guns have a trigger guard.

-Cougar :{)

Thanks for coming AFTER the bomb explosion. And GOD HELP US if they can’t even secure the scene from the press!!

but if the ambassador is injured or dead, then it’s ok to panic

Taking “charge” with guns and “barking” orders on foriegn territory (?)

The TV stations arrive within seconds. They must have two-way wrist radio scanners.

Just noticed-I think it is supposed to be “Terror Squad” If these clowns(no offense to Pops) were investigating something at my embassy, I would be terrified

Where’s the wooden soldier security guy? The “Terror Squad” and the tv guys simply walk in at the embassy. This’d be a good time for a second chance for Virgil Ohso. He could send Half Note to kill the ambassador.

Terror squad???

An anti-climatic letdown from yesterday’s strip!

IN panel one, behind Tucker (now with two medals), are the creatures with the balloons mummies? Ghosts? Citizens of the ambassador/s country dressed in their native attire?