Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 21, 2010

If you find suspicious footsteps in the snow outside your home, it may be the Abominable Snowman!

Action packed excitement in full color!

How does one determine if the footprints are suspicious ones?

“EEEEE…” and “FLOOOOOM!”… It doesn’t get much better than this! We asked for it and we got it!

Once again I’m on the edge of my seat. This story arc is riviteng.

GASP!!! Did Dick get FLOOOOOMED?!?

Or it may be a Peeping Tom.

I was sure I’d seen a product called “Floom,” but then I remembered it’s actually called “Floam.” Check it out:

http://inventorspot.com/articles/possiblymosthatedtoyever_22370

OK, that link got parsed strangely. Let’s try this again:

http://tinyurl.com/ydf3gs9

‘Morning, fellow sufferers. A day without Tracy is like a day without warts.

By the way, I can’t see anybody’s comments. Is anybody else having this problem? I guess I won’t know if you are or aren’t, ‘cause it seems I’ll be unable to read your reply…

Can’t even see my own comments after I reload the page. WTF?

Where can I find an authority on suspicious footprints in the snow??

OK, I can see the comments now. Thank goodness.

If there is no snow outside your home, you may be especially vulnerable. I recommend pouring several pounds of talcum powder in a circle around your home every morning. It’s the only way to be sure about those footprints.

margueritem said, ” ‘Morning, fellow sufferers. A day without Tracy is like a day without warts.”

Zounds! What a comparison! G’morning, margueritem.

Footprints could be the meter reader. Shoot him!!

Dick is dead.

^ Carlo, we’re not that lucky.

“Everybody get down,” can be ambiguous when there’s a rock band in the house. “Everybody grab your ankles” takes too much time to say, and can also be ambiguous. “Stop, drop, and roll” has the same problem. Maybe “DUCK!” would be best, if not misheard.

A FLOOM! a day keeps unwanted guests away.

Yesterday it was FLOOOOOMM! with five O’s and two M’s; today there is only one M. Does that mean the explosion isn’t as intense as it was yesterday?

(And tomorrow we lose an O…)

OK, Half Note, I know you explained how Chris Chendo has the violin’s explosive device is triggered to Virgil Ohso, now explain it to us. As I see it, sound was to set it off, does throwing it in the water have the same effect? I suppose anything is possible here.

Half note got it wrong. It wasn’t set to go off if it heard High C, it was to go off if it hit the High Seas. OK, got it.

I’m sure the cops will come-a-running if someone calls them about seeing footprints in the snow. They’ll really jack it up if you spot yellow spots next to them.

I only read Tracy on Sundays now so I only have to suffer once a week.

Sontpickers Grabbag - It’s Sasquatch OR your neighbor kid trying to catch you boning in the living room.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logflume(attraction)

sure, there was a flooooom yesterday , but

a floooooom in hand is worth two in the bush

This would be the time in years gone by, when the CHASE sequence would begin. But the Writers that have come since Collins’ departure (i.e.1993) have dropped that exciting segment, one that was “essential” to a Chester Gould and Collins tale.

Tracy must now identify Virgil Ohso as the culprit and apprehend him. It seems logical that the link is Ludwig Harmonic. But how will it come about. And if it happens will Virgil try to escape ? He’s gradually, in a few weeks - become an excetionally FAT man.

The only villains of yore to OUTSIZE him would be Oodles (1955) and Kilian’s Snails (2001) and he’d probably rank as “even stephen” with 3-D Magee (1953). Oddly, I can’t recall Collins having any really FAT villains. Ownley Chylde (1981) perhaps, and he was only “chubby”.

In the wake of the First Lady’s focus on “OBESITY”, South West Airlines tossing overweigh actor Kevin Smith off a flight. Locher’s “current” Editorial cartoon also deals with the problem … _SO_ -

Under these recent influences will Locher seize on them and have Virgil attempt to escape via an “Airline Flight” (?) and will the “weight” criteria have him “ejected” on account of OVER SIZE ? If nothing else, it should play well with the HUGE advantage of - being ”TRULY TOPICAL”!

Let me confess, I truly DON’T KNOW (and wouldn’t tell if I did) The forward strips just haven’t reached that point yet.

That’s misspelled – it’s supposed to be FLOOOOOMM! Remember I told everybody to add it to your spellcheck dictionaries.

It was a better drawing of the FLOOOOOMM! scene yesterday, too. (I didn’t say good; I said better.)

The characters today don’t even look like drawings of people. They look like drawings of badly proportioned puppets.

That was the third violin to be thrown into the pool. How many more violins are available? Will Tracy be reduced to throwing violas, cellos, string basses? Or will he start grabbing the electric guitars away from the rock band? They might fight back….

Now if the hero were a detective we would see him go about the task of finding out who did it and how and why. But who do you think he is – Dick Tracy? Fat chance he’ll do any detective work. No, I predict the villains will announce themselves and confess their crimes, spontaneously. Why? They don’t need a reason, not in this strip….

-Cougar :{)

CougarAllen, like your new picture. :-)

BTW: I see a small, yappy dog in the window in Gobstopper’s Band Book. There’s no way a miscreant could approach your house without said small, yappy dog going crazy.

Pulitzer level poetry in panel five.

Both my gas and electricity meter readers are now behind bars.

They were obviously in cahoots!

The day of color is here at last Reviewing events of the past Do you see footprints in the snow Are they by someone you don’t know Then the authorities you should call They will come and arrest them all The embassy gala has become a mess High pitched screaming comes from Tess The bomb in the violin we do know Has a sonic trigger to make it blow Why it explodes now is a mystery Sowing confusion in you and me The swimming pool goes up with a flooooom Turning the water into spume Tracy is knocked on his back Channeling Cathy he says “aack” So many questions still remain As the strip circles down the drain The readers are fast becoming numb From viewing the travesty it has become

Grimegobber’s Tipsbook Reporting signs of a prowler to the police is not a bad idea, but what does Locher expect the authorities to *do* about those “suspicious footsteps” in the snow? They can send a cop out to look at them … “Yup, those footprints sure do look suspicious, ma’am. We’ll make a note of that. It’ll be in tomorrow’s newspaper, in the police log.”

Suspicious footprints found in the snow outside a residence on Maple Street. Officer Smith dispatched to the scene. Officer Smith confirmed the existence of the footprints and made a note of it.

-Cougar :{)

A friend on another forum added the pirate hat and eyepatch to my avatar. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

-Cougar :{)

And if you find suspicious names written in the snow outside your house, definitely call the authorities!

In truth, Macey had no idea there was a bomb in the Strad. In fact, the way his vision’s been going, he couldn’t even identify it as a violin. He thought it was a toilet brush, and was planning to use it to swab out what he thought was the world’s largest commode…

The ambassador is asking the guests to calm themselves! Hillary Clinton, George Bush, and Richard Nixon want more petifors!

It appears that the only security the embassy has is the wooden soldier seen a couple days ago plus Dick Tracy that was an invited guest. Now that the violin has exploded, will Tracy call for assistance or will he go it alone?

Will Virgil Osho see what’s happened on his tv? He has a lot invested in this project.

Well, puddleglum1066, it sure has a noisy flush.

If Dick hadn’t of thrown it in the pool it wouldn’t have blown up. So his irrational behavior resulted in the destruction of the Strad, the destruction of the pool and surrounding area, and, with a little luck, the destruction of himself. No such luck.

The violin would blow up. On crimestoppers where I live no one can see in with or without snow windows blocked. But for a dumb crime story. A few years back there was snow someone decided to rob a bank and did get caught. What the dumb part is the guy who did it rode a bicycle and the police followed the tracks to his apartment and arrested him.

Bravo, WW!

Speaking of Southwest Airlines, I was in a window seat, the middle seat was unoccupied. The flight was full, so I expected the seat to be taken.

It was, by a man who weighed a minimum of 375 pounds. He took up one third of my seat as well as his own. His arms could not reach the arm rest, neither could mine because I was pinned under his girth. He clasped his arms across his considerable chest while sleeping.

Every eight minutes his hands would relax in his rem stage sleep and strike me. I paid for a full seat, to be unmolested, this was not the case and the flight attendant as well as the airline said there was nothing they could do for me.

What’s up with the tiny hands? If Dick Tracy’s hand is in front of him it should be a lot larger in perpective. It looks like he has a dwarfism issue. The same with Tess as well. I like to draw as well but this just looks like h*.

This strip is ridiculously stupid.

All I can say is EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!