Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 12, 2014

Can’t wait to see who it is (but I guess we have to!).

Good morning guys!

Uh, oh, Annie! Calvery is the religious word. You are thinking of Cavalry as in the army. I’ve been getting th words mixed up for 70 years!

Good eye, VB!

I think the paratroopers are probably Warbucks and his guys. The police and FBI are arriving by boat. This is going to be quite an invasion! We’ll see it in “official” color on Sunday!

Good morning, everyone!It will be the evil Axel’s calvary, maybe Annie means to say!

Isn’t the car beautifully drawn? I have to say that the current team are very good at rendering vehicles. The vegetation is pretty neat too. It all adds to the atmosphere.

Actually, that’s just the way kids normally talk. Kids that age often confuse “cavalry” with “Calvary.” Even some adults do for that matter. And kids often think it’s spelled with an “e” rather than an “a.” Thus “The calvery has come.” I think it’s very good writing on Mike’s part.|

Well, let’s just BUILD up the suspense, here…

i’d die laughing if it turned out to be doubleup, bb eyes, mumbles, kadaver, and stiletta

Corntassel? As in Joe Corntassel of the Orphan Annie radio show fame?

Good morning DT fans. Confusing cavalry and calvary is a common problem.

Good grief! There is sure a lot of ‘wandering away from the subject’ in this comment section!

… typical, attention span of a teenager …

Hey Tracy! Turn off your lights!

Yeah, the colorist has been doing a really good job; I was surprised they remembered that Hotshot Charlie’s bomber was red. Proves they are paying attention.

Old-fashioned police car. :)

OK. I worship this strip and all those who create it. But…

Help me out here…

I’m having trouble digesting this story. One word: “MOTIVE” — explain why Axel has gone through millions of dollars and painstaking logistics to re-create the 1940s on a leased island to use a new (?) technology of mind-control to work on some experiment?

Should this play out as time-travel, the story works for me.

However, unless I missed something, this story is just not working for me otherwise.

To re-create an entire village, every single detail would have to work. For instance, at night, satellites can cross an evening sky.They were not launched until the 1960s. If Dick Tracy looked up, he’d see them at night. In addition, contrails from jets can drift. A “No Fly” limit over an island would only reach out so far.

Moreover, every single detail of the 1940s would have to be exact, from food packaging, to the technology of nylons vs silk stockings, no books would have been ‘staged’ and printed after the 1940s.

I’m kinda lost here. Granted, I’m enjoying the story, but it’s far too easy to figure out it’s all a ruse if you’re Dick Tracy, non?

I hate to be so critical, but it’s the writer in me poking for plot holes. They’re on an island near NYC? If so, trash would wash up on their shores. The heavy use of plastic in consumer products would wash up like tampon applicators (sorry, we call them “Beach Whistles” in New England, haha) and other items. ?

I bet they find Smokey Stover dangling from a tree…

Tracy: Good grief, Annie! We’ve got to get you out of here and into a proper school! The word is cavalry, not “calvery”!Annie: Leapin’ lizards! Gosh, I’m awful sorry, Officer Tracy!Tracy: Now, let’s find out who those parachutists really are!

Does anyone else see echoes of the early Batmobile in Tracy’s squad car?

Remember PatrickDC202 that the townspeople have been brainwashed or hypnotized and that in such a state of mind they would, most likely, not notice the minor mistakes that we outside observers. Since they were the ones who restored the 1940s era village, they were already immersed in seeing it as such a place of that epoch.

But, Tracy… as a seasoned detective, could likely spot it’s all a ruse in less than an hour, if not a day?

Thursday’s strip honoring 9/11 made me wonder if the strip is Dick Tracy or Orphan Annie. Will this storyline ever end????I want to see Annie and Warbucks packing so we can get back to all Tracy all the time.

Another example: nuclear, sometimes pronounced nucular, even by a president who had studied nuclear science.

We just saw (09-10-14) the plane piloted by Hotshot Charlie, and he’s one of the good guys so I’m guessing the parachuters are also.

No Comment..we Wait and See…

One more cartoonist who can’t even spell the wrong word correctly.

Sad.

Annie hasn’t quite mastered correct grammar yet. Since she is an orphan and has spent a lot of time on the streets, her education is probably somewhat spotty.If she spoke correctly, the dialogue would go like this:“Leaping lizards! Do you think the cavalry has come?”

Hi, Guys,.Nothing about today’s strip, but I’d like to respond to some criticism leveled at last Sunday’s CRIMESTOPPER. I was out of town ‘til Wednesday, and the anniversary of 9/11 didn’t seem like an appropriate time to bring this up..To those who say that leaving lights on is environmentally irresponsible, I can only say that I’m no environmentalist. I will say that, as someone else pointed out, the theory that leaving lights on will cause the polar ice cap to melt to dangerous levels by 2014 has pretty much been disproven. I suppose it could still happen during the three and a half months remaining, but, even though I’m not an environmentalist, that seems unlikely. Could it happen by 2114 or 2214? Maybe, but it’s not for me to say, and anyone who says it will is advancing a theory, not stating an absolute fact, because nothing about the future is absolute, and certainly nothing about events that far in the future. In any case, if burning energy is environmentally irresponsible, I can’t help but be struck by the fact that the computers on which you’re all reading this burn a lot more energy in a lot less time than a porch light left on all night..OTOH, it IS a fact that darkness encourages crime and light prevents it. Not a hundred per cent of the time, of course. Nothing works a hundred per cent of the time. But it is a prevention measure that works..The objection that too few of the CRIMESTOPPERS are focused strictly on crime prevention tips (an objection raised, as far as I can tell, by only one person on this forum), I confidently ignore. First of all, I think a knowledge of the history of law enforcement and crime is interesting to the general public, and essential for cops, just as the history of warfare is interesting to the general public and essential to professional soldiers. Further, I’ll admit that the historical factoids are more interesting for me to research and to write. You can only say, “Lock your doors; cancel your credit cards as soon as they come up missing; don’t let your kids talk to strangers,” so many ways, after all..However, an objection raised by Flight Suit did strike home. While I certainly mean for CRIMESTOPPERS to be taken seriously, and I believe that most readers do take them seriously, the objection that using a panel for a feature like CRIMESTOPPERS or HALL OF FAME leaves that much less space for story-telling is one that, I admit, probably has some merit..Back in the day, daily strips had four panels to play around with, and twelve or thirteen on Sundays. Now they’re reduced to three for the dailies, and eight to ten (depending on the layout) for the Sundays. While this isn’t as big a problem for a gag-a-day strip, it severely affects the pacing of an adventure strip..I am, quite honestly prejudiced. As a cop, and as a writer, I like being associated with TRACY. But my being allowed to play in the sandbox means that a panel that could be used to advance the story is put to other purposes..So I throw it out to all of you for discussion. Should a feature like CRIMESTOPPERS TEXTBOOK continue to exist in light of the shrinking space newspapers are allotting to their comics pages?

Morrow,.I’m not intimidated by people who disagree with me..I am, however, concerned that the space I take up every Sunday might be put to better use advancing the storyline..That’s the issue I’m speaking to.

I can’t believe all the fuss over the spelling of a word.“Send in the cavalry,” “here comes the cavalry,” etc. are common American idioms, we’ve all heard.And we’ve all heard the words cavalry and Calvary, and probably used them, too.Lighten up, already.Let he who is without typos, cast the first kvetch.

is from the Latin word Calvariæ meaning “skull.” In modern medical terms, the top of the human skull is referred to as the calvaria.The Latin word came from translating the Hebrew Gol’gatha, which means the “place of the skull.” The origin of the name is uncertain; it may refer to a skull-shaped hill, or it was the name given to the place that was the site of executions, or was possibly near a cemetery.Cavalry, as an earlier poster mentioned, comes from the French word cavalerie, meaning a mounted soldier.