Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 31, 2010

So it’s just an idea or you’re already sending out press releases? Which is it?

I do like the giant space monsters in panel two, though.

We knew it!

Yea but if they do that a bunch of bad guys from Kaflooomastan will come in and well y’all knows what happens then.

What’s going on in the third panel?

This is taking a long time for a whole lotta nothing, the bad guy is in cuffs.

I made it! A bit late, though. The maestro sure does work fast!

“It’s been days since my son was shot and I still haven’t taken off my tuxedo…”

I’m thinkin’ the rebirth of the Moody Blues

JonD17–“rebirth”? Last I heard, they were still touring despite the loss of two of the original members. And though they’ve issued something like twenty albums since their first breakup in the ’70s, it seems that more than half of their show is still from those first seven. Maybe they should have stayed broken up.

BTW, for those interested in obscure musical tech, there’s now a documentary film about the history of the Mellotron, that weird electro-mechanical tape-strip sampling keyboard that provided most of the simulated “orchestra” for the Moodies and other prog-rock bands. Flick’s called “Mellodrama” (cute).

If Junior’s band had just used a Mellotron instead of that Stradivarius, they’d still be rockin’ today…

WaitingMan (yesterday’s comment)–so what about Deep Purple’s two forays into orchestral rock (the twelve-minute “April” and the “Concerto for Group and Orchestra”)? Yes, I have both of these, on lush, classic vinyl…

Sitting here with tears running down my face Filled with sorrow from the strips snail like pace Sonny boys dead and never more will he play But his memory hangs on if just for another day Locher is milking the pathos for all it is worth Driving the strip deeper into the earth There never has been an emotional connection And for these characters there is no affection Like relatives that have stayed overly long The strip exudes an odor that is powerfully strong.

From the size of the guitar in panel two, I’d say it’s more like a Guitar Hero controller than the real thing.

I don’t know what we’d do without your poetic words, wndwrthg.

puddleglum1066, never having been a fan of Deep Purple, I can’t speak to their orchestral adventures, although I hear they were relatively successful.

“Scratch My Back”, the new “no guitars, no drums” CD from Peter Gabriel has some wonderful orchestral arrangements.

Good artwork today. The scene in the 2nd panel is good.

Hmm so we are planning a memorial concert for JR? Correct me if I’m wrong but .. did we ever actually bury him? last I recall he was laying there on the ground with Dad weeping over him then Dad just got up and walked away leaving the corpse for the city to bury I guess.

I realize at the snails pace this strip moves it would be November before the Coroner shows up and next Spring before an autopsy could be concluded but a memorial concert already planned fifteen minutes after the Kid was shot? Way to go

Joe-Allen “Joe” Doty said, about 12 hours ago

Oh, it seems to make me think of the Boston Pops Orchestra.

hard rock and an orchestra…..more like trans siberian orchestra.

Ackkkkkkk! Giant space monsters from space! One of them has tiny vestigial wings! The other one has a ray gun that looks a little bit like a miniature electric guitar and a fringed neck like a lizard! Ackkkkk! Ackkkkkkkkk!

-Cougar :{)

Radish said, “So in the last panel he has announced the new group to the press before he has even talked to the band.”

No mourning period for the maestro! He even knew where the rock group’s headquarters were located!

VB, Green Hornet?

gillbill, - has a point. In fact, he’s right on target !

Not a sign or mention of a funeral …

Not even “one” panel, to let readers know the right thing was done …

Yet, Dad is running to strum the Guitar, to play “rock” !

That’s as “off-beat” as the Artist putting a yellow rubber Ducky in the corner of a panel on a Sunday page, or on a lamp and “convincing” himself that it is the right thing to do, and somehow constitutes an appropriate “memorial”!

Another example of “rocking-chair” writing style while “dozing” off (?) and by tomorrow not remembering what the heck he wrote during the little snooze !

margueritem said, “VB, Green Hornet?”

Yep! Ugly, isn’t he?