Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 31, 2015

The Board seems to have been down EARLIER on ?No comments have been registered as I write . . .

Jimmy certainly seems to be heading into a terminal scenario?

Underground the tunnels fill. The lake has sprung a leakJimmy thought he’d grabbed the gold, turns out his plan was weak.Points his gun at Teddy Tellum. Someone must take the blameAn angry thug with a hand gun, his every move so lame.Sam and Tracy in the sky, keen eyes spot the whirlpoolJimmy purloins Teddy’s boat. The fat man is a fool.Announces that he’s out of here. Revs the outboard motorChurning waters draw him in. Shooz not much of a boater.Teddy cries for rescue, thus a ladder is dropped downTracy does his duty, saves the preening talk show clown.Lake Pratchett quickly draining, the geyser touches skyJimmy’s flushed like so much waste, the fat man starts to cry.Swirling ever closer to a watery demiseThought he would be living large, so death is a surprise.Breathing water keeps him mute, could he speak Jimmy would sayWish I’d walked a different path, knowing now crime does not pay.

Jimmy Choo Shooz is circling the drain.

And away goes Choo Shooz down the drain. Great work Pequod!

“Hey Jimmy!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huOT6zCgZEU

Something tells me that barge and Jimmy Choo Shooz are going to have a golden reunion before the week is done!

This is an example of how villains met their end in the Gould era. Nice work, Team Tracy!

I may have missed the reply so I’ll ask again. What newspaper /newpapers still print DT? Thanks/

I’ve been enjoying the way Joe draws Jimmy. One line serves as his mouth, outlines his chin, and then curves up into a crease on his face.Clean and simple, but gives all the necessary details.(I’ve been a fan of Joe’s art since his days at Charleton. I still have that E-Man promo poster he drew, signed by writer Nick Cuti.)

I know there are complainers, but I’ve really been enjoying this story.Jimmy’s expected demise via whirlpool in a collapsing lake is certainly Gouldian.

Well Jimmy should be done by Tuesday. Did anyone else have trouble accessing by his website this morning? And who else thinks the Blackhearts found the burried gold?

Who else thinks Jimmy Choo Shooz looks like Fred Flintstone? : )

Maybe Jimmy and the gold will be reunited – in Davy Jones’ locker :)

Jimmy’s going to need a wetsuit. Well, he’ll have one soon ;)

Thought Jimmy was smarter, but the betting parlor murders were not cleverly done. Now, it he tricked the bigger bad guys into a booby trap using the gold – that would have worked.

My gamble is someone has grabbed the ‘real’ gold – and the barge has gold painted lead bars. An actual single bar would be worth about $9M.

We can now put a fork in him, because he’s done.

Tremendous art yet again. I like the shifting perspectives as we take a back seat to Tracy and Tellum, hover over the lake, peek over Sam’s shoulder (there goes more shoreline), wave goodbye to Jimmy and take a bird’s eye view of the boat in relation to the swirling whirlpool. Wonderful. Like NightShade09, I’m a big fan of Mr. Staton’s work. We get a dynamic look at Jimmy’s failed escape. The whirlpool, not the gold, is Jimmy’s reward. Drowning is a bad way to go. Just ask the Summer Sisters.

So Jimmy dug up nothing but regret. I think BB-Eyes is no fool. He caught wind that Jimmy was up to mischief (the ill-advised request for an extension) and took action, or ordered that action be taken. I’ve enjoyed this story very much. The use of Robbin’ the Rails to reveal an approximation of Jimmy’s caper, the Blackhearts’ participation through BB, Blaze and Doubleup and the Mole helping Tracy are a few of the many highlights. Yes, seanyj, Jimmy has a bit of Fred Flintstone to his look, which makes sense, given the Frank Fontaine nod. Flintstone was modeled after Ralph Kramden, Gleason’s character in The Honeymooners. They outta give Team Tracy an award or something. Oh, wait….Thanks to Chrisstopher, Chris Sherlock, JPuzzleWhiz, mzkdad, Night-Gaunt49 and John Russell (!) for the kind words. Very much appreciated..This site was down last night when I returned home from watching The Chicago Blackhawks win game 7 vs. the Anaheim Ducks. Good to see it back up this morning. Here’s to all Tracy fans remembering their password. Cheers.

This is going to be interesting.

Good afternoon guys!

I was afraid that GoComics had been sucked into the whirlpool! Jimmy is dense enough to attempt to hook the gold barge onto Ted’s boat! His cigar’s still burning! Nice work, Pequod77!

All that he is going through and the cigar is still in Jimmy’s mouth! I don’t believe he thought he could dig up, transfer and haul away all that gold without any help. What a fool to knock off his assistants when he could have used them and then killed them.

According to Is this site down, when I checked it about 7 it had been down about 7hours so I’m glad to see its up now…I don’t think Jimmy’s gonna die yet.

And I’m curious if this flood is going to affect life in the Mole’s tunnel!

Quite the service outage, indeed.

Good question about the tunnel system, Chris.

This is strictly from left field, but I’m thinking there is a very slight chance that Jimmy might survive this — if the water drains from the lake so that he ends up on the lake bottom without drowning.

I don’t think that’s going to work in the present situation. If he were somewhere along the edge of the lake, I could see his boat getting grounded as the water drained, but it’s obvious from the curve of the path in the last panel that his boat is getting sucked closer to the centre of the whirlpool. Anything in that position is going to be sucked down the hole before the lake drains.

Another description from Lake Peigneur, this time from a book called Louisiana Gardens by Mary Fonseca. Lyle Bayless had planted a large garden that was open to the public. When Bayless retired, he built a new home on the shore of the lake.

“A huge whirlpool sucked in the rig, eleven barges laden with with trucks and salt, and two boats working in a canal that joins Lake Peigneur to the Gulf of Mexico.“Tipped off balance by human error, Mother Nature drained Lake Peigneur, sent up a muddy geyser, toppled Bayliss’s house into the water, ripped fifty acres off Live Oak Gardens, and destroyed the greenhouses and conservatory. She then refilled the lake with water from the Gulf and coughed up nine of the barges from its deep basin. Remarkably, not a single life was lost. When engineers advised that the island was stable, Bayless helped the staff rebuild Live Oak Gardens.”

Fun, fun, fun as Jimmy goes whirlin’ away…….

Want to meet “Dick Tracy” writer Mike Curtis? Join us in Mena, Arkansas for the Lum and Abner Festival Saturday, June 6! Mike will be part of our stage show at the Ouachita Little Theater at 1:00 p.m. (Central)! Come at 12:30 for a meet-and-greet time!More information here:Meet Mike Curtis at the Lum and Abner Festival

Jimmy might be just big enough to plug the hole!

Good afternoon Tracy fans._______Pequod, another outstanding poem. A fitting end for Jimmy._______Have a blissful Sunday my friends.

A couple of days ago (I think), I was speculating on whether the lake drains towards Tellum’s house. As shown a few days ago, Tellum’s house definitely sits well above the lake with the broadcasting studio below it. Also, when Tellum went to the studio from the house, he had to walk down some steps.

That means that the lake presumably drains through some other waterway (when it’s not draining through a hole in the bottom). I’m not sure what that means for Ted’s house, but the fact that Sam noticed more of the shoreline disappearing today isn’t a good sign.

Since GoComics was inaccessible (whether shut off for maintenance, as one screen said, or crippled by some accident) around and after midnight CDT (Central or, as I’d say, Chicagoland Daylight Time), I didn’t get back to the site until some minutes ago (I view my comics choices in alphabetical order, and there are several ahead of Dick Tracy on my “carousel”). Jimmy’s stolen motorboat is likely to go down, down, down the whirlpool, and his chances of survival are slim, though not non-existent. Whether we and Tracy will ever see the gold is unclear at this point. Might it be aboard that barge we saw? Or might it be otherwise coughed up by the whirlpool and geyser as part of the debris sucked down only to be regurgitated? —In any case, I like Team Tracy’s use of real events as a basis for their fictionalized narrative framework.Go, Blackhawks!

Looks like Jimmy is going on a whirled tour…

And down and down he goes. Round and round he goes. In a spin. Hating the spin he’s in. Under that old black magic called GREED! Sorry.

Great reply, Puzz!

I don’t see much chance of Jimmy surviving this. But you never know because I was sure Fifth and Flyface didn’t survive the tidal wave in 1960. Mumbles and BB Eyes also survived their watery graves so it does seem to happen. This mystery of what happened to the gold can’t be a long drawn out story so there must be a fairly simple explanation. I’m leaning to the gold having been removed without Jimmy knowing about it. I’m thinking the Blackhearts somehow found out (maybe Axelrod told them) but they didn’t inform Doubleup and Blaze when they removed it.

One other possibility is that the train may have been a decoy and the gold was hidden on another train. Actually, that makes sense to discourage train thieves. There may have been metal bars painted to look like gold and it might still be in the tunnel somewhere. That was a ruse used in the Mr. Intro story back in 1968 when the Space Couple delivered fake gold to him but one bar fell off and floated revealing it’s fake.

Fred never wore specs, never smoked, and never wore a business suit.Well, he may not have worn specs or a business suit, but he did smoke, at least in one 1960s Winston ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc1TBBp4dC8

Underground the tunnels fill. The lake has sprung a leak

Jimmy thought he’d grabbed the gold, turns out his plan was weak.

Points his gun at Teddy Tellum. Someone must take the blame

An angry thug with a hand gun, his every move so lame.

Sam and Tracy in the sky, keen eyes spot the whirlpool

Jimmy purloins Teddy’s boat. The fat man is a fool.

Announces that he’s out of here. Revs the outboard motor

Churning waters draw him in. Shooz not much of a boater.

Teddy cries for rescue, thus a ladder is dropped down

Tracy does his duty, saves the preening talk show clown.

Lake Pratchett quickly draining, the geyser touches sky

Jimmy’s flushed like so much waste, the fat man starts to cry.

Swirling ever closer to a watery demise

Thought he would be living large, so death is a surprise.

Breathing water keeps him mute, could he speak Jimmy would say

Wish I’d walked a different path, knowing now crime does not pay.