Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 13, 2010

What excitement!

No no little Johnny, he is in the head. And why does Tracy form “Gotta hide from this kook” as a question? Lord love a duck, this is beyond bad. And bleeep kickers notebook: Yeh kid, it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Guns don’t kill people; faceless villains and killer clowns and Sontarans kill people!

They can have my toy gun when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

If only Tracy had a gun so he could defend himself. Or some sort of communication device so he could call 911 for help.

So why didn’t DT close the frigging hatch?

Anja, this whole cartoon is dead in the water……

Annie gone, and this smear of pigeon dropping is still aroud?

Yes, toy guns don’t let kids see the actual dangers of weapons. Give them real guns!

Another boring Sunday recap. Of course, this is done so that readers can follow the story from Sunday to Sunday in those papers that only carry it on that day. So why read the strip Monday through Saturday?

Yesterday Anja said she would be SUNK if she didn’t get Johnny Nothing and Tracy back on stage. Today she’s saying her production will be dead in the water if she can’t find them.

And to add to the PUNishment, Johnny has to say that Tracy is over his head.

Usually I like humor involving U-boats but this stuff is insubstantial.

yuck.

Locher likes to use awful puns to foreshadow events. Since I can’t think of any way for the sub to actually wind up in the water, all these nautical jokes can only mean one thing: DT’s abject terror will soon cause him to unleash a torrential flood of urine, and Johnny Nothing and DT will have to both to fight to avoid drowning in the, heh, “Yellow Submarine.”

Oh, snap!

The Blank is right. Tracy is definitely down a hole. The entire strip, that is. Imagine the headline “Man Shot Dead on Stage, Cops in Audience Do Nothing”.

We now have a 3 ring circus of nonsense.

Lizz & Sam doing nothing.

Tracy running like a scared little girl & hiding from a foe he has twice disarmed.

Angina shrieking about her stupid play.

I’m predicting that Anja is going to take a bullet to the gut.

Now children, take the weekly strip and your safety scissors and see if you can create a Sunday strip.Good job, Dick.

I think they’ve just torpedoed this whole production. It’s down the tubes. They’ve gotten in over their heads. The strip has gone belly-up. (No, wait, that’s a goldfish pun. Never mind.)

Reality check: The only submarine in a science museum is in Chicago. Say what you will about Chicago police, by now if something like this had happened the place would be crawling with cops who would be open for business. The Blank would be in real trouble now, probably dead. The Napperville department might get disbanded and their duties taken over by county and state police. Dick Tracy might get discharged for rank cowardice and inability to detect even the most obvious clues to a crime.

So, DL, where are the REAL police?

Have we gone back in time to the 1950s? Maybe we’re not in Chicago – maybe we’re on 77 Sunset Strip. Kookie! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqvFmAm9C5w

-Cougar :{)

cougar, thanks for the trip back in time…..before getting back to here, I visited a bunch of the old fifties tv series opening themes…….pretty cool stuff on ’ the internets’!

Do you THINK it’s just possible …

1) A disenchanted and really ’annoyed’ FAN pelted a ROCK smashing Dicky Locher’s Studio Window ?

2) That the Naperville Police FAILED (refused), to respond to the call ?

3) That Locher is NOW getting his ‘REVENGE’ by painting the Naperville Police (through Tracy) as run-away COWARDS ?

4) And further emphasizing their ‘INACTIVITY’ by having the Chief ,Sam and Teevo sitting in the audience doing NOTHING but twiddling their thumbs ? - Not even checking on the shot man on the stage ?

5) Was Locher’s Wife ‘frightened’ and ‘screaming’ like the woman in last weeks Crimestoppers Textbook ? http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2010/06/06/

6) Then to further DAUB them, can we now expect to see some real ‘HOOTERS’ - the next time Naperville HQ is depicted ?

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I went on a rampage with my Durango Kid Cap pistol when I was 7—Dead outlaws and rustlers were all over the neighborhood.

So why does Tracy even bother with a wrist radio if he’s not gong to use it?

Hey Johnny! Macy’s on the Poop Deck emptying out his trousers. (Isn’t that why they call it that?) If you want to find him, follow your nose and listen for teeth chattering. Look around the room there and see if you can’t come up with a depth charge. That ought to smoke him out!

Anja is looking at the wrong submarine! The one she is near has a bow rail; the sub that Macy is fouling doesn’t have a bow rail. I wonder how Naperville rates two (count ‘em!) WWII subs, when Chicago only rates one. Better send Rahm and the boys over! HOLD IT! Maybe Mattie helped them get the second one. After all, he’s connected!

Morrow: Maybe second prize was two German submarines!

There are also some real guns that look like toys. Like this one, f’rinstance:

http://www.charterfirearms.com/products/Charter_Undercover _53833.html

After 87 years, another legendary Tribune Media character– Little Orphan Annie– ends its run today. It’s sad, and ironic on two levels: first, the fiends are ending it mid-story, so the last we see of Annie is as captive of a war criminal being taken to the jungles of Guatemala; and second, because the team doing it in recent years had a lot more passion and competence than Dick’s team.

CougarAllen said, about 10 hours ago: “Have we gone back in time to the 1950s? ”

If so, does that mean that in a few years we’ll be seeing Diet Smith’s antigravity ships and Moon Maid again?

Maxine_Viller said, about 3 hours ago: “There are also some real guns that look like toys. Like this one, f’rinstance: [link]”

Not to mention Glocks and S&W Sigmas with polymer frames …

(I was originally going to make some comment about the runaway PC represented by the “Crimestoppers Textbook” panel, but figured why bother: either people already see it or they are too far gone to be brought around … )

I noticed yesterday’s panel one there was a torpedo present. It looked like a Mk. 14. Tracy could hide in the tubes.

And then shoot himself out in an air bubble. Hold it! Considering the state he’s in (scared), he can provide his own bubble!

TSlampyak (Annie) posted a comment in the (final) Annie strip today. Perhaps Dick Locker reads the comments here and …