Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 28, 2010

Darn! I expected to see who fired the shot!

Ha ha, Bill, you made a funny! You know that all moves at a snail’s pace in ‘Daily Torture’…

Didn’t this happen yesterday?

Wait, what am I thinking? This is the beginning of the week-long, daily recap of the most recent Sunday recap.

Which could, of course, cause us to become trapped in an endless loop time paradox or something.

In which case, this story arc would continue into eternity, for an infinite number of days.

(shudder)

My guess, it was the one armed man, or did they do that already?

ANYbody can see who’s shooting the gun………..It’s “Thing” from The Addams Family.

Let’s invite the spammers back, they’re more interesting.

Aaaah!! There’s a glitch in the Matrix and we’re all gonna….

No, wait. We’re safe. It’s only another Dick Tracy recap of a recap of a recap for those with short-term memory loss.

Either that or things are moving so fast that time has slowed down. Damned Einstein.

If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything. Hmm……

I ’ , . , . ?

Because of the gun’s size, and the angle of the shot, it appears to be shooting a figurine off of a model airplane.

Radish

Not likely, Unless you were pulling a Rip Van Winkle. Should take about 10 minutes to catch up.

Hmmm… yesterday, The Blank/Johnny Nothing had a gun in his left hand and the tomahawk in his right hand. Today, he has both hands on the, now larger, tomahawk!

Yesterday neonleon59 said:

“Let’s do a little survey: Who do you think is the shooter in the last panel? I’ve seen this week’s strips, so I’ll disqualify myself.”

So how does one get a sneak peak at the strips before they appear? Doesn’t that double the agony?

To borrow a line from Firesign Theatre: Today’s recap of Sunday’s recap of the previous week’s recap was approved by the Department of Redundancy Department.

Johnny Nothing seems to have actually developed elbows over the weekend!

I’ll repeat these today in case anyone missed them in here late yesterday:

http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/04/15/has-dick-tracy-become-a-laughingstock/

http://www.cracked.com/article156675-most-unintentionally-hilarious-comic-strips.html

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/09/the10_newspapercomicstripsthatneedtofkinge.php (Read the comments)

http://joshreads.com/ (Read the comments)

You may have to copy and paste the URL into your browser to make it work.

WE ARE NOT ALONE.

P.S. Yesterday the gun went ‘POW’, but today it went ‘POW !’ so it is already more dramatic.

And in panel 1, we see only the axe, but in panel 2 we see he dropped both the axe and the gun (plus the mask, which had somehow managed to stay on until this point). Panel 2 today appears to be the exact same artwork from the last panel yesterday, so the artist is as lazy as the writer.

Btmosley, that Cracked article is priceless!

The part of me that hates life wishes I was the shooter…

Glad you liked it, Flight Suit.

More comedy gold at http://joshreads.com/?cat=54

The current Dick Tracy storyline, in which one of Dick’s old adversaries (or possibly said adversary’s grandson) has gone to all the trouble of being cast opposite Dick in a dramatic re-enactment of one of his old cases just so he can murder the detective and one or more bystanders in front of hundreds of onlookers, is painfully dumb, dumber than usual for this feature

btmosley, you have to understand that the shooter is incredibly accurate: he or she not only sent the bullet through Johnny’s body so as to shoot the gun out of the pocket or holster or wherever he had put it while he was wielding the axe with both hands, but did so in such a way that the ricochet knocked the mask off. And this with a handgun at the outer limit of its range!

Panel-Panner:, I believe you meant to write, “…the Department of Dual Redundancy Department.”

What a waste of time and space.

It’s…deja vu!! (Hopefully we’ll move on tomorrow.)

@Panel-Panner: Send me an email and I’ll share the “technique”.

neonleon59@gmail.com

“we must all be bozos on this bus”

Just another great strip today! A fun chase sequence and a great cliff-hanger. Great Stuff! Just enough of a cliff-hanger to keep us guessing without giving away the next day’s surprise.

Another two panel day

Would Panel Panner please repeat that, thanks, I think I got it now.

Relax..This is just a modern remake of an old,old comic strip that ran way back..let’s see..yesterday.

“RECAPS” ? Today’s daily from a Sunday ?

Later in the story you’ll see a Sunday page ‘recaping’ the previous Sunday which was a ‘recap’ of the earlier Monday to Saturday daily strips. ;-)

No ’haste’ in the Locher pace !

Elexia said,

Elexia said, about 14 hours ago

The part of me that hates life wishes I was the shooter

You are not the only one !

I remember as a kid reading “Dondi.” The pacing in the past week made Dondi’s story lines look action packed.

Sunday’s color strip seems to be a recap of last week’s action at the museum with a new cliffhanger to end the week. Today strip sets up the week with a retelling of Sunday’s cliffhanger (with added dialogue). Not everyone can read everyday.

Not really that complicated.

And as in all cliffhangers, the resolution always includes a cheat, that the reader didn’t see coming ( the reader didn’t see it coming, because it was never there ). See Indiana Jones and all the serials that influenced a generation.

The shooter could be Anja Nu. She did tell the boys to stop playing and get back on the stage. She’ll get ‘em there if she has to shoot them! After all, it’s time to end the intermission and get back to the show she worked on for years!

it’s the museum - it’s taken over a mannequin to try to get the ball rolling again