Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 03, 2010

Ladies and Gentlemen, now playing Dick Tracy…Mr. Jamie Farr!!

Anja’s going to pin Tracy’s murder on The Blank… he appears to be dead. Will Liz and Catchum buy her story?

LudwigVonDrake, wonderful! Nice to see you here so early! ‘Morning, VB!

Panel 3: Is Tracy taking a final bow before his death scene?

Tracy looks like he’s having a heart attack.

Panel 2: A giant mutant amoeba has crawled across the floor and it’s eating Johnny Blank’s armpit.

Panel 1: Anja Nu’s head still looks like a big p-n-s with a wig.

Thank yoy,Panel Panner. I was wondweing what that was;

Incidently, forgive me if I’ve forgotten. Were you a gold panner back in the day?

Does kinda look like a cardiac problem.

Klueless Kop Report

Science Museum Incident (cont’d)

The intermission started its third hour but none of the officers noticed anything amiss. Due to limited math skills the officers gave up trying to count the freckles on Detective Sam Catchem’s face and instead used a magic marker to connect the dots. It was noted that Detective Catchem had the Big Dipper on his left cheek (face cheek, that is).

We did note that stagehands were swearing in the background as they tried to get ready for the next scene. A complaint was made that the actor portraying King Pyn wouldn’t leave the stage. He just lay there, unresponsive. Apparently he was a ham upset with his small role. He decided to cause trouble by bleeding all over and then letting his blood coagulate, thus adhering him to the floorboards…

But Tracy has been caught without a gun How can the deed have been done The bullets go in low and range up high Striking similarities in the way they die And her fingerprints, there on the grip Just another slip-up in the strip The bullets from the weapon are the same Forensics will prove her story to be lame But will Tracy obligingly die Or will he launch himself from on high A diving tackle from wing Down Anja Nu, he will bring The cops are now beginning to suspicion That this is a abnormally long intermission A man still lies on the stage bleeding And the stage crew, him, is not heeding So many things there are to discuss So many things that bring disgust Another terrible story will come to an end Just like the others, it has become a trend.

@Shirttail Slim:

No, did didn’t pan for gold in the old days. Panning refers to a cinematic shot where the camera moves from side to side, either mounted on a tripod or moving along on a rail. When reading a comic strip, your eyes are panning from one side to the other.

Also, “panning” refers to the tone of my comments here at DT…

More fine words, WW. Always a pleasure to read.

Very good WW. Nice to see you again.

Kudos, WW. Good to see some real creative talent around here!!!! You should be writing DT - in verse, of course.

Another great set of verses by WW. Maybe these will stay put.

So is this just revenge for ruining an inconsequential dinner theater performance, or has Anja been harboring a long-standing grudge that we’re only just now going to be hearing about?

God, this is awful.

Pamel Panner

I am famikiar with the panning you speak of. I take a lot of pictures. I use a tripod (hands not steady these days) ’ I have tried to do PANoramas and it didn’t work very well. The moutains retreat with distance amf the colors change with the varying angles. I don/t know. I gave up???

And wih that last lament, I will toddole off to bed. Night all

In the decades that Tracy has been drawn, has he ever looked less like…himself…than in the the last few days?

He looks like he’s having a Fred Sanford moment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZi31apGCT4

WW - Great work today (as always). Have you considered adding your talent to the ongoing story that BassmanBob is supplying us with in the Annie forum?

Timely, finger pointing verse wndrwrthg. Another polish to your reputation in taking the poorly ‘thought out’ action plan of Anja’s to the cleaners.

What caught me this morning too was Tracy posture seemingly BOWING to the ‘inevitable’ - was that death in the story (?) or more a harbinger of the end of the STRIP ?

So, let’s see here now. It’s supposed to look as if Tracy and the Blank shot each other to death. Angina thinks she will shoot Tracy with a gun other than the Blank’s. And kill Tracy. The police will believe that Tracy shot the Blank from a distance in the back (no powder burns) and from below. Bullet angle. The bullet in Tracy isn’t from the Blank’s gun. And the bullet in the Blank didn’t come from any gun Tracy owns. And Tracy will have no powder burns on him. And be shot from below as well. And he will have no powder residue on his sleeves from firing the gun. How the heck is such a scenario even possible? How could this woman be so stupid? How could the writer not expect us to connect the plot holes?

“We” can pin it on the Blank? Anja Nu has co-conspirators?

When guns are outlawed, only cops won’t have guns….

Like we always said, Macy’s adversaries are always just one step dumber than Macy . No, I take that back! No one could out-dumb Macy. But it’s close! At least the baddies in this one were armed. Macy is armed with the secret SKUNK stunner. When he empties the magazine, he always is able to “reload”.

Looks like Tracy is about to burst into song

And maybe a little soft shoe too

Then again, this might be an alien shape-shifter posing as Tracy, That might explain the recent morphing of Tracy’s features. I’m sure even an alien shape-shifter would be frightened when confronted by a human homicidal maniac/

Just a thought.

Diabolical!

And now Tracy has morphed into Victor Mature.

not that plot, motivation or coherence matters a whit here, but what is anja’s ‘sweet revenge?’ shooting someone for ruining a play seem a teensy extreme.

texino – that’s what i thought also

About Anga’s plan—it just might work. Of course it makes no sense, since even a recruit could easily see through it. But, we’re talking about the Napperville police here, who collectively couldn’t detect a Limburger cheese sandwich right in front of them. So, there IS a chance she could pull it off.

Personal note: Whether Dick Tracy continues past the current arc, I have determined that I won’t follow into the next story. Locher has ruined this comic, and I can stand no more. I’ll follow out the current story to see how it ends, but then DT ends for me.

Tracy looks like a wuss running away

Michael - don’t you dare cut and run! Remember the draw here is us; not Wimpy the Cop. Macy died years ago. He was buried by Locher. We come here daily to chat and laugh. You are as big a part of it as anyone. Remember Mattie? It was Mattie that caught my attention with his hourly rantings and that hooked me! He’s still at it in the Yahoo Group and he is a hoot! He’ll be back and with his weasel sidekick. That’s one reason I hang in here. He can’t stay away for much longer, and it makes the site your high point of the day! I promise! BB’ll be back, too.

Morrow

Continuing previous rant:: And the cops have to buy that Tracy AND the Blank shot each other from below at a distance with the same gun. Covered in Angina’s fingerprints. There are probably more parts of her “plan” that are totally unworkable, but why bother to point them out? The writer did not bother to notice them.

Tracy’s last stance reminds me of jackie Gleason and , ’Away We Go!’.

Morrow - I agree. I quit reading Tracy years ago but came back here recently to read the comments, not the strip.

Let’s see…Anja Nu shot The Blank, who was about to shoot Tracy because she wanted to be the first to shoot Tracy. How selfish can you get?

Morrow, I gotta ask: Mattie is a reason to keep coming???? His howls of how great this strip is and what a genius Locher is made me wonder long ago whether we were reading the same strip. It also made me wonder about his sanity, but I reckon that’s another issue.

About my staying on: If I do, this community is the only reason why. As far as the strip is concerned, I’ve about filled up on the detective who is more cowardly than any rookie cop should ever be. Dumber, too. So far, DT hasn’t done one thing right since the brick was thrown through his window.

unfortunately, as we have tons of cops still sitting in the audience who watched a man bleed to death and heard gunshots and more, anja nu might be able to get away with it

bring in the meddling kids, the scooby doo gang - they always caught the bad guys before the credits rolled and they can rip off her horrible mask to see who the real culprit is

Wave “Bye-bye,” Locher …

Michael, we have a neat community here! We have some real creative wits here; we have some cute chickies, too! We used to have a real looker, Judy H, but she got booted ala BB-style. (Not to say we don’t have OTHER lookers, too!) And believe it or not, some real friendships have spawned here! And don’t forget, there’s plenty of competition every morning! Can’t wait to see the booger kids in the Snotpicker’s Notebook in the morning. It’ll be stupid; count om it! You wouldn’t believe the friendships that began here. I have some that started back at Comicspage and carried here.

And now tracy will sing….something…