Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 05, 2010

Hmmm… Let’s list all the plot developments today:

The end.

Uh yea

Poor Dick.

I see the cable break and……. Where is Tracy? The plane dives down but…… It seems to have leveled off over Anga Nu?

Apparently the laws of physics is suspended here today?

Or it might be a parallel universe. A mirror image of Earth where the laws of physics are different?

Slim, Slim…

You know very well that this version of DT defies logic. What are you thinking? Physics? Good grief.

You’d think they would of had more than one cable holding that plane up.

Hey, SmithRA, the world runs on the laws of physics. I am aware that many forms of entertainment tend to tweak them on occasion.

I am but a spectator of my surrondings, the the things I see.

Curse you, logic.

On occasion? This strip? How about breaking that other rule - the one in Thermodynamics which say you can’t have a perpetual motion machine? This strip perpetually breaks the rules of physics and logic.

No logic. Distorted physics. No reasoning, yet…………………. Look where we are right now.

I never had to dissect any frogs. or anything else when I was in school.

Now here I am in dissection central. :-)))))

Good night my friends. LOL

The Stuka begins its deadly dive Can Anja get out alive? Before the bomber takes its toll Perhaps she should drop and roll Tracy is not in sight Did he miss this unscheduled flight? A miraculous ending to the story This one has been quite gory Death and mayhem on the stage A director with a deadly rage Gunfire rings out in the museum To the cops it’s as quiet as a mausoleum Tracy’s performance had a mesmerizing effect Causing them, their duties to neglect But will the sound of the crashing plane Penetrate into their tiny brain And jar them back to reality Just as the story reaches its finality? Or will they remain in place And stare blankly into space? Come back again for the inevitable confusion That will mark this sad, sad stories conclusion.

From yesterday, thank you SmithRA and Shirttail Slim.

Yesterday Michael McMillan – a reader who has done more detective work than Tracy has in a long time – found this image of the real Stuka on display at the Chicago Museum of Scince and Industry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ju87ChicagoMuseumOfScienceAndIndustry2007.jpg

Take a look. There are two dummies in the plane, pilot and rear gunner. So how did Tracy find room to hide in the plane? Was he pretending to be a dummy? (Then again, from what I’ve seen, he doesn’t have to pretend.)

Apparently Locher made a snap judgment to wrap up this mess.

WW wrote:

“Gunfire rings out in the museum “To the cops it’s as quiet as a mausoleum “Tracy’s performance had a mesmerizing effect “Causing them, their duties to neglect “But will the sound of the crashing plane “Penetrate into their tiny brain “And jar them back to reality “Just as the story reaches its finality? “Or will they remain in place “And state blankly into space?”

Laugh out loud funny. The best take on the Klueless Kops yet.

Where’d Spacy go?

Whatever you do, don’t get into a jam in Napperville where the police are needed. Further, if you need a detective don’t waste time calling Tracy. Instead, call a truck driver who has some curiosity about why what happens happens the way it did and starts snooping.

Reckon how many days it will take the plane to hit the floor?

When the plane hits the floor, will the “crash” be heard and felt in the auditorium? Liz remarks, “Sam, did you hear that? It sounded and felt like an earthquake! Sam… Sam… wake up.”

Everybody - Your comments are so funny! This is one of the funniest sites on GoComics, and it’s not because of the strip, it’s the fans’ (?) reaction to it!

If an airplane falls in the museum, and kills all who might be there to hear it, does it still make any sound?

“Twang”?

Thank you, Panel- Panner.

Uh, come to think of it, didn’t high performance fighter aircraft have retractable landing gear?

N7326 Foxtrot This plane was not a fighter, It was a dive bomber.The navy had dive bonbers that had a tail gunner.

N7326 Foxtrot said, 26 minutes ago

Uh, come to think of it, didn’t high performance fighter aircraft have retractable landing gear?

Most WW2 fighters had retractable gear. The JU87 didn’t. It was a purpose-built dive bomber designed to be as simple as possible, with as few things that could break as possible. Fixed gear presented fewer problems than retractables would, and further probably had advantages in the diving attacks. I suspect the increased drag probably helped control the plane in the dive.

Note; others have already noted this so I’m piling on: Connecting the support cable to the canopy wouldn’t be done, and Locher has built in a couple of impossibilities. No way could the canopy structure ever have supported the aircraft, further, even if it could there’s absolutely no way that Tracy could have slid the entire weight of the plane in order to get into it. The tracks never would have withstood this abuse. On the real plane at the real science museum, the cables attach to the airframe at strengthened points forward of the canopy. The rear cable, which holds the plane at “attack” angles, attaches at a strengthened point on the vertical stabilizer.

Michael, concerning the retractable gear, I think the Junkers Ju 87 was put into production with several things in mind. One, fixed gear lightened the plane; secondly was the expense. The lightening was important because the lighter the plane, the heavier the payload (bombs). I suspect they also had a short lifespan, also. By that I mean number of sorties. The Germans made about 6,500 of them. Not too many of them went the 20 mission distance.

Wasn’t there an article out there somewhere a few months ago about the “laws of cartoon physics”? This would probably make a new entry on that list.

It appears that the plane is going to land on it’s wheels so Anja Nu, if she happens to be between them, won’t be seriously injured. What worries me is, what happened to Dick Tracy? He was originally standing on the wing when the cable broke (twang). Now he’s gone! Did he get back in the cockpit?

Yeah, Bill. He read Snotpicker’s Notebook and is buckling up for safety.

And what about Liz?-Will she discover that Anja is actually her father? Will someone, at last, claim the body of the dead man on the stage? And what about Locher? Will the authorities discover that he killed the real Locher to take over the strip and he’s actually a shoe salesman from Peoria who has never drawn anything in his life? And what about Tess? Will she finally admit to herself that her true love is Diet Smith? And what about Joe Biden who has said he hopes to have time to see the pyramids while he’s in Iraq?

Tune in again tomorrow for another Episode Of “The Senile And The Senseless.”

Groundzero said, “Tune in again tomorrow for another Episode Of “The Senile And The Senseless.” ”

I’ll be there!

I turn to dick tracy this morning, expecting to see…..exactly what I got, nothing…..

Another great one, WW!

This has become so exciting that my heart is racing!

(Or maybe it was the sixth cup of coffee that I just finished.)

Actually Margueritem, Nothing is on the floor

But with the new 2 panel daily, expect 50 % more action

neonleon59, - You’d have to realize that doing a Monday strip is an easy snap. No thinking power needed, just use paste up or scribble a few minor variation to ‘mask’ what it IS … and you’re finished for the day !

They make out that it’s justified because of a need to REFRESH readers on what happened last week.( Don’t mind that the whole Suday page did just that) Come Tuesday they have to start thinking - out of LAZY mode with the problem of what happens next.

So forward movement is only Tuesday to Saturday (18 panels) the other 10 are reserved for REPETITION.

And then they give interviews saying space is too cramped to have better PACING !

With the plane crashing, does anyone think that the glass on the cockpit will be broken AGAIN ?

And where the heck is Tracy (as wndrwrthg has noted) ? Wasn’t he on the wing of the plane as Anja was about to pull the trigger

This continues to BE a comedy of errors. Were Capt. J.M.Patterson (who hired Gould) still around, he wouldn’t have Brozman on the carpet, he’d have him UNDER the plane.

How did I know Locher would repeat yesterday’s ending…

Panel-Panner is right. In the picture they obviously cables…Instead of a frail rope, which Locher calls a cable, and there are three or four of them.

It will cost a great deal of money to restore that airplane again .

http://shockdom.com/open/carl/2010/07/06/striscia-22/

I got around to looking it up and yes, even the earliest Stukas had bulletproof Plexiglass canopies that would resist an axe as easily as bullets. Try chopping at a piece of Plexiglass sometime…. I think Locher deliberately avoids putting in anything that makes sense because it would make the rest of the strip look bad.

-Cougar :{)

ooh very exciting there’s now 6 books of gould out there and this thing