Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 12, 2010

In panel one, we see that somebody is crushed beneath the plane, with just their legs sticking out. It can’t be Anja, because we see her face in panel two. It can’t be the Blank, because we see his body from the chest down in panel three, and no matter how strong Tracy is, I doubt he was able to lift the aircraft wreckage and get it off either one of them.

Flight Suit, it’s cartoon magic!

I believe that Sydney mentioned something about the lame excuse Anja had for trying to kill Tracy. This plot has more holes than swiss cheese…

I’m surprised the fall didn’t kill Blank.

This Locher dude doesn’t get paid for this does he? If so I’m in the wrong business!!!!

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“Blank! You survived!”

No bleep, Dick Tracy!

Following up on Flight Suit’s comments…

In Panel 1 it’s obvious that the upper half of Anja is under the nose of the plane. That’s means there’s no light on her. But in Panel 2 we see her face and hands.

OK, maybe that was artistic license and we’re being given an “X-ray vision” view of her body. I could buy that – but not the fact she would be still be recognizable after the heavy plane squished her into soupy meat.

At least this villainess got a prop-er burial. See you in the press, Anja! (Ooops…)

Enjoyed your cartoon, Flight Suit. When are you taking over DT from Locher and Brozman? I heard Chevron bought the rights to Dick Tracy. Oooops…

I’d comment, but as Slim said, Why be redundant?

So….Anja was dead yesterday, but now is apparently alive and less beat up-looking than Tracy?

Thank you, Panel-Panner! Believe it or not, drawing those cartoons was challenging enough that it forced me to appreciate Locher a little more.

Look closely, and you’ll see that I’m no expert at drawing hands! For that final panel where the guy’s praying, though, I used a photo of praying hands for reference, and it worked out much better.

A simple explanation and one that is consistent with traditional Dick Tracy gore:

She’s been cut in two and the upper half was squirted out behind the plane, where there is light,

Of course, being a wannabe actress, she’s only playing dead.

btmosley, I’d say she’s wannabe alive.

It’s about time for this wannabe comic strip to be crushed.

You know, we’ve been so busy with the rampant inconsistencies, impossibilities, violations of the laws of physics, etc., I don’t remember seeing any comments on something else that’s been bothering me. I thought the actor who was pursuing Tracy was named “Johnny Nothing” and was the grandson of The Blank. Now all the characters call him “The Blank”. What’s up with that?

Par for the course around here, I suppose.

Yes neonleon59. It most assuredly is. :)

Locher’s just picking a winner on the name basis ! Who wants to say a long ’Johnny Nothing’ not even the Author - it lacks zing !

Anja looks pretty good after having a 5 ton airplane land on her face. No telling how they got that plane off her so fast. Meanwhile, nobody cares about the dead guy on stage and Blank is not getting any medical attention either. But Tracy has that cute crisscross band-aid which started out on his jaw and has now migrated up the his eye.

I think that’s a new bandage-Spacy cut himself shaving

Blank has just been shot, fallen from way up in the ceiling, had airplane parts land on him and the first thing he says is to give Tracy info about Anja. How about an “ouch!”?

people dead and dying all over the place but its spacy who gets the medical attention first with those cute bandages

neonleon59 said, about 4 hours ago

You know, we’ve been so busy with the rampant inconsistencies, impossibilities, violations of the laws of physics, etc., I don’t remember seeing any comments on something else that’s been bothering me. I thought the actor who was pursuing Tracy was named “Johnny Nothing” and was the grandson of The Blank. Now all the characters call him “The Blank”. What’s up with that?

They aren’t actually calling him ‘The Blank’. They’re calling him ‘The @#*!’, but the artist can’t draw such complicated shapes, so he uses as much of ‘Blankety-blank’ as he can manage to spell.

… and with the gun still in his hand, Johnny “The Blank” Nothing will now shoot at the sound of Dumb Twit’s voice, ending him once and for all … … . well, I wish.

Certainly a gory scene! Where is all the help Liz phoned for?

VB-spread around town, at a casino, at the circus tent, at the embassy, and don’t forget the clowns assigned to watch Spacy’s house

I don’t know about the rest of you but I cannot wait to see what manner of lame bleeep Locher comes up with next.

Blank choses his dying last words with care: it’s extremely important we know that she’s a wannabe actress

Anja looks better dead than she did alive.

Hmm, Anja’s an actor wannabe. I thought the most logical way to become a director is to be an actor.

To quote the Munchkins of Munchkin-land, “She’s really most sincerely dead!” Great cartoon today.

The cartoon’s first panel crash scene image looks like that of a Shark and it’s taken a POWERFUL bite out of Anja Nu! Fantastic imagery.

Love seeing the CLASSIC Blank character in this Classic Dick Tracy Strip! Wonderful Stuff!!

The Blank/Johnny Nothing *is* holding a gun (again) and Tracy’s right in the line of fire. Look out DT!

I liked your cartoons, Flight Suit.

anja’s squished, yet bloodless - like flat stanley blank has apparently survived and needs not a head to talk

Why in the world didn’t Liz or Sam disarm The Blank/Johnny Nothing? That might be why the medic hasn’t treated his wounds from the fall.

Considering the weight of the plane that fell on Anja Nu, she doesn’t appear to have bled or received any facial disfiguration (if that’s possible).

Will The Blank/Johnny Nothing resume the chase and will Tracy seek refuge in a WW2 German tank while Liz and Sam look on?

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