Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 14, 2010

If Johnny Nothing is the Blank’s grandson, shouldn’t Tracy have aged along with the Blank?

One would think, Dr.Midnight.

Can’t blame Blank Jr. for siding with the rest of us in panel one there, calling DT a dumb cop.

I’d say he was a genius until panel three…

But wouldnt that make the blank even dumber for not completing his mission??

I think if they take that mask off, they will find the face of Sydney Phillips. …………..yes they will.

Where is Flight Suit??

Ever since he showed me how to be a computer cheat, he never shows up anymore.

I started following DT because my Dad always read it to me in the old St. Louis Globe-Democrat when I was growing up. I’m sure Tracy was a dumb cop then, but the bad guys were always dumber. Tracy hasn’t aged a day since the New York newspaper strike in the 1930’s when Fiorella La Guardia red the funnies on the radio every Sunday.

they make yesrly jounrys to the foumtain of youth!

Leaky,

You can probably contact Flight Suit through his blog. He has an avatar on it.

http://chevronshills.blogspot.com/

Panel 1: More dis-continuity with the plane compared to previous depictions: the angle of its crash, the propellers, and most importantly: Anja Nu’s legs are missing. Did she walk away in a huff?

Also, what are those objects that have suddenly appeared in the foreground that look like long watermelons? Could it be the pods from Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Man, did those aliens pick a bad place to invade.

Is that a hole in the Science Museum’s roof in the third panel? Did the Stuka take out more than Anju?

Regarding Dick Tracy’s age: I think he has aged but not well. That explains why he can’t spot a clue if it bit him in the nose, why he makes dumb mistakes, even why he runs away when there’s trouble (he’s really looking for a toilet).

PP

Anju was probably removed at the direction of Liz and Sam who couldn’t tell a live suspect from a dead one.

The long pods are really piles or doughnuts left by the backups. They’ll be gone as soon as the squad realizes that the action took place right there and they just buried evidence. They eat their way down to the evidence.

Leaky, you’re too kind! Smith, thanks so much for linking to my new blog!!!!

I just hadn’t posted a comment tonight ‘cause what could I possibly add? The awfulness in today’s installment is so awful that it even fails at being deliciously awful.

SmithRA,

Keeping in mind that I’m a bad speller…

Did you mean “piles of doughnuts” or “piles or doughnuts?” If the latter phrase – oh, forget it!

Didn’t there used to be a street in front of the science museum?

Just for fun, compare today’s science museum to one of the previous versions:

http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2010/05/01

How come the fence alongside the old version has been replaced by a brand new wing?

Nice that they raised the sign up so much higher, since the street in front has been moved so much further away.

It used to be on a street corner….sometimes. What I’m wondering is who drug Johnny to the front of the plane and left him there?

It might have been easier just to walk up to Tracy on the street and blow his head off. Certainly more merciful. To us.

I only started reading DT (and some other old comic strips) recently. I find it amazing that a franchise such as this is able to deep going, and going, and going for so many years with such limited variety in story, plot, etc. I guess people like me will read anything!!!

Back to the early comments, how would we know if the Blank aged? He spent alot on concealer.

Panel-Panner said, about 8 hours ago

… what are those objects that have suddenly appeared in the foreground that look like long watermelons? Could it be the pods from Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Man, did those aliens pick a bad place to invade.

What’s bad about it? There’s all that space inside the skulls of the humans (?) in the vicinity to occupy, and the bodies are, to say the least, robust; they can survive unbelievable punishment.

Maybe that’s the back door of the Science Museum.

You wasted the perfect opportunity to get him when you threw a rock through his window instead, dumb butt.

Not to mention when you were on stage and you shot someone else for no apparent reason. Testing your gun? Why not try it out on your intended victim?

But the good news is the airplane continues to heal itself (or maybe it’s being repaired by gnomes in between panels). It can’t be called original any more, of course, but it looks like a pretty good restoration so far….

-Cougar :{)

I assume that’s Spacy’s head in panel two, not sure if he looks like Dr. Frankenstein’s creation or one of the “Rock em Sock em” robots.

On July 1 Blank was face down with blood running out of him and his mask had fallen off. Now he’s on his back with the mask on and will live without any medical attention. Maybe Tracy gave him his crisscross band-aid and patched him all up.

All right, let’s wrap this up!

(Please!!!?)

Maybe Tracy does not age, as he’s a mutant, like X-men’s Wolverine! Accounts also for his quick healing/recovery from the plane’s broken cockpit and fall! Maybe a new story line!

What about the dead guy on the stage? Probably just a skeleton by now..right?

The scammer is back again. See him, flag him.

It appears that all the murderers in DT like to commit their crime before an audience.

ChuckTrent64 said, about 16 hours ago

I started following DT because my Dad always read it to me in the old St. Louis Globe-Democrat when I was growing up. I’m sure Tracy was a dumb cop then, but the bad guys were always dumber. Tracy hasn’t aged a day since the New York newspaper strike in the 1930’s when Fiorella La Guardia red the funnies on the radio every Sunday.

Chuck Trent64, did you notice that Johnny Nothing got his mask back on his face faster than the Veiled Prophet?

I’m 69-years-old and went for years not reading DT before I bought my first computer in 1997. It wasn’t carried in any local papers. I did read DT a lot as a youngster and it seems to me the plots were a lot better then and the actual drawing was much superior. But then again,maybe it was just because I was so young.

I didn’t start looking at DT until i saw all your comments on BS, and you are all right, it is pathetic.

DT took down Johnny’s GRANDFATHER???!! Ok, I want to know Tracy’s secret to eternal youth.

Groundzero said, “What about the dead guy on the stage? Probably just a skeleton by now..right?”

The buzzards finished with him and are now hovering over Anja Nu’s body.

I’m so excited with all this “genius” that Mattie says we are treated to on a daily basis, that I am forever speechless. Never before have we witnessed as much creative excellence and sheer awe-inspiring literature like the Grandmaster Locher has given us. His work humbles the likes of Shakespeare, HH Munro, and countless other wannabees. Yessiree, it won’t be long that Oxford University will have a new wing to their Great Hall, named Locher’s Locker.

so, blank boy started off with mildly threatening repartee and, though speaking more, now just calls him a dumb cop so, new strip by august or september?

by the by, for good serials, check out in comics sherpa

mad mouse the lost side of suburbia

fun, exciting and the creators believe in physics

morrow said, “I’m so excited with all this “genius” that Mattie says we are treated to on a daily basis, that I am forever speechless. Never before have we witnessed as much creative excellence and sheer awe-inspiring literature like the Grandmaster Locher has given us. His work humbles the likes of Shakespeare, HH Munro, and countless other wannabees. Yessiree, it won’t be long that Oxford University will have a new wing to their Great Hall, named Locher’s Locker.”

A touching tribute if I ever saw one, morrow.

I realize that I am in the minorty here, but I find it rather remarkable that Mr. Locher has the verve to do this cartoon considering he has Parkinsons disease.

Maybe, just maybe, this is what keeps him going. I wish him the best.

Alright now, I am ready for my pasting, let me have it y’all

There seems to be a lot more inezplicable damage to the plane. The wings are worse than right before it landed. One would think that landing on something soft would have lessened the damage