Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 17, 2010

They still have peeps in the audience??

“Too Close for Comfort” was a sitcom about a conservative cartoonist.

Hmmmm…..

So…

Do we ever get to learn why the guy whose corpse is still presumably on stage got killed?

Up next:

Dick and Tess are relaxing at home.

Tess says, “Dick, these two complimentary tickets to the ballet just arrived via courier with no return address!”

And…

It’s on!

Unbelievable!

Yeah, they definitely need a new way to start an adventure. (cough, cough)

They were as sharp as a doorknob….

So wait a minute………didn’t someone get shot on the stage??

Whatever happened with that??

And how can “The Blank” get shot, fall from the ceiling, splats face down, then sits up and holds a conversation??

Tracy addresses the audience and apologizes for the long intermission. Does this mean that the show will continue now?

When exactly did Johnny Nothing turn into the Blank, and howcum?

What *is* that in panel three? It appears to be stage curtains, but they’re not exactly enclosing a stage…

Just…

A blank area.

It’s like we’re looking at The Blank’s face, and he’s got stage curtains for hair.

A of lifes a stage and we………

The guy who died on May 29, 2010 has just been completely forgotten about apparently.

5/29/10.

Let us never forget that date.

Let us never forget the Unknown Actor.

Panels 1 & 2: Notice the size of the microphone in Tracy’s hand. The Science Museum and everything in it just keeps morphing.

Aha. That head bandage on the great detective. This story has been told inside Tracy’s head. Before the play started he fell and banged his noggin, falling into a coma. This whole adventure has been one long hallucination. After recovering, he gets up and still whacked out he addresses the audience who don’t know what he’s talking about – as seen from their blank faces.

Or does someone else have a better explanation? Excuse me, I have to adjust my head bandage, it’s a bit tight…

Didn’t this story start with a rock thru Tracy’s window and an enigmatic sign posted on his lawn? What was all that about?

If it’s a play, the board does not read “Now Showing”, that’s for movies

All I can do is hold my face in my hands and weep uncontrollably over this…

leakysqueaky712 said: They still have peeps in the audience??

We’re still here, why should they be smart enough to leave?

What next?

the incredible shrinking microphone!

”GET TO KNOW …” (?) Flight Suit - are you serious ? This is Dick Locher you’re talking about !

“So,to show this audience my appreciation for being so patient, I would like to sing a little song for you–Maestro if you would—-IF I CAN MAAAKE IT THERE-I CAN MAAAKE IT AAANYWHERE–NEW YORK-NEW YORK………”

Pannel-Panner, that’s the best explanation I’ve heard so far to account for this weird adventure with Tracy uncharacteristically acting like a coward !

Unless, it was that STONE coming through the bedroom window that really hit him square on the ’noggin’ — and it’s ALL a NIGHTMARE !

IS THIS DICK TRACY ? The icon comic strip ?

To describe ”quality”, I’d have to borrow that line Sharon Stone recently used to DESCRIBE Meryl Streep —

”TODAY’S COMIC STRIP LOOKS LIKE AN UNMADE BED !”

In the next story-line,Tracy will spend 2 weeks running from a juvenile delinquent named Tiffany. The suspense and thrills will start when he hides in the janitor’s closet at Tiffany’s Jr. High School. Inside the closet he will meet “Miss Hideous”,a former art teacher who has been living in the closet for 50 years. How will this all turn out? Stay tuned.

As the reporter asked Mrs. Lincoln after her husband was shot, “Other than that, how did you like the play?”

And tomorrow we get the BIG WRAP UP!!!!!! Maybe.

yes friends and colleagues, i spent the last hour running, hiding and cowering like a yellow dog while you waited so patiently for the show to resume, and for that i thank you. you must not have heard the gunshots and a plane crash during the intermission, and i’d like to thank the stage crew for so quickly removing the man who was murdered on-stage before the intermission.

Another GREAT Dick Tracy mystery! Looking forward to the NEXT storyline.

Always the number one strip on the gocomics site.

Hope we get another of the CLASSIC Dick Tracy villians again! It was alot fun seeing the Classic villian, THE BLANK in this current adventure strip.

Sydney and PP: That is the most logical answer to this lame brain “story” and “art.” It was all a nightmare brought about by the rock thrown through the window and hitting Tracy on the head. That’s why the museum kept changing, and the plane could be suspended by a rope and not rotate by the weight of two people moving all over and in it. That’s why the actor disappeared without any comment. That is it! You two are sheer geniuses! Now, I feel much better! Now, if only Locher would say that it might bring some kind of credability - no - that’s asking too much.

Flagged the spammer, but that may be a mistake. Maybe the spammer should be given the job of writing Dick Tracy. He couldn’t do much worse.

Well, it’s like Mammy Yokum always said: “Good is better than evil ‘cause it’s nicer!”

Yay! The story is finally over.(?)

As Yogi says, “It ain’t over till its over”, this is only in the 7th inning stretch.

Give Brozman credit he does know how to draw people in a crowded room (panel one).

Someone in the Annie forum gave a good suggestion - The Tribune can hire BassmanBob to write this strip.

All in favor? Aye!

What has surprised me the past few days has been the abundance of dialogue. Usually we’re only treated to about ten words per day, as per our anal retentive capacity. And David, that’s an Aye from me as well.

“Now Showing”? Sounds more like a movie than a stage play.

That’s what happens when TIME is limited, and you must focus on ‘thinking up’ tomorrow’s Editorial Cartoon

The big day is almost here! Sunday’s full color recap with Crimestoppers Textbook. The moment I wait for every week!

Billdi, I was going to say the same thing about the shots and airplane crash.