Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 04, 2010

Anja Nu becomes Anja SPLAT!

I wondered how long the cable would last.

Crimestoppers Textbook has more helpful information.

Wait, the cable snapped? But for that to happen, this story would have to be taking place in a Universe where the laws of physics occasionally applied.

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Nosepickers Slobber Book: Like anyone actually pays attention to car alarms anymore…

In the second panel on the second row, the plane is clearly held up by a pole, not a cable. Since Blank is already off the plane, there aren’t “men” on the plane, just a man. Also, if the support for the plane was so nearly maxed out by the weight of the plane that a couple of people made that much difference then the genius who picked the support should be up on manslaughter charges.

In the second panel on the second row, the plane is clearly held up by a pole, not a cable. Since Blank is already off the plane, there aren’t “men” on the plane, just a man. Also, if the support for the plane was so nearly maxed out by the weight of the plane that a couple of people made that much difference then the genius who picked the support should be up on manslaughter charges.

Rightwingmoron, I think you hit the nail on the head.

When the airplane hits the floor, will the sound and impact arouse Liz, Sam, and the rest of the police force… or will they remain in their seats waiting for the show to resume as Tracy wanders back to the stage?

On July 2, the canopy appeared to have no damage whatsoever. Now it’s broken again.

Regarding Crimestoppers: Where’s the panic button for readers of this strip?

All of a sudden the cable snaps and the plane falls, spoiling Anja Nu’s shot. How can this be?

Simple. Deus ex machina failure.

My BIG question, which nobody else seems to have realized yet: Anga Nu was shooying up at an angle. WHY IS THE PLANE FALLING ON HER???

She is shooting from the left reat. Cable breaks and plane falls straight down. And where is DT who was last seen on that wing?

Mayby the air conditioning came on with a strong gust and blew the planr back on her?

I can hardly wait to see how this is resolved.

The panel with the snapping cable: what is that weird splash of color behind it? At first I thought it was a shot of a stent breaking inside someone’s heart.

Flight Suit,

Signed up as a follower, by I don’t know how to follow!!

Just an old fart with enough technical knowledge to get me into trouble.

Man….that must be some really cheap cable to snap like that.

But on the plus side we get the pleasure of seeing Anja Nu get a major overhaul the hard way…..and seeing how Tracy escapes serious injury himself.

It would also be nice to see if the crash of that dive bomber to the floor will actually make someone - hell, ANYONE - finally try to figure out what the BLEEP is going on around there……

Where once it was with elation Now it is with trepidation That I approach each days strip Knowing the writer has lost his grip From lofty heights to loathsome lows Its state has now become comatose The stories no longer make any sense In fact they have become to be exceedingly dense The silly names, the atrocious puns Everyone but Tracy has a gun He runs around like a coward Our respect for him has been soured The police force is more inept than not You get more response from a Keystone Kop Now but a shadow of itself It’s time to be put on the shelf The time of glory is in the past All we see now is just half-assed The cheering has long faded away Tracy has had his day So drive the stake deep and hard Shovel on the dirt by the yard Bury him with his face down A proper ending for this clown.

Good work WW!!

Perhaps with more experience the present staff will get things back on keel. Maybe.

Otherwise pull an Annie.

SmithRA said, 28 minutes ago

Flight Suit,

Signed up as a follower, by I don’t know how to follow!! ————————————————————————–

Thank you, Smith! You now hold the distinction of being my new blog’s very first follower!

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WW, you keeo this up, we’ll be taking you for grabted.

gone gone gone

My A&W float has been finished, and so have I.

nighty night.

Flight Suit,

Figured it out. When someone clicks on my friend avatar, they can leave me a message. When go to the blog there will be a message notice waiting for me. If I want the message it will send the message to my gmail address and send my gmail address to the message sender. One has to have a yahoo, twitter, or gmail account to set up a friend link, or so it seems.

Flight Suit,

What I don’t know is whether I will get a message every time you update. It would seem logical, but I’ve never tried this.

Smith, I honestly don’t know the answer to that one either! The good news is that this should also make it possible for you to “follow” Teresa’s Frog Blog.

Meanwhile, the intermission enters its second hour, and Sam and Liz still wait patiently, figuring the gunshot must just be sound effects.

I can’t wait until the Comics Curmudgeon (http://joshreads.com/?cat=-1) gets hold of this latest development.

I haven’t seen it, but—- the Stuka is probably supported by more than one cable, and further, when they put it up there they figured in a generous safety margin. Engineers seem to like a six-to-one ratio when they figure out the capacities of cables to the weight they have to carry. I doubt that Tracy and the Blank added up to five extra Stukas in their combined weight. Sorry, Locher, no cigar this time.

A little bit of research goes a long way. I had to trace it down some, but— the Stuka at the Science Museum in Chicago is supported by three cables. Two attach just forward of the canopy, the third attaches at the vertical stabilizer to hold the plane at a rather impressive “dive” angle.

See link below.

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

Anja polished her nails since last Sunday

I don’t think the plane will squash Nancy Pelosi, but it will give Spacy time to find another place to hide

Happy Independence Day, Everyone!

So, instead of running away in terror only to be saved in the end by Tess or Sam, Tracy runs away in terror only to be saved by a snapped cable. That’s great. None of the cops in this arc did one single effective thing. How sad. The damaged canopy is a flashback to just after it had been damaged and before Tracy repaired it. So that is perfectly consistent. Let’s give credit where credit is due.

I always thought Dick Tracy wore his 2 way wrist radio even when off duty? He could have called for backup a long time ago.

Locher might be well advised to occasionally glance at the title panel to see how Tracy actually should look.

Sorry, folks, I can’t quite break away from the cable question. Locher left himself wide open with that one.

First, if only one cable was supporting the plane, then even a dim bulb like Tracy has been showing himself to be would have to realize that hiding in the plane was a non-starter. Jumping from where ever he had to jump from onto the aircraft would cause it to swing wildly, instantly tipping off his enemy about where he was hiding.

Second, if only one cable was used it would have been sized to hold several times the aircraft’s weight. Engineers design this stuff with generous safety margins to eliminate any chance of the cable breaking while people are in and around the suspended item. If this cable broke, I would suspect bullet damage when Anja shot The Blank. Even then, it would probably take several direct hits to do it and somehow Anja doesn’t seem to me to be that great a marksperson. Maybe an unlucky swing when The Blank was smashing the canopy??? He might have been so interested in killing the cop he never notices nicking the cable. I suppose that’s possible.

Oh come on, it’s all perfectly plausible. After shooting the cable Anja Nu sprinted to get under the plane – why? Because she can’t face the shame of being unable to explain any of her actions from beginning to end of this adventure. It was the only way out!

-Cougar :{)

Repetition is Variety Contradiction is Continuity Stoopidity is Unpredictability Phantasmagoria is Plausibility Delay is Suspense Talk is Action Boredom is Excitement

The cable snaps AFTER Johnny is no longer standing on the plane.

Locher has the plane hanging by the antenna in all of his previous “photos”. When a cable breaks and the antenna didn’t, I’d say that German engineering speaks for itself!

Secondly, why didn’t Locher display the Nazi insignia? For fear of upsetting the Nazi’s? They did lose, you know!

Hey TRACY fans! Jump over to the Tracy Tribute site www.plainclothescomics.com and enjoy lots of fun facts and fiction about our hero. Features an unpublished comic book story by Max Allen Collins and artist Joe Staton, as well as a “daily” strip adventure by Staton and writer Mike Curtis answering why the Space Coupe was retired. Plus fiction by real crimestopper Jim Doherty and fun in the UPA cartoons universe by Tracy Kazaleh. All that and Tracy history too.

Thanks, Klypzyxm! That is an awesome site! I wonder how this mess is going to be cleaned up?

I predict that tomorrow we will see the last two panels again .

Bonne fête América !

Looks like tracy opened his eyes. The panic button doesn’t attract much attention any more, they go off too often. (like when they get sat on). Out of curiosity and for the shear fun of it, I may push Panel-Panner’s button :D Oh no! it’s a panic button! Nice site Klypzyxm, I’ll have to read more. Great job! It certainly looks more interesting. (especially the artwork. more original and no elongated arms and fingers).

Inexplicably Omitted Dialogue: “Here – hold this vaguely axe-like object for a minute while I change into my black suit.”

-Cougar :{)

Repetition is Variety Contradiction is Continuity Stoopidity is Unpredictability Phantasmagoria is Plausibility Delay is Suspense Talk is Action Boredom is Excitement

Apparently Anja Nu is going to be the last person dive bombed by that Stuka.

Thanks, Klypzyxm. I needed that. It helps a good deal to see Dick Tracy in his “Glory Days” when he actually was a tough detective and criminals had good reason to fear him.

It’s true about the panic button-When I hit mine it turns into a .38 Smith & Wesson.

Rene_Simard, thank you, and a happy Bastille Day to you when it happens later this month!

Never mind Anja - how will TRACY survive the fall? Grab the end of the cable at the last moment? Yeah - try THAT in real life, Locher, what with reaction times and all that.

Macy’s looking for his ripcord. He heard someone yell, “Hit the silk!” and he immediately thought about his DT frillies!

James7344 said, about 2 hours ago

Never mind Anja - how will TRACY survive the fall? Grab the end of the cable at the last moment? Yeah - try THAT in real life, Locher, what with reaction times and all that.

All he has to do is make sure he lands on his head.

So, all this time I thought that cable was the Stuka”s radio antenna, which is where it normally would be on this airplane. Now I find that it’s a single cable, attached to the glass canopy, holding the entire aircraft airborne and steady? Wow, was I mistaken.

To sum it all up:

Dick Tracy didn’t do any detective work. The grandson of a previous villain tried to kill Tracy. Said grandson is a grown man, but Tracy doesn’t seem any older. Tracy was saved not by any action of his own or of any of his allies, but by a woman who is herself trying to kill Tracy, because he was prioritizing his own life over a play. Tracy was then saved from this woman by dumb luck and impossible physics (she’d have to be pretty directly under the plane to get crushed by it, an angle she wouldn’t be shooting at Tracy and the Blank from).

pole magically became a cable dt jumped and swung on it like a chimpanzee, as he had enough time has now figured out, using cat math, (as seen at the site ysac - a minor naughty word in the url, so i shan’t post the name - google it) the trajectory to squash pelosi

very simple

When Dick Tracy started out, he was way ahead of the curve in imagination and clever solutions to unclear situations. Always forceful, always courageous, always courteous. Now he seems to be none of the above. His technology is so far behind it’s criminal.

When Dick Tracy started out, he was way ahead of the curve in imagination and clever solutions to unclear situations. Always forceful, always courageous, always courteous. Now he seems to be none of the above. His technology is so far behind it’s criminal.

sorry about double post. touchpad over enthusiasm again.