Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 21, 2010

Panel 2: What is that squiggle on Tracy’s two-way wrist TV supposed to represent? Is he upset because someone downloaded Pruneface porn? WHAT?

Panel 3: Call me Penny. My maiden name is Dreadful. My family made its fortune by publishing pulp fiction.

Does Tracy think he’s another Senor Wences?

Uh, oh… Mrs. 3D’s husband hasn’t been laid to rest yet and Mrs. 3D is already eyeing Tracy… there’s going to be fireworks if Tess finds out!

Dear Iran:

I heard you’re working on an atomic bomb. Oh boy. I heard that an A-bomb is really cool like the Dick Tracy comic strip in color on Sunday. When will you blow up your first one? Can I watch?

Signed,

SimonPenn

Tracy appears to be very alarmed and confused by the strange voices emanating from his watch.

It seems Mrs. D’Buckworth is trying to take her relationship with Tracy to a more intimate level. This really gives Tracy a lot to think about, because he’s still sorting out how he feels about Chief Liz propositioning him.

Call me Penny…a little too soon for that, don’t you think Mrs. D.?

@OldTracy - “S’awright!”

@VistaBill: Fireworks? You mean something interesting will finally happen?

margueritem said:

“Call me Penny…a little too soon for that, don’t you think Mrs. D.?”

From what I see of Mrs. D., time is running out quick. Nothing is too soon for her.

Tracy’s watch has the weather forecast!

Does Tracy’s watch have video games as good as my Tracfone?

Panel-Panner said: From what I see of Mrs. D., time is running out quick. Nothing is too soon for her.

Good one!

“Relax, Dick, Call me Penny”.

Bleah. Meanwhile the curse hand strikes again.

So far we have not seen or heard any of these ominous tidbits of new data that keep popping up. I guess this is how suspense is built. I should take notes in case I want to start a comic of my own. Somehow, I’m still not dying to see the next installment, hoping to learn what all this ominous news is. Do you suppose there’s something wrong with me? (I mean, besides the obvious.)

I get it now, y’all. The time/space continuum is in complete flux. as evidenced by the morphing museum last storyline. Consider:

Uniforms find a badly decomposed body with “remnants of a large tattoo”. They take a picture of said tattoo. The picture shows a beautiful, COMPLETE butterfly, no remnants, no decomposition. The D’B mansion is morphing like crazy, possibly to eras before and after several renovations. Mrs. D’B is aging backwards. The POLICE HQ sign changes every few days, as does the design of the diner, er, building. Today, Tracy finds out about something startling that DDD’B did before he “disappeared”. But yesterday he asked Mrs. D’B why she hadn’t mentioned this thing that he didn’t know about yet.

Hey,you big lug-You’re kind of good-looking-Why doncha just call me Penny and forget about old D buckwheat,or whatever his name was—

Another Lousy Hand Alert!!!

“i can call you betty and betty when you call me you can call me al!”

Vista Bill, - Do you think Tracy will ‘flip’ the Penny ?

What a place to make a ‘PASS’ !

And Penny should CHECK to see if ‘anything’ really needed is ‘alive’ or not !

Looking forward to Sunday’s color Dick Tracy! Always Great flashbacks of the week… With an added Cliffhanger to boot!!

Great Dick Tracy comic strip today. Love the classic Two-Way Wrist-Watch.

Check out the New Dick Tracy adventure strip here tomorrow. Always enjoy seeing Tracy in full color, not to mention Crimestopper’s Textbook!

You can call her Penny because she’s not worth two cents.

Is someone paying our friend to discribe a ‘train-wreck’ like it’s a Garden of Roses ?