Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 15, 2016

Watch out, Professor! You won’t like Mr. Bribery when he’s angry!.

Mr. Bribery asked for a virus with independent thinking, but he might not like the lack of control that gives him!

This is an interesting development. How far does Matty’s “free will” go? What does Bribery plan to do with him?

“Free Will” …?

Curses~!!

Sounds like Jack is out of the box!

.Good morning guys!.An unexpected turn of events.

Uh oh…..Bribery’s might be ticked at Glich but he’ll be shrieking like a little girl if Matty figures out Bribery is the one who got him into his current situation.

Unbelievable!! A virus is only a program. The programmer always knows what it can do and where it can go. A program with the capability Prof Glitch says it have will be too big and would not go far unnoticed, even in terabyte sized storage.

How could they replicate Matty’s memory?

Good morning, everyone! MrGlitch could be a twin of Matty who’s had a nasty car accident!

Make of this what you will, but check out items #2 and #3 …

Might Magnetic Aircars One Day Become A Reality?

Paranormal talk radio host Richard C. Hoagland just name-checked Magnetic Aircars~!!

Gweedo indicated,Only thing is I can’t get sound for online music streams and when I try to play a Youtube I get “Playback isn’t supported on this device”.-—————————————————————————-.“Been there, done that!”. What a bother. I feel for you Gweedo.

It appears to me that Matty Squared is (for want of a better way of saying it) inside the huge computer, in his own virtual universe, which, however, has contact with the outside “real” universe where Ygor Glitch and Mr. Bribery are starting to realize that they may not be able to control the monster they have created, since it has Free Will. This should be an interesting rough ride!

We all have free will..if memory serves..its starting to make sense

It seems like we just have to accept that within the Tracyverse, it is possible to reconstruct the memories of someone dead to the point that a being can believe they are the person. The same thing happened to Mysta.

Glitch and Squared look so much alike, that at first glance I thought panel 2 was Professor Glitch.

Sounds like you are missing the codec needed for the formats of music and video you are trying to stream. A codec is a software add on with information for “coding/decoding” the format.

You can download a codec called “divx” which will resolve many of these types of issues. Free and easily available. Google it.

Or an alternative is to install VNC Player. Works like Windows Media Player, only it automatically keeps itself updated with the latest codec information so it can handle a lot more formats then WMP. Again, free and easily available.

(20+ years in the IT field…)

Hmm…. ok, but does anyone remember Max Headroom?

“The best laid schemes of mice and men…”

How long before Bribery tries to pull the plug.

Careful what you wish for, Mr. Bribery. You might just get it!

VB – perhaps the noise was bothering Matty Squared so he flew the coop to slip into your ’puter and change a few settings.

Bribery forgot to specify that the intelligent cyber virus must be under his control only.

He did say, “I want this new ‘life form’ to belong to me exclusively.” That presumably means that no-one else can control it, but specifying that it is to be intelligent means that it also has a degree of self-control. I think that Bribery felt that he lost some control that he should have had in the Blackhearts organization. I think this is his attempt to take control again.

Matty is rouge wildCan Bribery control him?Access to virtual worldVirtual power drives one crazyWould we be any different?

Matty seems to be wearing the same coloured clothes as Glitch. I’m not sure if that’s a good choice by the colorist. Matty definitely has neater-looking hair. Prof. Glitch has one of those Einstein-like styles of hair.

Gweedo heralded,…poked around some more…-———————————————————————.I’m extremely pleased Gweedo. You had a very frustrating time.

Maybe Matty Squared will bring back Myspace, and actual VIDEOS to MTV, and NAPSTER!!!!

Gweedo continued,I wonder if “10” will be “civilized” by the time I go there ?-——————————————————————.“The Twilight Zone!”.

My money’s on a HERF gun. Using a nuke would be massive overkill….and as a former SAC member, I know overkill.

It was revealed at the beginning of last year’s Annie Crossover story that Diet Smith was working on a time travel project called Project Blue Image,

Ownership can mean something different from actually controlling it.

Yes, it can. It seems that Mr. Bribery had control in mind, but that may not be enough.

“What sort of “and time travel embedded in the story line.” do you mean?”Following up on Ray and Neil’s feedback, Diet informed us in the 11/6/2014 strip that the “mystery ship” of Project “Blue Image” made an ominous prediction, of a sort: