Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 29, 2016

.Good morning all!..Our ever alert crew… Gweedo, Vista Bill, Neil Wick, and JPuzzleWhiz are standing by to broadcast this continuing story with up-to-date coverage for as long as it requires. We are ever diligent in our pursuit of the facts. Accept no substitutes!.

Stayed up late to be like PoeNow I need a cup of joethe strips so boring with yak yak yakIt’s time to bring our fighters backI guess I’ll try again tomorrowAnd hopefully the strips won’t be more sorrowI might be forced to tune to the guyswho broadcast daily their pepperoni pies.

@ Gweedo,I ask, is this us?..and now, time for bed!

Get the feeling Watson knows something? And he’s not telling?

Generalissimo Francisco Franco Watch – Day 3.

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An alternative POV re: The Empty House exists – At the beginning of “Flashman and the Tiger”, Flashman is in South Africa fleeing from the Battle of Isandlwana in a wagon. After his escape, he meets Tiger Jack Moran about ten miles (16 km) away, and both head to Rorke’s Drift and the nightmare that awaits them. Later, at the mention of Flashman’s name, Moran says “if I’d only known.” Years later, in 1894, Flashman finds out what he meant when Moran blackmails his granddaughter in order to sleep with her, revealing to Flashman that he was a cabin boy on Captain John Charity Spring’s ship, the Balliol College (see Flash for Freedom!), who was traded to King Gezo as a white slave and has spent much of his adult life avenging himself on the ship’s former crew. In an attempt to save her, Flashman finds himself in a scene from “The Adventure of the Empty House”, and has to endure the humiliation of Sherlock Holmes analysing him while he is pretending to be a drunken tramp.Link = Flashman and the Tiger

Grr

Many questions comeDid you see or have you heardWitnesses neededNot truth not same as unlieJust what is unusual

G’day, mates!

The ever-vigilant BMBG team of crack (or is that cracked?) reporters are alone in following the action (if that’s the word for it) along the Lower Reichenbach, where a certain Doyle-like character seems to have established his retirement chalet and is either dashedly clever at evading giving any useful information to the constabulary (“the man from the Forbidden Planet”) or is genuinely ignorant of what occurred at the conclusion of the big fight.I trust the local police will continue to exercise full diligence in attempting to solve this puzzle!

Still enjoying the story line! :)

So will we wind up with Tracy putting a bust of himself in a window for Rikki Mortis to take a shot at with an air gun?

Doyle went home.

Is it tea time …?

All is well in Switzerland….TBC

Well, so much for my theory that this man is Dick Tracy in disguise. (Still, you never know.)

R.I.P. Gene Wilder. You always made me laugh..

So, the police are now just going door-to-door asking if anyone saw what happened? More likely they know who our cane carrying friend is and hoped he could help.

I’m waiting to see who he’s serving that tea to in tomorrow’s strip. I think.

Very sorry to hear about Gene Wilder. Didn’t he do a Sherlock Holmes spoof once?

Vista Bill & Comet

Gee, Sir ! If you keep posting all those pictures of your fantastically good looking “crew”, you are going to have to start offering autographed copies,,,for a small nominal fee, of course, to help cover all the costs you are rackin’ up ! Count me on for the numbered “1” of the issue.

Where is Junior and his family? Is Dick Tracy, Jr. busy getting ready to take over the strip? LOLCome to think of it, where is Mysta? Diet Smith? Oliver Warbucks and the Asp? (Well, for the last one I wouldn’t be surprised if Asp was lurking around.)

Watching Mets verse Marlins at Citifield. Score 0-0 top of 8th. Game’s almost as boring as this strip has become! LOL!

♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫“Can I get a witness?Can I get a witness?Can I Get a WITNESS?Can I get a witness?…”

And if you liked that, here is a parody of a Ray Stevens take:“This is your Action News reporter at the scene at Reichenbach Falls. There seems to have been some disturbance here. Pardon me sir, did you see what happened?“Yeah, I seed! This time, I was getting Ethel a cup of Swiss Miss! When these two men were struggling up there, going at it hammer and tongs! I hollered to Ethel, ’DON’T LOOK ETHEL!’ But it was too late — she’d already been Bern-ed!”(With apologies to the great Ray Stevens.)

This is also relevant:

Working with Brooks spurred Wilder to write and direct his own comedies, though none reached the heights of his collaborations with Brooks. The first of these was “The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother” (1975), in which he included such Brooks regulars as Madeline Kahn and Marty Feldman. Variety