Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 03, 2010

So this is, what, the only actual homeless guy in the area? Making a fool of Thick and the Feds by doing their job for them?

And the gun still doesn’t go off, no matter how much it shrinks or swells or gets jerked around. Who made it? Ronson? Zippo? Mattel?

“Homeless?”

I think that Sydney gave us a hint of this turn of events.

Please shoot , PLEASE !!!! I beg you ! End it for the sake of us !

Yeah, shoot anybody, D’oggydoo! Thick, the missus, yourself, just eliminate a character!

So far this has been the most remarkable DT strip possible: no clear-cut villain, no obvious crime, no clear need for an investigation, and events have proceeded without any need for Thick’s presence. All he’s done is stumble into the middle of an ongoing Federal investigation and foul up their work. You have to wonder why Locher hates the character so much.

Not a smart move when the dude’s got the drop on a bunch of people. Knowing Penny, the gun’s empty. Click - click.

Where’d that guy come from? The WWF?

Sounds like some of the TV in this strip. Tp close to call who will win with the ability to do any good.

The SAME thing happened in the big top with the strong man and Sloppy the Clown. Come on Locher…don’t copy yourself so soon. Sigh…

Is that a man, or a gorilla?

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Just as long as he doesn’t spend a week chattering away.

Is Thick ever going to *do* anything an actual cop would do?

Looks to be David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox

Good eye and memory, LudwigVonDrake. It’s been one year to the day since Locher used that same gimmick:

http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2009/11/03/

And aside from the spike on the trigger guard, doesn’t the D’umbasses pistol look familiar:

http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2009/09/20/

I went looking for the renowned pig on wheels. It could be here:

http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2009/05/10/

and in another frame, notice what’s in the bags. Just how limited is Locher’s imagination?

It’s Fe Fi! Welcome back, buddy!!

They are going to be homeless. I didn’t know being dead is the same as homeless.

This morning I woke up feeling fine The early morning air like a heady wine But now I am feeling oh so very ill I made the mistake of reading this swill When you didn’t think it could get any worse The strip I mean, not my humble verse Insipid is the dialogue that greets our eyes Locher again, I feel we must chastise This drivel, this dreck, this loathsome dross To say more, I’m almost at a loss Why does Locher hate Tracy so The answer, I really would like to know He acts like a man who truly is demented His demise certainly will not be lamented.

What the heck, He’s threating to shoot my HOUSE?

it’s encouraging to know that someone manufacturers gloves to fit malformed hands

WOW ! Where did this guy come from … BLAM ! … out of the blue (?)

On October 26th the streets were EMPTY = save for Tracy, Penny and David D’B, and then, a one strip show-up on October 29th of two Federal Officers, thereafter - they were gone.

How did this GUY materialize out of ‘thin air’ = behind 3-D, who had his back to the wall ?

Like the ‘Thermal Imaging Technology’ on those playing cards, before Big Ace, IS this a form of 3-D hi tech projected from an Alternate world ?

Another one of those spooky, ‘jerly’ surprises that characterize Locher’s comic strip world -? !

It grows, it shrinks, it grows again – it’s a magic pistol! Maybe it really can destroy homes.

-Cougar :{)

What the H?!?

Cool! I always wondered what became of Haystacks Calhoun.

nighthawks is right. The second panel shows the gloves have fingernails!

Ah, Agent Bluto of the Federal Bureau of Henchmen has arrived.

Whoever types in the Photoshopped lettering obviously made a mistake. Instead of “homeless” it should read “bleeding profusely”. Oops.

what’s happening in the last panel? is bearded sumo-boy stuffing 3D’s gun down his throat? Is he ripping 3D’s face off? Is he washing his homeless mouth out with soap? stuffing $1K bills in his piehole? can’t wait to see who magically appears out of nowhere tomorrow…wait yes i can. just shoot already, as rene said. once again thanks WW

I’m starting to think Locher is trying to trash this strip so there will never be another writer to follow him and show how bad he’s been over these last years. I just hope they give someone else a chance and not send Dick Tracy to the same place as Annie.

So 3D is thinking, “Dang…I can no longer fire my gun, because my mouth is covered”?

Wait … maybe that gun doesn’t actually destroy homes. Maybe it’s more subtle than that. You know those joke guns that pop out a flag that says BANG? Well, maybe this one pops out a flag that says YOU’RE FORECLOSED ON!

-Cougar :{)

“Homeless”? When someone kills you, you’re no longer homeless, you’re “going home” to be with the Lord!

“There’s no place in this world where I’ll belong when I’m gone” -Phil Ochs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3mGTTvWCIw

-Cougar :{)

This is an absolutely terrible comic strip. How much longer until Locher’s contract is up?

Sydney Phillips, if Bluto is a product of 3-D image technology, it would have to come from an extremely alternate universe. An image, which is just patterns of light, can not grapple with a physical object.

Is Bluto supposed to be wearing gloves with the ends of the fingers cut off?

I don’t get the “homeless” threat, either. Is D’oggydoo threatening to destroy their careers and finances to the point where they end up on the streets? Is he hinting at a fine point of theology in which ghosts have no homes? Or was Locher so loosely educated that he doesn’t understand the meaning of the word?

Worse yet, will Locher remember the existence of Sue Doko and the We’re-Lyin businessmen, and feel compelled to bring them on-stage? Locher defies logic.

CougarAllan - Thanks for the link! Phil Ochs has been a lifelong hero of mine, and that song in particular is one of my all-time favorites. Well done!

Boy, do the Dallas Cowboys need him on their roster! They wouldn’t be 6 and 2 right now!

Another wonder, WW!

Can’t wait for tomorrow’s surprising development. A lecture from the homeless guy as he does the work of the government-appointed authority figures? Or does Thick slouch into action when the Evil Washington Slackers refuse to save D’oggydoo from the street-schizo who fears no guns? How will Locher use his secret power to ignore any hint of continuity?

And who is the homeless guy? Did he once work for D’illweed until he lost his job during a round of corporate lay-offs and outsourcing?

I’m warning you - make one move and the vehicle registration on your cars will be invalid!