Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 15, 2010

Spacy does it without being rich.

Off on a tangent:

Does anyone know if there are any comic sites that have the weekly strip “Magic In a Minute” by Mac King? There are a couple places that have some of them, but I don’t see them available every week.Thanks.

…Wow. A meta strip.

How could a writer on such a venerated and legendary strip be so DUMB?

Tracy’s been resting since he did all the running in the Science Museum. He hung out at D’cubes mansion, then he hung out with the “homeless,” someone else tackled the fleeing “criminal,” then he told some invisible “officer” to carry him away, then he carried on a monologue with him, preventing him from being carried away. What has he done since the first of July to have to rest?

Could the answer to Sam’s question be under the word balloon? I don’t know how rich they are, but there is enough dumbness to go around.

Sam is such a silly guy The answer is right in front of his eye You might say that the writing is on the wall The reason for the detectives great fall Just between you and me I think that it’s plain to see It takes an arrogant criminal to sign his work Or maybe someone who is a colossal jerk Most people would have to much pride And their faces they would try to hide Rather than be associated with this mess But I guess that’s something Locher does not posses No-one else is responsible for this travesty And for putting us through such agony How can he look at himself in the mirror For putting out something this inferior Exactly how much lower can this go Is what we want to know Each day surpasses the one before In a manner which we have come to abhor.

the only reason to read this travesty is to understand the comments written in

Now the funeral director has a small problem. What if the family of the dearly beloved deceased wants to view the body prior to interment? Hmmmm? By now, the funeral director could offer up a pot roast from Wal-Mart and no one could tell the difference.

OR, he could swap Macy a dozen donuts and get the stiff back, complete with a butterfly adornment on his left cheek. And no one would be the wiser!

How could anyone as famous as Locher be so dumb?

-Cougar :{)

Spacy looks mad all the time because Lizz won’t let him play with guns.

Yesterday, last panel:

Tracy: “That should end this case. I’m due for a rest.”

Unknown offscreen character: “NOT QUITE, TRACY.”

I thought that someone else entered the office. I was hoping it was Swamp Thing POed about the corpse in his bog. Swamp Thing would tell Thick: “Keep your evil out of my swamp.” Then in Locher style Thick and Thing would argue about the problem until next Sunday where the whole scene would be repeated again.

Meanwhile, Sam and Liz pass out from the combined stench of Swamp Thing and homeless Thick.

But it turns out Locher with his mysterious “NOT QUITE, TRACY” line was setting us up for for nothing today. So what else is new?

Panel 1: Why isn’t Simon Penn praising Locher for such realistic detail, the fleas hopping off Thick’s head?

Now Liz’s office will be infested. Great. Everyone will be slap-happy until Locher wraps it up next month. Maybe he’ll throw in some bedbugs for good measure.

for one thing wealth doesn’t mean smarts, testy.

Yes, Macy did bring along a nice covey of lice, or whatever things that are jumping off his head. Macy’s gotta be getting pretty ripe by now for the bugs to abandon ship. Wouldn’t you just LOVE to see Tess’ face when Macy slips home with that gleam in his eye and a bottle of blue pills? She could smell him coming around the corner and the skies would darken with all the blowflies that followed him!

I can’t wait until Locher answers Testicle Chin’s question–no, I can wait, I can wait, I can wait! Is this going to be the weekly event? Thick explaining things he can’t possibly know because he never asked questions or checked anything?

Something to add to the mystery list: the “empire” that D’oggybreath ran while on the run. Sunday’s strip had the first mention of an “empire.” How did Thick know about it? Where are the Imperial Minions? In the wake of the arrest, will the empire strike back? Is Locher now the Dork Lard of the (spelled-like-sith)?

Thanks for catching that, Rightwingmoron. I meant “uses-letters-like-sith.” But the idea got itself across despite my goof.

morrow, there’s a way that the missus might have obtained a corpse, but it doesn’t involve bribing a funeral director. There was a case involving a privately-run crematorium in which hundreds of bodies were not cremated, but were dumped on the crematorium’s grounds. The police were called in by a propane-truck driver–and maybe the cop on the case was Thick, because at first the police brushed it off.

Details are here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_Crematory

The felon got away with it for so long thanks to a combination of loopholes and lax enforcement of regulations. In the wake of this insident several states moved to tighten their regulations and enforcements.

So it is plausible that the missus might have purchased a corpse somewhere, even though I find it unlikely. In the real world a detective would investigate Penny’s story.

I’d really worry about the ME’s inability to identify the corpse. He was told that it was D-cubed. That should have prompted him to check D’cubed’s dental records and medical history. He would have been forced to rule out D-cubed as a victim if he’d done his job.

But the real problem is Locher’s refusal to do his homework.

I was expecting a new development today. Oh what a fool I am.

The first two panels today contained the information given to us in one panel yesterday.

The last panel Sunday said the case was closed and Dick said he was tired.

Today, one panel said the case was closed, the next panel said he was tired.

But missing from Sunday’s last panel, was the voice that said “Not Yet Tracy.

I thought that would be the lead in today to a new story.

But the third panel had the ramblings of Pat.

Who said: Not yet Tracy.

The only thing that could spice up this strip, if the body the funeral director provided was that of “Jimmy Hoffa”

wndrwrthg, I have to wonder at how you come up with this stuff every day. I might be able to pull it off, oh, maybe once a month or so— if I really work at it. So, I have to recognise talent here. Doing this every day has to rate right up there.

Now, if we could only get Locher to produce stuff half as good—- ah, to dream, to dream.

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I always knew this made no sense, but this makes less than no sense, the correct noun being “nonsense”

Just when you thought that yesterday’s fantastic all-new Dick Tracy comic strip adventure was the Best strip ever… Comes today’s NEW Dick Tracy comic strip!!!

Today, America’s favorite HERO is the Undercover Detective of the Year! Be sure to be here tomorrow for America’s favorite comic strip if you love today’s adventure! Wonderfully creative today! You won’t want to miss a minute of the Brand new fun action/adventures posted here everyday! That’s right everyday a brand new wonderfully entertaining Dick Tracy adventure comic strip! For free even! Only in America!

Hey, Testicle Chin, how can a cop be so dumb that the department makes him Thick’s junior partner?

Or so dumb that your biggest fan is Simple Simon?

This strip didn’t load on my home page today and neither did Brenda Starr. When I searched for Brenda Starr, I got a page that said, oops, no match was found. What’s going on.

I agree with you, the Dick Tracy comic strip is great, and the first panel was so well drawn you could see the fleas leaping off of America’s favorite HERO, the Undercover Detective of the Year! You are right. And it shows that so many are staying up to all hours in the morning, just to be the first to spot a different ear-ring on one of the characters! Seventeen, sixteen, fifteen more minutes…. You Rock, boss. Hope you are the first to type in today!

^ To quote Lucy Van Pelt, “One rarely gets to see such carefully prepared sarcasm.” Unfortunately, it doesn’t become you at all, SimonPenn.