Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 25, 2010

No, the car is not in the water. That’s boiling oil, with brimstone raining from the sky and flames in the background. The flood has torn a hole in the Earth’s surface, giving entry into Hell. For proof, notice the symbol of the Great Satan above the flames in the middle panel.

If Thick gets out of this alive, I hope we see the inquiry. I want to hear him explain how he sped into the water because the drugged-up psychopath in the back seat dared him to do it.

Now what? That intersection is bad news!

LMAO! This is hilarious!

‘Morning, VistaBill, and a Merry Christmas to you! The Phantom is beginning his revenge.

Happy horrordays to all!

The Case of the Weeping Gimpmask.

Why does Mordred remind me of Mr. Toad in Zippy?

MerryMarg said, ” ‘Morning, VistaBill, and a Merry Christmas to you! The Phantom is beginning his revenge.”

That’s where the excitement is! Merry Christmas MerryMarg!

This is the most action in this strip in a long time. Maybe Locher is going out with a bang.

At first I thought that the car was pulling the mother of all wheelies in panel one, but then I remembered that on December 23, Michael McMillan said:

“Flightsuit, I’d forgotten about hydroplaning. I was thinking of something else. Plowing. Cars are heavier on their front ends, so as they hit deep water they have a tendency to drive into the water nose first…”

Who would have thought that his dire prediction would actually come true!?

This is the only series I know of where readers jokingly suggest that the hero is going to do something wildly stupid and then it actually happens.

Love the expressiveness of Mordred’s mask, by the way. Amazing how his “eyebrows” move to express his emotions.

Chester Gould always had a Merry Christmas greeting for December 25th -

Anyway - Merry Christmas to everyone who comments on this strip.

International Falls, MN which borders with Fort Frances, Ontario, Canada has now had 39 inches of snow in the past 7 weeks. Last year we only 20 inches at this time. We broke the record two years ago with 125 inches.

Plus we are having a heat wave, 17 degrees for the high today.

But come and visit us in the summertime.

1,000’s of people come here every summer for our fishing and the relaxation being out of the city and in the wilderness.

(we do have temps in the 90’s in the summer which makes us forget about 40 below zero in the winter)

Merry Christmas to everyone !!

Dick Locher has included a merry Christmas. It’s looking that way for Mordred.

At least the shape of the car and the number of side windows on it have remained the same for two days in a row. That’s a bit of a miracle.

Like I said yesterday, this is a good place to say THE END to DT. It’s easy to wrap it up from here: Spacey drowns, Mordred escapes and marries Liz, the moon people attack to avenge the death of Moon Maid, and Simon Penn grows pubic hair.

I’ve had it flogging this dead police horse. I’ll be reading good stuff like The Barn from now on.

And parting shots to my “fans:”

GW Bush and Cheney are war criminals. The blood of many innocent people stains their greedy hands.

There is no Santa, Odin, Zeus – or God.

A Very Merry Christmas to all Dick Tracy Fans from Australia.

Tracy’s not going anywhere, anyway. The middle panel shows the car up to the trim line in water. At that depth, the electrical system is toast and if the engine took water through the intake while running you can bet on bent connecting rods. Since the other police won’t come and rescue him because they’re (a) afraid of getting stuck themselves or (b) not near half as stupid as Tracy, even if the car sinks no further Thick and Mordred are stuck for a while.

Merry Christmas— even to the uncaught criminals responsible for this strip. It is, after all, Christmas.

The car hit the water head-on in that dive, In the real world, wouldn’t airbags have deployed? Would that leave Thick more dazed than usual? (From what the wikipedia says, airbags won’t deploy after the power fails, so there’s no way Thick could use them as a flotation device–they release their gas almost immediately, anyway.)

Once the power goes out, will Thick be able to open the doors and escape with Mordred and his famous forty pounds of chain?

And it’s weird that Locher avoided giving Mordred a face, yet puts facial expressions on the mask.

Merry Christmas, everybody!

Anybody want to join me for some fishing at New Street Corner Lake?

Gee, I hope those guys with the four flat tires are okay under all that water.

Merry Christmas, Mordred! Don’t be sad. Santa left a few more pounds of chains in your stocking this year.

Actually, the Mighty Morphin Power Rambler seems to be floating pretty well. But when I get out my magnifying glass, I can just barely make out a model badge on the side. It says…

“TITANIC”

Uh-oh… maybe that big white thing in panel one wasn’t a splash, but an iceberg…

For what it’s worth—- for the longest time I couldn’t see anybody’s avatars. The latest Opera update changed that so I can see your artwork again. One of these days I’m going to have to put up an image. A shame it won’t happen before Locher kills Tracy, but I guess that’s the way it shapes up now.

Now Mordred’s underware will have to be thrown away. It appears to have scared the holy s__t out of him.

Sing along with wndrwrthg Just follow your bouncing eyeball. To the tune of “It Came Upon…”

By now it should be abundantly clear That Locher is far too old We see everyday there is a dearth Of good stories to be told What on the earth and where and when Will we be free of this awful thing His words are silliness day to day Never any joy does it bring Still published are these stories dumb While Annie from us is hurled Yet still TMS continues to promote This inanity to the world I know it is but a sad refrain There’s no hope change it may bring The stories, they always bring us down It seems to be Locher’s thing Yes, the mistakes of his are rife As slowly he putters along He no longer cares if truth be told He feels he can do no wrong.

Great posts from BB6 and rightwing moron, BillT and everyone else yesterday. Thanks to BillT, JCFremont and woodworker318.

Mordred, you rock baby! Calling Thick a fool is waaaayyy too easy on him! Call him what you really are thinking! We all here in the Tracy Fan Club have been yelling at Spacey for years! Maybe Locher will listen to you! You bet he can’t drive right! He can’t do anything right except muck up anything he gets near. Talk about someone dumber’n a sledge hammer…….. that’s your driver, Mordred! Maybe the State Dept. of Corrections didn’t really want you in their prison system, so they killed two birds with one stone by inviting Dumba$$ to transport you. Ever think of it that way?

If you somehow get loose from those chains while underwater, you have forty pounds of them. USE EVERY INCH OF THEM, and wrap a triple loop with two half-hitches around Macy’s neck and take the tag end and thread Macy on the chain by dropping about 6 feet into his mouth. When you retrieve it from below him, lock it onto something heavy - like that Checker’s driveshaft. Then come see me. Drinks on me!

good yule and great new years to all

Merry Christmas to Everyone!

I wonder if we’re all extra nice, we too will recieve magical cars that can take nosedives and then continue driving as normal less than a second later.

Little did they know that when they sentenced the most hated man in the US to a rainy night alone in a car with Dick Tracy it would be a penalty worse than death. Tracy’s stupidity could bring the devil himself to his knees begging for forgiveness. The rest of us are left pounding our heads wondering what we did to deserve this.

Merry Christmas anyway.

Folks, in the past DT Christmas always had the cheery faces of Junior, Lizz. Dick and Sam happily giving us Seasons Greetings surrounded by a large wreath. As of today this will be the last time I’ll ever read or look at this strip. Until its demise I say bah humbug and good riddance! Peace to all of you who choose to stay.

Is all hope lost? —-What’s so funny about Peace, Love and Understanding? oHHHH (What next…) I’ll have a blue Christmas that’s certain— Merry Christmas Bedford Falls!!!

It would be fun to see a Christmas wish from Tracy and company today, but here in mid-flight of the speeding automobile—maybe not the best idea. Just doesn’t fit here, storywise. A smiling Tracy today and back in mid-flight tomorrow…..I don’t think so.

And Flightsuit’s Rightsuit…. Love the expressiveness of Mordred’s mask, by the way. Amazing how his “eyebrows” move to express his emotions.

It’s ho-ho larry us.