Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 08, 2018

Good morning™, special people!

Is this like matter and antimatter? It seems to me that someone here predicted something like this yesterday.

With, “Poof! No more Tracy!” my first thought is of Abner Kadaver, whose last story was very open ended.

Okay now is titillating me now. I think of that X-Files with the poor man whose shadow is like a black hole. It crosses you and you are destroyed. Gone.

Ha! Every criminal thought he/she could defeat Tracy but he’s been undefeated since 1931!

Seems like the cousin of Willie the Fifth, the only lethal think we see is the smoke of his cigar

With all the second hand smoke i understand why Polar needs ventilation…

Good morning™, walking bombs !

Will this “special” person be remotely controlled or be autonomous with face recognition software ?

Well, that should be interesting to watch….what is that guy, the Dick Tracy of the Anti-Matter Universe?

Vortex is Russian, so maybe he just stopped by his titanium-clad Latvian neighbor’s castle of doom to borrow a key to the Negative Zone?

And if so why is he so happy to sacrifice himself. Me? I would be at the opposite side of the globe..

Still think it’s Bing Crosby. ✨

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In a universe with space coupes and Lunarians, I suppose it’s possible for there to be an antimatter counterpart to Tracy. Presumably everyone else would have an anti-doppelganger, too, though. So having the only “anti-person” we know of happen to be “anti-Tracy” seems a stretch.

If that’s the setup, the “anti-Tracy” character will be annihilated along with Tracy if the pair comes into contact. I don’t see why “anti-Tracy” would take a job with that possible outcome—much less one where that’s the goal.

I’m hoping there’s a more plausible explanation for what PV is getting at.

Now my interest is piqued!

From what? Second-hand smoke? (After so many years of Sam puffing away, you’d think he’d be used to it…)

Wait a minute, I get it now – he’s made of anti-matter!

It IS Warren Beatty! With a restraining order! ;D

Meet Ycart Kcid. The Dick Tracy from Earth-3.

The first thing that came to my mind was an anti-matter being. But then how is he able to make contact with matter (the floor, the walls, etc. ) without setting off a cataclysm?

Maybe it’s another weapon. Maybe he stole Punjab’s magic blanket?

The Positive Man vs Negative Man.

Cough! Cough! —All this smoke is clouding my vision. I don’t see how Piotr’s Poof-Man is supposed to work, nor can I see him as a willing suicide-bomber. So, at least for today, I’m leaning towards Poof-Man being some sort of robot or cyborg, programmed by Volkov….

Anyone else hear Basil Rathbone when they read Piotr’s lines?