Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 22, 2018

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    Neil Wick  almost 6 years ago

    Good morning™, sewer travelers!

    So, our now-split-personality character wants to be called Splitface now? It’s not quite the same as the Haf-and-Haf of old.

    Also, it doesn’t seem that the “accident” was caused by Zelda.

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    HarryCK  almost 6 years ago

    Good morning™, destroyed lives !

    Man !  This guy gets all the “brakes” !

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  almost 6 years ago

    Two for the money? Where will they? He go?

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    GryphoemiaWinters  almost 6 years ago

    holy bones, I’m caught up! ’sup, everyone?

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    BigDaveGlass  almost 6 years ago

    Turned into a right little sewer and sewer….

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    Maximara  almost 6 years ago

    Interesting tie in to the Dick Tracy (1945) film which had Splitface as the main villain. Side note, Haf and Haf didn’t appear until 1966.

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    davidf42  almost 6 years ago

    That’s not how I remember it. I remember an auto accident where he collided with a tanker truck, which was carrying some corrosive chemicals. He was thrown from his vehicle and wound up lying unconscious in a pool of the chemicals, which disfigured one side of his face.

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    Captain Colorado  almost 6 years ago

    Any relation to Batman’s Two-Face?

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    trimguy  almost 6 years ago

    Swam through a sewer, came in contact with toxic waste. Turned his skin chalky white and his hair bright green.

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    LittleRedDress  almost 6 years ago

    Dealing with David’s comment, the original story has not been retconned. Reading the first panel in today’s strip, it clearly states that the first time he escaped the psychiatric facility was in a sewer where he swam in even more goop. Too separate incidents. I also recalled the Splitface character as the second in the RKO Radio movies. They did the same thing with Gruesome, which was the fourth and last.

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    jrankin1959  almost 6 years ago

    “Are you a comic book villain? Have you spent years developing a completely impossible – yet utterly appropriate for the medium – backstory, only to have some Johnny-come-lately try to lift it for a guest shot? You may be entitled to compensation! Call the law offices of Joker and Two-Face, LLC at…”

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    kantuck-nadie  almost 6 years ago

    Hmmm, this is an interesting twist. Could this be a new HafnHaf?

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    avenger09  almost 6 years ago

    “Avenger to Tracy, Avenger to Tracy, please tell Mike and Joe to showcase you more often, over!"

    https://youtu.be/AL-EBWbZU8s

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    richdell  almost 6 years ago

    Instead of Haf and Haf, is he now Tird and Tird and Tird?

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    buckman-j  almost 6 years ago

    Splitface in the 40’s Dick Tracy film was played by long time character actor Mike Mazurki. His “split” was basically a long scar, looked nothing like Haf n Haf, nor Two Face. This will be possibly the third character lifted from the films, the aforementioned Gruesome, and Cueball. Perhaps the next will be The Claw, a villain from Dick Tracy’s Dilemma, played by baddie Jack Lambert. Everything old is new again.

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    countoftowergrove  almost 6 years ago

    A Shawshank Batman synthesis. As to Batman, Joker or Two-Face?

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    BreathlessMahoney77  almost 6 years ago

    A great week of strips! Good work, Joe & Mike.

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    Sisyphos  almost 6 years ago

    And here we get some vital backstory, as well as a third name for the 3 Faces of evil-doer: Tulza Tuzon; Haf n’ Haf; Splitface. At least the numbers add up. I look forward to seeing him face-to-face(s)….

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    dj45rpm  almost 6 years ago

    I suppose “Third-and-Third-and-Third” would have been too long a name, hence him settling on “Splitface”.

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    weatherford.joe Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    I believe in Dick Tracy.

    I believe in “Haf and Haf”.

    I believe in The City.

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