Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 03, 2019

Full Moon so bright. Revealing light

An argument ensues

Tulza, Splitface, and Haf n’ Haf

Great Zelda they’d abuse.

All three so cold. Splitface makes bold

Waits on the Pizza Dude

Clyboune purloins the pizza pie

A robbery so rude.

Would not you know a favorite crow

Has spared the pizza thief

Seems they share a moniker

Which saves Mayfair from grief.

My favorite new Dick Tracy character is a dead crow.

How sad!

I can’t say today’s strip is either good or bad.

How sad!

It seems the days of soar have become the days of bore.

How sad!

The excitement level of the strip is about the same as a rush hour trip.

’Tis very, very sad!

Good morning™, captive birds!

It’s an offer he can’t refuse!

Good morning™, new alliances !

I’m so relieved I’ll do anything !

Maybe Claiborne might even get paid. Maybe.

……seems like this story is taking an awful long time to set up….will there be any time left for a decent climax and ending???

Look’s like I’m having to eat crow…

Last night I posted a link about how Clybourne made his debut in another strip drawn by Chester Gould, The Gravies. It ran in only one newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, and it was a filler strip that ran below the Dick Tracy comic. Few people remember it.

Now I have a much better link, that gives a lot of information, and more strips with Clybourne. You must read it!

http://www.tcj.com/a-tricky-cad-the-gravies-sawdust-and-chester-gould/

Not too bright, just randomly picking some bum you know nothing about to help with a murder. Because you like his name.

Did Splitface lose his appetite? I’d make this guy pay for a new pizza first.

What’s with the giant cartoon bird for two days straight?

Splitface is certainly out of reality. I feel for Clayborn now.

Actually, Clybourne crow, clothes and all, was also a character in Gould’s lesser known strip, The Gravies: http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2011/08/gravy-train-tuesday-comic-strip-day.html

Ok, haf and haf. Is that a hat on his head? Or his exposed brain? Because if that’s his hat, he needs to head to Goodwill to get a new one. But if it’s his brain, way cool!

And if it is his brain, he needs a better name than Splitface. I’m suggesting Cranium.

Maybe Clybourne has a cousin in Vancouver. Canuck the Crow is a free bird but raised by humans and well known for antics around town including riding transit trains and in the story addressed below, stealing evidence in an assault case (wish I could post that pic – knife in his beak)https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/05/26/canuck-the-crow-swoops-off-with-knife-from-a-vancouver-crime-scene.html

Interesting article here on Haf-and-Haf:

http://absorbascon.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-haf-and-haf-controversy.html

This storyline started out really strong, then they interrupted it for the Minute Mystery, and since it’s been one wrong narrative turn after another.

Clybourne lives! (For now.)

That tiny, little “Uh, who?” sums up his life-or-death predicament, at the whim of a paranoid schizophrenic* monster….

*Yeah, I know the APA doesn’t believe in the diagnosis anymore. Screw ’em.

How is Split Face not suffering(and I mean this literaly) brain freeze?

L & A

http://www.lumandabnersociety.org/Comic-Strip-Home.html