Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 05, 2011

HEE, HEE, HA, HA!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqsD3crD1g

I figured out which movie they’re in. “Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid.” Thick is pessimistic Butch and Mordred is the ever-cheerful Sundance. That explains the crazy leap into the water, which has confounded the police and sheriff alike. Leave it to Locher to have a cop need to elude the police.

Once Etta Place shows up we’ll hear “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head.” But she’ll vanish, leaving our two romantic leads to continue on their merry way.

Aw, come on, Mordred. Tracy hasn’t stood a chance in a fair fight for years.

Mordred loves fights that aren’t fair…

Genius that he is, Mordred has figured out how to keep warm and find safety: speak the word “fight.” Thick will run for all he’s worth, and won’t stop until he’s out of danger.

HEY, NO FAIR!!

In the last panel it looks like Tracy has closed his eyes and is crying. Boo Hoo

He probably wishes he had pair of red ruby slippers, so he could tap the heels together and say:

“There’s no place like home” “There’s no place like home”

I’ve short-circuited. A dumber plot line could not exist.

Checking down.

POWER APPROACH!

I really, really like how the leather mask has eye lids.

Since my only access to this is online, I have to remind myself that, somewhere, there are actually newspapers that are running this strip and that it’s sole purpose is not for people to snark upon online! In that context, I wonder if anyone still reads this in a paper and how many papers have dropped the strip!

That’s not a leather mask; it’s the Doc’s face. That’s why the mouth on the “mask” changes shape when he laughs. How’d it happen? A long and terrible story, involving a pig on wheels and a FLOOOOOM! inside a sealed tiger cage…

They cancelled Annie and Brenda Starr. But this thing is still running.

Nacherly, Thick doesn’t have his service weapon, either. He left it at home on the table with his teeth and brain. The only good thing is his Depends got a good rinsing so he doesn’t need to change them if they ever dry out.

He gets the Premium Grade with the extra storage for situations such as this. They are pricey!

Too many.

Why didn’t the cop with the stop sign notify headquarters that Tracy drove right past him and into the lake?

What’s with the “Nike Swoosh” eyes in panel three? A little product placement perhaps?

Where’s this smart detective? It’s easy to see why Mordred is calling him that, so Tracy doesn’t get the idea he’s the one Mordred is talking to in Panel 1, but when will we see him? He’s probably hiding in the sewer….

-Cougar :{)

i thought it was supposed to be ha ha ha ho ho

Panel 2: Since Tracy had to take off some of Mordred’s chains to break the car window, I see he has improvised by using seatbelts from the car to hold Mordred.

Nice idea, aircraft engineer, but Mordred can’t do that while he’s chained up himself. If we’re lucky next week’s plot development will be the arrival of his associates, and they can dispose of Thick for him.

Waiting Man, no advertiser would want a product placement in this train-wreck of a strip (although in panel #2, Mordred’s head looks like something you’d see advertised in a porn spam; maybe he’s vibrating with something other than amusement). What’s happening in panel #3 is that Thick has just realized there’s a hideous skin growth on his right cheek.

billdi said, about 7 hours ago “i thought it was supposed to be ha ha ha ho ho”

No, bildi (and Mordred), it’s:

“Mwahhhh ha ha ha hah!!!!

By the way Mordred, How’s King Aurthur? Is the Lady of the Lake coming to help you kill off Dick?

I just noticed, Dick is battling the elements while Mordred is wrapped up all nice and warm in his pleather outfit. Thats nowhere near fair. Where did Dicks jacket and hat go off to? Did they float away after his ‘power approach’?

NVash, Thick’s coat and fedora, and his gloves, all vanished when the car flooded. Looks like they weren’t wash-n-wear.

GES Who, the Rule of Locher is that there can only be one plot development per week. This week’s development appears to be that Thick and Mordred are lost in the storm. If Locher remembers that he said Mordred has associates, they can’t appear yet.

I love it when a crazed, insane killer laughs like a little girl – sends a shiver down my spine every time I’ve recovered from my utter disgust.

The soundtrack to this strip? Willie Nelson singing “Blue Eyes Cryin’ In The Rain”.

Modred would do well not to forget Tracy’s sudden bursts of SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH.

In Thurs. strip, thick has his gun in his hand. It probably has rusted from the water.