Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 01, 2011

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    FLIGHT SUIT  almost 14 years ago

    Is Liz crying?

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    FLIGHT SUIT  almost 14 years ago

    Also, is that Ultraman Seven’s profile in panel three?

    http://tinyurl.com/4rrnuxp

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    PaStark Premium Member almost 14 years ago

    The good news is a new artist will be taking over this strip, but not soon enough.

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  almost 14 years ago

    Can’t Liz look out the window and see that the storm of the century has intensified? If all communications are out, how can Liz expect Tracy to call in?

    I can hardly wait to hear the good news…

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    margueritem  almost 14 years ago

    Her eye makeup is causing irritation, thus the appearance of tears.

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    OldTracy  almost 14 years ago

    The good news is that Sam has found his galoshes and now can finish putting on the foul weather gear he said he would put on over a month ago.

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    Llewellenbruce  almost 14 years ago

    Maybe this story will be over by Christmas.

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    Bill Thompson  almost 14 years ago

    Now why couldn’t Testicle Chin have just told her the good news? Now we have to wait until next week for it. And what is it? “Just got a Candygram from Noah. He wants two of every animal, so he’s reserved a berth for thee and me.”

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    mrbribery  almost 14 years ago

    The good news is Sam just saved 15% on his car insurance with Geico!

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    FLIGHT SUIT  almost 14 years ago

    This is classic “man against nature” stuff, in the tradition of Jack London.

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    Jerry1967  almost 14 years ago

    I wonder what the “good news” is?

    my guess: Sam found his other elevator shoe (but has yet to put it on).

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    Bill Thompson  almost 14 years ago

    Panel #3: “A pox on thee!” thinks Horn Hair. “Here I am emoting my heart out over Thick’s tragic circumstances, and you spoil the moment with your prattle about good news! Naughty boy, go stand in the corner for a week!”

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member almost 14 years ago

    Sam: Does your nose run and your feet smell? Uh-oh! You’re built upside-down!

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    mjmsprt40  almost 14 years ago

    The department is immobilized by this storm. Now would be a good time for intrepid criminals to run off with Sam’s galoshes.

    Someone told me a couple of days back that the Napperville police weren’t good for much, and every time Locher shows them to us I have to agree.

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    CyberV  almost 14 years ago

    “Good news?”

    “Yes! We’ll have a competant writer again in about a month!”

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    thejensens  almost 14 years ago

    Liz must be a blonde because -

    Liz - look out the window, does the storm look any better

    Liz - all communications are down, the storm is still raging, so how is Dick supposed to call?????

    Sam - I have good news, I was able to get to Starbucks

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    Nighthawks Premium Member almost 14 years ago

    no, the good news isn’t about Geico, it’s that he has unlimited texting on his cell phone. anything else would be ho ho horrendous

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    William Bednar Premium Member almost 14 years ago

    Sam - I have good news! The cafeteria has three day old donuts on sale!! I bought three dozen! Let’s dig in!!

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    JCFremont  almost 14 years ago

    Ah, there’s good news tonight.

    There’s also the bad news that Liz has developed a fluid leak. She should probably go back to the dealer and have that looked at. For as little as she does, she’s probably still under warrantee.

    Say, that is good news.

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    Araldite  almost 14 years ago

    No news is good news. We know anything from Tracy is going to be nothing but bad news.

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    Bill Thompson  almost 14 years ago

    With that tear in her eye, and Locher’s recent habit of having people at Hooters say parallel things with the Granary Gang, it’s a wonder that panel #3 doesn’t show Thick saying “I should call Horn Hair and tell her I’m dumping Tess for Morbid.”

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    Morrow Cummings  almost 14 years ago

    Horn Hair is welling up because she knows that her secret love (Thick) will never be hers. “Tonight”, she sobs, “Thick is having his wedding rite with Mordred.” Getting beat out of her fantacized earth-moving moment by a mass murderer!

    Sam: “The good news is that someone in the kitchen down the hall saw Thick sneaking the strawberries and whipped cream out in his napsack this morning. That should keep him occupied.”

    Liz(z), in a silent thought bubble: “Little does Testicle Chin know I bought them for Thick and myself.” She feels cheated by fate.

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    puddleglum1066  almost 14 years ago

    I’ve figured out how this story arc is going to end: the water keeps rising around the old granary till only the top floor is above the waves. Mordred tricks Tracy into undoing his chains (not difficult, as he continues to behave as if he’s in a serious brain fog). In the climactic scene, Mordred overpowers Tracy. At that moment, a huge, scaly sea monster rises from the depths. “Behold!” screams Mordred, “the source of my power: the LOCHER MESS MONSTER!!” He prepares to throw the paralyzed detective into the beast’s gaping jaws, just as he has murdered all his past victims.

    Just as Tracy is about to become the monster’s lunch, a stray wind blows his Magic Fedora back onto his head. And in that moment, he remembers who he is. Remembering that ammunition is waterproof, he shouts, “Eat lead, monster!” and pumps a full clip into the Locher Mess Monster.

    As Tracy kicks himself away from the beast’s jaws, the Locher Mess Monster screams and writhes around Mordred, who is exposed as David Dierdorf d’Bucksworth. Then, with a deafening FLOOOOOM! that blasts the water and the storm away, the monster explodes. As the sun comes out, Tracy shakes his head as if waking up from a bad dream. Sam (whose strange testicle-shaped chin wart has miraculously healed) and Liz (now free from the demonic influence of her cursed Blago-Hair) arrive, in a cop car that for a moment looks vaguely like a Pig on Wheels. They all look at each other (rather like Kirk, Spock and McCoy at the end of “Star Trek 4”), and realize that something very ancient and very evil has passed from the world. “Well,” says Tracy, “I guess It Happened!” With a laugh, they walk back to the squad car and prepare to get back to real police work.

    This all happens around March 14…

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    Dr. Midnight  almost 14 years ago

    The good news is: I’ve booked us a romantic cabin right on the shore of New Street Corner Lake.

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    steveyorkdesigns  almost 14 years ago

    With the storm of the century raging outside I’d think there’d be a little more action at police HQ.

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    Davison77  almost 14 years ago

    Maybe the good news is that both Tracy and Modred are dead and this story line is over.

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    Morrow Cummings  almost 14 years ago

    Whyizzit that Sam is always standing at an angle? Is it that the Police Hooters is really located in Pisa, Italy? And Sam is really erect?

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    billdi Premium Member almost 14 years ago

    the good news is i got a great deal on four used tires!

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    Bill Thompson  almost 14 years ago

    Hope things improve fast for you, Bassman Bob.

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    OldTracy  almost 14 years ago

    You can tell when Liz is really worried because her nose changes shape.

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    tsouthworth  almost 14 years ago

    From Monty Python - “GET ON WIT IT!

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    margueritem  almost 14 years ago

    Sorry to read that things aren’t going well, BB. I hope that they improve soon.

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    Morrow Cummings  almost 14 years ago

    May the Force be with you, BB!

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    marvee  almost 14 years ago

    Our thoughts and prayers are with you, BB.

    Maybe the good news is that the decoy cars have reported back in. But that wouldn’t really be good news, would it? If they could get back, WHY DIDN’T TRACY?

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    JCFremont  almost 14 years ago

    Sorry to hear the sad news, Bassman. Take care and come back when you’re ready. As far as Dick goes, I’m sure you won’t miss much so, you know, there’s that.

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    Bill Thompson  almost 14 years ago

    marvee, maybe the “good news” is the gimmick that others have expected: the real Mordred is with one of the decoys. It would be typical of Locher to rewrite the story that way, leaving nobody in the strip to realize that Thick is dealing not with Mordred, but with an entirely different psycho-killer with the same name. Then we can have a week of everyone at Police Hooters going “Okay, Thick is safe.”

    Meanwhile Thick will be in a death-battle with the faux-Morbid, who will die by his own chains. Then the arc can end with endless comments on the irony. Fake killer bound by his own chains. Never had a trial for the crimes he never committed. Never got in the history books for not killing Thick. Or something ironic.

    Of course with Testicle Chin the good news may be that his pores have started to close up.

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    sydney  almost 14 years ago

    I’ll bet ten bucks Locher didn’t PENCIL IN this one !

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    trekkermint  almost 14 years ago

    condolences bassman

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