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

What elevated surface is Mordred jumping from?

Looking like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Mordred swings his chain as he jumps a hurdle Through the air he soars like a hawk Now, if only he wouldn’t talk Revenge he seeks on our fabled dick Who knew that it was this that makes him tick Lightly he trips the fantastic Though indeed he looks rather spastic Tracy stands rooted to the spot He cannot fathom how the chains off were got Meanwhile back at the sty Liz(z) wants to know the reason why What good news can there be Nothing here that I can see The same old thing day in and day out Until it makes me want to shout.

The Frog of Doom is back! Merde’s leap is exactly what you would expect from a giant mutated frog!

The good news? If Locher had used a different Horn Hair stencil, then she would realize that a new person has entered Police Hooters. This proves that it’s possible to travel during the Storm of the Century. And who is this person? It’s a French chef in a clever disguise, and he’s got a recipe for frog’s legs.

A classic!

Good one WW. Sounds like this strip, Asks a lot of questions but no answers.

Someday English lit students will have to write papers exploring exactly how Wonder Warthog managed to come up with hundreds and hundreds of original poems about something so unchanging.

Flight Suit: The spinning chain acts as a rotor and gives him lift for short distances.

That, and all his years as a ballet dancer doing those jetes.

Wonderful, Wonder Warthog.

Meanwhile, back at the blanch, I guess Thick forgot that he removed the chains and all while helping Morbid escape the sunken car, and then replaced them when they emerged from the water. He did a lousy job of replacing them. As for Morbid’s leap, it’s an accident. He tripped over the garbage lying on the floor in panel #2.

And the homoerotic Genesis jokes continue in panel #3, with Horn Hair making her “spill” joke as Onan appears.

Liz might want to investigate the corpse in the background.

wndrwrthg does it again! Excellent!

Apparently Mordred can fly. What Im wondering is why he wont take off that silly mask.

Liz: “If there’s ANY good news, Sam–SPILL IT” Sam: “Tracey’s a goner” The partying at Police HQ went on into the night …

The good news? Only 38 days to March 14th!

Great poem, WW! :D

NVash, it could be that the mask is part of Locher’s incompetent way of telling a story. A lot of very bad movie villains have worn masks, so if Locher puts his bad guy in a mask, it means he is very bad. The same goes for that endless repetition of a few ideas. All the cops say Mordred is bad. Mordred says and thinks bad things. Thick taunts Mordred with his badness. And it goes on for over two months, to build up the impression that Mordred is bad.

Locher could have done the job in two panels. Horn Hair could have said “It’s Mordred, the worst serial killer we’ve ever handled.” Thick could have said “The freak who made necklaces out of children’s finger bones?” For that matter he could have given the bad guy a relevant name. And what happened to those early references to Camelot? There hasn’t been a hint of the Arthurian legenbds since then. Nothing to make the name of Mordred fit the story.

The best I can do on the source of Mordred’s name and mask is here:

http://brattleblog.brattlefilm.org/?p=258

Maybe Locher or Brozman saw John Boorman’s 1981 production of “Excalibur.”

Rightwingmoron said, about 7 hours ago

…In the second panel, it really looks like he intends to take Dick Tracy by the—hand. (dig it if you can!)…

Actually, Morbid is testing the Dickster to see if he knows the Secret Handshake, in which case Morbid will be forced to spare him.

NVash said, about 7 hours ago

…What Im wondering is why he wont take off that silly mask…

What makes you think it’s a mask?

I think I found a proofreading error in the second panel: please remove the word “think” from the first balloon…

puddleglum1066 said, “I think I found a proofreading error in the second panel: please remove the word “think” from the first balloon”

Either that, or there should be a period between “you” and “think”. :)

@WW: Great work as always. Loved this one!

@Bassman: I hope all is going well for you.

Panel 2 is ridiculous drawing! What does he have in his crotch?

Don’t take off the mask, Mordred. Then Locher would have to draw a face….

-Cougar :{)

I love the way Locher draws a uniformed policeman. He makes him look like a South American Banana Republic Dictator in parade dress, complete with the “fruit salad” board of ribbons on his chest. The only thing missing is one of Locher’s little informative arrows pointing to the cop identifying him as “El Presidente”.

Araldite, that’s a wet spot and it ain’t rainwater. For 2 months now, Thick wouldn’t let Mordred pee (by himself).

“Is that a Gatling gun in your pocket or are you really happy to see me?”

But with that detail-free silhouetting that Locher uses, how can you be sure we’re seeing the Full Mordred? That could be his posterior.

For a sedated man in a soaked leather jumpsuit, Mordred is quite limber.

Mordred’s getting revenge for what? Tracy trash-talking him?

C’mon y’all. It’s easy to see what’s going to hapen. Twenty days from now when Mothra finally grabs Trick, his chain will snag on a formerly invisible pipe. When Mothra makes contact with Trick, it will cause Trick to fall, and Mothra will end up hanging himself.

A totaly amazing leap through the AIR, for a man that’s sedated (?).

Without that impediment to slow him down, Tracy would be a dead man already !

Locher sure knows how to “pencil” them in ! – Bringing action figures to Dick Tracy !

In panel #2, Merde’s upper and lower body do not match up. In panel #1, he’s twirling the chain in his right hand. If the chain remains in his right hand for panel #2, we must be looking at his back. But then what does the diagonal shading below his belt mean? How can that be his backside? Or has he for some reason stopped twirling the chain and taken time to switch it to his other hand?

leapin’ lizards!

nice one ww

NVash - re: comics kingdom

go to google

put in = comics kingdom viewer

find it and click on it

the next page, watch the right hand side

there is a drop box to choose a comic, select and find Dick Tracy (2)

go to the bottom and click on select comic

then you will be albe to read Tracy up Sat. Feb 12

So here we go again. This is going to be like the episode before the last one when the faceless guy chased Tracy all over creation until the bad guy was crushed by the Stuka in the museum. Except that this time the bad guy chases Tracy everywhere while wielding his chains.

Also, the last time I recall, Tracy still had his gun. So just shoot the S.O.B. for crying out loud! JimCo

I read ahead too. My take is that Thick redeems himself slightly, but otherwise this is drek.

About redeeming himself: It had to be done. There’s nowhere to run and hide, so that option is out. Locher can’t afford to kill Thick this coming week, too much time to fill until he retires. So, Thick actually does something that makes sense. Who’da thunk it?

“He flies through the air with the greatest of ease, With a gimp mask and a 40 pound chain for his keys…”

“The good news is, we actually sent one of the decoys with Tracy. Some ham actor we told to really overplay the part to keep Tracy out of the way.”

Now this is more like it!

Full of action and thrills!

chemcope, it would make sense if Thick shot Morbid now. ‘nuff said.