Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 21, 2019

So it goes

Blood always flows

Violence begets violence.

Tar is dead

Let it be said

Ill deeds have led to silence.

He lived to kill

Much blood did spill

His victims could not breathe.

He killed with ease

To choke did please

With anger he did seethe.

Tracy wins

Justice grins

The killer is now dead.

Slaughters cease

Return to peace

No need to live in dread.

Can’t believe

What I see

Bullets flying

How can it be

That Tracy’s found

It’s flesh and blood

But Tar-man’s shot

Was just a dud

I suppose if logic

Had run it’s course

Then probably Sam

Would be the next boss

Fortunately for Dick

The strip bears his name

Or else he’d be dying

Like Tar just the same.

Good morning™, happy Easter and happy Passover, everyone!

I’m not sure I understand why dying in a garbage dump is ironic. Does Barnabas think he is human garbage? It appears that he said that with his last breath, judging by the shape of the speech bubble.

Like I said…..no criminal EVER wins a shootout with Dick Tracy.

Next stop for Barnabas Tar – BOOT HILL.

It doesn’t look like Tracy is aiming for a kill

For those kind of criminals dying is too easy to get off from the suffer train he was on. A long lonely frustrating stretch. Doctors are getting better at reviving the newly dead. If they can reach them in time. He may just be unconscious. I’d resuscitate him. Only the living can suffer, the dead do not. And he needs to suffer. Such people should only get out upon death, give his brain to science to study. And inhume him with just his prison number to identify him. And above all don’t mention it.

Actual on-screen, “real-time” gunplay & a hit. And last we got Grimm with a bloody shoulder wound. The Tribune must be loosening its censorship.

“Action™~!!”✨

“Suspense™~!!”✨

“Climax™~!!”✨

once again, although he is a bad guy, another criminal’s needless death, because in real life, they would have surrounded him with cops, and taken him in alive.Tracy seems to enjoy killing people; he sure puts himself in enough unnecessary situations so he can play Quick Draw…

The Crimestoppers panel is good for multiple reasons. Leaving a car running, even when sitting at a long stop light, is both a waste of gas and an unnecessary burden on the environment. Modern cars restart very easily, and some will even shut down the engine automatically when it isn’t under load (and I don’t mean just hybrids or electric).

Let him be, so the raccoons may not go hungry!

Tracy had him targeted and Tar drew and fired. Result wild shot, Tracy’s direct hit!!! Years of practice at Police range!!!

Well this has been a rather disappointing arc. I think we could have done the whole thing without Joe, and there really wasn’t much of a mystery to follow. I imagine the Mayor will be down on the Chief because the DAILY is one of her supporters!

Will we get all of the deathbed confession before the next MM?

What a day

To shout hooray

Death has been overcome

The time’s arrived

He is alive

Evil’s on the run

So celebrate

Love defeated hate

Our hearts are filled with glee

The risen one

God’s only Son

Enables us to be free!

….

A happy and blessed Easter to everyone in Tracyville!

Classic Dick Tracy today!

Is Tar’s dying on a pile of garbage really “ironic”? Remember what Phillip Marlowe told us in the penultimate paragraph of Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep: “What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell.”

Not ironic, appropriate!

I know it is just a comic, but how about giving us a little help suspending disbelief? Face to face, both shoot and the bullet completely miss Tracy!Why not the bullet just grazing his arm or shoulder? The art as always a plus, the storylines are disappointing.

Sure hope that Barnabas’ stray shot didn’t hit Joe. He’s still out there, somewhere, isn’t he?

1-BARN: Let’s shoot each others bullets out of the air. That would be so cool! DT: Ok. 2-DT: You missed. BARN: No you did…ugh… DT: Oh? Sorry about that. 3-BARN: How’s my cardigan? 4-BARN: You didn’t hit it did you? I want to be buried in it. Promise me you’ll see that I’m buried in it… 5-DT: Ummm, that’ll be up to whoever finds you. I’m outta here. I can’t afford to get mixed up in a killing over a restaurant food fight. BARN: At least I’ll die knowing I beat the bill…cough…Ol’ Barn’s going out a winner…(last wheeze and gasp)

I shouldn’t speak ill of the dying, but…

Couldn’t happen to a better class of trash. No, I don’t apologize. Worthless crap like this doesn’t deserve to be alive.

No bullet hole in DT’s hat – how disappointing! The slug must be in the bullet-proof vest, which is why DT survived and the perp did not! What, you all expect something different from DT???

Suffice it to say that Bonnie won’t be having a second date with BarTar.

Joe will now be offered a job on Tracy’s team (he can replace Lt. Teevo or Groovy Grove—neither of those positions have been filled that I know of). He will marry Bonnie who will become pregnant and challenge Kandikane’s record for the world’s longest pregnancy.

I think Joe is like that guy in the old Kingston Trio song, “He may ride forever ‘neath the streets of Boston , he’s the man who never returned.” I still don’t know if this cat’s the serial killer. Proof maybe?

The first two panels look like an homage to the shootout in the opening to the funny “Police Squad” TV series. Even the trash cans are there. RIP Leslie Nielson.

Did he die? How about Bonnie and Joe? I hope they tie up the loose ends!

With all the perps Dick has taken out over the years, you’d think they’d take him off the streets on sheer mental health precautions.

Foolish man, serial killer, Bar Tar draws down on Tracy. Bar Tar falls. Time to take out the trash!

BLAM! And another one bites the dust.

A dramatic confrontation, with a familiar ending.

—Which leaves a week for wrapping up loose ends or heating up a romance, or both….

Damn,Tar missed!

It’s like rain on your dying day.

Pleased to see Dick Tracy holding his pistol correctly! Both thumbs on the same side. Proper form no doubt helped him perform well under stress and and successfully defend his life.

Rangers in the night

Exchanging ammo

Firing at first sight

Their guns went blammo

They were sharing lead

Before the night was throooooough…