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

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    Pequod  over 5 years ago

    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.

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    avenger09  over 5 years ago

    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.

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    Neil Wick  over 5 years ago

    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.

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    jonahhex1  over 5 years ago

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

    Next stop for Barnabas Tar – BOOT HILL.

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    22ph  over 5 years ago

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

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  over 5 years ago

    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.

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    Constantine500  over 5 years ago

    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.

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    AnyFace  over 5 years ago

    “Action™~!!”✨

    “Suspense™~!!”✨

    “Climax™~!!”✨

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    fredville  over 5 years ago

    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…

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    Mark Jeffrey Premium Member over 5 years ago

    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).

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    Gent  over 5 years ago

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

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    Knightman Premium Member over 5 years ago

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

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    crobinson019  over 5 years ago

    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!

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    jrankin1959  over 5 years ago

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

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    avenger09  over 5 years ago

    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!

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    georgestrum5  over 5 years ago

    Classic Dick Tracy today!

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    seismic-2 Premium Member over 5 years ago

    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.”

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    William Bednar Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Not ironic, appropriate!

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    jless  over 5 years ago

    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.

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    Durak Premium Member over 5 years ago

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

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    Another Take  over 5 years ago

    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)

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    kantuck-nadie  over 5 years ago

    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.

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    PoppaBob Premium Member over 5 years ago

    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???

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    Ray Toler  over 5 years ago

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

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    Ray Toler  over 5 years ago

    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.

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    buckman-j  over 5 years ago

    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?

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    OldTracy  over 5 years ago

    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.

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    iggyman  over 5 years ago

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

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    mysterysciencefreezer  over 5 years ago

    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.

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    Sisyphos  over 5 years ago

    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….

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    dwkiser28603  over 5 years ago

    Damn,Tar missed!

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    clayface9 Premium Member over 5 years ago

    It’s like rain on your dying day.

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    Wavey Davey  over 5 years ago

    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.

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    Ricky Bennett  over 5 years ago

    Rangers in the night

    Exchanging ammo

    Firing at first sight

    Their guns went blammo

    They were sharing lead

    Before the night was throooooough…

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