Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 07, 2011

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 13 years ago

    Back by popular demand…

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    Bill Thompson  over 13 years ago

    “Just get up and run!” At first it might seem that Thick is giving the worst possible advice to a deranged serial killer. In reality he wants the rats to save themselves from the collapsing granary.

    Or, maybe, now that he has Morbid on his back and with his legs open, Thick is trying to coax some privacy from the rats.

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    FLIGHT SUIT  over 13 years ago

    “Just get up and run!”

    Translation:

    “I’m not going to do anything to help you if it might endanger me in some way. However, I am going to give you a piece of advice which has always worked wonderfully for me: Run away in terror! If you’ll just run away in terror, things will always have this way of working themselves out.”

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    margueritem  over 13 years ago

    Wotta sense of deja vue…

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    Bill Thompson  over 13 years ago

    Did Locher understand that this would be his last week?

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    OldTracy  over 13 years ago

    “Just get up and run”. So why didn’t Spacy think of that before he wasted all his ammo, jumped out the window, and then apparently went back into the granary which is only partly demolished?

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    lazygrazer  over 13 years ago

    Why do Lochers’ rats look like they can bark??

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    Steve Bartholomew  over 13 years ago

    Ee ya yi, ee i ee i oh!

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    woodworker318  over 13 years ago

    In yesterday’s strip Mordred was standing at the window or door with Thick. Now he’s lying on the floor. These rats look like the migration of the lemmings.

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    Bill Thompson  over 13 years ago

    I’ve seen cats hold their tails like the rat in the last panel, but rats?

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    lazygrazer  over 13 years ago

    Been thinking about Tracy’s earlier reaction of horror when Morbid unzipped his mask for him (and not us)….and I’ve concluded Morbid is the bitter victim of a botched vasectomy and that zipper is actually his fly.

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    pcolli  over 13 years ago

    A long as it ends…….or maybe not. I no longer care.

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member over 13 years ago

    OM NOM NOM NOM NOM

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    Bill Thompson  over 13 years ago

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrfaf3r7Dok

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    LudwigVonDrake  over 13 years ago

    I thought the building collapsed and Mordred was a goner?

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    veldy  over 13 years ago

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    prrdh  over 13 years ago

    Ludwig, this is a flashback that the Dickster is having as he flails about in the cold water. Tomorrow maybe we’ll have one of Mordreck’s flashbacks, and after that one of the rats’.

    The next day, Sam will pull the Dickster out of the water.

    Then, the kiss of life.

    Then, the two of them walk off, hand in hand, into the sunset which has suddenly appeared in the middle of the night, and we have reached THE END. (OF LOCHER).

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    JohnNeil  over 13 years ago

    The rats finally have Locher where they’ve wanted him all along–cornered, humiliated, and considering a plunge into the abyss.

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    Morrow Cummings  over 13 years ago

    If this excercise in stupidity doesn’t get them ALL, from Horn Hair down to Thick, up in front of the Police Review Board, nothing will! And if Mordred dies, look out for his lawyer. For he’s a-comin’! Both Mordred’s next of kin and their lawyer will be very wealthy, indeed!

    The Prosecution will open up with the insane assignment, the Power Approach, and the complete disregard for a prisoner’s safety. Algonquin J. Calhoun could win this one!

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    VaSeeker Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Panel 1 is an analogy: To Locher, he is Mordred and we are the rats, attacking him!

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    neonleon59  over 13 years ago

    Why are the rats in panel three standing on a snare drum?

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    woodworker318  over 13 years ago

    In panel #3, is that rat standing on a barrel or a snare drum? I didn’t know that granaries kept barrels on the upper floors? But what do I know. About the same as Locher.

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    Dr. Midnight  over 13 years ago

    “Aargh! We’ve gone backward in time!”

    Now we will continue going back and back until we get to the four flat tires which caused the tear in the space-time continuum in the first place.

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    Sardonis  over 13 years ago

    Just a quick note/apology to Mike Curtis:

    Sorry about the other day–I was just messing around. Good work with what I’ve seen on the new strip–I will be checking it out for sure!

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    William Bednar Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Could this be one of those deleted scenes from “Beverly Hills Chihuahua”?

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    billdi Premium Member over 13 years ago

    just get up and run… i do it all the time! that’s because:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxuThNgl3YA

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    brine Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Are we to believe that yesterday never happened???

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    browngsa  over 13 years ago

    Brine: It happens all the time. There was the decoy cars that were never mentioned again. Then the route that was aborted because of flat tires, so the exchange started again as if nothing had happened. There was the “all-weather” gear that Sam talked about putting on that never took place. In fact, it was “hours” (comic strip time) before before Sam finally got in a Pacer to go looking for his friend. And there was the plane that was in the area that was searching for Tracy. All of this we have to believe never happened.

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    steveyorkdesigns  over 13 years ago

    So first Tracy is rescued by the rats, and now he needs to be rescued FROM the rats.

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    wndrwrthg  over 13 years ago

    They say it’s a sound that is a treat The pitter-patter of little feet But in this case I’m not so sure For the plague of rats they must endure With chisel teeth and tiny claws They will give you reason for a pause The rats, they chew and they bite They’ll give you a nasty fright Why does Mordred draw their ire What about him do they desire? Tracy holds the rats at bay His Kung Fu moves save the day Though Tracy might become dejected If he gets “not quite the solution he expected” Mordred we have come to despise For wearing “an outrageously disgusting disguise” And here is something you cannot shirk “Where there’s smoke, there is work” Ask yourself this if you may be in doubt “Where did Jonas go when the lights went out”? I think you may find it rather droll To hear of “Pickles down the rat hole” Will you “run across the pages like some tiny elf” When you see that “ the electrician exposes himself” I really fell it deep within my bones This is a case for Flotsam and Hemlock Stones Why do we read this when we really oughta Be listening to “The Tale of the Giant Rats of Sumatra”.

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    Araldite  over 13 years ago

    Dick Tracy, the “unswervingly honest man”, makes believe he wants to save Mordred, but in the end jumps to save his own butt and leaves Mordred behind.

    BTW, I wonder if Mordred hates rats?

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    Froxkrybra  over 13 years ago

    Wait a minute, did I miss something? Wasn’t it just yesterday Tracy was in the water and now he is back in the grainery with the evil doctor?

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    MikeCurtis Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Hey Sardonis, it’s okay. When I first started wearing an eyepatch, friends asked me what had ahppened and I replied “For Christmas I wanted a Red Ryder BB Gun with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time.”

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    puddleglum1066  over 13 years ago

    So is Mordred about to be unmasked as an adult Charlie Brown? “Oh, rats!”

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    Bill Thompson  over 13 years ago

    I’d settle for knowing how Thick and Morbid managed to do anything but shiver.

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    TGCarlini Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Hahahahahahahahah!

    This is the funniest strip being done today… too bad it’s going to get all actiony and dramatic again in a week!

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    countoftowergrove  over 13 years ago

    Is Modred Desa Arnaz?

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    Midnite  over 13 years ago

    wndrwrthg, that was great!

    So I assume its going to take these rats another two or three days to eat Mordred alive? Ill give Locher credit, I never saw this horrible ending coming.

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    woodworker318  over 13 years ago

    Was by any chance todays strip supposed to be Sunday’s and Sunday’s today? Maybe it’s just a foolish thought. Another good one WW. Glad we have something to look forward to. It certainly isn’t the plot..

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    siw  over 13 years ago

    Just end the the story line already..

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    Fusnr  over 13 years ago

    Wndrwrthg,

    by golly I never count your lines but this looks like your longest work of poetry yet. Always enjoy reading your poems .

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    tuckerch  over 13 years ago

    You know, I actually finished reading “Battlefield Earth”. God’s Mercy, it was awful, it was stupid, it made no sense whatsoever. But once I start a book, I finish it.

    I’m going to stick with these final few days. But I tell you all.

    This has been harder for me than finishing “Battlefield Earth.”

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 13 years ago

    Is this what happened? Tracy jumped into the water, only to return to the collapsing granary to make another effort to convince Mordred to jump. Meanwhile, the rats have landed on a drum left at the granary by a rock group years ago. The rats are playing the drum and, it appears, singing. Tracy is conducting the rats in their symphony. That’s believable but how in the world did Tracy manage to dry his clothes after the plunge?

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    Sardonis  over 13 years ago

    lol You’ll shoot your eye out, kid! Cool–glad we’re good!

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