Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 10, 2011

“Mordred, I’ll help you get to a window! When I say ‘help,’ of course, what I mean is that I will bravely set an example for you to follow.”

Panel #2 is a repeat of a Sunday panel.

And the picture of Thick in panel #1 is, again, surprisingly good–but what donaldo said yesterday is right. This isn’t the sort of expression you expect on Dick Tracy’s face.

Pity he broke his thumb and finger as shown in panel #3.

Also, why is Dick submerged in rocky road ice cream? How is his wrist genie working after submersion?

And what does “HB Terry” mean?

Five days ago Spacy jumped out of the same window. It was more spectacular then when he jumped with a bright red aura around him. Second time’s not the charm.

Who is HB Terry? Is he left over from Terry and the Pirates? Did Locher really need someone to copy Sunday’s panel and change the red to white?

HB Terry must be the name of the artist who drew all those little tiny bubbles.

barticle35, a different artist provided the tiny bubbles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MXgc8wzfC4

I’m guessing that “HB” stands for Happy Birthday. “Terry” I have no clue, as Locher’s wife’s name is Mary, not Terry.

Wait. Now the building falls apart? What caused it? A random gust of wind? Or the mob of rats?

BillThompson, that is one weird video.

Yeah, it does look a bit like Mordred, doesn’t it?

http://joshreads.com/images/11/03/i110307dennis.jpg

I’m just sayin’. ;D

Drop Thick in the drink–

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxYRhnBzp8U

–and we’re relieved to finish with the granary. Again.

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Am I missing something?

Tracy offers to help Mordred, then just leaves. Tracy is asking someone, possibly miles away what happened to Mordred, when he just left him seconds ago.

OK. We’re back to where we left off on Sunday!

Three days left till the boffo finish, right? And yeah Bill, we’re almost caught up to last week. Except didn’t Tracy’s wrist radio turn back on a month ago or so?

I notice that the panes of that window Tracy just jumped through are still intact…

Remember that Locher is a fundie Christian Republican.

Probably Terry is either his mistress or gay lover.

Tracy is that you? Who is that? What? What? Who is this? You have a wrong number What? What?

Maybe the grainery has ant problems. bleeep wood ants will eat thru anything…

I just realized we have all been artfully deceived This is the most brilliant act of vengeance ever conceived The victims families hatched a plan so sublime All they had to do was wait and bide their time With the help of a mole within the FBI Assured them that they would have revenge on their guy They realized that if ever you want someone erased You just have to get Tracy assigned to the case His incompetence and ineptness will get the job done Where there was once a killer soon there would be none A monster storm, the biggest of the century they say Would be just the cover they needed for their play Dick Tracy would transport the evil serial killer Setting the stage for a four month long thriller Four flattened tires, the flooded new street corner lake Just leave the rest to that flat-footed flake No need to follow or get in the way Any prisoner of Tracy’s he’ll inadvertently slay The power approach, as a joke they taught him in school Thinking, “never before have we seen such a big fool” So now their plan has finally come to fruition All Mordred needs now is the services of a mortician Lizz, back at Police Hooters has but one deep regret Try as she might, she has not gotten rid of Tracy yet.

Thank you, woodworker318 and tsouthworth.

“Tracy is that you”

No, I’m just a guy calling to tell you that I haved saved 15% on my car insurance.

LOL okaaaay safeway674 :) So…4 days til the 15th. Hopefully this mess will be wrapped up…

His pockets apparently acted like a parachute to break his fall.

You have to wonder how deep the water is where Thick landed. If it was too shallow he could have broken some bones when he hit bottom. That’s a problem here because we were shown that the waters have receded from around the granary. Before the flooding we were shown that it stood atop a rounded hill. Even with a running start Thick couldn’t have landed more than forty feet from the granary, and ten feet seems a more reasonable number for the horizontal component. It’s far more likely that Thick hit either solid ground or very shallow water, and broke a leg or two on impact.

BillThompson said, “You have to wonder how deep the water is where Thick landed. If it was too shallow he could have broken some bones when he hit bottom.”

If you look back to Sunday’s strip, the water was up to Tracy’s chin. I figured that Tracy landed in the lake that his car ended up in when he did the power approach. Sam was safely stationed atop an adjacent rounded hill.

Who is Tracy talking to and asking if Mordred got out of the building? As far as he knows there wasn”t anyone around for miles. It looks like he is standing in the water and why all of a sudden does he have his eyes wide open? He looks really scared. WW, it looks like you can’t quit yet. We still have three days to go. Another good one.

If Locher can dig himself outta this one in 3 days, he’s got a lotta “splainin’ to do” in a really short time. If he fails, he goes down in the record books (my record books) as being short-sighted. REALLY short-sighted. A writer who continues to challenge my intelligence lays low on my totem pole. I venture to give Mattie more stars on his chart than I’d give Locher.

The granary has collapsed. The rats are now homeless. Will they start handing out thousand dollar bills?

Tracy landed in a “rain filled storm depression” or something like that. Hard to believe it would be so deep that he would land standing up, uninjured, and keeping his genie dry. Panel 3, Tracy is talking to himself or thinking out loud; the genie is on, Sam hears him and answers. The granary collapsed because it is old, deteriorated after years of unuse; could very well have termites and the rats wouldn’t help. The rain and wind fianlly did it in. What is unexplainable is Tracy saying he would help but jumping out first.

Notice how the rickety old wood building suddenly becomes made of bricks as it’s collapsing.

ALSO………. anyone notice Thick put his tie back on? Count the times it was all ragged when he swam out of the submerged car and in the granery, it got re-tied. Then it loosened again, and so on ad infinitum. I guess he wanted to look presentable for Testicle Chin (or the AWACS), whichever came first.

Why does Dick Tracy look like Frankenstein?

I think his name should be, Dick Spacey!

Why is his nose so small? You know what they say about men with small noses?

Or Dick Tracy, The Brainless Detective.