Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 10, 2020

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    AnyFace  over 4 years ago

    Huh.

    He ‘fessed up. ✨

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    Neil Wick  over 4 years ago

    Surprise™, everybody!

    Just “consulting.” That’s all, he says. At first, she didn’t believe he was with a movie star. Will she believe this?

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    favm  over 4 years ago

    She believes all, that’s her problem.

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    Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray  over 4 years ago

    Good morning™, truthers !

    He actually sounds credible. His past record will absolve or bury him.

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    Counterpoint  over 4 years ago

    You can do so much better than Shaky – give him the boot Edison…

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    finkd  over 4 years ago

    The best lies always have a grain of truth in them.

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    Neil Wick  over 4 years ago

    We were discussing late Sunday whether Tracy’s city is Chicago or not. I just answered a comment there, but I’m repeating it here for those who don’t read comments that old. It seems that the current Team Tracy doesn’t follow what Gould would have done in this respect. Here is a paragraph form a press release that appeared in many newspapers in 1956 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the strip:

    “CHICAGO, Oct. 13 (CTPS). — … The city that breeds the criminal freaks and monsters who provide Tracy with mysteries to solve could be Chicago, of course, since Chester Gould works here and is always in close touch with the technical experts of the police laboratories. But the scenes in these panels of drawings, day after day, might be placed in any large American city. Gould always avoids localization of detail, even in street names and bits of architecture.”

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    artsyguy65  over 4 years ago

    Good morning™, wily womanizers!

    And there you have a perfect example of why, when giving courtroom testimony, people swear to “tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” And also why having the power to abuse people’s trust by selectively redacting the only version of events that they’ll hear can completely twist around the actual circumstances.

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    22ph  over 4 years ago

    Why is Shaky isn’t shaking in the last panel when he is even shaking in his photo?

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    Cheapskate0  over 4 years ago

    Well, if Edison buys it, there goes what little suspense this story has had thus far.

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    iggyman  over 4 years ago

    I like how his picture in panel 2 depicts him shaking! Who does that?

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    tripwire45  over 4 years ago

    Now he’s lying.

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    veldy  over 4 years ago

    I like how she has his name on the picture frame

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    William Bednar Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Photo must be a GIF.

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    tsull2121  over 4 years ago

    “STUPID….PARTY OF ONE….YOUR TABLE IS READY!"

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    Another Take  over 4 years ago

    1-JAY: May I remind you, you’ve never put a ring on it so I can do whatever I want. WHATSERNAME: That’s the wrong hand. Regardless…

    2-…I WOULD put a ring on it if it wouldn’t slide off your greasy finger at the first sign of a skirt. Look. I even built a shrine to you – your picture, the cigarette you were smoking when we first met and that LAVA LAMP you won for me at the carnival we went to on our first date.

    3-JAY: It’s not a Lava Lamp. WHATSERNAME: Well, there does seem to be a lotta of debate about that. BUT THAT’S NOT THE POINT! MARRY ME JAY BOGART!

    JAY: Gulp! But…but…I LIKE getting the milk for free!

    WHATSERNAME: FINE! THE BARN DOOR IS NOW LOCKED!

    JAY: No, it’s guys that have barn doors. Remember, it refers to our zippers and when they’re down somebody says “barn door is open” and then somebody else says “no problem, what can’t get up can’t get out”. Remember? WHATSERNAME: SHADDAP!

    JAY: Geez. Just trying to help…

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    tdc1969a  over 4 years ago

    How much anyone wants to bet that there is more “consultation” going on than what Shaky is telling Edison about?

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    Cheapskate0  over 4 years ago

    Okay. So Joe can draw convincing replicas of Tracy villains.

    Can Mike write convincing replicas of Gould stories?

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    z12332190  over 4 years ago

    Shaky realizes that he’s on shaky ground and desperately decides on one daring, implausible gambit: telling the truth before the comely and delectable Edison notices the eyelash burns on his neck. Inwardly, he is silently cursing being such a chick magnet and wonders if the tuxedo that he wears 24/7 could be one cause. Things to ponder later.

    He senses that his story is working and starts to consider his strategy. The comely and delectable Edison wonders if it’s time to go back online and search for a new meal ticket on her do-to website, “I Love Crooks And Goons.com”, especially since she has a new wardrobe courtesy of Ugly Crystal and their encounter to the mall. She consoles herself with the thought that today will be yesterday tomorrow.

    And so it goes, by gar, by gar…

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    ScottHolman  over 4 years ago

    Major bombshell today. Shaky tells the truth! (But I don’t think it’s the whole truth.) Consulting until the middle of the night?

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    Aladar30 Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Clever. He told the truth, but not all, avoiding to tell his peculiar way of being a consultant.

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    Sisyphos  over 4 years ago

    If Edison actually falls for this semi-confession, she deserves the Shaky Mk.2 she gets. But I kinda sorta think she’s not gonna buy it….

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