Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 28, 2020

“It’s a commune located in an abandoned subway tunnel.”

Good morning™, everyone!

It’s nice to see that the old-fashioned looking wrist radios are capably projecting holographic images. I wonder if they’ve ever going to get the modern ones re-engineered.

Next panel: “If you stop punching me in the face I’ll tell you where it is”

Like the Firesign Theatre bit, “You can’t get there from here!”

beerbottle angled for a snort 32 minutes ago

@Gweedo it’s legal here Murray

Yep. Now, if you’re offering a good bourbon…

I Don’t do that stuff ! ;-)

A place called ‘’ Spaced Out City.’’

Good morning™, trail sniffers !

Panel 2: Now that’s what I call in your face. We can surmise further talk off stage between Sam and Greens Wilder wherein he got the location of the commune, in an area he has never been. If he has to go underground to access hippie haven he might even find the starved and deceased Daisy.

…..trying to bust a drug dealer, ho-hum…..we need a more diabolical villain and goal….

They should ask LAPD’s Sgt Joe Friday, he knows all about hippies and their ways!

They are Commune-I-Cating!

AHHHH!!! Sam’s large disembodied head is freaking me out, man! It’s like a bad acid trip!

Today’s images are a little LARGE today , great but LARGE !

well that’s helpful…

Is an officer in the MCU supposed to have heard of every single place / business / location in a large metropolitan area? Are we supposed to be shocked at Sam’s ignorance, or that he needs to explain that to Tracy?

“Yeah, Sam?”

“Got a tip about a dealer’s location, but need an address… Oh, and how about you meet me there instead of me running around without a partner while I’m trying to make arrests?”

“Tracy, you must go to the Dagobah system….”

What is Sam’s floating head being displayed on? Thin air?

So it’s all just a communist plot.

When I was a kid back in the 60’s and 70’s I was all excited about technology and what kind of life we would be having in “The Future”.

Now that it’s here I’m pretty disappointed. Because what I wanted was today’s panel. Dick’s Two-Way Wrist Device is still WAY cooler than my iPhone11, as much as I love and rely on it. And not only is it futuristic, it is still retro as hell. A very big plus, in my book.

Awesome strip today guys. I love Holographic Big Head Sam!

Stanton and Curtis are members of the commune.

1-DT: I’m bored. AWatcha – show me a picture of Sam. AWATCHA: Showing Sam.

2-DT: AWatcha – put a big ol’ wart on the end of his nose. AWATCHA: Putting Hogwarts School on the end of…

DT: NO! CANCEL! AWatcha, put eyeliner on Sam. AWATCHA: Putting an ocean liner on Sam.

DT: NO! CANCEL! Damn AWatcha hunk of s***! AWatcha, put a porn ‘stache on Sam. AWATCHA: Putting corn mash on…

DT: WHAT THE…NEVER MIND! AWatcha, is it quitting time yet?

AWATCHA: Playing “It’s Crying Time Again” by Ray Charles…

The women’s bathroom perhaps?

this will all end in Tie Die T-shirts, peace signs and blood.

Step right up for the Amazing Battle of the Century!

You’ve Seen the Talking Heads in Many Appearances!

Now It’s…Big Heads vs. Talking Heads !!

Which will triumph?

…countenance or conversation? …kissers or confabulation? …mugs or muttering?

Heads so Big the Panels Can’t Confine Them!

So Much Talking You’ll Sleep for Days!

Come One! Come All!

Is the two-way wrist radio with screen back or is the image of Sam a hologram? I read a while about traveling concerts featuring images of deceased male and female vocalists displayed in such a matter. And before COVID-19, people paid money to see them.

I saw nothing on Ty indicating he is a drug dealer. Yet Sam says in his communication “Tracy, I lost the drug dealer…” what if Ty and the other person were just merely in the park just making small talk. Unless he has x-ray vision how could Sam know a drug transaction was taking place? This Ty guy has the height of “Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown, the baddest man in the whole damn town, badder than old King Kong, meaner than a junkyard dog”.

Funkytown?!?!?!!

Perhaps….Xanadu???

Sam speaks for us all (anyway, I’ve never heard of this commune in the middle of Tracyville)! But at least he is in contact with Tracy, rather than dashing off recklessly on his own. Give your partner backup, Tracy!