Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 19, 2009

His face resembles a shovel..a spade, I’d say.

So, what are they doubling? 1.5 mil, 3 mil, 6 mil or none of the above.

So let me see- Spacy is gonna cheat at cards and then arrest Big Ace.. For losing.

Works for me…

Hey Big Ace, waddya say we go double or prison, uh, I mean nothing.

I like how Tracy has a toe for a thumb.

This is getting humorous……… Spacey’s gonna do some card tricks. Sheer genius, eh, Mutt ‘n Jeff?

Maybe a “Lloyd Bridges” style transplant, Ludwig?

(see Hot Shots and Hotshots Part Deux for the reference)

Double or nothing - a sucker’s bet

Hey Tracy lost a finger!

Where’s Grokenstein when we need him?

Nice little “sum up” there mr.bribery. Indirectly you have blown the whistle on the M.O of modern day Dick Tracy.

In fact, it’s the ony practice that has survived from the early thirties after Kilian and Locher crushed stories patterned after Ma Baker and Al Capone in 1993 (See DT Magazine # 18).

Kilian in 1995 created a character, “Fuzz E. Brain” who’s name would by co-incidence serve to “characterize” the new working techniques of Dick Tracy. It’s vibrant, “alive” and well, up to today !

No need to look for clues or evidence (e,g. like my noting recently from the 1970’s, Tracy using Benzidine to help analyze blood stains or turning gloves inside-out to get finger prints. That sort of thing takes too long to “think up” and although they look more authentic are really dull mini sequences. Far better to do “bam, wham, thank you m’am”, spurious (?) ideas like –

“I’ve never met the man, but I “THINK” he is a gambler”. (Really? ) “Oh! …and King!, I’m going to need Three million for my ‘hunch’ to work effectively ! Do you have that amount in the trunk of your car?” “Gosh ! I knew you would ask Tracy, here it is, all in this briefcase!” Yes Sir ! Ready like Freddy !

Conventional Clues, like the “scams” on Credit Card statements (Tess’), or Jack’s Tax Returns haven’t worked too well recently. Just “forget” they ever happened ( I do! ) … and you’d be advised to do the same !

“I know this all sounds questionable, but it’s just a “comic strip”. (Heh ! Heh ! My favorite “escape” line there ;-p) All that whining about AUTHENTICITY is unimportant, even if they correctly “nail” Tracy as being just a Smoky Stover, HUNCH Detective and embarrassingly “identify” me, as a TIME-CRUNCHED Writer, one overburdened with two jobs. I’ll confess, it does get a little “fuzzy” sometimes.”

“But I don’t give a hoot what they think !” (Yes Sir ! That’s been patently obvious for a long time now ! Good ‘modus operandi’ ! They won’t trap you in a witness box)

That’s the truth ! Qu’il le veuille ou non.

” You say you’re a gambler ”

What !?!?

He never said that . He’s a business man , that , we know . He is a crook , that , we presume . How do you come to this conclusion my dear Watson ?

Oh … It’s the nose ,,,

Tracy you are the best(est) detective in the whole world !!!

PS : Sydney : “Qu’il le veuille ou non.” You amaze me ! In french , and without any accent or mistake .

Je suis fier de vous !

ok, shadowrider, from the comments section, this is important because it is the calendar is only accessible from the comments section…which is reached by choosing to “read all comments’ there yu will see today’s strip and today’s comments .. go to the top of today’s strip and on the right hand corner you will see what appears to be a tiny calender–that’s the archives- hit that and when the bigger calendar appears , next to june is a little arrow, that will take you back , one click per month…then just click again on the 16th…. hope its all worth your while!

OK, so it turns out that Megan Fox has a toe thumb, so now everyone has to have one.

Tracy, you shameless trend-follower!

MargueritemGenius_badge said, about 10 hours ago

His face resembles a shovel..a spade, I’d say.

Good observation Marg, but not a spade, more like a straight flat mouthed shovel of the type I grew up cleaning and scraping barn gutters with. (As someone pointed out the other day) his nose is a perfect reproduction of the spade symbol in a deck of cards.

So…what happened to the fingernails on Macy’s right hand? And that hand is as flat as OEJ on the floor with a bullet in his back.

Merci Rene, il a ‘et’e le plus gentil ‘a vous. J ’ essaie et ma fille me permet de. (Hope this makes the Grade too)

And to “morrow”, Thanks for yesterday !

JonD17: You’re right, it does look much more like a flat shovel, but I figured that they were trying for a spade.