Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 26, 2021

Good morning™, people of the future!

People have noticed many historical painitngs that have what they claim are flying saucers in them.

Here are six of those: https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/ufos-discovered-historical-paintings-114905870.html

There are few more here: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9446848/famous-artworks-aliens-and-ufos/

Finally, here’s a video of the crucifixion that has a flying saucer, according to some:

https://youtu.be/l-yNxkCLGjw

Is it just me, or does Dietrich Smith look like an evil Captain Kangaroo?

If you change history by attaching a message to the Jupiter 2 when you send it back in time will you know that you changed history and if it’s changed why would you send the tin can back in time, therefore undoing the change you made the first time causing an eternal loop???

I still think someone is going to use that “toy” for evil purposes like other things Diet Smith has devised…

Ok, it is visible to the people it’s shooting, and Diet Smith felt that a flying saucer was the most inconspicuous shape. Gotcha. I still can’t get over the fact that judging from the angle, it must have been hovering directly in the line of sight of Flattop as he asked for directions.

Ah, the traditional inconspicuous saucer-shape. Good thing he didn’t go with something like a bird or other obvious thing like that.

So the paintings prove that it works?

“History will be rewritten…” Fella, that’s not usually a GOOD thing!

Good morning™, time tinkerers !

That Diet is one wild eyed boy.

I thought the focus group came up with the shape.

Zzz…

With just the occasional Police Telephone Box….

Smith may be hoisted by his own petard, if the time drone is used to investigate what happened to Zy Ghote and company…

Uh, I’m going with zip, zero, nada, none. Unless it’s true on Tracy’s world. A nimbus is not a UFO.

Maybe it was already there… (Cue The Twilight Zone theme.)

too many…

This is the bootstrap paradox. Who is to say that those paintings of UFO’s aren’t really Smith’s time drones?

Nice art again, except that one of these days I’m gonna break all the MC’s gray crayons!

Has anyone considered Diet’s Time Drones as being sent in the OTHER direction yet?

A time drone would be pretty cool.

Derek Meddings called…

1-DOIT: WOO HOO! I’m higher than a Time Drone that’s caught an unexpected updraft!

2-DT: Why did you make the portal look like a sphincter?

DOIT: Because the idea of sending something back in time puckered mine so I went with it. DT: Sure. Makes sense. I guess.

3-DT: LOOK! YOUR TIME DRONE HAS FOUND ANOTHER TIME DRONE! So I guess you aren’t the first person to invent one! Better check with the Patent Office to make sure you aren’t infringing.

DOIT: SCREW THAT! HEY BLONDIE – By the end of your shift I want 2 things outta you: 1- Arm the Time Drone with a machine gun and 2 – Find the guy who invented the Time Drone first and TURN HIM INTO SWISS CHEESE!

BLONDIE: That’s actually 3 things, Boss. Also, what if THAT drone is actually a different version of YOURS and the armed drone kills YOU as a result?

DOIT: Hmmm. Now you’ve given me a headache. IF that happens – send it back before that happens but armed with a Nerf gun instead of a machine gun! Stupid Time Paradoxes ain’t gonna beat me!

And now we know WHY.

Well, this explains it all.

Ancient Aliens has been cancelled because there is no more mystery to explore. Georgio has shaved his head and sold his Einstein-like hair for a wig in order to have enough money to live.

The old “hide in plain sight” ploy. I should’ve guessed.

…and the “M&R” guys always said the same thing: “Head for the hills! The Martians are landing”………..

Tomorrow, the further adventures of Buck Rogers, Dick Tracy will appear sometime in the future, but was a helluva lot better in the past.

Not a single one,Diet.But I always look for them in Picasso’s.

Panel One is a Gouldian tribute.Look at pics of Diet in 1962 when he invented the Coupe’.

“The big wheel runs by Faith, little wheel runs by the Grace of God / A wheel in a wheel, way up in the middle of the air.” —“Ezekiel Saw the Wheel,” spiritual

wHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS….DID fRED mERKLE TOUCH SECOND BASE IN 1908??

Jean O’Connell, daughter of Chester Gould, passed away on August 22nd.

https://www.yursfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/geneva/jean-e-oconnell/

Diet Smith’s flesh-colored moustache is all the fashion rage.

Who can forget Da Vinci’s fresco “Roswell” or Michelangelo’s wall depiction of “Mars Attacks!” or Botticelli’s “Birth of Marty the Martian”?

He’s right there are paintings showing not lights but craft of some kind. it suggests that such things were a common sight then as now. Only a few are disc or saucer shaped.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=UFO%27s+on+old+paintings&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=ufo%27s+on+old+paintings&sc=1-22&sk=&cvid=E4DF8B867B6547C5BA1E0819F106CCD4

Good old manic Diet Smith in panel 1 can imagine nothing but good as history is rewritten because of his Time Drone. I guess when caught in the enthusiasm for his project he doesn’t really consider all the angles and possible misuses it could have. Panels 2 and 3 show that he’s had some research done into possible early representations of saucer-like UFOs and chosen his device’s outer appearance on that basis.

So far, no villainy, but there is plenty of opportunity before us….

History is already being rewritten by the Liberals!

Someone at a university in Tracy is going to learn about this drone. They will learn about the “best practices” of past criminals. Then market their methods to some villains who have been seen yet.

Okay, so I posted one theory. Another is that Joe and Mike are stalling for time to come up with some bad guys or bad gals.

Annie never did make her appearance. Gee, her, Honeymoon and Crystal could have been doing the girl talk thing.

Uhmm… Diet….

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg

People were a lot smaller then.