Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 20, 2021

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    AnyFace  over 3 years ago
    ā€Scanning ā€¦ā€ āœØ
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    AnyFace  over 3 years ago

    Wonder whoā€™s beneath the debris? āœØ

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    Yngvar FĆølling  over 3 years ago

    Straight out of Star Trek. Have we seen the wrist wizard doing that before?

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    avenger09  over 3 years ago

    Ah come on, no way an old fart like Tracy has the super human strength to move a collapsed building with his bare hands! Thatā€™s way too unbelievable, even for a comic strip!

    Stick to things that are belivable, such as time travel drones and laboratory created moon people!!!!

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    Jab Jr 1957  over 3 years ago

    This story is nowhere near finished. Itā€™s going to take a while to find all the survivors and victims. Dick ā€˜nā€™ Sam donā€™t even know what caused the explosion yet. In fact, the one person who knew is most likely dead. I wonder if the time machine has something like a ā€œblack boxā€ which would have all the information theyā€™ll need to figure it out, something Eliot couldnā€™t sabotage?

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    Judge Magney  over 3 years ago

    Now suppose whoeverā€™s under the debris was ripped out of the past by the droneā€™s explosion. A classic villain who Tracy canā€™t arrest because theyā€™re legally dead. A historical figure who must be returned to the past to finish their most important action. But would anything screw up Tracy et alā€™s lives more than the original Moon Maid, pulled out of that exploding car into the future?

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    boboscar  over 3 years ago

    Iā€™m imagining for the next several weeks, the current Ace of Spades is going to panic. His big cash cow is now gone, and there may be evidence from this disaster that will lead back to himā€¦

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    Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray  over 3 years ago

    Good morningā„¢, recovered lost personnel !

    Prepare for the emergence of Flattop. It may just be another S.I. employee and it will be a few more panels before we find out that Eliot is an ex person.

    Canā€™t wait to see what they find out about the Rose.

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    a-man2  over 3 years ago

    Does anyone know where Diet Smith lives at in his complex?

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    Mark Jeffrey Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I may be in a minority, but Iā€™m really enjoying the extended nature of this disaster and recovery sequence. There are plenty of opportunities for major plot twists here, and itā€™s good to savour the possibilities as it all plays out gradually, rather than a single strip ā€œEveryone is safe except Fred and the X machineā€ type summary. Also, the drawing has been really good.

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    crobinson019  over 3 years ago

    Hopefully itā€™s NOT Mystaā€”Sheā€™s been through quite enough lately. My guess is Eliot too

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    LawrenceS  over 3 years ago

    Is this one of the two security guards who was there with Rose? If so, and there are only heartbeats for two people (one of them this guard) then either the other guard or Rose was disposable.

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    Outcault Premium Member over 3 years ago

    This is playing out very well. I have no idea whatā€™s going to happen next; each day is a surprise. The strip has immediacy and suspense and mystery again. Well done.

    That said, given the recent anniversary of the feature, I had half expected that the ā€œtime droneā€ narrative would lead to some sort of detailed revisiting of Tracyā€™s origin. I was a little afraid of an old DC Comics-like scenario: DT would have been thrown back into the distant past to meet the young would-be ā€œPlainclothes Tracyā€ at the start of his career; the older detective (understandably concealing his identity) would somehow befriend the tyro cop and work with him to solve the murder of Tessā€™ father! Maybe it would all turn out to be a dream! This might have actually worked passably, with Joe doing a loose impression of Gouldā€™s 1931 art style, but itā€™s an old hat idea, and Iā€™m glad they didnā€™t try it.

    Anyway, Iā€™m quite impressed by the strip in recent days. The art and storytelling has been of a high order.

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    Another Take  over 3 years ago

    It occurs to me that this disaster couldā€™ve been avoided by having some comparatively simple code that would not allow the Time Drone to be sent beyond say, Current Time minus 1 second or such. Diet isnā€™t much on safety apparently.

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    Another Take  over 3 years ago

    1-WRIST RADIO: I HAVE LOCATED SIGNS OF TWO PEOPLE. BEEP.

    DT: Yikes. I didnā€™t know this thing could do that. Say something else!

    2-GOATEE GUARD: Helpā€¦pleaseā€¦I canā€™t find my right armā€¦

    DT: Ugh. Itā€™s bent up awkwardly on your neckā€¦I think Iā€™m gonna be sickā€¦

    GOATEE GUARD: Oh. There it is. Ahhh, FIXED IT. FOLLOW ME!

    3-DT: Quick! Get a picture that makes it looks like Iā€™m lifting a heavy steel girder!

    GOATEE GUARD: We got no time for that. Look! Thereā€™sā€¦I wanna say Eliot but it could be Diet. Maybe Goggles Guy. Not Rose though. Itā€™s definitely not Rose.

    DT: Do you see a Calmgar (patent pending)?

    GOATEE GUARD: Maybe?
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    AnyFace  over 3 years ago

    ( Oh, left a couple of additional posts on yesterdayā€™s long thread, replying to replies that I didnā€™t see till just now.) āœØ

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I wonderā€¦wonderā€¦whoā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦..

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    Mopman  over 3 years ago

    Yeah, if he was knocked unconscious he is not okay! I know itā€™s a movie/tv/comics standard cliche or whatever, but people get knocked out, wake up, rub their head, then say ā€œIā€™m okayā€ and then go off running. No biggie!

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    Wichita1.0  over 3 years ago

    Sweet other of blue cheese?! Could it be Smith? (Personally, Iā€™m holding out for Daisy Dugan, unearthed at LAST!) <donā€™t hurt me!>

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    Bill The Nuke  over 3 years ago

    When Diet Smith builds the next Time Drone heā€™ll have to send it back to see what happened to this one.

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    IvanB.Cohen  over 3 years ago

    Two menā€¦.all that debris to moveā€¦.both will be reaching for back rubbing ointment and have sore muscles.

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    IvanB.Cohen  over 3 years ago

    Was Mystra able to escape the chaos and destruction?

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    198.23.5.11  over 3 years ago

    Looks like Rose clobbered her lone guard and got the heck out of Dodge.

    The plot calls for a ā€œturn Stateā€™s Evidence to save own neckā€ person,and sheā€™s elected.Otherwise,how will public suspicion be thrown off Diet Smith?

    Elliot thought he was O.K> until he woke up in a garage in the 2100 block of North Clark Street

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    ScottHolman  over 3 years ago

    Huge explosions can cause a lot of damage.

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    buckman-j  over 3 years ago

    Wait, whereā€™s Neil?. Whoā€™s gonna tell us what we just read? BTW, the Moleā€™s under there, itā€™s his new home

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    198.23.5.11  over 3 years ago

    If the events of the Max Collins story where Diet got kidnapped by Breakdown(his ex-security chief),Diet has another huge plant in California.

    So he may not be ENTIRELY wiped out by this,

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    Sisyphos  over 3 years ago

    As the explosion or explosions (plural) settle, rescue operations begin, at least on scene with Tracy and this Security guy, recovered from having been knocked out. Apparently the Tracyville Fire Department and other Emergency Services have not yet arrived (at least, we havenā€™t seen them).

    My expectation is that Tracy and Security-with-mustache will rescue Black Security, who had also been knocked out, this enabling Briar Rose to escape [3rd time Iā€™m saying this here today].

    As others have noted, let me also add that action and art have been top-notch this weekā€¦.

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    Wichita1.0  over 3 years ago

    Call in Doc Wonmug to consult on the bug issue.

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    Jab Jr 1957  over 3 years ago

    Over 150 comments today. Lots to talk about.

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