Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 04, 2009

  1. Emerald
    margueritem  almost 16 years ago

    HUH?!? What famous Dicy Tracy line?

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    LudwigVonDrake  almost 16 years ago

    It’s awfully breezy in the Tracy household.

    What is wrong with Tracy’s face in the last two panels? Those eyebrows look like they were drawn with a paint roller.

    Someone mentioned Desperate Housewives a little while back: Wisteria Cosmetics…Wisteria Lane?

    Jabba looks like he’s in a perpetual state of constipation.

    No Rubin & Whigham today.

    What is wrong with that woman’s nose in the fourth panel? She looks a bit piggish.

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    Steve Bartholomew  almost 16 years ago

    Permit? I don’t have to show you no stinkin’ permit.

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    sydney  almost 16 years ago

    “Dick Tracy” Line??? This is sounding more like the Haunted Mansion Caper all over again. Commit the man without his knowledge! Years ago in the Jean Penfield conflict Tracy told Tess the following. He should tell her again. “… if I have, then you don’t have the brains I thought you had ! “Angelorious” ? You see Locher thinks he has better ideas than Gould, what ever happened to Marge Denton and Perfume Plenty? But he thinks he now has a hit with his first “African American” ever. And it teaches me one thing they have small hands too ! Dick Tracy perfume, “pour Homme” ?

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    wndrwrthg  almost 16 years ago

    The tag line for the perfume,”Everyone loves the smell of Dick”.

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    HankF  almost 16 years ago

    Where’s duckie?

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    mjmsprt40  almost 16 years ago

    Crimestoppers textbook, forum add-on: “Down at the hardware store they sell door locks. Invest in a couple of them to stop strangers from wandering in.”

    I know that parts of Naperville are relatively crime-free and it’s not unusual to have doors unlocked when you’re up and about the house. Still, not knocking before entering? Geez, what attrocious manners.

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    EatDickTracySandwiches  almost 16 years ago

    Apparently if the door to door salesperson has a permit, it’s all good and they can come in your house at will?

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    EatDickTracySandwiches  almost 16 years ago

    wndrwrthg says: The tag line for the perfume,”Everyone loves the smell of Dick”.

    Hahaha, hilarious! Good one.

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    EatDickTracySandwiches  almost 16 years ago

    So many things wrong today. My biggest issue is Dick Tracy in the second to last panel. It is like he is closing his eyes REALLY tight and thinking “hmmmmm I’m going to guess WHO without looking! see if I get it right, everybody!”.

    To the chagrin of all, he forgot and opened his eyes before he guessed. Oops, better luck next time.

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    KingRat  almost 16 years ago

    LudwigVonDrake says: Those eyebrows look like they were drawn with a paint roller.

    thats because Tak Toyoshima of Secret Asian Man fame is the special guest artist for the eyebrows in todays strip.

    For more of Tak’s work go here: http://tinyurl.com/secretasianman

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    sydney  almost 16 years ago

    “Everyone loves the smell of Dick” Great tagline there ‘wndwrthg’. I’m sure Locher may consider using it. Ask for roylaties if he does!

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    KingRat  almost 16 years ago

    and the thing around her neck is not a scarf it is called a water yoke: http://tinyurl.com/wateryoke

    with it she will be able to carry 2 bucket of perfume at a time from Dr. Nulls house.

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    Morrow Cummings  almost 16 years ago

    Hank, I believe you are right! I can’t find the duckie or any semblance of one. That’s not Locher’s style, if he has one at all.

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    JonD17  almost 16 years ago

    LudwigVonDrake says:………….. Someone mentioned Desperate Housewives a little while back: Wisteria Cosmetics…Wisteria Lane?…………

    Posted: about 9 hours ago

    JonD17 says: barticle35; I’m thinkin’ “Desperate Housewives”

    Posted: 6 days ago

    !!!Vincent Massi says: Three plot advancements in three days! Folks, I think that Locher is reading these comments.!!!

    Posted: 14 days ago

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    ridenslide65  almost 16 years ago

    wndrwrthg says: The tag line for the perfume,”Everyone loves the smell of Dick”.

    I just puked my coffee out my nose laughing at that. Good One.

    Next through the door will be Eva Longoria and Felicity Huffman to go door to door selling “Dick”

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    LudwigVonDrake  almost 16 years ago

    Morrow, I think the duckie is in the second panel. The yellow line with the black background with the blue frame. That’s my guess.

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    Morrow Cummings  almost 16 years ago

    Probably so, Ludwig. If it is, it’s a pretty poor representation of its former dedication.

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    Akenta  almost 16 years ago

    Ludwig, I guess that’s corrct about the duck - wouldn’t have seen it otherwise. Now, where’s Diet’s milk?

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    JonD17  almost 16 years ago

    Akenta says:

    Ludwig, I guess that’s corrct about the duck - wouldn’t have seen it otherwise. Now, where’s Diet’s milk?

    Diet doesn’t drink on Sundays (?)

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    sydney  almost 16 years ago

    The rubber ducky in the 2nd panel? That looks more like ‘lightening’! My guess was that he ‘forgot’ although he might have gone stylistically modern and turned it white as a ‘teat’ seen in the panel with Diet. Definition: “Body part for producing milk”. Perhaps Locher does have a sly sense of humor after all (?)

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    margueritem  almost 16 years ago

    wndrwrthg says:

    The tag line for the perfume,”Everyone loves the smell of Dick”.

    You’ve done it again, my man!

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    Maxine_Viller  almost 16 years ago

    Many years ago, Mad Magazine did a parody of the Dick Tracy strip, marvelously rendered by Wally Wood, where Dick was sporting a pair of eyebrows that looked remarkably like the ones he’s drawn with today. It went like this:

    Chief: Why the false eyebrows, Tracy? Going to a masquerade?

    DT: Just a little idea of mine, Chief. By the way, I quit!

    Chief: You’re leaving the force? But why?

    DT: After 56 years of dealing with crooks, I’ve decided that crime DOES pay. From now on, you can call me “Eyebrows,” the master criminal!

    Chief (pulling out a gun and shooting DT): I hate to do this, Tracy. But I can’t afford to have such a cunning criminal on the loose!

    DT (as the bullet passes through his chest – and also through Junior’s head, as he was sitting nearby): It seemed like a good idea at the time… (dies)

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    Karl Hiller  almost 16 years ago

    Also, have a look at Locher’s editorial cartoon today… Gov. Blago is drawn as having a tiny carton of milk. Possibly stolen from Diet? Has the man no ethics at all?!?

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    Karl Hiller  almost 16 years ago

    I was thinking, the collar of the woman on the left in the fourth panel, myself.

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    sydney  almost 16 years ago

    Maxine, talk about ‘relevance’(?). That MAD story story on Tracy and modern Junior, is as fitting today as it was back then ! We need it all like right now ! I like it. Right on ! Perhaps we should all try to draft in Wally Wood as the new writer. I take it back then he did the scripting too ;D.

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    LudwigVonDrake  almost 16 years ago

    Judy, where the heck have you been? Had any family reunions lately?

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    thx1134  almost 16 years ago

    Anyone else notice that Angelorious has no left arm? Was DL too busy with the plot to draw one?

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    bassmanbob  almost 16 years ago

    Hi Judy, great to hear from you. your looking great!!!

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    James7344  almost 16 years ago

    “The Famous Dick Tracy Line”. Because any woman wants a perfume named for a detective.

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  31. Paul
    LudwigVonDrake  almost 16 years ago

    Or perfume that smells like a 75 year old man. Woo-Hoo!!!

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