Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 02, 2009

  1. Emerald
    margueritem  over 15 years ago

    Someone else is holding that phone to Tracy’s ear…

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  2. Warthog
    wndrwrthg  over 15 years ago

    How in the hell are you going to access his tax records? Is this an official investigation? Hunches do not allow you to do those things, but then Tracy has not been burdened by reality in his police work lately.

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  3. Softball
    ridenslide65  over 15 years ago

    DT -“Quick, Lt. Teevo, get me that CIA guy on the phone IMMEDIATELY!” Lt Teevo - “What CIA Guy is that Dick?” DT - “The one that was looking for the mad bomber. He can help us track down the real deal with this One Eyed Jack fellow. He has real experience getting to the root of the problem” Lt Teevo - “A yeah, the root. Hey by the way Dick, did I tell you how I had such a problem with my #9 molar that I needed a root canal? Dr. Fishbein took care of that for me but man oh man was that a royal pain in the tookus.” DT just rolls his eyes in disbelief. What an ignoramus this guy is? Where the heck is Sam??? “Tess, PLEASE stop eating that Acai berry yogurt. You can’t even remember what day of the week it is!”

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  4. Dim2
    farren  over 15 years ago

    Hey, hands are hard.

    Tracy’s ear appears to be right next to his lips. Weird.

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  5. Flash
    pschearer Premium Member over 15 years ago

    So is Brozman the new writer or artist or both? So far I see no improvement in either, especially not in the art.

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  6. Paul
    LudwigVonDrake  over 15 years ago

    The hands today are bad. Real bad.

    So. B.O. won at one slot machine and that was it?

    Either they let Brozman try his luck on the story or they get a real writer for this strip.

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  7. Oddball
    Morrow Cummings  over 15 years ago

    Tracy hasn’t the jurisdiction to even use the “tax” word. But if he must, he needs to ask the IRS to look at BO and Gertie’s next year. That is, unless they are too busy with Cabinet appointees.

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    prasrinivara  over 15 years ago

    Looks like Jack is now trying to “419” BO!

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  9. Nobozos3
    Froxkrybra  over 15 years ago

    Once again, what’s up with being so anal about the art? Gets old after a while…

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  10. K schrag
    Karl Hiller  over 15 years ago

    Great… Another story consisting mostly of people talking on phones.

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  11. Odd spots 002
    sydney  over 15 years ago

    The continuing absence of finger nails and the gingerly finger tip manner of holding ‘phones suggest advanced Osteoporosis or just like Noll, (as another poster speculated), “magnetic fingers” (?)

    The more I see of this tale the more convinced I am that the “idea” bucket in Naperville is diddlysquat empty. Casino backdrop again, similar “playing card” names and costumes over and over, and TWO characters named “One-eyed Jack” per story.

    But “copying” from the past is not new for Dicky … his son John’s design of the Sunny Deli Acres home is evidence of that.

    In the Queenie story, the Casino Owners were Mr.Emerald and Mr. Facet. Are Big Ace and One-Eye ripping off the Casino Owners by letting the B.O.’s of this world win big, then knocking them off?

    This comes like the “perfume” and the “gas formula”. Everything is “fuzzy”. Nothing is quite clear. Like Alice we have joined Dicky in “Womderlamd” only to find that there is only ‘indecision’ spinning in his head.

    In a way he reminds me of 1940’s Mary X (aka Leota Sunny) who kept “forgetting” things, but one thing is clear, Dick “Mother-Hubbard” Locher’s “creative” cupboard is bare. Bereft, having to recycle the “same” IDEAS (with slight variations) AND, within TWO years. YES! Gould brought back Flattop (his ‘look-alike’ son) but that was all of 15 years later.

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  12. Ub
    OneUrantian  over 15 years ago

    Hmmm… that handset is either very long, or Dick is listening with his cheek.

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    bassmanbob  over 15 years ago

    BO was as content as he’d been in ages. His lovely wife next to him, lots of money rolling in and left over food stuck in his beard to eat. “Ah, doesn’t get better then this”, he satisfyingly thought. “Mr. Eyejack said my winnings would be delivered tomorrow. What a swell guy”. Gertie was less then impressed with Eyejack. “He doesn’t dress suave like my BO does” she dryly said to herself. “Dresses funny”. Eyejack was so sure everything was going right on schedule that he considered putting on the King’s outfit he kept for special occasions. “Yeah! Tell big Ace everything’s going as planned”. Meanwhile, back at police headquarters Dick was getting inspiration in the place he did his best thinking. He was glad they assigned Lt. Teevo to hold his phone while he relieved himself. “Only got two hands, you know” he chuckled between humming his favorite tune, the theme from Hawaii Five-0. “There’s more spinning at Jacks casino then slot wheels”. Tracy paused until Teevo laughed at his joke. “This stupid Magpie will laugh at anything I say”, Dick thought to himself. “His tax records will tell me” Tracy said out loud right before telling Teevo to call the Tax Department. Dick suddenly felt the need to do a little shake and dance.

    BB

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  14. Winter
    overtop  over 15 years ago

    Yeah, why be concerned about the art, Milton Caniff, Alex Raymond, Will Eisner and some guy named Gould never seemed to care. Signed; Dilbert

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    sydney  over 15 years ago

    “TAX RECORDS” ?

    My bet is we won’t hear one bleeep thing more about tax records in the daily strips after today !

    Locher can’t seem to resist it, he just loves to “turn” into those those “dead end”, go nowhere lanes that take readers to no place of consequence. And then he smiles in the mirror thinking he has a firm grip on everything that matters!

    The man needs to grip on somethimg more “meaningful” (given the ‘hint’) from the “size” of his hands, than he would perhaps like us to believe!

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  16. Odd spots 002
    sydney  over 15 years ago

    TEST …

    Lets bleeep the holes in Tracy’s socks

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  17. Odd spots 002
    sydney  over 15 years ago

    If it’s a bleeep computer program doing this why won’t allow me to say bleeep the socks as you just said Gweedo ?

    Does it fall asleep at the bleeep wheel occasionally? But then plain dar n or dar#n may pbleeep ? Then again can arse pbleeep but bleeep can’t? As Igot bleeeped for saying “bleeep” the otherday

    Not sleeping at the wheel, just challenged with piss poor reading ability, Then will “pisses on” please the computer ?

    Seems a little bleeep “re-progaming” is needed here the word immediatly above and “arse” seem far more offensive than “bleeep” the mild bleeep. Faulty focus!

    Is “bleeep” nonsense or “bleeep” nonsense enclosed in quotation marks fly free ?

    WELL! “bleeep” socks. is OK but bleeep socks isn’t. Kind of silly! THANKS!

    This bleeep, arse hole program is more confused some of the time than I AM!

    nothing more than “bleeep” and “damn” now.

    After this “exercise” in word cofusion I still want to know wy with needke and thread (the word is in EVERY Dictionary … I can’t bleeep a hole in my socks?

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