Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 05, 2022

Good morning, everyone!*

A little joke today. I like the reaction of Tracy in the last panel much better that Gould drew him nearly rolling on the floor laughing in the 1960s. I wondered if this character was a friend of Mike’s, but it just looks like a comic relief insert.

Odd way to start the week. ✨

Oh my gawd!!

We have really hit rock bottom, haven’t we??

I hope today’s strip only turns out to be a Sam’s late night Lasagna nightmare!

POW POW “Furry down. Repeat, furry down.”

Weird to see a blank background.

Price of ink gone up?

Filler?

Good morning™, uh whut th’ hell wazzat !

I could swear Dick is at a Dizzy knock off theme park and is in the Looney Toons house. Is that a sheepish look on Dick in P. 3., when it really could be a bad guy in the bunny suit bugging out and doing it in a way to make it sound funny ?

Tackle him, Dick.

Soon Mike’ll relive “Sawdust” i fear. Same cringeworthy gags that make you gag

Not suspicious at all.

Where’s Elmer Fudd when you need him?

And the Looney Tunes chase begins.

I wake up, come here, see THIS and I gots three words for ya… WTF?!?… okay, technically that was seventeen words… wait, these NEW words just made it increase to thirty-three… wait, it just increased yet again to… etc. etc. etc…

Note to other Tracy villains: That is one heck of a disguise.

Runaway Suspect !!! Taser him Dick !!!

Run Rabbit!

Tracy, Shhh, I’m working undercover!

Dick should have attended as a cartoon character too….oh wait….

Brain…hurts…SOOOOOOO much. If I didn’t have to be at the dentist’s at eleven, I’d be hiding under the bed now.

WASTE of ink and paper>>AND reading time!! Leave the cutesy stuff to Looney Tunes! Bugs Bunny would BARF at that “silly wabbit!”

Harvey?

Anybody still “holding out hope” that this story is gonna be any good? Yeah….me neither

Looks like Bugs has put on a ’lil weight these days……

Widespread wabbit kidding aside, Mike (or SOMEone) needs to explain this aberration before we all stampede for the exits….

Mr. Jingle Bunny have some active warrants on him?

Wow, Thumper certainly grew up…

Run, jingle-bunny, run.

To paraphrase Annie, “Leapin’ Leporids!”

Tracy, I think these folks are using their made-up names today. Not sure whether you want to keep an eye on the creepy bunny, but this could be a set-up for a convention of disguised criminals… or not. Keep sleuthing.

“Wow, great costume, “Detective Dick Tracy!” I love the nose!"

“Uh…Me? I’m outta hare”! Unique name for a character in costume. If one was to look into his family tree, odds are that Bugs Bunny, Peter Rabbitt and the Velveteen Rabbitt can be found there. The Energizer Bunny is a distant cousin.

What a hare brained story!

Even though Tracy and Sam are supposedly investigating, the crime and investigation are the least important thing in the story so far. But, we’ve gotten an overdose of cosplay and memorabilia collecting. It continues to show the reader what the real priorities of the writer of a crime strip are and what takes a back seat.

Mike should start a new strip and call it Cosplay Corner. Then, he could populate it with furry animals and stupid jokes to his heart’s content. There is a time and place for everything. I don’t know where all of this memorabilia and cosplay belongs but Dick Tracy ain’t it.

How long does it take to get to the main criminal? (This question is popping up in nearly every story now)?

MOVIE QUOTE—

“Infamy! Infamy!! They’ve all got it infamy!!”

Kenneth Williams—CARRY ON CLEO—1964

RECENT NEWS ITEM—

A Ford Expedition is “under suspicion” following a fire on Nantucket iSLAND,mASS. the day after President Biden’s Thanksgiving visit there.

Five rental vehicles among a fleet of cars rented from Hertz by the Secret Service sustained significant damage in a fire.

They suspect the Expedition,as it was under recall from a faulty battery that had caused fires in other vehicles..

The pro-lithium battery crowd strikes again.Diet Smith,switch to wind power.

Getting around to Art Dekko,Dick will run back to the friendly company of the rabbit.

In 1980,I got the impression that the MCU took SPECIAL pleasurein bringing Dekko in,his enormous ego made him quite the detestable character.(Sam,I thought,especially hated him).

Now they’re on the “Here we go again” Merry-Go-Round,and theMCU’S frustration will be understandable.

There’s some days that I really think Chet Gould would be embarrassed at what’s become of his strip

…frankly, I kinda like the setup (even if “53 miles west of venus” by the B-52’s has suddenly wormed into my brain…..): “Harry” has on jester’s bells, Tracy in (rawther iconic!) profile, all served up on pure white space!

1 JING: Hey… 2: You up for gettin’ down? DT: What are you talking about? 3 JING: HEY EVERYBODY – HE IS A COP!

OFF PANEL, SAM: Sure but you better not be a dude! I’m just not into that, uh… Mr. Bull was it…?

Well Curtis apologist Wick likes it so I guess that makes it all right.

My avatar might currently be a cat girl but I really should update it to the bunny I currently use on other sites… regarding todays’ strip, I LOVE HIS BUN PUN! :D

Judging from his appearance, I wonder if Mike and Shelley intend to give us gray “hares”? (I’ll sneak out quietly…)

Important news:

https://www.gocomics.com/blog/5002/site-updates-coming-fall-2023

See, I have this THEORY that it’s Yeti and he’s abut to poison the punch.

the hare made a beeline

“Great costume! I’ve heard of him!”

Bizarre Tracy comedic bit! And “Tracy,” though in iconic profile, does not look so stoic in panel 3 as Shelley’s usual current renderings: he’s actually cracking a smile! But his fedora is still two sizes too small….

I’m going to guess that has been some problem with the uploading of today’s strips at GoComics that might account for the unusual empty background. This version of the strip may even be a replacement for the more finished-looking intended one.

Even so, what the deuce is this one-off gag trio of panels doing in what is supposed to be a crime story?!