Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 26, 2023

another day of useless blah blah blahing…

THE UTTER INSANITY OF IT ALL!!

A COMIC STRIP ABOUT CHICKENS!!!

“She always a goes indoors just like peoples. There, she’s a using yer hat! Smart, ain’t she? Oh, ya meant the chicken.”

I’m taking a self impose leave of absence for a couple of days. I’m tired of complaining, especially since it doesn’t change a thing.

Firestrike, remember to take your medicine and stay away from those internet sites, it’ll make you go blind.

Gweedo, feed the goats and be nice to them.

JPW, shut the station down.

Neil, try to smile!

Peace out all.

Good morning™, feathered explorers !

Great legs eye view in P. 1.

There was jumping the shark. Now we have potty-training the hen.

The worst part is knowing that after this it’s back to the convention story

I see that Dick is in “That’s interesting” mode.

This is getting tedious.

People are also going to love her. In a frying pan, a baking pan, even between two slices of bread.

It might be hard for Gameboy to pass up “pet knapping” a chicken that is house broken and can turn tricks.

If she is potty trained then she is smarter than his whole family !!!

If she ever gives me a hard time I mention Colonel Sanders!

I see “Chick Tracy” is eyeing the wiring, a clue to her future part of this story?

I predict this is a subtle but important plot development in today’s strip.

Believing the wires to be giant worms Chick Tracy wrestled one from the power strip before being being called front-and-center by Bob Oscar. The police are now unable to receive alarms, and Game Boy will steal the Kirwood Derby without any police interference! In fact the MCU will not respond to any crimes for the next week as they are unaware of the disconnected alarm and will spend the whole time with a chicken.

this is just riveting. I mean a performing chicken or a classic toy related crime spree? Anyone else suspect they got stuck on ideas for the crime story and trotted this crap out to buy time?

Nice feet in the first pane.

Is it true B.O. has a hot tube? Easily determined- look for the oil slick! (Someone asked if he bathed in yesterday’s comments!)

Fast food chains will sometimes have games for which customers will collect pieces of a puzzle. Might Chick-N De-Lites create a game with a Chick Tracy II tie-in? Such a game could lead us back to Gameboy. There was a scandal involving stolen Monopoly pieces for a fast food game some time ago.

1-DT: There’s no crimes going on so … SAM! WHY ARE YOU ON THE FLOOR??? SAM: Chicken and Crotches fascinate me! DT: Oh. Carry on.

2- SPACE CHICKEN: Very neat assemblage of wiring and gathered together so nicely! Just how I’d have done it if I didn’t have to maintain my undercover identity as the leader of the vanguard trying to TAKE OVER EARTH FROM THESE BIPEDAL MORONS!

3- B.O.: That thar chicken is unbelievable smart, Rick! I found it reading some manual about our space program the other day.

SPACE CHICKEN: Uh oh. This human may know too much. I’ll peck a hole in his jugular and pretend it was just an act of overly exuberant affection!

How much dumber can this get? Sadly, we may be about to find out. That is, if we actually hang aanyone, longer.

Sooo, like…he’s the guru to a chicken?

MOVIE QUOTE:

“What goes on here besides drinking?”

“Robbery,skullduggery,and a smattering of homicide”

Dorothy Lamour&Albert Dekker—LULU BELLE—1948

How can this inane story generate 117 comments (as of 1145 EDT).

I think it’s rather obvious that Mike and Shelley are copiously consuming cannabis.

In an Atlantic City casino,there was a chicken who regularly beat people at Tic-Tac-Toe.

While everybody is up in arms about the chicken,I shall push youinto a complete nervous breakdown by pointing out BO has seven brothers and we still haven’t met four of them.

I’m enjoying this. BO Plenty was once a major character and brought humor to the strip. Tracy was often irritated with him but they became dear friends.

For excitement I suggest Rip Haywire

Tracy: Pot? That chicken is a hippie? I hate hippies! [bang bang bang]

So is Mike saying Cluck you to us or he’s gone Cluck it?

Tomorrow: BO brings by his rooster named Tonsils III. Sings just as well as the original. Or the original replacement. Anyway, flaps his wings just like the “thumbs up”.

Yeah, don’t worry, she only relieves herself on yellow things! I love that chicken!

Years ago, I loved it when I was a kid reading the comics with my Dad in the Detroit Free Press. The old Free Press had PAGES of comics, and Dad read them ALL. (Well, except Garfield, Dad couldn’t deal with Barfield).

Anyway, Dad read them ALL. I tried, but there were some I just couldn’t get into. Gasoline Alley. Brenda Starr. Lil Abner. Pogo. And Dick Tracy. I did enjoy Dondi, and I wish he was on here.

Why? Because their stories were like THIS one, just silly. Dad grew up with it, so he was able to handle it I guess. But to me they were like the soap operas Mom watched. He knew every character and every old story line.

Now I get it. And I miss him every day I see a goofy old story line.

Wow. Cocky little Miss Chick Tracy II almost pulled the plug on the MCU computers. She is one smart hen. Good thing B.O. called her just in time to prevent that escapade.

I suppose I am allowed to speculate that panel 1 may be Shelley’s subtle rebuke to the frequent complaints here about “talking heads”; what we see well enough is talking legs….

If the chicken bit into the power cord then the MCU would be having BBQ chicken!

ain’t nobody here but us chickens