Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 21, 2023

Ye Gads, the dude IS indestructible!

Tracy’s left hand looks like something out of War of the World’s!

Are we supposed to know what Madsen landed in? Tracy seems to be cracking up! It’d be nice if we were let in on the joke!

The writers are laughing at the Comments section.

“LOOK AT THE BIRDS,,,NO SHIELDS!!!”

Good morning™, everyone!

I looks like he landed in some kind of glue or wet cement, although I don’t know what wet cement would be doing there. He’s pretty lucky that he didn’t land on the cinder blocks or sharp-looking spikes of rebar. I think either of those would have certainly killed him.

It’s hard to think of a more apt comment on this whole storyline than today’s s strip.

they must have filmed a porn movie shortly before Dick and Maddy showed up and the actors didn’t bother to clean up the remnants of their celluloid debauchery…

Coo?

What a mess of a story indeed! And I can’t begin to guess Madden’s fallen into…a vat of glue?

What’s the first panel?

Gargles had a similar fall and did not survive.

I guess it’s apt for this story arc with the way of his capture.

Didn’t Madsen fall face down?

Good morning™, bummer disappointments ! :-(

He got off far too easy. I was gonna make a comment about that goop but firestick got the jizt of it.

As to censoring the nasty bits, we were tonight watching one of the Kickboxer films on an over the air TV channel, so when bullets landed into the bad guys the red splotches were blurred as expected, but the real “Kicker” was when a knife was planted into the villain’s forehead: the forehead was blurred but not the handle of the knife, so what was the point of that?

What happens next? Madsen getting charged in court via close circuit tv in the hospital. Homeboy is in a body cast.

Banana Brain landed in banana pudding it looks like !

Now, that I wasn’t expecting……

Mike doesn’t want to kill Madsen. He probably wanted to have him back for another arc :D

Before Fritz Haber developed a practical method to fix atmospheric nitrogen nations would go to war over uninhabitable islands for the deposits of bird droppings – they were that valuable for the production of fertilizer and high powered explosives. I can see Italy trying to claim the building for a deposit big enough to cushion a man’s fall.

I guess it really hit the fan

Awww, PIGEON POOP!

his gun was an automatic, when that’s empty, the lock stays open, you’re nt ‘surprised’ like he was that it’s empty. just more signs the writers do not understand what they are doing.

I KNEW it all ALONG! Tracy has pigeon blood!

See, here’s the actual end-ending. Madsen leaps to his feet, does little line dance all by himself, then swings into a hot macarena while singing “I’m too sexy for my poop”, and limbos to freedom. he firemen give him cumulative score of 8.5 and kindly hose him down, dislodging several teeth in the process.

Tracy stares gape-jawed after him (no mean feat with THAT jaw), shoots Sam, and blames him for Madsen’s escape.

Sam is laid to rest in a pastrami coffin, but the heady aroma revives him as Sam, Crime Smashin’ Zombie. He becomes a semi-regular addition to the trendy teen cast of LuAnn (as well as moonlighting tri-weekly in Beetle Baily).

He didn’t kill that guy he shot, so no murder charge. He didn’t shoot at Tracy because he had no bullets. So they’ll get him on running in front of a fire truck. He’ll be out in six months after singing like a canary about Audie’s operation……

eww… do I even wanna know what that is? :p

He missed all that rebar and pointy sticks? We got ripped off!

It seems that no one, even the city officials, knew about the guano factory in their midst.

Dick Tracy says “Coo?” I thought that was a British expression.

Ok – after our discussion about where the pigeon poo is, all the spikey stuff, and the potential lack of a real shootout, this was oddly satisfying. We have dangling threads everywhere else, but we at least have pigeon poo and Madsen is covered in it. Nice job on this one.

Yes, indeed – I agree absolutely with Tracy on this villain!!

Coo? Tracy’s gone cockney all of a sudden?

TWO THINGS: 1- BOOOOOOO! and 2- Does anyone know what happened to Tradewinds309? I get uncomfortable when one of us disappears without blaming either the weak stories or our lewd and rude Comments.

Madsen gets his ending vaguely reminiscent of Roy Batty.

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe… Scam operations on fire off the shoulder of Tracyville… I watched firetrucks glitter in the dark near the ghetto gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain… Time to fall in pigeon poop.”

Madsen’s alive?! /brianblessedvoice

In the immortal words of General Anthony McAuliffe: Nuts.

Aside from that nice young Moon widow who had the crush on Tracy, doesn’t ANYONE ever get killed in this strip anymore?

1-DT: You really fell in it this time. Looks like the sh*t has hit the fan. What’d you do – sh*t and fall back in it? Of all the sh*t azzes I’ve ever arrested, you’re…

2-MADSEN: SHUT UP! I GET IT! Now please – I’m injured bad – call me an ambulance! NO – WAIT…

3-DT: You’re an ambulance! MADSEN: ARRRRRGGHHH! Help me up the stairs. I wanna try to hit the rebar this time…

DT: You won’t be going to the Ree or any other bar for a long time, mister!

MADSEN: Real funny. DT: What?

Does this dude have 9 lives or what?! I’m gonna start calling Madcat… or Catsen.

Seriously? “Coo” what a mess? That’s a Brit-ism.

Though it does seem to be implying that the mess has something to do with pigeons…

SAM (to Tracy): Everyone is accounted for – except someone with glasses named “Susan”. We put out an APB – she was also seen wielding an ax!

I hope Madsen’s not hurt. He seems like a good kid. Can’t blame a guy for wanting to make a living.

All right, Tracy fans. Where’s the real strip for today, rather than this sadly treacle-ized bird scat joke? Madsen falling yesterday was squarely aimed at nasty, probably deadly, pointy, hard debris. Today, by the magic of PC bowdlerizing, he lands in a mess of pigeon poo, with little real harm done by the fall!

Coo, coo! Coo-l, or cuckoo?

Looks like the Bluebird of Happiness just made a guano run on Madsen’s parade…..