Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 14, 2024

why do I find Leo’s take of Dick in panel one not bad today?…

EC stories have 2 speeds;

Slow and slower.

What the heck is on the wall in the 2nd panel, early drawings again?

Good morning™, everyone!

It looks like he not only left the scene, but he dragged a chair with him, the better to sit dejectedly.

Good morning™, Troubled Terpsichoreans !

Well, we KNOW the end result of this rejected dumped deject. If “he’s” doing a how dun-it then be prepared to see ingestion, injection or an off camera “slug fest”, with only one shot fired.

I must have seen Mr. Batic’s art somewhere before. I have this strong feeling I’ve see such in the past.

The bartender says, “Why the long face?”

THAT is one depressed dancer.

Oh… Weird plot twist.

The dancer is dead. To the casual onlookers it appears to be suicide. The brilliant detectives, however, surmise “No! It was murder! We must find the killer!” And, after two weeks of interviewing witnesses and suspects the police will decide. “Ooops, my bad. It was suicide.”

Responding to Another Fakes comment from yesterday.

@Another TakeI’m sure using the current strip makes it easier than going through old strips to find panels that fit your story used to be

A gazillion times easier. I did find my old method more rewarding. It felt more like I was creating an original story rather than just changing the dialog. It was just way too time consuming.

Weird perspective in P2. Juana looks like she’s 3 feet tall. Lassiter looks very long-legged. Third panel looks like Lassiter is taking a dump.

I think the cleaning lady did it. She wanted to be Mr. Lassiter’s new dance partner. When he laughed at her she killed him and tried to make it look like suicide. Tracy will foil her Dancing With the Stars ambitions!

1- DT: Well, these translations of your waxing mistakes have taken us deep into the night and have provided no help. None! Nada even! MARY JUANA: I’m not finished, Senor…

2-: …Next, my son, he take my chair – wheech is necessary for me to wax the people who eensist that I do my job while they stand. He was telling me in a teepical South American fashion that I was FEENISHED! DT: OK. Thanks. We’re done here…

3- MARY JUANA: I am not finished, Senor… Then he seets on my chair! I theenk to myself – “HE EES TAKING MY JOB” so I keel him. DT: Good. Can we get outta here? Wait. What?

MARY JUANA: You no let me feenish, Senor – I keel heem… softly with my song. – the Fugees version – not Roberta Flack. DT: So the rap rhymes you “spit” in an otherwise OK song caused his suicide. Makes sense. Let’s get… MARY JUANA: There ees more…

…and he didn’t even “get any”…….hey, someone was going to say it……

MOVIE QUOTE

“You’d make the flesh crawl on a squid!”

Linda Darnell to Robert Newton—-BLACKBEARD,THE PIRATE—1952

Fire Marshal George Snyder of New York City,age 53,died of a heart attack.He was chief investigator in charge of ion—lithium battery fires.

There are so many t hey have t heir own division??

Considered “line of duty” death because it happened within 24 hours of his last duty shift.

Again,suggest Diet Smith look for a safer power source

The minute I saw that cleaning lady I thought “least likely suspect!”. And with t he creepy background appearance today, it wouldn’t shock me if she DID do it.

Meanwhile,at the Nuremoh mansion, a “Zulu Native With Fallen Arches” arrives

I don’t want to give the artist too much credit, but the overall styling for this story reminds me of early Argentine comics cerca 1910s 1920s. Maybe one of the insiders can confirm or not. Could just be my imagination wanting to give some credit. You can google Argentine comics 1920s or Crivelli and debunk for yourself.

Continuing with BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE, there is a juicy part in it for Skelton Knaggs, who was “X-Ray” in DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME—1947

Dick’s fedora looks more like a Panama hat .

Poor guy.