Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 28, 2024

Panic!

Personal vendetta @ “work”.

Is this the return of the MoonGov’s brother?

That guy in the back knows something….“If I didn’t know better” indeed……

Diet Smith Memo to Self: Build a higher geofence.

Good morning™, Helpless Sitting Ducks !

Looks like The two docs and their driver didn’t crash on Jupe after all and now they are STEAMED !!  Will Diet Smith be that one rare good guy who gets killed out of the strip ? :-O

Martians!

Has DS relocated to Kyiv?

Good morning™, everyone!

“Send in the drones … don’t bother, they’re here.” I don’t think the former Moon Governor would ever show up unannounced and jam Diet’s equipment.

yeah, it’s a Lunarian Coupe…

and NOT another attempted Lunarian coup…

Is Diet Smith still working from home? Dang if those drones don’t remind me of the space coupe.

I actually prefer this story arc to the one about the guy who was languishing in prison.

Needs eyes in the sky, send up the manned Space Coupe or an old style helicopter.

1- DOIT: BARK BARK BARK! TECH GAL: What’s he bit-chen about this time? TECH DUDE: The way your suit jacket is too long and looks ridiculous on you, I think…

2- DOIT: LOOK! WE’RE UNDER ATTACK YOU FOOLS! LAUNCH THE DRONES!

3- TECH GAL: Yeah, well we would if we could but we forgot to recharge them after their mission to find and gather photographic evidence of “hot chicks poolside” for you to enjoy yesterday. DOIT: Darn it. Well – see if you get them recharged for today’s Photo Recon Mission – it’s going to be nice and sunny!

TECH GAL: What about the intruders, Sir? DOIT: Sir – they always call me “Sir”… I’ll be in the bunker. Let me know when it’s safe to come out.

So no eyes on the target? We could see the Space Coupe all the way to the moon!

so do it old school a la 1940-send someone on to the roof with a pair of binoculars

Hope this story, as exciting as it is, doesn’t “drone” on!

I thought Geofence was a term describing the searching for cell phone numbers in use in a proscribed area, during a specific period of time? And, of course, that ship, whatever it is, is jamming the signals DS Industries uses to operate it’s drones.

Ironically, I’m finishing editing on another ‘in another fantasy world’ book in which drones are an out-of-place element. Drones and feudal-level societies don’t mix comfortably.

Cue Gerry Anderson!!!!! Send up Thunderbird Three!

Jamming?

“Attention, all planets of the Solar Federation, we have assumed control.”

MOVIE QUOTE—-“Now,Frankenstein would have severed the spinal cord about here….”

Boris Karloff—HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN—1944

I still say it’s The Moon Governor,who’s arrogant enough to prove he’s so bleeping superior to us mere Earthlings.

Charles’ art is just great!!!

Jeff Bezos come a-calling?

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

I guess the woman in the final panel is supposed to be looking up at a big screen, but it really looks like she’s rolling her eyes in contempt at this unfolding scenario. “Ugh, the craft is jamming our drones, I told you we needed to fit them with more powerful transmitters, dad, why don’t you ever listen?”

So, if you didn’t know better….what?

….what’s “good for the goose is good for the gander”, or, as Wally Walrus once said: "Huh! Huh!! Huh!!! Vot’s goot fer der goose, iss bad fer der voodpeckers!! Huh! Huh!! HUH!!!……….

Might be the lunatics picking up their errant princess?

And at Sunny Wheat Cereal,the “Mysta Lookalike Contest” is in full swing.

Here we go again,folks!!

Diet almost looks like Diet today

Diet isn’t thinking about drones in P3, he’s got his eye on the prize, visually and body language

Where are those air cars when the coppers need ’em?