Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 29, 2024

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    Pequod  about 2 months ago

    See Ro-Zan slink in shadow. Darkness is his friend

    Made a deal. Tech plans to steal. Must keep up his end.

    Needs aid with the invasion. Corrupt helpers do their part

    Complacency with tyranny. Unethical. Not smart.

    Yet all foul plans may come undone. Look to see detection

    Detective Tracy on the job with powerful protection.

    Ro-Zan tosses lightening! A vest provides reflection

    Look to see tech modified upon closer inspection.

    Tracy has the upper hand. There shall be no dictator

    Ro-Zan can tell it to the Judge. Reside in prison later.

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    firestrike1  about 2 months ago

    oh, ffs… the Bribery Vest…

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    avenger09  about 2 months ago

    Makes no sense. Based on the burnt wall behind him, Tracy’s face and hands should have been toasted. So silly.

    Where’s the jam?

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    SHAKEDOWNCITY  about 2 months ago

    “Titanic Tunic.”

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    Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray  about 2 months ago

    Good morning™, Men of Miracle Metals !

    Quite a surprise there, eh, Ho-zan ?  That Ring tech based suit should have ‘returned fire’.

    Is that Super Tracy in P. 5 ?

    [Obligatory Art Dept. Compliment]

    P.2. is a gas !  Lotta pizzazz there !

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    Dean  about 2 months ago

    Just like Bilbo Baggins, I understand some folks in Utah routinely wear magic underwear to protect against evil.

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    BreathlessMahoney77  about 2 months ago

    Next time Rozan will know to aim a little lower.

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    Neil Wick  about 2 months ago

    Good morning™ everybody!

    Tracy had more trick up his sleeves than you might have expected (although I assume the vest is sleeveless :)). The vest protected Tracy well, even his hat!, although it really did a number on the wall behind him.

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    Johnny Q Premium Member about 2 months ago

    “D’OH!”

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    firestrike1  about 2 months ago

    what was the point of the entire story?… this arc contains so many fill-in-the-blanks that need explaining and filling in…

    how did Ro escape NMV in the first place?

    how did Ro make a connect with Aberli?

    what was the purpose of the mummy case Ro made a gift of to Diet?

    what was the purpose of introducing Blowhorn and his rabble-rousing racist rant against Tracyville Lunarians?…

    what was the purpose of introducing the South Pole pyramid in the first Ro story-arc?

    if there are any other points I’ve forgotten and missed, but aren’t the above MORE than enough?

    the story is just so slapdash and disjointed… this story had possible potential but as usual, it all crashed and burned even before it started and worse than the Hindenberg…

    oh, the inhumanity of it all… so many points were introduced and left us all unfulfilled…

    Mike’s tank doesn’t even have fumes to run on… like the Jackson Browne song goes, that’s what Mike is running on…

    empty…

    there are no more good stories to be had from the man…

    sad…

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    Judge Magney  about 2 months ago

    This sequence makes no sense, all right. Bribery’s ring didn’t create a shield around its wearer. It turned the electric force back on the person trying to use it. Ro-zan should have been leveled and the wall untouched.

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    BigDaveGlass  about 2 months ago

    Should have just worn the ring. Then you would have had the ring of confidence.

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    iggyman  about 2 months ago

    I love panel one, cycles Lou Christie’s “Lightning Strikes Me Again”!

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    Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray  about 2 months ago

    Mysty must have been the trials Zapper during development or else Tracy would be using an untested implement, which would make it unpredictable under use.

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    jrlind55  about 2 months ago

    Tracy’s Hall of Fame should be updated; Donald Brock died on Jan 29, 2024.

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    LawrenceS  about 2 months ago

    Okay, improbable as we all find it, Tracy is immune to Ro-zan’s powers. (Which hopefully will convince him that a couple thousand Lunarians can’t overpower several billion humans – some of whom are trained as long range snipers) Tomorrow we see if Ro-zan is immune to Tracy’s right fist.

    And shortly thereafter we bury this story and have a few happy days where we imagine the next story will make more sense.

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    Gent  about 2 months ago

    Me was knows of bulletproof vests but me never knews there one for lightning too.

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    Gent  about 2 months ago

    Is ya shocked to see this now ya steenky electric moon alien?

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    tsull2121  about 2 months ago

    “Based on the tech from Bribery’s ring” butbutbut…..didnt Bribery’s ring create an arcing feedback against the person that it was aimed at? Wouldn’t that then mean that Ro-Ro-Ro-your boat would’ve attacked..HIMSELF?!?!?

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    crobinson019  about 2 months ago

    The Shocking conclusion!

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    Trespassers W  about 2 months ago

    As Gomer Pyle would say: Shazam!

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    Captain Colorado  about 2 months ago

    Dick Tracy: “I’m wearing plot armor!”

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    jim204716  about 2 months ago

    Me- lead down the garden path again. Of course Tracy was going to survive. When will the other characters, Mysta, Diet, The Moon Governor, The Moon Police show up? Are they going to sentence Ro-Zan to the equivalent of the “Phantom Zone”, Krypton’s storage place for criminals?

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    General Trelane (Ret.) Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Okay , so now what ?

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    WilliamVollmer  about 2 months ago

    The cop who never wears protective gear on a raid, is wearing a zap proof vest?

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    Durak Premium Member about 2 months ago

    “Strange”?

    What a, ahem, strange reaction. I would have expected an “inconceivable” at least.

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    That Wichita Guy!  about 2 months ago

    “Yeah, Tony Stark’s pretty much my (insert insulting term here, as I self-censor). Does anything I tell him to do. DON’T make me activate my Thunder Power BVDs! Now watch as I fire my fists like missiles!”

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    That Wichita Guy!  about 2 months ago

    Not ‘why,’ Tracy! The man asked ‘HOW!!’ You are CLEARLY hanging around Sam entirely too much

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    Chris  about 2 months ago

    dude, the ring got a huge upgrade. to being on the the finger to being used for the whole body… but nullification seems kind of a downer though. it being bounced back seemed more effective in my book anyways. It’s still cool though. :j

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    Chris  about 2 months ago

    hey, nice shadow mark from the zapped burnt up wall of Dick Tracy. :D

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    atomicdog  about 2 months ago

    The Superman belt is a nice touch.

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    TracyFan 65  about 2 months ago

    With such a wide dispersal pattern, I would think Tracy’s head would have been hit as well.

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    Batster  about 2 months ago

    Ro-Than goes all Jim Starlin in P2 (or 3, depending on your counting preference)….

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    Another Take  about 2 months ago

    1- ROX-HUDSON: On the Moon Wrestling Circuit, they call me TWO TWENTY! DT: What’s that? The price a desperate chick is willing to pay for your “love services”? To be specific – two dollars and twenty cents!

    2- ROX-HUDSON: I GOT IT YOU MORON! HERE! TASTE 220 VOLTS OF DEATH!

    3-: …Hey…what happened?

    4-DT: NOTHING! Because Ironman gave me his suit prototype from 50 years ago. Well – not the gold belt. That’s an accessory I got from my wife’s closet…

    5-: …Now you’re under arrest you sonuvabiche! I got that line from the end of A Few Good Men Now come along peace… Wait. Where’d he go?!?!

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    Jonathan K. and the Elusive Dream Girl  about 2 months ago

    Tracy’s “Superman” pose in the last panel is reminiscent of the 1940s Fleischer Studios productions:

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    Blackthorne42  about 2 months ago

    Looks like the vest may have put a protective field around the wearer. And I can feel everyone ready to jump me for this, but please realize this is a comic strip, where the tech can go a bit wibbly-wobbly.

    Either way, I’m enjoying this.
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    PatrickDC202  about 2 months ago

    Loving this story line with the Lunarians. As an avid science fiction fan, I like the variety of the Dick Tracy plotlines. Here’s an idea: for punishment, why don’t they just ‘castrate’ Ro-Zan of his horns? No horns, no ability to zap and no ability to communicate as effectively with the other Lunarians. It’d make sense.

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    smartman  about 2 months ago

    Wait, all these comments and no one brought up the awesome Daffy Duck vs Marvin the Martian cartoon where Daffy has a disintegration pistol pulled on him, asks to go put on his disintegration-proof vest, and then promptly gets disintegrated with only the vest left. That was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this ridiculous comic.

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    David Rickard Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Ro-Zan: Is your hat armored, Tracy?

    Tracy: No. Why do youboom headshot

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    Sporteric11   about 2 months ago

    Now it’s time for Tracy to taser him !!!

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    jim_pem  about 2 months ago

    Great artwork by Carlos Magnifico!

    I’m going to guess that the Superman poses in the last two panels are a hidden fan boy nod to Superman – dictated by Mike.

    So, it seems we have a climax here with a lot of loose ends. To note: loose ends and plot holes are two different things. Not much in the way of egregious plot holes here. There is some great opportunity to wrap up those loose ends, but I’m doubtful we’ll get the answers we hope for.

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    IvanB.Cohen  about 2 months ago

    The Boy Scout in Tracy came out…" Be Prepared".

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    IvanB.Cohen  about 2 months ago

    Yo! Governor get your wayward brother. He’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

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    charliefarmrhere  about 2 months ago

    A new Minit Mystery starts next Sunday, for those wondering.

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  about 2 months ago

    Okay,Officer Brock just showed us that Pat Patton isn’t too old to be a cop

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