Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 30, 2009

Wait, the tiger hasn’t even had an appetizer yet!

What a gory way to commit suicide. Eaten alive by a hungry tiger.

When I look at the second panel, all I can hear in my head is the squeak-squeak-squeak of Mr Pops’ clown shoes.

Hmm, Pop on top.

I’ve been waiting for this day:

Let’s All Drink to the Death of a Clown!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1T9oGSF0Ro

(No, I didn’t make this video, but I’d love to see what wndrwrthg could do with the lyrics of this song…)

Panel Two: Who runs without bending their knees?

Panel Three: He’s goin’ all King Kong on us! Meanwhile, the giant monster who lives in the circus tent’s ceiling has returned and appears to be following Mr. Pops’s progress!

Good strip. But I have a little suspect…maybe a new artist with Brozman? Hmmm…

What a Bozo.

Mr Pops, I told you to stay away from wild- animal exhibits. After what happened to Daniel’s accusers, you would think nobody needed to be told twice. But would you listen???

What happened to your pistol and your megablaster gun Mr. Pops? Goodness how lame can this whole thing become. At least the Tiger might now become contented!

Will there be a top to the cage this time?

It’s true. Where is the gun???

He was ordered to put the gun down by the competent police officer. Who then let him run off for some reason. This seems to be headed for the Chester Gould ending: the villain ending in a fitting, horrible death. This time as a tiger snack. Mr. Pops was not quite up to the stature of the other Tracy villains, though. Maybe we could borrow one from Spiderman. That strip has super-villains to spare.

Nope, the 1/2 competent officer only asked him to put it away.

STOP! Indeed, please stop. In fact this should have stopped months ago.

Mr. Pops can really jump! Are we almost finished now?

Real tigers don’t eat clowns. They taste funny.

Now I get it. Tracy forgot to say the magic words “You’re under arrest” before, which causes villains to abandon all previous plans and run.

If I have said it once, I’ve said it a 1000 times: Exotic animals do not make for good yard pets…

Where is the other officer, back then there where no tasers, and DT did say your under arrest and STOP. I tried the utube video and couldn’t get anything saw pictures to the side that is all.

A couple of takeaways here: Mr. Pops is no longer limited to a full frontal shot in just one panel…now he has the ability to “go places” and be silhouetted. The sky’s the limit…

And, Kab2rb, what in the hell are you talking about? A youtube video for what??? For a comic strip? I want whatever you’re smoking…

ZZZZZzzzzz…..

Why was there a panel yesterday with them sneaking away only to have them back today making an arrest? Why does this strip have to be so incoherent?

WTH?? This makes no sense…

The jig was up the fat was in the fire Tracy had foiled the plan by failing to expire Pops was quite surprised and forgetting his gun He turned on his heels and away he did run There was no-one to stop him all they did was shout His just needed to take the next convenient way out But being rather possessive and apparently insane He began to climb up the bars of the tigers domain Once the cage had no top and then amazingly it did What could be the secret of its disappearing lid Will it be there tomorrow for Pops to scramble across Or will it be missing and throw him for a loss What thrills and action will be ours to behold When the next exacting installment of this story is told We hope and we pray it’s not a horrible illusion That this story is at last coming to a conclusion.

Sorry Maxine, but I’m at a loss.

Right. Where is Mr. Pops gun? And how come he can climb up the cage and Tracy and the useless FBI agent could not?

This whole story line is so stupid! Why did it take DT all these weeks to annouce that Mr. Pops is under arrest? Mr. Pops should have been placed under arrest as soon as Tracy found out he killed Louise. Then again, if proper police procedures were followed, Locher would have to do away with these incoherent story lines!

Bassmanbob, this is the second time you’ve accidentally called Della “Fee Fi.” Are you trying to hurt her feelings?

After revisiting panel three, it appears that the cage is now nearly as tall as the circus tent. Mr. Pops lept to the bar near the now topless cage. As I remember, a few months ago the cage was only a bit larger that the tiger and was rectangular. Now it’s round! I hope we get to see the pig on wheels before this story ends. Perhaps Tracy will adopt the pig as a pet and we can see it in future stories.