Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 24, 2008

Aw com’mon! Let him try the little job. He can handle coffee cups and tiny milk cartons.

Another look for Braces in panel 3.

Any crime involving a Big Gulp IS a big job.

If they have Robo-Tracy and Robo-Junior why do they need Useless Teevo?

It’s heart-warming that a convenience store robbery gets reported to the chief and her best detective. I want to move to that city. Wait…that happens in my city too. Only 4000 people, though. Maybe they could lend us mini-Dick or Robo Junior or whatever his name is. (Best wishes to Dick Locher. He always gives us plenty to have fun with.)

The call just came in….. a convenience store robbery that takes a whole minute and they are gone. Tracy has to load up Robo (and I assume Junior is asleep in Robo’s kangaroo pouch), drive that moving van across town, and unload it. What’s Robo-Tracy gonna do then? I’ll tell you; it’s gonna brush up on it’s Hindu and stroll in for a hot cuppa Joe and a Dunkin Donut - expecting to be comp’ed, of course!

This stuff just keeps getting better. A Police Chief walking around trying to decide to do when someone has just hit the local Circle K and took a Drink, A box of Ho-Ho’s and some condoms! Send in Robo Tracy and his companion Robin Leach in the hidden pouch! The comments here are better than the strip. I’ve been reading DT for years but these last few story lines have been so lame I think Locher is asleep at the switch, Gould must be rolling in his grave….

The only thing “BIG” with Braces is the big delay in getting this lame-*ss story off the ground.

Time to check out Dennis the Menace for the “Real” story line.

YEAH, taking Robo-Dick to a 7-11 robbery is a great idea. I’m sure the criminals will not see a giant moving van coming, and that this mechanical hunk of junk will be able to sneak up on the suspects unknowingly. Why go to 7-11 when you have a coffee-making robot in house??

I think the only reasonable statement in today’s strip is the police cheif asking why they need a huge robot. Haha, “big jobs” like opening up milk cartons for Diets “big A$$”. Nice.

I agree, the comments on this board make the strip. If I didn’t have some daily joking about the strip, I would just get angry reading it. This is really going NOwhere. I see that Braces’ flunkies are back in the white sweatsuit. Maybe she decided to go work out.

Braces has something “big”!? Oh no! It’s a giant robot! It’s going to be Robo-Dick vs. Robo-Braces! I can see it now!

Gweedo, you just gave me the best laugh I’ve had in years! Braces just might be an exhibitionist at that!

Who is Justin? I see that in addition to Braces changing his face, the aerobics class continues to change its outfit from white to black, to white again. “Well, if you won’t leave my stuido, I am going to undress right in front of you” “Oh gross, I am going to alter my face so I don’t have to look at this”

Gweedo-

Your comment today captures it all, my friend – good or bad, as long as people are talkin’ ‘boutcha you’re doing your job and the work is considered a “success.” Wish the harshest of critics could understand this!