Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 25, 2008

Looks like JFStan called it right on the mark…

ROTFLMAO! I can’t believe this! The two shape shifting automatons will some day far into the future be in a face off.

Looking at the last panel … and I showing my age by thinking “rock’em-sock’em robots” ?

Egads. Robo-Aftershave. (“Brut”).

“I had it made overseas.” Like I said before, cheap plastic, made in China. Both probly from the same factory in Shanghai.

That “Post-It Note” is likely the bill of sale and traditionally it would be at least 8 1/2 x 11, so yeah, it would be bigger than a normal human head, duh!

Even more likely – it is the LARGER clear plastic envelope in which the bill of sale is secured.

Some of you are REALLY stretching to criticize here.

Robo-Braces looks like it has the neck of a Giraffe and that its head should be sticking out the top of the box.

Locher should be consistent with the drawing of Braces but he obviously doesn’t care. It’s called “professional pride”.

Something like this, that blows through the state of the art, must have cost tens of millions, even imported from China. Super-villains (not just in Tracy but everywhere) need to consider the return on investment. Why not just put your money in the housing market? Oh, wait…I know.

Gasp! It’s got me on the edge of my seat! (falling asleep). Wonder if it has a Mattel toy tank like its cousin? Maybe Braces had it made in one of Diet Smith’s overseas plants?

Does this model have wheels or feet, I wonder…

Hah! I knew it, a giant robot fight.

I hope this one can do more than open milk cartons. Maybe they can use the robot to build a worldwide brand of superior performance condoms.

If this one is voice controlled too it’ll be more likee a pokemon fight with both “trainers” standing back shouting instructions to their robomons as they fight …

Wonder if ‘Brute’ is short for brutal, as in this story.

Only in Tracyland boys and girls, only in Tracyland!

Que Pasa Jeff. I was wondering if there has ever been even one criticism of something related to Dick Tracy that you thought was understandable.

While your loyality is commendable(ruff ruff) it appears to have turned you into a drone.

Cheers.

BB

I was only kidding I swear!! Does locher read these comments for ideas!?

And Braces’ hench-woman looked a lot better from a distance.. Lay off the heroin, Natasha!

Not a drone, bassmanbob, a robot!

Maybe a Robo-Jeff! Do you respond only to DL’s voice command?

“Robo-Jeff, bring me my milk”! “Robo-Jeff, praise everything I do, even if you know it’s terrible”! “Robo-Jeff, tell those Magpies on the board that they’re idiots”! (sorry Jeff, that one’s DL talking to Robo-Mattie)

Jeff Jeff Jeff, you know that I actually think very highly of you. we really should get together one day for a cup of coffee & talk DT.

“C’mon people now Smile on your brother Ev’rybody get together Try to love one another right now”

As alway’s, Peace.

BB

To quote today’s Fearless Fosdick, “If my readers have been sickened by what’s already happened–what’s coming will kill ‘em!!”

So…. is Braces closing his eyes in the first panel to be suspenseful, or has he, like many of us, just fallen asleep waiting for the BIG SECRET to finally be revealed? His aerobics instructor looked pretty ticked off at him in Panel #2 (and there is a lot more wrong with her, too, that I won’t get into..).

Good news, this one appearanetly looks like it will fit in a room. One up on Traze-R (in select panels).

Who brought up the giant post-it note, anyway.. Jeff, so confused. I am happy that you clarified that this is a bill of lading. Make sure that they keep that for the auditors.

These comments crack me up. Bravo, bassman, you are hilarious!

Hello The time has come for me to stop reading this strip though maybe in a month I’ll return. Would Chester Gould do this? ps the same for ,”Overboard” too with the mice,whats happening to basic entertainment?

Those henchmen are so strong they can rip open the crate with their bare hands!!! Who needs a crowbar?

I was thinking that maybe Dab Stract has been drawing Braces all these weeks? Just don’t let Tess see the drawings or she’ll hurl.

Mecha-Dick to Magnum Force: “Unhand me, you big brute!”

LudwigVonDrake said: “Those henchmen are so strong they can rip open the crate with their bare hands!!! Who needs a crowbar?”

Who needs henchmen? - that was Braceboy himself! (so I don’t know why he needs a giant robot) … anyway his henchmen are far too tiny for such a task – check out the henchperson in panel #1 compared to the crate vs. Bracey in #3 … :-P

Why not just have the robot punch its way out of the crate?

Then again, maybe it’s NOT a robot, but a suit of armor.

Bring back Flattop!

Invisifan, my mistake. I didn’t recognize Braces. He changes so much I missed that it was him.

Where IS Flattop? Where IS Pruneface? Those villains were worthy adversaries of Detective Tracy. Now Tracy is worrying about a 7-11 getting knocked over. Please.

Tune in…within the next 2 weeks, maybe…for The Battle of the Titans!! (Either that, or Mecha Dickzilla will recognize Braces’s robot as his brother or something!) :)