Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 22, 2008

Meanwhile back at headquarters, Traze-R finally gives out with an address. Tracy is still in a daze, and MF is gonna kick some guard butt.

You would think with the medical benefits the Police Dept. has that Tracy would take care of that curvature of the spine problem he has.

Dick looks like he’s ready to be a bell ringer at Notre Dame!

At least Dickzoid seems to be evolving. He’s almost learned correct vowel usage - “EVL SGNLS” has become “EVIL SIGNALS”, although he still refers to Dickie Boy as “TRCY”.

Unfortunately, consonants are now starting to be a problem for him (“THERE IZ”)…

The plot thinnens.

“THERE IZZZZ”. Looks like the guy at Genesis has reverted to Robo-tard after being thrashed by MG. “YIIII”. Maybe Locher will start paying more attention to developing the Traze-R section of the plot instead of figuring how how to make Traze-R seem like he sounds like a robot.

By the way, what makes a signal evil? Does it contain cackling or something? How does Tracy-Bot tell the difference between regular signals and evil signals?

Ray C.: Now that you’ve seen Oscar, I’m changing back to the pumpkin that that imbibed too large of a quantity of absinthe.

The guard still has his eyes closed. So even getting beat up by a robot is that boring, huh?

Mayhap what we have here is a satire (parody?) on the response time of LE to a ‘problem’ -

So that’s how MF overpowers the guards? How low-tech. I’d thought maybe he’d set himself on stun.

Mecha-Tracy must use Vista® I got better speech and more intelligence out of my old DOS Dr. Sbaitso program.

YI!, indeed. Anybody notice the minor resemblance of this security cop to Gould’s design for Chief Patton? Near uncanny.

margueritem, Don’t know if you read this from yesterday’s, but that’s a wonderful ministry that Oscar has.

Hey, that guard is using Xena’s battle cry!

Ray C., Thank you. We had many good visits today. They all love Oscar. :-)

I noticed the resemblance, let’s hope that it is Pat, and that he’s gonna get the jump on that MF!

If it’s Pat, maybe we’ll finally get to see his well-deserved and long overdue retirement party!

Jack Bender has only been using two of three panels to push the story aling in Alley Oop and he’s still managed to get the story going twice as fast as Tracey.

Actually, Ludwig, I’m fixing to celebrate Pat’s retirement tonight. I’ve opened a bottle of Centario tequila, got the salt, lime……. Why don’t you stop in?

Morrow