Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 28, 2008

Yep, definitely a meth lab. Look at his hands shake. A thief with deadly intentions.

The ‘duck’ or arc with the strange bump on it is in the 6th panel. I’m having trouble seeing how that is a rubber duck.

Snotpickers Grab-Bag - Keep the guys after the family jewels and your 60 inch Plasma away from the Drano under the sink. They might try to use it against you!

Dr. Fingerless has a great idea! Make a new perfume called Ms. Flame, to accompany the new Fragrance from Burger King! Men can smell like a whopper and women will smell like a Spicy Chicken Sandwich (or Paris Hilton).

Is this the latest chapter of Desperate for Attention Housewives?

That drawing of Dr. Fingerless in panel #1 has been used at least 4 times now. Guess DL is getting tired of drawing new stuff. Waiting for that gratuitous shot of the Diet Smith Building again any day now. Tess looks much better today. Guess she’s remembering to use her Victoria Principal Skin Care Lotion.

Jabba’s hand holding the milk is awkwardly tiny. Is that why he doesn’t get any dates? Small hands = small…well, you know.

Just call Tracy, “Twitchy” in that last panel. “Tess, I have something in my eye…”

According to the Timewaster Scrapbook, “Sprite” carried by African American women can be hazardous to your health.

Look at those teletype machines in the sixth panel. The paper is so old and brittle it doesn’t lay flat.

I’m glad to see that Tess didn’t lose her nose at all today.

The drawing of Nubby Noll in the first panel will be this story’s version of the drawing of the Haunted House and Genesis Building. Repeated over and over and over…

dear fellow commenters; I recently started following this strip, because some of your more intriguing observation had spilled over into other strips. I only have one word to add, well maybe 4 or 5; This IS the most BIZARRE strip I have EVER seen!

Is Tess about to suck her thumb, she’s so excited about the perfume business? And I can’t see that rubber duckie anywhere. The only yellow thing is the phone. Is that it?

I think the CIA is hosting the fax machine races again. I hate the fax races at the CIA. Fax racing should never be done in a dome.

I have a great idea for the dick tracy women, but its not appropriate for me to share it with all you youngsters out there.

Today’s strip is simply hillarious, Locher is not making the defence job of the Praetorian Guard any easier. Observations and comment: A)Using paste-up panels has been a Locher practise ever since he took over from Rick Fletcher. B)Cosgrove, panel 4 looks like Pruneface post Plastic surgery while his hand in 6 looks like a Crab claw on the telephone. C)Sucking a thumb? Which one? The right looks smaller than those on DT! But it’s Diet’s on the milk container that wins today. Using the palm on the chin test he couldn’t touch much-less twirl his mustache D)Yes! Increasingly the “memorial” ceases to look like a rubber ducky. We all know what it looks like and baby John will be crying for some in a short while. Perhaps Diet can still be of help after all! E) I like the shot about Diet’s torso and his swallowing Sydney Greenstreet. Let’s take it a step further and give Noll - Peter Lorre’s eyes.(Better than Braces’) I can’t imagine why any newspaper would bother to run “Sunday strips” only? It’s a synopsis like Locher’s hand size. In fact cutting out the constricting repitition might pull in one 1 or 2 more readers!

I’d love for Jeff and Mattie to tell us, again, how this masterpiece stacks up to the great literature of the world - and how much they miss their board seats at the museum that isn’t.

I can’t figure out what’s holding up the phone in the second-to-last panel. He sure isn’t holding it.

Sticky fingertips?

HankF says:

Is Tess about to suck her thumb, she’s so excited about the perfume business? And I can’t see that rubber duckie anywhere. The only yellow thing is the phone. Is that it?

It’s in the frame on the wall. It looks nothing like a duck, so I can see why you can’t find it. It resembles a mammary.

Uh…if a thief has ‘deadly intentions’ doesn’t that make them potential murderers? So the fact that they’re stealing stuff kinda pales beside their hopes for homicide. So perhaps to keep children safe we should tell them to hide all chemicals–Drano, toothpaste, haemorrhoid cream– from potential murderers who may–or may not–steal their DVDs.

Ya know, that rubber duckie DOES somehow resemble a mammary!!! GOOD FOR YOU, MR. LOCHER! I’m about to retract all the bad stuff I’ve been saying about you! Ludwig will probably give me his proxy on that point, too!

Diet is pretty blase for a guy on the phone with the feds. You’d think he’d be some help. Maybe a forwarding address? Where did he send his last paycheck? NOK info? I think it’s time for the CIA to do a little cross agency back scratching and see if it’s time for Milk Daddy to have a visit from the IRS.

Diet is already in defensive mode and Traze-R can’t help him. He see recession around the corner and the IRS is probanbly at the door. Note how Locher has him diversifying. It’s not DS ‘Industries’ any more the business is Diet Smith ‘ENTERPRISES’ (see sign 12-19-2008) and, he has reduced the height of his building from 3 stories down to 2 ! No problem, it fits in better in the suburban style of Naperville! See Police HQ and Genesis Corp. buildings also !

How many times have we seen the conversation between Jabba and the CIA guy? Three times already?

Talk about repetition and re-caps? Perhaps the man thinks we didn’t read it the first time. No wonder every one realizes there is a ‘pacing’ problem! Sorry! Nearly every one. Locher and acolytes the exceptions!