Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 15, 2009

So yesterday B.O. is walking out of the casino with marked BAGS OF CASH.

Today in the Snotpickers Grabbag we are warned to NOT flash money around or risk being the target of a robbery.

Who’s writing this nonsense?

As usual the boring Sunday recap. Too bad we didn’t even get back to the point where the casino doesn’t want ANY winners at all.

I have heard that some papers carry only the Sunday strip, so cast in that light it makes the repetitiveness of the Sundays understandable.

Wndrwrthg, at least Locher could do some new artwork.

Perhaps from another angle?

Or he could just do as he always does, and get at least three panels from each of his drawings, slapping his few remaining fans in the face.

Grock, it’s worse when the dialog balloon doesn’t cover the “e-” that’s just before the name on that sign.

Is the yellow duck/boobie a purple bow-tie in the last panel???

Concerning the CrimeStoppers… If anybody is stupid enough 2 flash money around like that, they deserve 2 get robbed. This story actually looks interesting, gotta love B.O. using “Spacey”, just hope Locher doesn’t overkill it…

I can’t imagine a “burb” as small as Naperville that has a 1-man SWAT team, Lt. Teevo, and a cop that never makes it into the office, being able to support a casino! Look at panel 6! Place looks empty! They must have off-site parking. No wonder the mob is concerned! They need a new demographics consultant - BADLY! Love the sign, though!

Grok - You kill me……….

Morrow, welcome back! Where the heck have you been? On a cruise with Judy? :)

I’m assuming the guy with the cigarette is Jack?

DAMGER! Do not flash your money, it may get stolen! Eat it instead! Eat it I say! Do it!

(pshew, sorry, lost control for a second there.)

Grok, thanks for posting that Bizarro, I saw it on the Washington Post site (wish this site carried it so I could see people’s comments).

Brine, that’s what I was thinking was the duck.

As for the crimestoppers, apparently the tip here in Georgia is not to leave anything of value in your car where it can be seen. They were talking about this on the radio. Afterwards I saw it mentioned in some email I signed up from the county police (they also remind people to lock their car doors - seems to be a new game teenagers are playing here - try and the door and see what happens). I thought it was common sense to not tempt robbers, but I guess it isn’t.

Morrow back ! Happily returning just in time, We note you like Jack’s panel “repetitious”, Casino sign.

And before Dick “Spacey” could get B.O. off rhe floor. You missed that long tongued, yellow mammary, in panel four.

You remembered Teevo’s frilly, frocky, no gun “stenographics”. And noted Jack’s need, to study Casino “demographics”!

We hope returning you avoided a fender, bender. We need you “morrow”, to fight this clownish, Gould pretender!

brine says:

Is the yellow duck/boobie a purple bow-tie in the last panel???

~ I would say, “yes”. Good eye.

“brine”, Don’t agree with “margueritem”. Look again at the 4th panel! Immediatly above the word “not”, in (“not exactly”). There is the YELLOW mammary (long nippled) pointing left. It also seems to have two round grey eyes to the lower right.

Just my opinion ! ;+)

Remember: Casinos are sore losers.

This “BROWN” beard and hair on B.O. is really laughable.

To be 100% sure I went back to the Al Kinda story. In particular the months of March to July 2006. to check. And sure enough it was black lined then and a colored blue (to enhance it as black). As it always was.

It sets readers to pondering, not for the first time, when Locher sits at the drawing board TODAY, does he remember what he did YESTERDAY ??

It’s sad !

We have to take care. When Locher hits an Angelorios LOW, then, with his new story barely comes up to a mediocre level, that we don’t stand and “applaud”, just because he has come back UP to a “run-of-the-mill standard !

Grok is right. That panel before the last really makes it look as if the Casino is perched on the “edge” of the world.

My guess on when we will SEE the villain may well be right, think Friday or Saturday coming. It’s the only presentation technique he seems to have picked up from Gould, and sadly stretches it out far too long !

Re Crimestoppers, I’m always flashing my money when I check out at the grocer because when I get my change back, the check hands it to me in such a way that I have to seperate it from the reciept that’s been wadded in.

I’ve been reading Tracy on this site for about a year now, years after it was dropped from my local daily. But if memory serves me correctly, B.O.’ beard was never that well groomed.

Sydney say “There is the YELLOW mammary (long nippled) pointing left. It also seems to have two round grey eyes to the lower right.” and I say, you may be right!!!