Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 26, 2009

Is Gertie biting his leg? Are you kidding me?

Gertie double fisted shotguns. Impressive.

Moving backwards with Tracy and Jack.

Gertie has two guns, and she bites him?!? Is there an unknown pet in the house?

One shotgun, one lever action carbine and a couple of aceholes. Although why a double-barreled shotgun would have a ejection port is baffling.

Giving Gertie two shotguns just proves that neither of these guys have ever fired a shotgun.

Gertie isn’t biting him - it is a man trap. (I can predict the future)

“It’s dark inside, boss! How do we find the money?” *^%$&^%&$^%$& Let’s hope any thief that tries to rob my house is so stupid he relies on me leaving the lights on so he can see while he steals.

If they’d stop with the card jokes…well, that’d be cool.

Good sunday pages but…

After weeks I don’t know again the evil plot of One Eyed Jack.

I’m baaaaccckkk!!!

The evil plot was to set B.O. and Gertie up for a fall, apparently. Bagging Dick Tracy was icing on the cake, and he handed himself to them by making a mistake a rookie wouldn’t make. (What did he mean, storming into the crook’s lair without backup?)

Classic Dick Tracy comicbook characters did have a tendency to blurt out several lines of exposition in dire situations.

That’s no excuse for it to happen here when a man probably has his ankle in either a bear trap or the jaws of a particularly toothy chiwawa

On the whole, the artwork has been steadily improving - slowly but surely - since Brozman took over. But inconsistencies in details - like the magical disappearing plant on the dresser in panel one - are maddening!

Good ol’ fashion bear trap, probably would take his foot off in reality

At least the Sunday recap actually did inch forward a bit, bite, or byte!

I bet it’s a bear trap…

1) No Evil plot ! 2) No back up ! 3) Pet in the house? margueritem you forgot “Flapsie” (aka “Hey You”) 4) No yellow “rubber duckie” ? Hey “Spots”! Perhaps Brozmon has worked up the “spunks” to gird his loins and tell Locher flat out, “NOT again!” “I’m NOT in that kind of mawkish, sissy thing!”

Evil “plots” and “back up”? What’s that?? It’s a case of getting the ‘quality’ writing that TMS pays for! Don’t expect a mechanic to write a sonnet.

Genius thieves come driving up to a house they want to rob with their headlights on and they leave them on and stand in front of them in case there are any witnesses who could pick them out of a lineup.

First one gun…now two. There’s a plant and now…it’s gone. Consistency is important.

Yes morrorw, You are right, the story did inch forward by about FIVE panels. And only a couple months ago the Praetorian Guard were insisting that the TMS Editors wanted it in total repetion mode. No “wiggle” room for “Pop” in Naperville. Any kind of “twist” or “nudge” of the facts to get Locher off the hook. When, all the time it looked more like laziness or lack of know- how

Morrow, A further point on what (looking “carefully”), is really ‘poor pacing”. There have been 18 daily panels since Sunday 4-19, and 7 more today Sunday. A total of 25.

All that has been achieved in that time frame are the bad Guys driving and arriving in front Gertie’s door and an unnecessarily long, ELEVEN panel talk between Qne-Eye and Dick. One full of repetition. It could have been handled smoothly in just FOUR.

Problem is, in well thought out “spacing” between Sunday strips which are done in advance. Result, not having enough action or items of interest breeds repetition to avoid “overshooting” the next Sunday’s point in the story. And that still “happens” as you may recall.

It comes down to a matter of “KNOW-HOW”, and surprise! … Locher ain’t got it! Old dog…New tricks !

Well we’ve got another “Boss” here, and it isn’t OEJ. Could it finally be Big Ace?

“Gertie double fisted shotguns. Impressive.”

Actually, the one in her left hand is a lever-action rifle.

farren says: “Giving Gertie two shotguns just proves that neither of these guys have ever fired a shotgun.”

Or it proves that Gertie hasn’t.

The lever-action rifle in her left hand is pretty realistic for a comic strip, but the thing in her right hand is a semi-automatic rifle (ejection port, front & rear sights) with an extra barrel drawn in at the muzzle as if it were a double barrel shotgun.

Of course that’s just nitpicking compared to things like the disappearing plant, the morphing curtains, etc.

LvonD: “First one gun…now two. There’s a plant and now…it’s gone. Consistency is important”

Did you consider that the plant turned into a gun? Hmmm??

Tracy realizes he’ll have to draw on an inside straight, even though Jack is holding all the cards.

Meanwhile, Gertie is having a full house…

mrbribery, anything is possible!! :)