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

Ain’t that the truth!

This whole story ain’t got much….

Good God! Tracy’s gone all “Orphan Annie” on us!

This is part of some fiendishly clever plan that totally escapes me.

Actually, I now think that next week we’ll see Tess wake up and say, “Dick wake up! I had this horrible nightmare that made no sense at all!”

Orphan Annie? Tess Trueheart used to have those blank eyes, too. By the way, Tracy courts the Not So Little Annie in Mad Magazine’s “Comic Opera”:

http://dr-hermes.livejournal.com/125847.html

I believe the Artists intention here is to depict Tracy with eyelids down looking at his card. In the absence of eye-lashes it threw up the way Gould drew BLIND characters

A good example is seen in blind, beautiful blonde Rainbow Reiley from Nov,’ ‘54 to Feb.’55, In the Rughead story

Those who have copies can see her in Blackthorne DT Weekly # 44 to # 46.

The characters drawn this way never had eyeballs, Locher did the same thing with blind, Baron Von Klu Meister in May to October 2007

Where does the Matrix come into play? Will they go double or nothing again?

Big Ace ONCE AGAIN looks different. Consistency is all I ask.

LudwigVonDrake said “Big Ace ONCE AGAIN looks different.”

Just wait until you see him in blackface in a few days. And no, I’m not making that up.

At the end of all this nonsense with Big Arse, what exactly does Tracy (Locher) think he’s going to do? Arrrest him for being a lousy card player?

We have no idea why Dick is “undercover” and what he thinks he could possibly have on Big Arse,

This story gets worse every day. Next…Tracy in Black Face. Great.

2day”s quote….”I fold”

god…

Big Ace finally was able to breathe once the air cleared. He was stunned how bad the smell he just endured was. “This chump is definitely on the way out”! He mockingly thought to himself. “Beat the Ace of clubs, TINHORN”! Big Ace snickered. He loved to throw out obscure words to baffle these simple-minded, insignificant jerks. Tracy picked his card and held it close to his face. He stared intently at it. After a few moments he got distracted, something which seemed to happen on a regular basis. “Hummm, Tracy pondered, why am I holding this card in such an awkward way”? “Well, whadda’ got, you loser”? Big Ace continued to mock Tracy. Tracy thought about Big Ace’s question for a moment. “Let’s see, Tess wanted to leave me for the dancing Queen, “Chief Lizz” stole my job, all Diet every wants from me is to bring him powered milk, and everyone says a mechanical Dick did a better job then I ever did”. Tracy slowly lifted his head and facing Big Ace muttered a sad, painful; “NOT MUCH”.

BB

Seems a tad pathetic, but maybe Tracy has a plan!!! Isn’t the SWAT team being assembled???

Anyone else get the feeling Dick-Bot is about to reappear???

stretching (realllllyyyy stretchinggggg) my imagination to give the “Creators” a break; per haps they feel that Tracy had to actually witness Big Ace commit a crime (gambling for the variable amount of cash) to be able to arreat him. Of course the don’t realize Tracer committed the same crime, and entrappment to boot.

ridenslide65, You’re bringing it out in the open again. Locher has no cohesive, logical plan for Tracy’s modus operandi, His moves have been principally triggered by HUNCHs (although they don’t often “call” them that anymore).

Earlier in this story Tracy had a “hunch” that someting was wrong. B.0. couldn’t be winning all that money, so he brought in the “wire” and Listening Van. Later he had another HUNCH that the money Big Ace wanted (loan repayment perhaps ?) Oh NO ! must be “stolen”, he’s a “leach” (“I smell a rat” – 6-07-09) and then, ADD another “hunch”, he was a GAMBLING man. So, in “knee-jerk” fashion he sets up an entrapment scheme, all by GUESS, (and may I add, by ‘smelling’ a RAT). I could go on and on … most of the previous stories all have this major defect to some extent.

Typical reader reaction : “Ma Ma, Dick Twathy smell a’ rat. It wath bad man no bathe”!

“Hunches in Bunches !” A lazy Writers easy way of avoiding “creative” thought.

The Praetorian Boys will twist every nob on their ‘communication’ sets to deny this (and as a “diversion” Mattie always had his “volume” turned WAY up,with a dash of choice language to drown out sane comment and reasoned dessent, his “I’m Informed” button flashing wildly. When cornered they’d say “Oh ! DL’s writing for an audience of little children”, as if somehow that justifies the presentation of simplistic nonsense. Once it’s for “Ba-Ba”, it’s allright.

And, the same suit of “trumps” rule when “arrest time” comes around. They are often (excuse) “trumped-up”, paper thin (like the King’s briefcase), and near laughable, without apparent substance and unlikely to stand up in a Court. But why worry (?), keep it simple, kiddies won’t know the difference

The final defense ploy is to meaninlessly “fall on the sword”, as we have seen enacted here on this board in the past three days. It achieves NOTHING as the flak flies all around, other than to send a comforting message “I’m here with you in your misery Dick”

Wait till the end of this story comes and you will see what I mean

Ohhhh……the suspense is too much to bear!!!

I’ve been saying that for years.

Thank you for that information Sydney. Too bad the writers don’t share your clarity of thought.

Much appreciated.

Bassman: So nice to have you back with us whiners and complainers and basement dwellers. :-D

“Crime Stoppers Textbook”: A loaded Smith & Wesson beats four Aces anytime.

I’m on the edge of my seat. Actually, I was getting up to go regurgitate.

A deck with two aces of clubs, no way! I think he pulled it out from under his nose.

Has anyone seen four diamonds arranged on a card like that? At first glance I thought he had a big ace of diamonds. Strange deck.

Brozman’s consistency doesn’t get any better: http://www.tmsfeatures.com/comics/comic-strips/dick-tracy/