Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 22, 2009

He couldn’t get pizza, so he’ll make do with popcorn…

An “accident’ on the high wire?

I did’nt know Dick had any kids. Guess I did’nt know everything about the guy.

Is that Sweat pouring off the trapeze folks in panel 2?

Yeah Dick, Popcorn is better for you anyway. You really didn’t need that Pizza. ;-)

This doesn’t look promising……

ridenslide65: I think those are supposed to be the heads of the crowd.

OK, I got it figured out: the trapeze rope will snap, the result of a protection racket, and a young aerialist will be orphaned, whom Tracy will adopt so they can fight crime together.

And llewellynbruce, Tracy had two kids last I read this strip. Bonnie here, and a younger son, Joe. I am wondering what happened to Joe. And also what happened to this strip, which used to not be so lame.

You’re welcome, Dick.

That woman in panel 3 (who appears to be falling and screaming) has a very large mouth!!

I don’t think the woman fell, I think she is just really, really tiny.

The artwork is good, today. Very good. But the dialogue are so bleeep

“The popcorn is good”.

God, help us!! No, Locher.

Isn’t this the origin of Dick Grayson’s Robin???

ridenslide65 said : “This doesn’t look very promising”

Yes, I agree ! And what’s worse, Teevo fresh out of his cocoon will soon arrive heading up a Forensic unit. When was he transfered from Communications ?

He’ll have a wad of undelivered ‘messages’ with him. Teevo doesn’t have a Wrist Geenee and Tracy has hardly been at HQ this year. So the air is buzzing with “expectation” !

Did Pouch call ? Is robot Traze-R back on duty at the Naperville Station ? Has Sal Monela risen from the dead, again ? IS Lizz passing through menopause ? Does Junior still sneak time off in the day to go swimming with that yellow rubber duckie Locher made for him ? And most important, has Sam solved Tess’ Credit card scam. or found Joe who’s gone missing ?

He’s a walking Encyclopedia of important messages and even if Teevo hasn’t got a foggy clue on how to investigate homicides, MSNBC will hire him on the spot tomorrow.

The popcorn is good? I’m fuzzy on the whole good-bad thing. I also am fuzzy in general.

Why is Bonnie telling Dick to “Love the Clown” - is that a euphemism I’m not familiar with? :)

Bonnie was born in a car when Tess was kidnapped, about sixty years ago. I think.

I Googled Bonny Braids and she appeared in 1951, so that makes her 58. How old does that make Tess and Dick??

well, if we’re going to start talking ages here—dagwood and blondie must be over a hundred by now and dennis the menace as been a five year old since 1954…..and hi & lois’s baby has been a baby since the sixties….not to mention their other brats…… tip of the iceburg here…..in comicland very few strips’ characters age …..

Doctortoon - it already has gotten stupid, but you have to look closely. Disregarding that this arc’s villains are going to be circus-themed (which I won’t deride, because it has some potential), we’re setting up yet another arc Locher-style - Dick isn’t called in for a crime; rather, he ‘happens’ to be there when it goes down. There’s no reason the stories have to keep happening this way, and it encourages Dick to take actions on his own without following anything resembling police procedure.

This strip is falling through its final safety net. If its distribution has really fallen as low as 50 strips, I doubt it’ll survive long enough for a new writer to redeem it. Perhaps we’d be better off with a new detective comic anyway.

That trapeze artist just fell to her death, but the popcorn is good.

The falling Trapeze girl also has VERY large calves.

The popcorn is good. A little more detail, please. Is it caramel corn, or kettle corn? Since it’s good, I’ll assume that its not salted corn with tons of buttery-flavored oil.

Say, maybe Half and Half is comming back, he used to work in a circus. And his ex-wife Zelda who was a high diver.

Popcorn surprise! I totally forgot about that one! Sorta like the Cracker Jacks - a surprise in the bottom of the box.