Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 20, 2009

Love that tigerrrrrr……….

Gobstopper’s Test Book: That guy has a very strange butt.

Crimestopper’s Textbook:

What?

Let me repeat myself:

WHAT!?

You mean, don’t disclose where I keep my cash, like, to pickpockets? Really? I shouldn’t do that?

Furthermore:

This is the second Crimestopper’s Textbook that seems to subtly invoke the imagery and vibe of gay cruising as it used to exist in olden times, when men were said to put a hankie in one back pocket to signal one thing, and the other pocket to signal something else.

Additionally:

Why is Cruising Boy’s left arm abnormally short, and what is he doing with his right hand?

Panel Three:

Ringo is STILL being permitted to brandish a weapon in the presence of one uniformed cop, a detective, and a federal agent? As previously mentioned, it has been my observation that regardless of whether you’re a witness or a suspect, any time a cop is asking you questions, the first thing he or she is going to do is make sure you don’t have any weapons on your person.

I once had a cop ask me to put a pen away before continuing a conversation!

And speaking of cops, how come the one in Panel Three has upper legs that are twice the length of his lower legs?

On the bright side:

At least some of what we’re seeing here, such as Ringo’s thought balloon, and the unseen gun wielder’s forearm, are things we didn’t see in the previous week’s dailies.

The elephant?

Flight Suit, I didn’t notice the legs….lol!

“The ones who didn’t disclose the past are our suspects.” How does DT figure that?

Somebody comes equipped with an arsenal. Louise Trapese was brought down by somebody firing a rifle, and I’m pretty sure the gun on display in the last couple of panels isn’t a rifle.

Boogerpicker’s Notebook: Next time I go to a topless bar, I’ll pass along that valuable info to the pole dancers wearing thongs.

The cop in the third panel is leaving to go buy doughnuts for everyone. Tracy just loves a good jelly doughnut.

Mr. Crimestopper model seems to have his zipper on the back of his pants! Or; he’s got back pockets on the front of his pants.

Very useful in the aforementioned “cruising” scenario.

Thanks for the great Crimestopper hint. Usually when I go to the mall, I wave my wallet around while singing “Money Money Money”and then place it conspicuously and loosely in my back pocket.

Never again! Thanks, Dick.

Hey, that IS a zipper in the back! ROFL! Good eye! This is TOO much to absorb! Mattie just MIGHT be drawing this thing afterall! Bingo, MPH; you got your point across!

I always heard it’s best to keep your wallet in the front pocket since it’s harder to pickpocket that way.

Glad to see the tiger back - still hoping 10/4 will announce a spin-off comic starring him.

Ye Gods! It’s ………

More information than I needed department: I didn’t know they made pants that way. But then, I never did shop at Halsted and Belmont so I guess there’s no way of knowing what’s available there.

OFFICER Sept 16 : “The dead girl Louise Trapeze, has quite a record Tracy” “She’s a hired gun ……..”

FBI AGENT ENNEN Sept 18 : “We’ve run some other checks Tracy …. Not all these Circus performers are who the say they are”.

So why then did the FBI conceal Ringo in the same place (from millions available) as the central hiding place of the gang he had double crossed, who had vowed to KILL him? That’s lollypop simplistic. With no mitigating circumstances, it makes it plum STUPID, and a disgraceful reflection on the Author of this script..

There has been a highly excited effort to call attention to something BIG concerning the strip – an announcement on October 4. Could it be a new Ghost writer ? Could he be from Woodstock ? No tradiyional Villain ? Maybe a trial script for a hopeful young Gould that we are now reading ?

Hope not ! This is sounding more like a script to work well in “FILLUM FABLES” …. not for Dick Tracy.

Seriously, as low as he has slipped Locher can’t be THAT bad !

Timestoppers Cexbook- It looks like the guys torso is twisted around 180 degrees. And yet his arms are still on the right sides!

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@ Margueritem - You see Prince Valiant today? Arthur sure laid it on thick, didnt he? Maybe they should have told him that if he really cared he shouldnt have retired in the the first place.

Next week on Grimegobber’s Textbook:

If you buy something that will disclose where you keep your cash – so don’t buy anything. Superglue your wallet into your pocket and leave it there.

-Cougar :{)

Well, at least we know the tiger isn’t brandishing the gun.

Look – Dick Tracy has been captured and an Asian fellow has taken his place! Surely he can’t get away with impersonating Tracy for long, though; he doesn’t even look like him. He can only get away with the impersonation as long as his confederate with the gun is distracting everybody.

-Cougar :{)

If Ringo is so scared, why is he leaning in toward the gun? Should he be backing away?

Flight Suit asks, “Ringo is STILL being permitted to brandish a weapon in the presence of one uniformed cop, a detective, and a federal agent?”

The answer is that we live in a new world now, in which if it’s okay to carry a loaded assault rifle when coming to hear the President speak, it’s certainly okay to carry a rifle around a murder scene.

In Locher’s defense, perhaps there’s something about the clown’s rifle that makes it obvious that it can’t actually fire bullets?

Flight suit ! morrow !

“Cruising Boy” ? Is that the politically correct language now in vogue ?

Besides the “action” zipper in the back to facilitate this febrile activity, the thumb on the hand to the right looks over large and the arm to the left is fitted to the body the wrong way around – back to front

Perhaps, Mattie really got the “gig” to do this Feature ? His first presentation ?

Hey Cougar, sounds like a great way to save money.

-Cougar,

The thinking now seems to be that China is the only potential growth market for the strip. So periodically, when one comes nibbling, all the characters suddenly develop slanted Chinese eyes.

I keep my cash stuffed in my mattress. It’s a little bulky carrying into a store, but who would ever guess?

Cool, a pink gun. That’s a first.

Well, now. Ahem…The weather is very balmy down here on the Florida east coast. How is it out where you other guys are?

Where does one get the blue hair dye that Ringo uses?

Dypak, Yes, Arthur is quite P.O.d!

Sorry Joe, I guess most readers would rather imagine Bandana Boy with an emergency exit zipper than to think that the artist had enough on the ball to take the time to ‘fade’ the jeans. In this case I have no idea which is more likely. It looks added on later anyway. Maybe it looked too much like a womans pants without and they added it on in post production, as an after-thought.

I still say his torso is twisted around backwards.

Where does one get blue hair dye – and why? Because you’re hiding out and want to make yourself inconspicuous?

-Cougar :{)

Joe Allen Doty, a bar where you could get 86’d for cruising?

Is there some other reason people go to bars?

That’s like getting kicked out of a stadium for watching a ball game!

I don’t think anyone touched on this point yet. But cracking the whip now? The assassin is a member of Devo?

Now, that tiger is really really distracting - it is not even drawn the same way of the rest of the strip, so, it detracts from the story being told. Then, he actually looks like he is listening (or knows something) - and it does not add ANYTHING to the story.

And that hand is just AWFUL, I mean, if the back of the hand is touching the pocket (so we see its palm) - it would be impossible to see the fingernail on the thumb! And Jim Brozman earned a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Illustration??