Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 18, 2009

Crimestoppers:

Yeah, so your local police department is now in the business of providing round-the-clock surveillance, free of charge? Might as well cancel your contract with that home security company.

Panel Two:

What’s President Obama doing in the cage?

Lastly:

“Snoopers?”

Thanks Margueritem. My bet it is the elephant girl.

The pucker factor was truly immense For Tracy in a trap that made little sense The tigers progress has been slowed By a circus giant both brave and bold Said Fee Fi with a determined lip As his mighty hands began to slip “No time for you to kvetch and pine” “Call for help or else the tiger will dine” “On your boney trembling body” “What do you mean, “where’s the potty?” Agent Ennen was royally pissed When she found that to his wrist Tracy had a device that would summon Law enforcement by the dozen Understandably, with a terrible rage She screamed at him in the cage “God you are such a great big stupid weenie” “All this time you’ve had on your Wrist Genie” “You‘re not a cop, just a big dummy” “We could end up in the tigers tummy” Her candor though, was surely lacking For in her purse a pistol she’s packing Can Tracy live down the shame Of being in this story so very lame Or will he just meander along And sing to us his siren song That draws us here each and every day Where we suffer in great dismay No reason can be discerned No lesson is to be learned As to why Locher will not simply quit But continues to produce this pile of

Yikes! Fee Fi’s developed gangrene in his right arm! Grab ahold of what? Now the clown’s calling the police! I’m afraid that all this is too much for my tired old brain to understand.

wndrwrthg, you’ve said it all, I can’t add a thing.

That tiger looks apoplectic in panel 1

wndrwrthg, I am astonished you can get so thorough and melodic a commentary up so fast. And it is really SO much better than the comic strip. Locher oughta be turning over his paycheck to you faster than Chet Gould is turning over in his grave.

What else is there to say about today’s strip? The coloring is a little better than usual. I wonder how the clown can dial a cell phone while he’s holding a gun. And the “grab ahold,” whatever it is, is the same bleeep device that Locher used to introduce the pointless week of Fee Fi’s tail-holding.

Gosh I wish this strip were being done better.

Awesome! They broke out the big box of crayons.

I think Karen’s choking on her gum, going from pale to green to purple like that.

My father is in alarm sales. Maybe I’ll print out this week’s Crimestoppers Textbook so he can have himself a good laugh.

Why doesn’t Macy climb out? The cage doesn’t have a top on it and it is barely higher than Macy. He’s had like a month now to get out. And why is Fe Fi doin’ it with one hand? Maybe trying to impress Agent M&M? Anyone could impress her after she’s had a dose (and a whiff) of the legendary hero. Talk about a wuss……!

Tie the tail to the bars.

Tracy’s days as a detective should be just about done. Can’t detect a murder done right in front of him, allowed himself and a female FBI agent to be forced into a tiger cage, and since then has spent much of his time screaming like a frightened school girl.

The police department in this story has been a pitiable joke too. They left a crime scene UNPROTECTED! The entire force ought to be fired at once and the state police should take over police duties in that city. In the meantime, until that happens and you decide you want to commit a crime, you know what city to do it in.

Flight Suit is on the Mark - There is an Obama in the cage!

Fe-Fi - One Hand? Puhlease….

wndwrthg - Thank you for that little poem. You have indeed said it all.

What the heck - Snoopers? Why isn’t Ringo in the cage as well?

OK, I have to ask: Does DL even LIKE cops? Is he maybe one of those ’60s radicals who were against the police then and he never grew out of that?

I ask because I’ve had a few moments to reflect on a couple of DT episodes here. This one now, and the one with the giant robots. In each case, DT was helpless and hopeless. He cowered and screamed like a girl, and depended on someone or something else that actually had some bravery to save his sorry posterior. As a cop, DT shows himself to be a disgrace.

I wonder if DT’s job will be open soon. I think I could qualify, especially if you don’t actually have to be able to detect crime and all you have to do is stand around and talk too much and scream in terror the instant anything bad starts happening. I could do at least that well and probably a lot better at real police work, and I’ve never been a policeman.

It’s just not credible that Pops would call the police without even taking a quick peek to see what’s going on inside the tent.

It is possible to read last Sunday’s strip, cut to this one, and the story progresses slightly. The entire Monday-Saturday run was utterly unnecessary. Fee Fi’s hand(s) are in the cage-out of the cage. The cat looks as if it realized it could spin around in panel 5. Finally. Grab ahold? Now who? Teevo? Liz? Another double agent? How many people are secretly working against the clown in the flea circus? Has Banacek been brought in to find the missing SWAT team?

Morrow, I’ve read ahead and you’ll find some continuity problems with your observation about the cage :)

Ludwig! CONTINUITY PROBLEMS? With THIS strip? You gotta be joking! Does the other half of the cage have bars on top and Macy only sees that half? That, I can believe! Doncha know his britches smell sweet! That’s got to be turnin’ Agent Ennin on!

Doty, it’s all nonsense; especially the posts!

It’s true that Dickieboy and Ennen should be able to climb over the top of the cage without any trouble, but that means that the tiger should have been able to jump out and feast on whomever any time during this dismal excuse for a story line (at least before Mr. Clean grabbed her tail).

joe allen, the reason you get trashed and some other folks comments are treated like genius is simple….you don’t belong to the tight little clique…….you can apply to become a member by going to the gocomics home site and click on the dicktracy commentclub button and fill out application. await 4-6 weeks for application to be processed. print out the application and put signed application in a paper sack and then go out in the backyard and

SCREAM LIKE A CHICKEN!

When I go out of town, I call a circus giant to watch my house! After reading this strip, it seems like the better choice.

wndrwrtg,

You’ve done it again ! It’s amazing how prolific you are at creating verse nearly every day, while at the same time identifying all that’s wrong with the strip. You are the talented man !

As a relatively new poster here I’m considering taking “nighthawks” advice on applyiny to become a member of the “clique”. That way, if I’m accepted, perhaps I won’t have to duck so often when posters like “jtpozenel” , Mattie (aka “Trapper John”) or Jeffery (aka “DLisagenius”) might cease firing “rockets” in my direction.

Not sure about screaming like a chicken though !

In the meantime, I’m glad Mattie is taking his abvice (from yesterday) on “The-Structure-Of-Man” Blog spot. It looks real good. Pity Locher never had the time to enhance his work with facilities like this.

For the first time Fee Fi actually has (panel 4), the Tigers TAIL outside the cage. Opportunity to swing it around a bar.

The Sunday coloring has gone to hell. Brozman ? If nothing else Locher did a passably good job of that.

Sorry Flight Suit, can’t be the prez. Ears are too small.

The colors hurt my eyes and I’m color blind!!!

Advice to all. Take one week off from viewing DT. When you come back next week you’ll find still…Not much has happend!

I’d write out a poem of my own, but really, there’s nothing new to be said.

The strip’s a failure Far too ludicrous for words Locher should get canned

…I love haiku.

Like the magenta kitty.

Flight Suit some smaller towns still do “house checks” when residents leave town. It doesn’t replace alarms and such (which are notorious for going off falsely, ask a police officer how much time they waste responding to them) but if an officer drives by and sees someone walking around the property or even entering or leaving, he then knows to check them out. Just make sure to give your date of return or you’ll get questioned like the Harvard professor earlier this year.

“I’ve got a tiger by the tail,it’s plain to see”.

(BUCK OWENS)

Crimestoppers: Some towns have neighborhood watches. I’m not sure how good they actually are, but the idea of knowing your neighbors and watching out for each other seems like a reasonably good idea.

About the idea of going out in my yard and screaming like a chicken: I’ll leave that to Dick Tracy. He seems to have that pretty well covered. If I do it here in the courtyard between apartment buildings, I guarantee there’ll be neighbors watching my every move from then on.

This is a comic strip,and that is all what it is. But I do agree with you 436rge, I take longer breaks and come back to the strip. I’m glad Dick Tracy still runs.Dick Tracy does’nt run in my paper.

I dunno, redgrl7… I’ve seen Tracy run a LOT in the strip lately. Mostly from giant robots and card themed villains. He’d run from the Tiger if he could.

Joe Allen Doty, I asked NotNormanChubsyWubsy why he keeps calling you an idiot, but he never responded. If somebody’s trashed you today, it appears their comment has been flagged and removed, ‘cause I haven’t seen it.

I beg to differ. I thought Doty’s “inside scoop” regarding gay cruising practices and a bar which had banned cruising to be quite interesting.

This is going back a few weeks. Not sure how long it’s been; one day seems to blur into the next when you’re following DT!

CyberV,I was talking about that I can’t get Dick Tracy in the newspaper where I stay.