“The Pit and the Pendulum!”Ya gotta love the classics, but I think it’s a Poe excuse for Abner’s creativity.By the Way – I respect Abner’s refusal to name his employer; it’s “mad doctor-client confidentiality.”
Tracy is putting the kiss of death on himself,“been in death traps before”; like the sports announcer, “He hasn’t missed a putt from this distance all week.”
Thanks, Aunt Marg, for the new word. In addition to the usual handcuffs, restraints and mousetraps, I’ll get a surcingle for my wife! I wonder if Best Buy has them on sale!
Hmm.. I will have to place surcingle up there with, my other horse related word, tantivy.What, you never wondered why they yelled it three times before saying “a hunting we will go”?I think that Kadaver is smart enough to have removed a certain device from Mr. Tracy before strapping him to the table. He probably learned it from watching Batman.“You are helpless without your utility belt aren’t you Batsy?”. He probably picked up his monologing lines from there as well.
BARBARA STEELE NOW UR TALKING SAW HER IN BLACK SUNDAY WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT I WAS 12 U WERE SUPPOSED 2 B 13 BUT HAS LONG HAS U COULD PLOP YOUR QUARTER DOWN U WERE IN SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME
Tarry Plaguer almost 13 years ago
Good Evening … Bwa-ha-ha
margueritem almost 13 years ago
Quick, Tracy, you have one arm free! Reach into the salted meat, and apply it to your surcingle, and let the rats gnaw you free!
Llewellenbruce almost 13 years ago
Don’r worry Dick. The rats will chew the straps offyou just like they did in the Edgar Allen Poe story.
Can't Sleep almost 13 years ago
“The Pit and the Pendulum!”Ya gotta love the classics, but I think it’s a Poe excuse for Abner’s creativity.By the Way – I respect Abner’s refusal to name his employer; it’s “mad doctor-client confidentiality.”
Sisyphos almost 13 years ago
Is Tracy wriggling his way out of those bindings? How long has Abner had this setup ready?
Bill Thompson almost 13 years ago
Never mind the rats, can we have Barbara Steele in this version?
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ almost 13 years ago
Good morning one and all…
Mdstudio almost 13 years ago
How fiendish and fortunate. If he just put a bullet in Tracy’s head, the strip would be finished.
APersonOfInterest almost 13 years ago
However … the colorist forgot to color the hand blue/gray.
Det.DanDone almost 13 years ago
If Vera ends up saving the day, Tracy will never hear the end of it….
J Short almost 13 years ago
Tracy is putting the kiss of death on himself,“been in death traps before”; like the sports announcer, “He hasn’t missed a putt from this distance all week.”
Ray_C almost 13 years ago
Hope Tracy’s tetanus shot is up to date.
Ray_C almost 13 years ago
Margy Christmas, thanks for teaching me a new word. It’s going to be a challenge to use it three times today, though.
Ray_C almost 13 years ago
Ahhh…I should have known. The word is in the actual Poe story! Not having read it since I was twelve, though. Told ya my memory is failing me!
Morrow Cummings almost 13 years ago
Thanks, Aunt Marg, for the new word. In addition to the usual handcuffs, restraints and mousetraps, I’ll get a surcingle for my wife! I wonder if Best Buy has them on sale!
mzkdad almost 13 years ago
B&W so much better for this noir/classic horror sequence!
stomaino almost 13 years ago
As Neweglandah implies. if Kadaver had a son named Scott, he would say to just shoot Tracy!
browngsa almost 13 years ago
Do any other posters think that Abner looks like the Grinch today? You’re a mean one, Mr. Abner!"
Tarry Plaguer almost 13 years ago
Hmm.. I will have to place surcingle up there with, my other horse related word, tantivy.What, you never wondered why they yelled it three times before saying “a hunting we will go”?I think that Kadaver is smart enough to have removed a certain device from Mr. Tracy before strapping him to the table. He probably learned it from watching Batman.“You are helpless without your utility belt aren’t you Batsy?”. He probably picked up his monologing lines from there as well.
JohnRPelt almost 13 years ago
Interesting choice of heroes, Kadaver… the writers for their movies prolly mined old adventure comics like “DT” for their trap scenes.
jonahhex1 almost 13 years ago
My guess is Vera Alldid gets himself killed saving Tracy and manages to kill Kadaver as well.
mike48 about 12 years ago
BARBARA STEELE NOW UR TALKING SAW HER IN BLACK SUNDAY WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT I WAS 12 U WERE SUPPOSED 2 B 13 BUT HAS LONG HAS U COULD PLOP YOUR QUARTER DOWN U WERE IN SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME