Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 18, 2012

So has anyone checked Google or Wikipedia lately.?Somebody doesn’t think much of SOPA and PIPA. I wonder how the e-mail servers at Congress and the Senate are doing about now.

It looks like Putty Puss is making off with the nights cash receipts. I doubt Cueball will be happy. I guess he doesn’t know Winkin, Blinkin, and Nod. I think Putty Puss and his gang are going to be learning real soon, you don’t infringe on Mr. Crime’s territory.

I wonder how long Putty Puss’s makeup will last before it starts sliding?

Mornin’ all!I wonder if Putty Puss is going to make his exit out that door behind Cueball…And how will Tracy & the gang get involved? And who’ll find that drug-filled cello case?Can’t wait to see what comes next!

One Cueball is dangerous but acceptable. Two Cueballs is totally outside the boundaries! Will (the real) Cueball try to stop (the phoney Cueball) Putty Puss from getting away? Will he succeed? Who is going down? And will the MCS get involved?

Hmmm No Honor among thieves. But Cueball’s is a “Legitimate” business. MCS will HAVE to investigate the theft, possibly leading to an erroneous arrest and lawsuit. And quite possibly, Son of Spike gets into trouble too..

Wow! I wonder if Mr. Crime will get involved now? Mr. Cueball has a house full with some pretty interesting guests. The suspense for a comic strip is just great. Cannot wait until tomorrow. How many remember Minnesota Fats played by Jackie Gleason in “The Hustler”? I think Paul Newman was the hustler.

Good morning all…

GOOD MORNIN’ VB!

Good morning DT-phans !!!-Well done Team Tracy!!! We all want to see what happens next … and isn’t that just what a crime strip is supposed to do?

Another thought, is that Blinkin getting the autograph?

It’s little known that Alley Oop is also an inventor. Many years ago he was in a tremendous fight. He hit so many cavemen over the head with his club that it sprang a leak. He was hot and thirsty and found the strange liquid was quite refreshing and it is still manufactured from Alley Oop’s club. "Gosh, Mr Peabody? What do they call it? " "Sherman, surely you’ve heard of …CL;UB SODA. " Tuba blare and fade.

Drinking all that club soda, I bet they all end up sleeping on the sofa tonight if they have “significant others”. Gas.

IfPutty Puss gets away with it, I wonder who will catch the heat — Cueball or the accountant?

BTW: for anyone who likes their black and white strips colorized, I think the Comics Kingdom person did a very nice job today: http://www.nj.com/comics-kingdom/index.ssf?feature_id=Dick_Tracy

In Monday’s strip Sam was wearing a green suit and bow tie. Colorist’s mistake or foreshadowing? Now that Putty Puss has the money, he might try to leave the club as Sam.

MPH, I won’t argue with you about whether or not the bills are a good idea. In my opinion they are to broad sweeping, undefined, and just plain dangerous. My best analogy is the government looking at a bridge crossing the ocean supplying free trade to all countries and telling the construction crew, “You know, we can’t get the big boats through all of the support pillars, why don’t we just knock them all out?”The builders of course know that the bridge would fall into the ocean without the support pillars holding it up, but trying to get the government to understand this concept isn’t working. We have the people on the other side of the bridge taking an interest in what our government is trying to do as well, and they aren’t to happy about it either.Has anyone visited ilovecomix lately? It was one of my favorite sites for catching up on old Tracy comics. Guess what? It isn’t there anymore. The reason? These bills, among other things.

just wondering if the female who was close to a Tracy character , and is going to return soon , could be Sleet .when Sam first appears in the strip he seems to have known Sleet very well.