Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 15, 2012

No zoom this morning! S I G H !!!- LOVE to see Joe and Shelley and Shane’s great art in the larger size.

Putty Puss?

I didn’t know they had the Internet in the 30’s sincethis strip takes place in the 30’s.

Putty Puss is Cue Ball … pass it on !!!

I love it – just when you think you know where things are going, Mike throws you a cueball – eh, curve ball!Now let’s see — Since the first Cueball knows about the shipment, he’s got to be himself – unless he’s really the prison guard disguised as Putty Puss, and the new Cueball is really Flattop wearing one of Sam’s old suits…Or maybe….

Mike is a true artist of the story. Who picked up on his little hint of things to come, back in the Double Up story when we first saw Honeymoon?

Is “kabonger” a common term for a cello? Meanwhile, who’s who? And when thieves fall out, the heat’s on! Or something.

Good morning all…

????????Why should the strip take place in the thirties?

Thanks to Sgt. Doherty, I’ll now have THIS TUNE stuck in my head, all day.Great Job as always, Team!!!

And, hello Putty Puss!

putty puss maybe

Let’s see: he’s in a coat and tie, instead of a t-shirt and he doesn’t remember he’s playing pool… he must be Putty Puss. I don’t think Mr Clean would wear green. Am I splitting hairs by wondering how PP made himself bald?

Note Cueball’s clothes change from panel 2 and 3 to panel 5. Is that…????

its OBVIOUSLY putty puss, but MY question is why exctly is here at cueball’s club? last we saw him he was ticked off cause he didnt have a christmas tree… unless his two henchmen found out about the fradulent cello case somehow.. but as of right now it doesnt make sense why P.P. would take a risk like that, AND why he would disguise himself as cueball instead of some “anonymous bar patron”

Putty Puss is after all that dope!

Dan,.Being somethng of a classicist, I prefer the them from the old Broderick Crawford show. YOu can find it on YouTube, but I’m enough of a techno-clutz that I don’t seem to be able to reproduce it here.

MPH, the “i” in CHiPs is a lower case “i”, because it isn’t part of the real acronym, but as Triple D noted, the way most Americans are familiar with it from the TV series CHiP’s. Actually, it should just have CHP: and no “i” or “s”. I also don’t believe any of the letters have a serif.

The cello case B.B.Eyes gave Cueball has the hidden compartments for the drugs. The drugs are not in the cello, but stashed in compartments in the case itself.. The case without the Visit Cucamonga sticker on it is the case packed with drugs. The band members case that does have the sticker on it was probably swiped and tossed in the trash somewhere. What Professor Groat is more likely to notice is the extra bulk in the case when he goes to put the cello inside. We will have to wait and see what happens when he can’t locate his own case.

The Trouble with Tribbles is that these fuzzy white alien creatures sit on top of your bald head and magicly change your light blue cueball t-shirt into a suitcoat with a black button down shirt and baby blue neck tie. You could say these Klingons really get a round, (head that is).

If your computer has a magnify feature, (mine is in the lower right screen) click on that and boost it up to 150%. And I don’t think the Professer is doing classic cello with this band!