Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 12, 2012

She has at least two thugs there with her, I hope that Sam is a match for them.

Good morning all…

The fireworks are about to begin… and I’m not talking about the cigarette igniting the oxygen! (It’s probably fake oxygen anyway).

marguerite and vista beat me to it ! lol.. well at least i’m #3

HOW GREAT IS THIS!

Love how this is unfolding. Will Sam pop out with gun blazing? Or will he be discovered? I really like the 2nd to last panel, too.

Tracy knowing what’s going on…Sam is under the bed with his gun on his chest…This is well written & well drawn. A different sort of scenario than ever seen before. Thank you once again, Team Tracy!

This is a tight spot for Tracy and Catchem both. Stiletta is probably carrying her beltful of knives; maybe she plans to use a different one on Tracy for each of her lost children and her thug-husband, carving him up bit by bit. Sam doesn’t have have a clear shot at anything but ankles and legs unless he rolls out from under the bed and exposes himself—not a safe maneuver. It seems to me Sam’s best bet is to lie low until he’s alone with Tracy again, then try to get out alive until he can get some backup. The danger is that Stiletta may intend to start “operating” on Tracy before that can happen….

Sam could “Text” for backup on his wrist communicator silently.

I love the look of Tracy in the last panel. He almost looks like he’s trying NOT to smile. (Get ’em, Sam!)

The first panel is great. And also the panel with Sam under the bed.

Particularly great artwork today — all close ups!

Brilliant job — this may be the best Sunday installment yet from Team Tracy.

The second to last panel is very Frank Robbins-esque.

Tracy should have already figured out he wasn’t in a hospital, unless Stiletta has some really strong hospital disinfectant to cover up the cigarette smell.

That being said: SAM! Bite her ankles off ;)

Sam! Watch where you’re pointing that gun!

go sam!

Two strips in a row that Sam’s not smoking! I’m hoping that this one plays out a while longer and becomes a little more complex as I don’t want a quick ending but I don’t want to see Moonmaid come to the rescue of both of them either. Just doesn’t seem to fit into this scenerio.

A possibility.

The railroad cop is 100% wrong about “cop”. “Cop” is an English colloquialism for “catch”, deried from West Frisian kāpia, “to take away”, and is related to German kaufen, “to buy”. A copper is someone who cops a criminal, and the word was informally shortened back to “cop”.Almost any time a word is supposed to derive from an acronym, that etymology is probably wrong. There are some genuine modern examples, like laser, sonar, radar and scuba, but most older words sometimes said to come from acronyms do not. Some examples:“for unlawful carnal knowledge”“gentlemen only, ladies forbidden”“port out, starboard home”“special high-intensity training”“store high in transit”

Regarding the Crimestoppers Textbook: there was an Alley Oop story where King Guz promoted him to Chief Of Police. All the cavemen started calling Alley “COP” because that’s what the abbreviation on his helmet spelled. This annoyed him until one of the other cavemen said, "It could have been worse, Oop. Guz could have made you “Police Investigator General.”

Runar and NightShade09. Enough already. Pull in the fangs and let your fur down.I am going to give a bit of a spoiler:SPOILER WARNINGIf you read the first three words in today’s Crimestoppers Textbook you will note they say COP – PART ONE:. I will now inform you that next week will be COP – PART TWO: and the week following COP – PART THREE:. Each is a different take on the origin of the word. Both of them have already been mentioned in todays comments, and YES, Runar wins for being the most commonly accepted, “correct” meaning.OK, (another interesting word to look up the origin of) Now back to Tracy

Interesting strip today.