Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 14, 2012

Hi Gweedo!Mrs. Jones reveals herself.

FLOYD? That’s great! It becomes Flattop…

In the second panel, if you look closely. You can see that Sam is still wearing his Wrist-Wizard. Hopefully, it is transmitting this conversation back to HQ!

Left a replay late yesterday.In response. I think that the way Hugo pushed the bed was straight forward while falling. He more, or less, landed on poor Sam. Because he had the gun pointing to the side, and didn’t have clearance to swing it around, Sam got pinned with his arm still across his chest. If he had his arms straight down and holding the gun near his hip, he may have had a brief chance to lift and fire, but Hugo would still have been falling on top of him, and Stilletta would still have forced him to surrender.

Her kids were common hoodlums; the only answer DT should give is that her life style ruined her children. Of course if he said that she’d probably cut his throat, and we don‘t want that.

OK, what’s a “hill girl”?

If she’s a hill girl. Maybe her and Flattop were 2nd or 3rd cousins? That would explain the similarity in their cranial structure!

So she’s from the hills. What hills, where? She still looks non-Caucasian. And how old is she? With two more-or-less adult children killed by the Law long enough ago that she has to prompt Tracy to remember them, I’d guess she must at a minimum be in her fifties. Definitely well preserved.

Again I hear the music after she announces her name. DAH Dah daaaaaaaa. Being a circus performer would probably keep her in pretty good shape, and there are plenty of doctors in Hollywood who know how to “preserve” a girl. (Again I drop exhibit #1, Hanoi Jane.)

Flattop was originally from Cookson Hills, Oklahoma, so I’m assuming that’s where Stiletta is from, too.

Floyd’s nickname was Flattop because Pretty Boy was already taken.

SIXTEEN!! movin up three today! FINALLY Stiletta reveals her reason for kidnapping Tracy. You’d think she would have learned from the rest of her villainous family that NO planned death trap for tracy ever works! lol! She should have let his shoulder bleed out if she wanted him dead… reveal to him as he was dying her reasons for preventing him from getting necessary surgery. Still, Stiletta is DEFINITELY a dangerous “dame” and the MCU will have their hands full i bet! I forsee Franz and Hugo being apprehended or killed and Stiletta escaping somehow (but stay away from the santa maria replica in the lake!!! lol)

Floyd — great choice for Mr Jones.

Coldsooner, come on man. "That “guy” in the Whitehouse? Hanoi Jane? (the President of the USA – Jane Fonda). Use their names man if you want to refer to people, not derogatory labels. Let’s cut the politics. OK? This kind of crap really doesn’t belong here. —or maybe it’s just me.

I’m with Coldsooner.

Good morning all…

Pleased to see that the Pig on Wheels is back, margueritem!

So you think you could write better that Mr. Curtis? Go for it! Over at Alley Oop one of the commenters is giving a daily panel-by-panel description of his idea of a better Alley Oop story. Feel free to try that here. But you have your work cut out for you. Curtis and Co. are very, very good.

Good morning VB and all here in Tracyville. Seems there lurks a possible troll or two around the board today.

Back to the strip – that third panel is in a word, stunning!

Well, at least in my own un-ed-chew-may-kate-ed opinion ya know.

I’ve heard before that Gould based Flattop on Pretty Boy Floyd. Nice job, Mike!

If Stilleta’s from the Plains states, maybe she’s part Indian; Kiowa, Osage, Comanche, or one of those.

@ Still Da Man!

Yes, it is!!

Stilletta looks a lot like Flattop in panel two.

To Otto Baron: Stiletta may well be Native American.

If Sam seems calm, just remember – Sam’s a professional who’s been doing this for years, and he and Tracy have been in tight spots before.Stiletta, on the other hand is an emotional amateur. Dangerous, but still an amateur.

i wonder what it would take to be the LAST person commenting on th eboards? lol! we all know that on the east coast of the united states, youd have to log on around 1:15am to nab the top spot, in california on th ewest coast, approximately 10:15pm due to the time difference… but i wonder about the last spot… since anyone COULD go back a day or so and leave another comment ;)

You asked when did it happen that Flattop died.The original Flattop was killed at the end of his original appearance,after a chase where he was hiding out in a lagoon, if I remember correctly. Flattop Jr. was shot by Lizz in self defense.

I bet Sam is having a nicotine fit right about now. This is the longest I’ve seen him without a smoke hanging out of his mouth. Maybe he can break the ice by talking a little Choctaw to her and asking to take a toke off the peace pipe. Maybe offer her some peyote for a chaw.

I know it won’t happen, but it would be so cool to see Stilletta totally in charge right until the end, then just as it looked like she was going to end Tracy’s life….have her pull back and say no, she can’t do it….she’s going to keep her families memory alive the only way she can…..by instead learning from their mistakes and moving forward…Corny, I know….but to me it beats yet another bam bam shoot out or similar. One of my all time favorite episodes was the one with Memory Banks…anyone remember him? He had died, had his brain installed in a computer, and in the end a otherwise helpless Tracy talked “him” into “committing suicide” by convincing the computer of the futility of trying to “be” Memory…because as a computer he could never do the things in life that had really mattered to him..and thus was really n-o-t him. Truly heady stuff…I loved it! Plus…..I like Stiletta…she’d be a cool addition to the force instead……Mike and Joe have hit a home run with her creation, just like kadaver!

Mrs. Flattop is hot.