Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 14, 2008

I’ think I’ll come back a week from now. Maybe something will have changed. Braces will have taken a laxative, one or the other of the robots will have moved, the henchwoman will have changed clothes again; something,anything, please! (Curls self into fetal ball.)

You’re right, she is de-aging! Even a miniscule change beats the heck out of what’s been going on. LOL at your description of Mecha-Dickzilla’s deepest inner thoughts.

marguerite, that’s “minuscule” (it’s a very common error).

Actually it’s either miniscule or minuscule (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/minuscule)

Maybe grammar/spelling lessons will make this more interesting now :-)

Someone wake me up when this nonsense ACTUALLY progresses.

I hear you.I like Dick Tracy,but I’m staying away from this story.

OK Jeff K…. is this story keeping you on the edge of your seat? I know Toto is drooling. If this story IS actually getting you excited, then you need a change of venue. Professional halp is always available.

I’ve defended this strip from time to time, but today’s is totally inexcusable. The henchwoman actually looks pretty today, however! Ain’t Botox wonderful?

Why are Braces teeth wired together?

Hey Morrow, you need to start sending me royalities for the use of the Dorothy & Toto labels for Mutt & Jeff. :-)

Are we the fools to keep expecting more?

Peace. BB

I’m betting this story doesn’t end before June 2009 at the EARLIEST! That is, of course, if someone actually does something beyond TLK 2 a RBOT.

SMTHNG WKD THS WY CMZ..

This is going to turn into an anticlimactic game of Rock’em Sock’em robots. Mango Farce has the advantage because of his flexible waist.

I think Diet Smith Industries is playing both sides of the table.

Blech, MY STMCH HRTS, TRCY!

Dick-zilla should not have eaten that small robot. Looks like it is giving him an upset stomach.

Grok, you are right, RoboDick certainly looks upset that he is stuck in this bad comic. That is how I looked this morning when I opened up this page and saw the same old….stuff going on.

Akenta, freedictionary is a little too free. “miniscule” is a neologism based on a spelling error.

Braces has a robo-sado-masochistic - dominance thing goin’ on - maybe he’ll notice the henchwoman’s improving appearance, be ‘converted’, and they’ll go off into the sunset, ending this miasma. Little does Braces know, that his robot was one of DS’s early failures that he discounted off to Asia to offset the trade balance - it’ll work ok, until it encounters V2.0. And all of this has really only taken about a minute and a half, or less …

‘mini’scule is non-standard spelling

runar, are you related to MPH?

(sorry, I couldn’t resist asking that question, please forgive me!)

Peace.

BB

Runar, all I find in my 1979 Webster’s New World Dictionary is minuscule, so I’ll have to give this one to you. Discussing spelling is way more fun then DT!

Ooh, ooh, this is fun! Morrow, I think that ‘professional halp’ is very useful, too.

I know,I know, I’m a smart @ss. I can sit on ice cream and tell what flavor it is.

I love seeing the “PROS” fight it out! I get my 8 cents worth!

Jab, jab, Uppercut!!

Glad to help entertain you, bassmanbob. It’s much more fun then the strip itself.

I’ve heard that Dorothy & Toto will give a one year subscription to Gocomics to the person who can guess the closest without going over as to when Robocop and Terminator will first meet. Just think, one of us can become part of the HIVE and have our opinions matter.

My guess is November 24th. It’s the perfect day to put a knife in this turkey!

Gobble gobble gobble!!!

BB

Robo-Dick sounds like a TV preacher, talking about good and evil. Next thing you know, it will lecture Tracy about sin.

I’m guessing Jan. 1st, 2010. I hate being such an optomist, but there it is.

Can any of you 8 cent people go back and tell us how long it has been since this current series started. And I’d bet money that Braces’ accomplice is Liz’s long lost twin sister, separated at birth.

BB, you could have been coy and asked runar if he wears red sweaters. That might give you a hint to his family tree! And sorry about the misspelling this morning. I was in a hurry to get into my pink frilly DT’s, and spelled “help” as “halp”. Sorry.

Runar, I actually looked it up in my Random House unabridged dictionary and it did have both spellings. It did explain how miniscule has come to be accepted, but is looked down on by some. Hopefully, tomorrow this strip will teach me something else new :-)

While we’re on the subject of spelling, some here are better “then” others at it. I won’t mention names because one of them caught me misspelling “roux” in another strip and was very kind about it. We all make mistakes now and than.

What with that look on Braces face he must be a “Red Sox” fan..!!

Guilty as charged, Ray C. See B. Starr for another comment on ‘roux’.

Good thing my web browser doesn’t have a Diet Smith Patented Evil Detector (TM) or I’d probably not be able to view this DT plot.