Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 27, 2009

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    margueritem  over 15 years ago

    Not another one!?!

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    wndrwrthg  over 15 years ago

    Look, Tracy called backup, I SAW them. WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY? Why was the crime scene not secure? How is this clown allowed to enter and shoot ol’ one eye (and why is he still armed and standing)? Maybe if we are lucky, there will be a general bloodbath and the strip will end.

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    Steve Bartholomew  over 15 years ago

    And what was that pole sticking out of Jack’s back in yesterday’s strip? I confidently predict we will never find out.

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    drwatson  over 15 years ago

    Well, we have 49 to go, excluding jokers.

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    LordDogmore  over 15 years ago

    So is the boss of bosses for this little group the “Ace of holes”?

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    Fearless_Fosdick  over 15 years ago

    Either the bullet let all the air out of Jack, or he was also hit by a steam roller. That’s one Flat Jack. I guess that’s the way the cards fall sometimes.

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    LudwigVonDrake  over 15 years ago

    Jackie looks quite deflated in the first panel.

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    Morrow Cummings  over 15 years ago

    When will we meet the Deuce of Hearts? (Groan)

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    prasrinivara  over 15 years ago

    barticle35, maybe “friendly fire” from KC aiming at Tracy and missing?

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    jkebxjunke  over 15 years ago

    talk about a house of cards….

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    ridenslide65  over 15 years ago

    Holy Carp Batman! They’re coming out of the woodwork! Call the Orkin man!

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    rshive  over 15 years ago

    So will we meet the King of Spades sometime?

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    rmax4131  over 15 years ago

    The only one that is missing is the Ace of Hearts! ♦♣♠♥ Did nobody get the ‘King of Clubs’ pun?

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    Mattaden65  over 15 years ago

    I hope there are no Tarot Card people in this. That would really confuse me.

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    g6793  over 15 years ago

    OK…Jacks of Spades or Hearts are the one-eyed ones…judging from Jack’s clothes, he’s the Jack of Spades. The deceased Queenie, his sister, was Queen of Diamonds. Along comes the King of Clubs. Now all we need is someone from the Hearts and we have all 4 suits…

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    sydney  over 15 years ago

    COMPENSATING FOR TIGHT CONTROLS ON VIOLENCE

    The grimace on Tracy’s mouth in panel one is one of them.

    It’s really a compensation to simulate the appearance of excitement and action now that TMS prohibits bullets through the head or excesive blood flowing on the sidewalk.

    The other way is, in a shootout to “turn up the volume”, that is the display of “printed” gun shot sounds in the panels (BANG! ZING! KAPOW! BOW WOW! - - etc)

    Both techniques continue to be “exagerated” in the strip as a substitute for action.

    Some may recall that Slugs Magnum shootout (Aug. to Nov. 1999) on a Sunday page where Locher (very creative in this area) excells.There must have been 50 words replicating shot sounds in the strip, firing point blank range at Nutsy. No one was really hurt except Slugs, who died from his own ricochet bullet. It was a giant mirage !

    The original version of Tracy (Gould) was a much cooler guy, grimmacing on occasion yes, but more often with the suggestion of a quiet confident smile that clearly telegraphed - - - “I’m superior !”

    We don’t see that “class” or personality often in today’s Dick Tracy.

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    DLisagenius  over 15 years ago

    Ease up on the old man, folks.

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    Nighthawks Premium Member over 15 years ago

    too bad its not a ‘suicide king’

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    avatarjk137  over 15 years ago

    @Nighthawks:

    Or a ‘king with the axe’, that’d be a little cooler than the gun(lance?) he took down Jack with.

    Seeing the payoff now, I’m ashamed that I was in suspense last night. I’d love to hear a rational explanation as to how shooting Jack in front of Tracy and a squad of policemen (who are presumably just standing around) is a good idea, but I doubt we’ll get one.

    The King of Clubs’ mustache doesn’t match his ridiculous beard, which also explains why Jack’s kept falling off - they all just went out and bought pencil mustaches at Villains R’ Us with Ted Confey from the previous Mary Worth story arc. I wasn’t around when Queenie was the villain du jour - did she have a mustache, too?

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    1540JD73  over 15 years ago

    No…but she was extremely UGLY, creepy looking, and that whole storyline was just as lost as this one is.

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    JonD17  over 15 years ago

    I am out of here! This has gotten as ridiculous as the running debates in State Of The Union!

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    sydney  over 15 years ago

    I’ve been seeing some new posters these past two weeks. Welcome !

    Can’t imagine what pulled them in, was it better story telling (?) … more attractive art ?

    Kind of doubt it. So many readers including some of the new ones seem to enjoy and gravitate more toward reading the light-hearted “tweaking” of Jim Brozman’s more heavily chizzled Dick Tracy nose and the barbed critiques and humor on the story’s fast rolling tumbleweed of errors.

    See my favorite “alter ego” is back. Thanks for your prescient “example” to GO Comics. Now, we’ve been happily promoted and jetting away with the “genius” medal, seated in 1st class, right alongside, and ranking “pari passu” with your hero.

    Pity you are left out, as labouring under that “code-name” you have to remain looking up from a pedstrian level ;-p

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    LudwigVonDrake  over 15 years ago

    At this point Locher is the Joker.

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    fleeglebeagle  over 15 years ago

    Next, we’ll see ol’ Kingee remove his wig to show us Pruneface. Sheesh, that’s quite a wrinkled mug on the King!

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    Morrow Cummings  over 15 years ago

    Welcome back, DLisagenius. We Magpies missed you! Sydney, especially!

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    LordDogmore  over 15 years ago

    “There will be no killing at my place.” This was after the great big Jack shattering “KAPOW!” right?

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