Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 14, 2009

Whoa, he’s actually called headquarters.

Today’s Slime Stuffers is beyond stupid.

Crimestoppers Textbook:

Do not stick your thumbs in your ears and wiggle your fingrs at other drivers.

They could die laughing.

It’s also hard to steer with your thumbs in your ears.

KofC seems to be lacking in manager-hiring skills, no?

The King: Yeah, so my managers were extorting tax-free cash from certain customers. Not that I would know anything about that.

Hey, King of Clubs. Give me 750,000 bucks and I’ll look the other way to you shooting your employee in front of me. STAT!

Cribrobber’s Guidebook: This actually happened to a friend of my dad’s, sort of. A man next to him at an intersection called out (and I’m paraphrasing), “I bet you think you’re real big with that long hair!” My dad’s friend grinned and agreed, he DID think he was real big. The man pulled out a rifle and pointed it at the long-haired gentlemen. “Think you’re big now?” Luckily, he was content to intimidate. The lesson is… don’t stop your car next to crazy people… or something. Even though I’ve known this to happen, I still don’t think it’s effective in any way.

So KOC is aware of crimes taking place and he does not report them? If indeed this strip is being toned down for younger readers, even they must be disgusted with the insult to their intelligence.

Crimestopper’s Textbook: Do not graft your hands to your ears without first obtaining proper medical advice. It could be dangerous.

Did the King of Clubs hire from Big Ace because the hire managers came with costumes to match the King’s? The Crime Stomper Textbook should have been should have warned against that!

It’s time for the Crimestopper’s Textbook to be taken behind the barn and shot.

. The older version of comics.com was better and the older version of Dick Tracy was better! So there!

Panel 5: Did Dick take off his suit jacket because he was hot, then put it back on again by panel 7?

I was at Jacks casino last night!!!

Before I can initiate the, “Matrix Pack”, I must ask you a question…..”Do you want the red pill, or the blue pill?”

Wow … Crimestoppers is awful today!!!

I wonder what the Matrix Pack is … can it be something borrowed from a movie???

You know, I always try to match what I’m wearing with the interior of my car.

I get the sense that the guy in the Textbook is actually Dick Locher mocking us for making fun of his stories/artwork.

If King of Clubs “leases” out his Casinos to others he is not directly involved with customers, So no need to wear that ridiculus “King Suit. to help charge up the Casino’s ambiance. Seems a littte silly.

Now – the “MATRIX” pack ! Wow ! A new ( hi-tech gimmic to fight crime. Is this another “one off” appearance like the robot Traze R ? At story’s end they’re locked in an Al Gore “BOX”, never to be seen again ?

Then how does Tracy get his “hands” on this high powered Matrix pack before he enters Monte’s Casino tomorrow morning. A little “teleportation” of the “Matrix” device in the vein of Tracy disapearing from Sunny Dell and in a “flash” (in mid-sentence), is seen at Jack’s Casino talking to the King

” I’m sucking my thumb now ! This is all so exciting ! An instantanious, spacial ”jump”, that’s now the “in-thing” compared to travel in 1960 in those SLOW, Magnetic Space Coupes.

It must have been the “cheese” they found on the other side of the Moon. It”s mostly “full of holes”, Grandpa Dicky said it’s like “Swiss” for things (bloopers?) do pass through very quickly and as Uncle Mattie proudly pointed out it also bears a striking resemblance to the “scripts” of a “hero” he has in Naperville, who’s “work” somehow manages to pass through the Syndicate’s office quickly.”

” I like when they write these stories so simply for us little kids. That way “anything” can happen, even if Daddy says it is “rediculous” ! But it’s real fun to see the “impossible”. happen, and most times Grandpa Dicky makes sure it does ! Like how Tracy is about to get that ‘Matrix card pack’ from HQ tomorrow entering Monte’s without anyone coming to give it to him”

” If it doesn’t, I sometimes CRY and Grandpa comes over, rumples my head, and gives me a Dick Tracy lollipop ! He said if I behave one day he might give me a ‘yellow rubber duckie’ too. ”

” I can’t wait ! ”

” Qh ! I like the way the man in the Crimestoppers drives today” . .” look dad,… NO HANDS ! “.

NotNormanChubsyUbsy said, about 3 hours ago

OTOH a friend once told me he pulled up to a traffic light and the guy in the car next to him threatened him with a bazooka, a howitzer and nuclear weapons.

That’s nothing. I once gave the finger to an idiot in another car and HE KILLED ME!

LOL OK ClubMan…so you’re a really lively corpse ;)…I wonder what this “Matrix Pack” is? (Hopefully it doesn’t involve characters named Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, the Oracle, etcetcetc) Gotta admit this story does keep you hanging on…

Last week Dick was going to meet BA someplace on Wright St, away from Monte’s. Now it’s back to Monte’s. The past can be changed.

@ NeonLeon - The King thought Dick was a little tense, so he gave him a shoulder rub in panel 5.5

The briefcase in the last panel looks like one of those seat cushions people bring to sporting events.

Always taunt pedestrians – they can’t do a thing about it!

You may laugh, but that’s the way kids interpret rules….

-Cougar :{)

Crimestoppers is right in a way. I once blew my horn at a guy because I almost hit him when he was passing me in the wrong lane. He then followed me for about 4 miles wanting me to pull over and fight. Just because I blew at him! What a jerk! Some people are mad at the whole world just because THEY have problems.

At least he fixed the “This One-Eye” from last week. How much “Lots of cash” can he have in that little purse sized bag?

If Tracy “loses” KOC’s cash, I can’t wait for the new story to begin! Wouldn’t that be a great lead-in to the next episode! You’d think that the cops would use funny money, marked money, or a briefcase with a dye-bomb. Maybe Tracy knows a chump when he sees one and is taking a shot at snatching some loot for his Dunkin Donut store and Tess’ perfume business.

Nothing like stacking the deck in your favor, eh Tracy?? next stop - the “3 Card Monte Casino”…