Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 22, 2010

He got floooomed.

Some great dialog in this strip.

“Dick Tracy meet Jacques Costeau” “Dick Tracy reborn” “Dick Tracy kill Dick Locher” “20.000 Dick Tracy under the sea” “Dick Tracy finding nemo”

“Dick” is also a slng term for “Detective” but what do I know? Good Morning Ms. Leakysqueaky

Locher & Brozman draw water about as well as they draw hands.

Well, Virgil Ohso sure got his money’s worth even if the ambassador survived. It appears that the entire embassy floooomed away in panel two!

Pools clean….

Does this mean the concert is canceled?

nooooo! The concert!!

Wonder if the barroom rumble is still going on?

I wonder if the found the floating Baby Ruth bar….. Send in Carl Spackler to clean this up!!

Hmm! - So many results to think about today.

The upward thrust of the water suggests the violin exploded from below, nearer the bottom of the pool.

Can’t figure out if the Hi-C note came and who played it ?

And smoke from the pool ? What’s left to burn below water ?

Dick seems to have been blown JET LIKE, right out of his socks and a good distance away … if we follow Tess’ eyes. The pool is almost behind her.

And then I guess, Dick really got FLO(OO)MAXED … which might help to “explain” the unusual SOUND and that sudden RUSH of WATER (?)

We know Locher likes his “puns,” but I must admit he doesn’t have a Dry sense of humor !

Would it be rude to assume he’s familiar with the product ?

The first panel looks like some kind of huge alien monster is climbing out of the pool. Perhaps Dick got eaten and will next turn up in Brewster Rockit (oh, my spleen!)…

Okay, now three violins have been thrown into the pool and three have exploded – maybe that’ll be the last of the explosions and violin-throwing for a while. I thought it was misspelled yesterday but now I think the different explosions made different sounds. The first violin went FLOOOOOMM! The second violin went FLOOOOOM! and the third violin went FLOOOOOM! The first exploding violin blew most of the water out of the pool so naturally the later explosions sounded different.

Now that Dick has been blown up three times Tess is naturally concerned. However, he can’t hear her right now no matter how loud she shouts. That’s why she’s making that code sign with her hands, holding the middle and ring fingers together and spreading the other fingers slightly. I’ve been noticing various hand signs in the strip lately and trying to figure them out. I think that one means “Are you all right?” but I haven’t collected enough signal traffic to be sure yet. It might mean something else entirely. “Do you have any chewing gum?” “Have you figured out who’s behind all these explosions (assuming you’re not acting alone)?” “I have a nosebleed. May I borrow your handkerchief?” I’m pretty sure it’s a question of some kind, and most likely “Are you all right?”

Let’s see if Dick replies with a hand signal tomorrow. Or next week, or next month, or whenever Locher gets around to whatever comes next after all the exploding violins….

If Dick responds with the same hand signal then the “Are you all right?” meaning would make sense – logically they would both be concerned about each other. But they could also both have nosebleeds or both want chewing gum. Code-breaking is harder than you might think.

-Cougar :{)

Good one Cougar. Though when I make that sign, I usually mean “I am NOT a Vulcan”.

Hmm … does she have pointy ears? Can’t tell – she has cleverly arranged her hair to conceal that! :o

-Cougar :{)

Enough with the vulgarity, people. The offending comments have been removed. Don’t go there again.

Isn’t it kind of late for her to signal to him to stop?

It’s the Floom of Doom!

Once again, WW you’re a Wonder, and nice job, BB!

Now that he’s been proven right, Tracy is going to chuck every fiddle he sees in the nearest pool from now on. Hopefully he won’t go back to the concert hall anytime soon.

What are the syndicates paying nowadays? I’m not trying to be difficult. But I’ve been a fan of Dick Tracy for at least 30 years now. And while it’s not appropriate to compare this strip with it’s past 80 years of history. This two panel sequence has got to be one of the lowest points in it’s history. I’ve subscribe to this website for a few years now, and reading Dick Tracy has gotten to be a passive experience. Today’s strip has shocked me out my doldrums. My God how this strip has fallen.

Channce, the sides of the pool are made of rubber. Every time a violin explodes it blows a round hole in the ground – but it only stretches the pool out without breaking anything. Then the pool snaps back to its normal rectangular shape and the dirt falls back into the hole (between panels so we don’t see that part) – until the next violin explodes. It’s all perfectly logical….

An ordinary concrete pool would have been destroyed by the first exploding violin, but this rubber pool can withstand any number of explosions. It’s a good thing … we don’t know if Tracy has run out of exploding violins to throw into the pool yet. This could go on indefinitely.

-Cougar :{)

The strip for the last few days has left me with a craving for a Floomin’ Onion!

hey geoffreyricho, What do you draw again?

A chilling wind blew across the land The fun stilled by the moderators hand A valuable lesson to be learned much to my dismay The jokes are gone, and the puns have all flitted away What I thought as fun Was taken by some To be vulgar, mean and nasty And the words posted were considered drasty And though I subscribed and I pay By their rules I must play So to them I do humbly bow And make this very solemn vow For truth be told this is no mere canard I will try to do my best though it’s very hard In the future I hope to make my promise stick And in my comments posted here I will no longer speak of …

“Dick Tracy Meets Frankenstein” “Dick Tracy Meets Dracula” “Dick Tracy Meets Abbott and Costello”

“Dick Tracy meets A Crappy Writer”

Another wasted Monday. Enough “Flooooom” already. We get it. Let’s move on!

After reading the strip for the sixth time. Bored again today and nothing better to do. I see in panel one… Tracy doing some sort of dance, two party balloons rising amidst the “floooom” and, as someone already mentioned, two gigantic hands gripping the edge of the pool. Is that a monster rising out of the depths of the pool?

Then in panel two… all is gone! The pool has taken on a new shape after the exposion, Tracy and the embassy have disappeared.

I’m really looking forward to tomorrow (or the day after) to see the aftermath of the explosion. Did the ambassador survive? Are the maestro and junior still fighting in spite of the surrounding events? After seeing and hearing this explosion, will more police and emergency personnel appear… or will Tracy continue to go it alone (if he reappears).

The suspense is killing me.

Rightwingmoron said, “I’m impressed with all the damage done to the embasy, the pool grab-bars remained undamaged. Who manufactures those? If they can stand up to an explosion chock full of “FLOOOOM”, they should be near indestructable.”

I suspect that it’s the same company that makes the plastic packaging that we have such a difficult time opening.

Oops, I mean “FLOOM!!!!”