Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 30, 2010

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 14 years ago

    Phil Harmonic!

    Good morning all.

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    Dylanio21  over 14 years ago

    Finally it’s up! I’ve been waiting for the longest hour ever. I figured that the dad would join the son’s band. Or something like that.

    I really love how today’s drawn…but only for the first and last panel.

    I never hear anyone say where to get original art for this comic.

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    margueritem  over 14 years ago

    I hope you’re right, VB. Good morning to ye.

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    Llewellenbruce  over 14 years ago

    We haven’t seen the last of the Maestro yet.

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    margueritem  over 14 years ago

    Dyl K you’re right, the first and last panels aren’t bad. Please tell me that you really haven’t been waiting an hour for this…

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  6. Bill 1960
    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 14 years ago

    Dyl K said, “I never hear anyone say where to get original art for this comic.”

    The Dumpster?

    (I shouldn’t have said that).

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    margueritem  over 14 years ago

    LOL, VB!

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 14 years ago

    Pretty Easter avatar, margueritem!

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  9. Bill 1960
    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 14 years ago

    Strike up the band! The maestro’s arrived.

    Audiences loved us? I thought the embassy affair was their debut.

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    sydney  over 14 years ago

    No wish to be a killjoy in the middle of this new appreciation, but might not the Author, happily ambling along, have “forgotten” by now that it was the Band’s FIRST appearance (?)

    He_ is already well practiced in doing a cognitive “nod off”, everytime an event arrises where his Wrist Geenee’s _Taser could have saved the day.

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    Akenta  over 14 years ago

    But it was a really good first appearance. They blew the roof off the place - at least that’s how they remember it.

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    LudwigVonDrake  over 14 years ago

    I didn’t know they even played at the event. I must have nodded off.

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    fishbulb  over 14 years ago

    The rock band never even played an entire gig. Audiences? What audiences? Wow. Just because the “story” is over, doesn’t mean it can’t continue to make no sense.

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    sydney  over 14 years ago

    Had the Woodstock Boys not felt the need to “retire” from their defensive posture for the Stature King, they may have told us that in modern comic strips Dick Locher has pioneered a brilliant new WAVE for serial comic strips.

    That is, that readers can “fill in” what he, DL the genius,”intentionally” left out. That way, readers have the fexibility to get their own desired “outcomes”.

    It’s been created to encourage reader participation, and by golly, it seems to be working

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    coratelli  over 14 years ago

    http://shockdom.com/open/carl/2010/03/30/striscia-15/

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    FLIGHT SUIT  over 14 years ago

    Thanks for the update, Carlo! Keep ‘em coming…

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    stuart  over 14 years ago

    All you critics just don’t understand. The new Dick Tracy is an sterling example of Post-Modernism. Modernism was a reaction against superstition and magical thinking - lifting up Reason and rational thought. Post-Modernists have seen that the Modernist emperor has no clothes - that there fundamental limits to what Reason (and Science) can investigate, and beyond those the universe is mysterious.

    The Post-Modernist world is full of magic and absurdity, events that make no sense, distorted perception (Semantic Holism), and moments of great beauty. This is the world of Dick Tracy.

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    puddleglum1066  over 14 years ago

    And so, what does Maestro have in mind? Aha! He’s saved Junior’s brain! And with Diet Smith’s newest technology (milk-powered robotic surgery), he’s going to have it implanted into the rock dude’s body!! Bwa-ha-ha-haaaaaaaa!

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    idarke  over 14 years ago

    I think a bomb, cleverly hidden in a hollowed out electric guitar, is in order. Birth of a super villain?

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    Plods with ...™  over 14 years ago

    Yes. IT IS I. One earred shadowman here to make you shout

    YOU?
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    jumbobrain  over 14 years ago

    “audiences loved us, we made some awesome vibes.”

    Okay, I don’t even think lame-o musicians say things like “we made awesome vibes”. But anyway, I seem to recall that the diplomatic reception was this band’s premier gig, and that was interrupted by the explosion.

    I am still waiting for the Chester Gould zombie to wreak vengeance. Maybe he’s over in Lio.

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 14 years ago

    OK, when the maestro, Phil Harmonic, gets his son’s rock group going again, will he play an electric violin? Maybe Chris Chendo will turn up again to convert a non-electrified violin for Phil… “Hooked on Classics”.

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    WaitingMan  over 14 years ago

    Classical-Rock combos are usually travesties.

    2 rare exceptions;

    Procol Harum Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

    David Bowie’s recording of “Peter and the Wolf” with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting.

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    sydney  over 14 years ago

    I think I’m going to borrow one foible (only), from Joe Blow, and CORRECT you guys The violin engineer’s name is Cris Shendo, not Cris Chendo !

    To be fair and use the Instructer’s practice of “exactitude,” it did start out as Chendo (12-31-09), but after the clock struck “midnight” on that date, it emerged (not unexpectably), as Shendo (Jany.3), and has remained so ever since !

    Source: Dick Locher’s text !

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  25. Bill 1960
    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 14 years ago

    Radish said, “Meanwhile the Pig on Wheels is doing booming business with the crowds on the street…”

    Hooray for the Pig on Wheels!

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    CougarAllen  over 14 years ago

    If you try to take Locher’s most recent spelling of a name as correct and deem all his previous spellings as errors you’ll never know how to spell anything for sure! Even if an adventure seems to be over the character could always pop up again, and knowing Locher he’ll spell the name yet another way and screw you all up again.

    It makes more sense to take the first appearance as the correct spelling, add it to our spellcheck dictionaries, and regard subsequent misspellings as another manifestation of Locher’s (and Tracy’s) inability to remember anything accurately from one panel to the next. That’s why I told everybody to add FLOOOOOMM! to your spellcheck dictionaries as soon as it appeared.

    -Cougar :{)

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    Araldite  over 14 years ago

    Brings back fond memories of arguably the greatest character of 2009.

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