Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 10, 2010

Note the left wrist on Sam Catchem NO Wrist Geenee - it’s BLANK, there’s ‘nothing’ there. No Wrist Geenee. It’s cellphone time, just like Chief Lizz on Thursday.

Seems Locher only allows Tracy to wear one and only occasionaly, in ‘token’ memory, as an alternative to a cell-phone.

No one else in the strip has has been depicted wearing one for the past 16 years. It seems like a subtle way of ‘gutting’ much that Gould created. It’s what he calls “artistic control” and his first target was Tracy’s signature hat.

What’s next (?) before Father Time takes him out in December.