My avatar, if ever this site let’s me select one. Men in blue, this CrimeStoppers for you. Well it looks like Tracy is on the case. Drugs & Murder. Somebody is going to pay.“Honest Earl” you will be avenged!
THANK YOU OFFICER DOHERTY, MIKE, JOE SHELLEY, AND SHANE. Not only for the great strip today, but the “Crimestoppers” tribute as well. What a great way to honor those fallen heroes. God bless the thin blue line. I pray everyday for the famlies of the fallen heroes. I will, wear my badge over my heart, not only as a symbol of my authority, but also in honor of all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice.For all gave some, some gave all….
You guys “do it right.” I’ve never seen an artist who can communicate feeling through their subjects’ eyes like you do. In your first picture (photo, to accurately describe the effects) of Hot Rize, you tipped us off that she be the baddie! Fooled a lot of folks here, too!
morrow, NOW, you da man! really!! :) When I was young cops were good and now that I am old they are still good. I have some good friends that were and are cops. I have known some that gave their lives, and guess what they too were good people. RIP Trooper Lucas
scuttlebutt99, read about Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment. If you think you would behave any differently from the average police officer if you had to put up with what they did, day in and day out, on shift schedules that play havoc with their circadian rhythms so as to make them even more irritable and prone to errors in judgment, you are very simply lying to yourself. The contribution of ‘character’ to behavior, especially under stress, is negligible.
If that’s how you feel than why are you here? The Dick Tracy strip it self HONORS police, it always has and obviously always will. So, in a sense just by reading , being a fan of , and enjoying Dick Tracy, your helping pay HONOR to Law Enforcement. Kinda hypocritical don’t you think.I sure this post was a waste of time…..
And so it begins….one mistake gets covered by a bigger mistake and so on and so on….Hot Rize’s fate is sealed, it’ll either be from death row or at the hands of the law.
Don’t believe everything you see on Fox News Channel. Indeed, don’t believe anything you see on Fox News Channel.If you were to actually google for the COMPLETE lyrics of the piece Fon News was pimping the other day, you’d see that the entire piece is quite at odds with what Fox News was claiming it was about.
A tip of the yellow hat to Officer Jim Doherty, our law enforcement liasion and Crimestopper Deluxe.
Scuttlebutt, I was in uniform myself for a while. I am proud to know and have known a LOT of Police, Deputies etc. The toughest and probably the one you would really have disliked was Buford Pusser and he’s not around anymore to defend himself. My uncle was Chief of Detectives in Memphis Tennessee in the 1960’s. Wish he could see TRACY today.
Wonder if I could ask WONDER WARTHOG to write a poem about Mike the unknown writer?
On a less serious note—When my kids saw Mugg they asked if he was supposed to be Scooby Doo! Of course, Joe Staton knows how to draw Scooby correctly. If he wanted to draw a cameo, he’d do it right.
Chalk outlines were never actually used by the police. They were invented for TV, as a way of showing a murder scene dramatically without having to explain why the body’s still being left there. I guess it works for comics the same way!
What interests me about the crime scene is the chalk outline. I would expect some sort of indicia, like blood, to show where the driver had been killed. This, of course, assumes gun/knife/blow to the head, of course.
Sorry for the lack of an avatar; that’s a work in progress and will require the assistance of someone more computer savvy than I. Let me start this, my first posting, by stating the obvious: Mike Curtis, Joe Staton & Co. have breathed new life into what had been a moribund franchise. Faithful followers of this strip are deeply in their debt. Speaking from the perspective of a police officer (23 years and counting) in a medium-sized Wisconsin city known for its left of center politics, it’s refreshing to see a crime scene being processed in keeping with established forensic protocol as depicted in today’s strip. Interesting also to see the multiracial makeup of Tracy’s department (Asian-American beat cop, African-American K9 handler) I had some thoughts to offer in response to the latest eruption of vitrol from scuttlebutt99—not that I expect they will cause him (?) to reconsider. Yes, I’ve known cops who were heavy-handed and abusive, cops who reported for duty legally drunk, cops who were outright racists. We fired one prize package who had sex with his girlfriend while holding his loaded service weapon to her head. Then there are cops like Bob Etter and Stephanie Markins. Bob put in 30 years with the DePere (WI) PD before retiring to enjoy his grandkids. But when the small towns of Hobart and Lawrence decided to start their own police force, Bob couldn’t resist the chance to help build a department from the ground up. Stephanie Markins was one of the first applicants hired. One bright July afternoon in 2002, Bob and Stephanie were engaged in the truly heinous and provocative act of catching up on reports when their parked squad car was rammed by the driver of a supercab pickup. The impact turned the Crown Vic into a paperweight and killed Bob and Stephanie on impact. He was 55, she was 32 and engaged to be married. The pickup driver survived with minor injuries, of course. He was out to kill a cop—didn’t matter who. Any officer would suffice. Let us consider also Officer Jillian Marie Smith, 24 and proudly African American, who had been with the Arlington (TX) PD all of ten months when she responded to a domestic abuse report three days after Christmas last year. Officer Smith was taking a statement from the female victim when the boyfriend returned unexpectedly and opened fire with a handgun. In the final conscious act of her life, Officer Smith shielded the woman’s 11 year old daughter and sustained fatal gunshot wounds. Her killer gunned down his ex before turning the weapon on himself. Thank you for letting an old cop vent. I’ll hang up now and wait for scuttlebutt99 to set us all straight on how Bob Etter and Stephanie Markins and Jillian Smith were all card-carrying members of a racist conspiracy to victimize minorities.
Lorelei5 over 13 years ago
The plot thickens… or is it rising?
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ over 13 years ago
Good morning all…
rmax4131 over 13 years ago
Scooby Doo doesn’t look bad for being 32 years old!
jumbobrain over 13 years ago
This is some really good comic stripping. I be entertained.
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ over 13 years ago
I’m waiting for Altitude, er… Attitude Plenty to try one of Gertie’s biscuits! The Plentys will really have their hands full then!
Tarry Plaguer over 13 years ago
My avatar, if ever this site let’s me select one. Men in blue, this CrimeStoppers for you. Well it looks like Tracy is on the case. Drugs & Murder. Somebody is going to pay.“Honest Earl” you will be avenged!
Wiseking over 13 years ago
Great Crimestoppers panel this week.
Wiseking over 13 years ago
Hot Rize is one woman that I would not want to fool around with. That is if I feel like living until I am 80!
Bill Thompson over 13 years ago
If it weren’t for that “chalk line” label, I could have made a joke about the perpetrator’s need to snort a very weird line of coke.
Clevite Kid Premium Member over 13 years ago
Does Hot Rize remind anyone else of Judy Garland ? ? ?
linsonl over 13 years ago
Darken the hair and……….yeah.
Det.DanDone over 13 years ago
THANK YOU OFFICER DOHERTY, MIKE, JOE SHELLEY, AND SHANE. Not only for the great strip today, but the “Crimestoppers” tribute as well. What a great way to honor those fallen heroes. God bless the thin blue line. I pray everyday for the famlies of the fallen heroes. I will, wear my badge over my heart, not only as a symbol of my authority, but also in honor of all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice.For all gave some, some gave all….
National Police Week
coratelli over 13 years ago
Another great sunday pages. The crime scene is wonderful. Thanks!!!
Morrow Cummings over 13 years ago
You guys “do it right.” I’ve never seen an artist who can communicate feeling through their subjects’ eyes like you do. In your first picture (photo, to accurately describe the effects) of Hot Rize, you tipped us off that she be the baddie! Fooled a lot of folks here, too!
emptydog over 13 years ago
Most excellent since the new guys took over. Thanks.
johnrussco over 13 years ago
morrow, NOW, you da man! really!! :) When I was young cops were good and now that I am old they are still good. I have some good friends that were and are cops. I have known some that gave their lives, and guess what they too were good people. RIP Trooper Lucas
prrdh over 13 years ago
scuttlebutt99, read about Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment. If you think you would behave any differently from the average police officer if you had to put up with what they did, day in and day out, on shift schedules that play havoc with their circadian rhythms so as to make them even more irritable and prone to errors in judgment, you are very simply lying to yourself. The contribution of ‘character’ to behavior, especially under stress, is negligible.
Det.DanDone over 13 years ago
If that’s how you feel than why are you here? The Dick Tracy strip it self HONORS police, it always has and obviously always will. So, in a sense just by reading , being a fan of , and enjoying Dick Tracy, your helping pay HONOR to Law Enforcement. Kinda hypocritical don’t you think.I sure this post was a waste of time…..
billdi Premium Member over 13 years ago
hot rize is a very naughty woman — she sure gets a rise out of me
jonahhex1 over 13 years ago
And so it begins….one mistake gets covered by a bigger mistake and so on and so on….Hot Rize’s fate is sealed, it’ll either be from death row or at the hands of the law.
tuckerch over 13 years ago
Don’t believe everything you see on Fox News Channel. Indeed, don’t believe anything you see on Fox News Channel.If you were to actually google for the COMPLETE lyrics of the piece Fon News was pimping the other day, you’d see that the entire piece is quite at odds with what Fox News was claiming it was about.
MikeCurtis Premium Member over 13 years ago
A tip of the yellow hat to Officer Jim Doherty, our law enforcement liasion and Crimestopper Deluxe.
Scuttlebutt, I was in uniform myself for a while. I am proud to know and have known a LOT of Police, Deputies etc. The toughest and probably the one you would really have disliked was Buford Pusser and he’s not around anymore to defend himself. My uncle was Chief of Detectives in Memphis Tennessee in the 1960’s. Wish he could see TRACY today.
Wonder if I could ask WONDER WARTHOG to write a poem about Mike the unknown writer?
CaptainKiddeo over 13 years ago
On a less serious note—When my kids saw Mugg they asked if he was supposed to be Scooby Doo! Of course, Joe Staton knows how to draw Scooby correctly. If he wanted to draw a cameo, he’d do it right.
Karl Hiller over 13 years ago
Chalk outlines were never actually used by the police. They were invented for TV, as a way of showing a murder scene dramatically without having to explain why the body’s still being left there. I guess it works for comics the same way!
EOCostello over 13 years ago
What interests me about the crime scene is the chalk outline. I would expect some sort of indicia, like blood, to show where the driver had been killed. This, of course, assumes gun/knife/blow to the head, of course.
Panel 3 has some more nice shadow-effects.
Durak Premium Member over 13 years ago
@ Det.DanDoneThanks for the heads up yesterday. Went back and read from the beginning. I can’t get over the new look of DT, wow!
gimmickgenius over 13 years ago
“…cop going rouge…”Is that a reference to J.Edgar Hoover???
BuzzyKincaid73 over 13 years ago
Another beautiful Sunday strip, especially panel 2; I also enjoyed the chalk outline with identifying caption…everything old is new again !
Many thanks to Mike & Joe, and all law enforcement officers everywhere; my father-in-law is a deputy sherriff in Lebanon TN.
Berkeley with Cows over 13 years ago
Sorry for the lack of an avatar; that’s a work in progress and will require the assistance of someone more computer savvy than I. Let me start this, my first posting, by stating the obvious: Mike Curtis, Joe Staton & Co. have breathed new life into what had been a moribund franchise. Faithful followers of this strip are deeply in their debt. Speaking from the perspective of a police officer (23 years and counting) in a medium-sized Wisconsin city known for its left of center politics, it’s refreshing to see a crime scene being processed in keeping with established forensic protocol as depicted in today’s strip. Interesting also to see the multiracial makeup of Tracy’s department (Asian-American beat cop, African-American K9 handler) I had some thoughts to offer in response to the latest eruption of vitrol from scuttlebutt99—not that I expect they will cause him (?) to reconsider. Yes, I’ve known cops who were heavy-handed and abusive, cops who reported for duty legally drunk, cops who were outright racists. We fired one prize package who had sex with his girlfriend while holding his loaded service weapon to her head. Then there are cops like Bob Etter and Stephanie Markins. Bob put in 30 years with the DePere (WI) PD before retiring to enjoy his grandkids. But when the small towns of Hobart and Lawrence decided to start their own police force, Bob couldn’t resist the chance to help build a department from the ground up. Stephanie Markins was one of the first applicants hired. One bright July afternoon in 2002, Bob and Stephanie were engaged in the truly heinous and provocative act of catching up on reports when their parked squad car was rammed by the driver of a supercab pickup. The impact turned the Crown Vic into a paperweight and killed Bob and Stephanie on impact. He was 55, she was 32 and engaged to be married. The pickup driver survived with minor injuries, of course. He was out to kill a cop—didn’t matter who. Any officer would suffice. Let us consider also Officer Jillian Marie Smith, 24 and proudly African American, who had been with the Arlington (TX) PD all of ten months when she responded to a domestic abuse report three days after Christmas last year. Officer Smith was taking a statement from the female victim when the boyfriend returned unexpectedly and opened fire with a handgun. In the final conscious act of her life, Officer Smith shielded the woman’s 11 year old daughter and sustained fatal gunshot wounds. Her killer gunned down his ex before turning the weapon on himself. Thank you for letting an old cop vent. I’ll hang up now and wait for scuttlebutt99 to set us all straight on how Bob Etter and Stephanie Markins and Jillian Smith were all card-carrying members of a racist conspiracy to victimize minorities.
margueritem over 13 years ago
Gweedo, I can’t get the image to work. :-(
margueritem over 13 years ago
ChucklinChuck over 13 years ago
Isn’t it chalk outline? Chalk lines are straight. Just nitpicking. Love the new Dick Tracy.
akado2000 over 13 years ago
Her name must be short for “Hotty Rize.” Who wouldthink that I would fall in love with a comic book character?