Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 08, 2014

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    cpalmeresq  over 10 years ago

    Classic!

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    Jim Douglas  over 10 years ago

    how does one add pictures here?

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    margueritem  over 10 years ago

    What awaits them in yon barn?

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    DaJellyBelly  over 10 years ago

    Those look like “Olive Oyl” feet. :-)

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    ColonelClaus  over 10 years ago

    Rest in the barn and find food for Lena. Sounds like a plan.

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    fredville  over 10 years ago

    Looks like the barn Jason Voorhees….naw, but bet there’s food for Lena there anyways

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    Neil Wick  over 10 years ago

    I wonder who owns this barn. It could belong to the guy with the walrus moustache. Probably not, but anything can happen in this strip.

    They didn’t make it all the way to the cabin. As I suspected, it was kind of slow going in that weather. My first thought was that someone might recognize the car, but then I realized that Sprocket is planning to drive it right inside the barn where it can’t be seen by passers-by. Seems like a good plan. I wonder if there are any animals in the barn and if they mind having a hyena in their midst.

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    cpalmeresq  over 10 years ago

    Don’t know if this was your reference, but “barn swallow” always takes me back to the Jimmy Stewart movie, MR. HOBBS TAKES A VACATION". Loved it!

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    johnrussco  over 10 years ago

    Nicely drawn feet, but nonetheless she is a dog. A bad dog. This story has a bunch of holes and is nothing like the real world but it just keeps getting better.

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    blunebottle  over 10 years ago

    Thanks for the tutorial, Gweedo- I was kind of wondering that myself!

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    Bark71  over 10 years ago

    Classic indeed. Looks like we could be leading up to an old fashion “gangsters in the barn/shoot-out” climax.

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Barn? Er…there isn’t an old granary nearby, is there? ;^.^

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    anopcfox1  over 10 years ago

    They get trapped by the snow and Lena becomes less lean on bro and sis.

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    Sisyphos  over 10 years ago

    A lot is at risk here. The Nitrates know nothing of who owns the barn they are breaking into (nor do we); it could be a mere cast “extra,” or it could be someone significant and/or dangerous. Further, they gave no idea of the weather forecast (they have not been listening to the radio in their tricked-put car)

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    abdullahbaba999  over 10 years ago

    This could have a Classic ending, or beginning….Maybe Batman and Dracula show up in the Batmobile to intervene..or some other kind of twist..

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 10 years ago

    Good morning everybody…

    Thanks for the ‘tutorial’ Gweedo and good morning.

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    thunderbearr  over 10 years ago

    What awaits them in the barn…?

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    Can't Sleep  over 10 years ago

    Thanks Gweed – I’ve always wondered that myself!

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    Can't Sleep  over 10 years ago

    Not everyone drives. My mother, who was so high strung she made Olive Oyl seem sedate, never drove – and many pedestrians were grateful.

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    Can't Sleep  over 10 years ago

    I wonder if the barn will be empty.And Lena will not be happy.

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    SYDNEY PHILLIPS  over 10 years ago

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    3rd panel has a real country feel, just like “The Old Master” woulda dunnit !

    How TRUE !

    Refreshingly, out in the “countryside” ! With the pleasant change of ‘scenery’ and wider “visual” perspectives that brings !You get the eerie feeling as this tale unfolds, that Gould’s spirit is right there - quietly pushing the pen as Mike writes ! (?)

    Were one were to do an (unkind?) comparison back to (say) - the Jumbler tale (Mar/April 2013), that seemed (exaggerating here ;-) - “visually” constricted, to 1 Block, an Apartment, an Office, a Bus and little else ’visually to ‘peak up’ interest ? Other than Crypto the cute little dog - and yes, a short term. ‘fascination’ in the #13 on his glasses (wearing off, after a day or two) Putting aside these attractions, it’s a bit ‘Hum Drum’, and less space for Staton to ‘expand’ his significant talent.

    As you note, this activity harks back to ‘the way’ Chester Gould so often appeared to turn, in his stories.

    Commentators called it the CHASE sequence, and seemingly a natural or intrinsic part of most of Gould’s tales,.Trigger Doom, 88 Keyes, Measles, Crewy Lu and Shoulders. Those classic stories come easily to mind

    Over on the DT Yahoo board Mike’s mentioned, that this is their first presentation of the traditional ‘chase’ sequence, albeit he said - a short one. But as we are seeing, it adds depth, and an enhanced ‘sense’ of things happening, ACTION helping to bring attention to the tale !

    Let’s hope Mike feels pleased enough with the results to have it more often in the future ;-)

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    And thanks, for kindly sharing - the ‘Know How’, on adding ‘pictures’ to posts here

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    ColonelClaus  over 10 years ago

    Good set of constructions on posting pics! Thanks!

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    thunderbearr  over 10 years ago

    LOL

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    Chris Sherlock  over 10 years ago

    " In a different life I might have liked to be a tech manual writer."That would have been my dream job, if I’d known such a thing existed when I was a young whippersnapper.

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    Chris Sherlock  over 10 years ago

    If women are good drivers, I’ve found, they’re as good as, or better than, many men.

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