Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 09, 2014

Souns like trouble! Good morning everyone!

Good morning guys…

Mr. Angus likes to build ships in bottles. A fascinating hobby, but very tedious.

Am I the only one that thinks Angus looks like a cat that is about to eat a canary? Morning All.

……same story arc as when Silver Nitrate promised his leading man he owed back money to several times that…..uh-oh

Kolosal has a hot tip on a pony for Angus.

You gotta figure to keep the story going Kolossal can’t be the one killed off…..but what isn’t making sense, frankly, is we’re being led to believe through Angus statements that Kolossal makes money for him pretty much solely through entertainment productions…..but you don’t make that money AS the movie is being planned or made, and it’s not paid in weekly increments by the producer, either..

In my mind, Mr. Angus is voiced by John DiMaggio.

…they’re gonna kill off Archie………

It’s only the old ( Grownup archie) comic book the young ( teen ? ) Archie I understand is still going to be drawn….

In my mind, Kolossal is voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait/

After seeing the old Annie strips yesterday, I assume Kolossal is no good. I bet he’s going to try rip off Angus somehow.

I’m impressed that Mr. Angus has a private secretary, but he seems to have nothing better to do at work than build ships in bottles. Behind him on the shelf is a gold club trophy, inscribed “Spark Plu[g].” Could it be the horse of Barney Google (of Barney Google and Snuffy Smith)?

I just found out that the reason Charles Schulz of Peanuts was called “Sparky” is that his uncle named him that after the very popular Spark Plug the horse character.

I forgot to say that the song in the YouTube video was extremely popular in the mid-1920s and was recorded many times by different people, sometimes with these lyrics:

Barney Google—with the goo, goo, googly eyes,Barney Google—bet his horse would win the prize;When the horses ran that day,Spark Plug ran the other way!Barney Google—with the goo-goo-googly eyes!

Since Kolossal said he has a legitimate plan means that his other ventures aren’t as legit. But just what are they?

Angus isn’t the only one intregued by Kolossal today. What could be on his mind?

I don’t trust Kolossal. He’s up to something fishy.But, curiously, I am coming to have a better opinion of Mr. Angus. For one thing, a modeler who builds ships in bottles can’t be all bad….

Another PLEASANT display of colors by the GoComics person entrusted for the job.No need to repeat – “Hold on to the man (or woman?)”. And if it’s the latter, it’s fashionable to remember equal pay ! ;-)

It’s been a long time since 1944’s Shaky, ‘fiddled’ with his - boat in a bottle. What made that particular hobby bizarre then, was him doing it having the ‘shakes’ !

That’s not the problem here,. With heavy handed Angus, it’s to avoid breaking it’ in, (or) the bottle, striving for instant gratification *!

Any thoughts on the poster behind Kolossal? Looks like “anci”.

The Archie sub-thread…Life With Archie (A series set In Riverdales future and dealing with possibilities like what would life be like If married to Betty or Veronica? Both possiblities explored by the way) Is being cancelled. They chose Archies death as the final storyline.

The thing is, so far Angus hasn’t done anything illegal or even villainous, but Staton does a good job of making him look very sinister. At this point, it could even be a red herring with Kolossal being the real villain.

Follow the money…detective work…hmmmm!!!

A legitimate business person does not get a (cash?) payment every week. Angus may well be using the studio as a means of laundering ill-gotten proceeds. Kolossal is even more blatant in his questionable moves. Betting Boss Angus’ money at the casino and track puts Kolossal in the wrong, while marking him as reckless. Now he has a new scheme that he claims is legit. When two crooks meet in Tracyville the smaller fish tends to meet a messy end. Kolossal may need to count on Team Tracy’s reluctance to kill a Harold Gray creation to save him from Angus’ wrath.

You said: “This is gonna be bigger than when they killed Superman !”-—————————————Yeah, because we all knew Superman was going to get better!I think DC sold about 2 1/2 million copies of the “Superman’s Dead” issue – almost all to people who thought it would be worth a lot of money. P.T. Barnum could have been talking about that issue when he said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” (Well, if he hadn’t died 100 years earlier.)

Does that mean the magazine that the adult Archie appears will now be called “Life Without Archie”?

I was reading somewhere that the series would spawn a sequel called “Afterlife with Archie,” featuring zombies. :)

Exactly. A Publicity Stunt isn’t bad in and of itself, and can even be good if the product it promotes is worth selling. The Death and Return of Superman was worth it, the New 52 (now no longer new or 52) isn’t.

Oh, I agree. The Superman comics from the ‘90s (where Clark confided to Lois, they got engaged and married) are my second favorite comic book series of all time.^As for my single favorite…^I’m a decade too young to have read the Moon Era of Dick Tracy strips. But even though technically, I’m not one of the Moon Era fans here, I can identify with them. Because I know what it’s like to get hooked on a series that started decades before you were born, to get into it right as its starting a bold, new, controversial direction that many older fans hate but you personally love and enjoy…and how much it s sucks when years later some of those “older fans who hate what you love” get creative control of that series and use that control to express their hatred.^My all time favorite comic book series was the humorous Justice League International of the late 80s, and my favorite member in it was Ted Kord as the Blue Beetle. If you know about the Justice League, Blue Beetle, and DC, then I don’t have to elaborate any further. Suffice to say, my contempt for the people running DC today began nearly a decade before the New 52.

I didn’t like anything about “The New 52,” and I’m just waiting to see how long it’ll be before DC unveils another cosmic disaster storyline (they love those) in which “The New 52-iverse” is threatened with destruction, only to be saved by the Old DC universe heroes.