Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 18, 2014

Quick! Call Dr, Kenyon!!!

GEEZ can there be a few MORE things going on?!!? :)

Good morning fellow DT and Annie fans!

“Meeting of the Billionnaires!”

Diet’s new project! Can’t wait to find out what that’s all about!

The last panel could be passed off as some of Jack Kirby’s artwork.I’m guessing Kirby must be one of Joe Stanton’s influences.

“It’s demanding we worship it as a god!”

Diet Smith’s new project looks kind of dangerous! Tech-y stuff right up Warbucks alley, though. In that 1930s story where Annie first met Mr. Am, Warbucks had “webcams” (so to speak) all over the world connected to a TV at a time when most people had never even heard of a TV, let alone seen one.

Looks like maybe Diet Smith should have kept some of that Moontech the way that last panel looks…..

Warbucks’s “television” was more like a technological crystal ball, with pictures and sound coming in from places there couldn’t possibly have been cameras and “interference” resulting in images from other places. Entirely understandable, since at that early time few people understood how TV really worked. It wasn’t actually ready for most people’s homes yet.

Well in the 1933 movie “International House” the plot revolved around an invention called the Radioscope. With that device you could watch events anywhere in the world and you didn’t need a camera, just a receiving set with a picture screen. Maybe Chet Gould got the idea from that film. Also in 1935 Bela Lugosi was in a film titled “Murder By Television!”

The last panel brings this thought to my mind: “This looks like a job for Superman!”

Maybe Smith didn’t destroy all of the Moon technology, or he’s got Nikola Tesla on the payroll, his old notebooks, or something like that.

“It’ll be a pleasure.” Maybe it will, maybe it won’t!

Not quite the “Kirby dots” that use to highlight all his artwork. But it does show the Kirby influence. Is there anyone in the comic business who hasn’t been influenced by the work of “the King”?

A meeting between globe-trotting multi-billionaire and adventurer Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks and eccentric techno-genius and billionaire Diet Smith should be a pleasure to observe (kinda like getting into the high-security meeting in Spain just lately of the Bilderbergers). I hope that mis-functioning vaguely electrical-looking apparatus in the last panel doesn’t force cancellation of the meeting.It’s alive! It’s alive! —Oops; I guess that was a different electrical apparatus and experiment….

“Smith’s new project” works for me, even if it is not yet working for Smith. Plenty of fun gadgets have come from Smith Industries over the years: the Atom Light, Ring Camera, Space Coupe, Fusion Power and Wrist Wizard, to name a few. Wonderful art and another interesting turn in the search for the Little Princess.

Good morning Dick Tracy and Annie fans. Two great minds are about to meet. Maybe Warbucks can solve Smith.s project.

Oops, I meant fix it not solve it.

oh GOODIE!!! yet ANOTHER storyline to throw into the mix. I’m gonna need a scorecard now

Lonnie Cavenee… joe gave tribute to STAN LEE?!?!?

Get a grip!!!

Yes. (Really!)

Looks like a Warp Core.

Wouldn’t be surprised if this is Dr. Kenyon’s project!

Diet Smith needs to call in Reed Richards! (It’s well beyond Tony Stark! Only the leader of the Fantastic Four can keep it from going ker-blam!)

Maybe the last panel is foreshadowing an electrifying, explosive first meeting between Diet and Warbucks.

Something tells me McPheeters isn’t talking about that kind of gripping. He’s been reading too much Bassmanbob Classic Literature.

So Cool….Awesome…

World War 2 actually delayed television. If it hadn’t happened tv networks could have started by late 1930’s – early 1940’s.

Well, I know that the 1939 World’s Fair has some of the first public demonstrations of TV in the U.S., but then everything got put on hold for World War 2. Resources for TV manufacturing were not available until after rationing ended, I suppose. There were actually two stations experimentally broadcasting in the U.S. as far back as 1928.

My 2 cents on the topic of intermingled story lines:Many novels follow the same pattern, and, if done well, it is quite interesting. Ed McBain did this frequently with the 87th Precinct Series. My only request to Mike and Joe is this: Slow down just a little bit. For example, I wish we could have seen a bit more of the confrontation between Punjab and Pouch before skewing off to another thread. This reminds me a little bit of the afternoon “soaps” that I sometimes see while waiting in my Mom’s eye doctor’s office. It seems that they must have dozens of threads going, but none of them ever get resolved. Tracy is not like that, of course, but it probably wouldn’t hurt to finish a scene once in a while before jumping to the next one.

Tony Stark? Reed Richards? I think Bruce Banner needs to be n on this as well.

The art today is really excellent, and not just the third panel.

Diet and the future awaits.

The artwork in today’s fourth panel is exceptional!!! You have to really squint to see it!! LOL!!!

Or Dr. Smith. Whichever.

“Not going well”?? Panel 3 has an imminent “Thar she blows!” feel to it.

Looks like Tesla tower transmitting power…