Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 02, 2014

So very pleased to meet him, she puts him on the spotLong legs embraced by leather boots, no doubt the girl is hot.She opens up her jacket, sports a figure lean and trimFlintheart needs a pill or three to save what’s left of him.She offers him a candy-cane, this gal is truly sweetFlintheart can’t control his gaze, she’s such a tasty treat.He knows he must look foolish, vintage ham with a fresh crushThis girl has got him flummoxed, her mere presence a warm rush.With crimson lips and twisted braid, Kandikane will drive him madPassion’s poetry trapped inside: his only word, “Egad!”She hopes that there’s a cure for this, to lift the stubborn tranceFlintheart knows just what he needs: a late-in-life romance.She could send him into orbit with just a single kissHis ticker soon may well give out: death by happiness.

E-gad, Indeed!

Good morning everyone!

I think my buddy Vitamin is about to have a heart attack! Kandikane is too much for him. He should call Vista Bill for assistance in situations such as this!

If HE doesn’t have a pill, there really IS a problem!

Nailed it again, Pequod77!

And, yes, call VistaBill before it’s too late!

What’s his problem with Kandikane?

Mornin’ all! Morning, VistaBill!

I wonder how many Lakota think differently of Tacanke Luta and not in a good way since he sided with their captors?-——-I don’t think there was any positive way of looking at it from the Lakota point.They’d lost their land, their freedom, and their traditional way of life.Nothing was going to bring it back, and accepting the new reality meant dealing with the whites, one way or another.

Gadzooks!She must have hit poor Vitamin pretty hard for him to be unable to get beyond “Egad!”-—-And thanks, Sgt. Jim, for another interesting bit of history in Tracy’s Hall of Fame!

Poor Vitamin, when you pass hundred the stroke risk is paramount! Someone better call an ambulance, let alone pills! It’s only me or Kandykane bears a strong resemblance with Blaze Rize?

In the first panel, she reminds me of Crissie Snow fromthree’s company, except for the hair and clothes.Just the face and the large toothy grin!

Egad!

Vitamin’s heart may not be up to meeting such a lovely, sweet-as-candy young lass! But his vast repetoire of pills must include something that will snap him out of his egad trance! Such fun for an old guy!

Great poem, Pequod!

Very interesting about Red Tomahawk.

I’m thinking that Kandikane reminds Vitamin of someone he knew a long time ago. Just guessing.

Good morning fans. Excellent poem Pequod77. You should publish all your poems. Share your poetry with everyone.

Does Kandikane have an older sister named Nova Kane?

80 is just a number, right VistaBill?

We had a closeup of Snowflake several days ago. I’m guessing Kandikane reminds Vitamin of Snowflake

Eeeee-gad! :D

Egad!

Had him at Independent fiimaker.

It’s no fun to meet an absolutely hot chick and realize you’re old enough to be her grandfather.

As my wife sez, “There’s no fool like an old fool!” PQ, I want to be the first to get your signed catalogue raisonne’ of your works! And I would like it to be #1! You hit it outta the park (again)!

Leave it to Night-Gaunt49 to find something political in good old Dick Tracy.

“Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.”— Sitting Bull

Night-Gaunt,.Re your question:.“I wonder how many Lakota think differently of Tacanke Luta and not in a good way since he sided with their captors?”.I can’t pretend to speak for the Lakota people. I can only point out that his contemporaries did choose him to be a tribal elder, that he was known by his people for always trying to seek their welfare, and that he was chosen to speak for the Lakota People to those representing the government..He never expressed guilt about having to kill Sitting Bull, but he did express regret..“Sitting Bull was my friend,” he would later say. .FWIW, Tacanke Luta was also regarded and respected by his people as a mighty warrior. It was because of his reputation as a warrior that he was recruited into the Tribal Police..It should also be noted that several Tribal Policeman were also killed in the altercation that led to the death of Sitting Bull, so it was not as though all the violence was on one side. In fact, the police were outnumbered at the beginning of the encounter. There was a US Army contingent close by, but the police, hoping to accomplish the arrest of Sitting Bull without violence, told the soldiers to hang back while they tried to take Sitting Bull into custody peacefully..Red Tomahawk will be the first of several significant Native American law enforcement figures who will be profiled during November as Team Tracy’s way of observing American Indian Heritage Month.

“Egad!” says Vitamin Flintheart as he forgot to refill his Cialis prescription…….

Egad! Snap out of it, Flintheart. Vitamin is coo-coo for Kandikane. Who can blame him? Add another beauty to the swelling ranks of compelling characters in this excellent strip. We’ve seen Flintheart fall hard before, as when he met and married Snowflake Falls. She eventually passed away from an illness (off-panel). Vitamin has remained single ever since. I like the detailed glimpse of Vitamin’s office. The movie posters, his secretary, Xena, and the vintage accoutrements. This consistent attention to detail adds depth and complexity to Tracyville. .Look to see Vitamin in love:

Thanks to cpalmeresq, VistaBill, Neil Wick, davidf42, Starman1948, Morrow, Gweedo, Ray Toler and Jonathan K. for the kind words. Very much appreciated.

The last time I heard “Egads!” used I was in college and a professor was commenting on mid-terms IN CLASS. He came to my friends name and just said, “Egads!” I don’t know if that’s even legal these days.

And again Egads…

I would think that Vitamin would be a little more wordly than to go all gah-gah over a hot babe.

Egad!

Ye Gods!

I’ve been so caught up with the events I forgot to say how much I like today’s art!Kandikane is a delight, looking all the younger because Xena is realistically portrayed as a more mature woman. And Vitamin — egad.Excellent job, Joe!

If Kandikane is going to make a documentary about Vitamin, won’t she be filming him during rehersals for “Arsenic and Old Lace” – alongside Gruesome, Dr. Einstein and Mel O. Dee?Really enjoying this.

love the creative dialogue by ol’ Vites. An actor who never learned to ad-lib. KKL is really a stunner if silvertongue is basically speechless

Reflex epilepsy trigger? She’s easy to look at. but the red and white stripes make me dizzy.

Halls of FAME???? Dick Tracy is a comic. It is pretty hard to see anything good or funny about this hall of fame!

>>I want to hurl an epithet or two at the Indian cop, but likely more than not, he probably prevented more violence that would have occurred had he not been on the job.<<.Ummm…..like the Guardsmen at Kent State, you mean?

I’m wondering, though — doesn’t Vitamin have a wife?

He had a wife, but it was revealed by Vitamin some time ago that she had died from some illness that he didn’t specify.

@BlueRoccoHalls of FAME???? Dick Tracy is a comic. It is pretty hard to see anything good or funny about this hall of fame!

The Hall of Fame panel has been running for a few years now (usually once a month). It’s not meant to be funny. If anything, it’s educational about little historical facts that are relevant to police work.

Though Dick Tracy can occasionally feature some humorous material, it’s primarily a police action/adventure strip, not a comedy strip.

Well said Neil.

So much excitement today that our cartoonists get away with misspelling “independent” — or is that intentional to suggest Ms. Lane is a truly stupid filmmaker?

“independant”? No one caught that, huh?

Here’s his story. http://m.bismarcktribune.com/news/columnists/curt-eriksmoen/the-man-behind-the-highway-patrol-logo/article_d77f6384-c106-11de-b9d6-001cc4c03286.html?mobile_touch=true

So very pleased to meet him, she puts him on the spot

Long legs embraced by leather boots, no doubt the girl is hot.

She opens up her jacket, sports a figure lean and trim

Flintheart needs a pill or three to save what’s left of him.

She offers him a candy-cane, this gal is truly sweet

Flintheart can’t control his gaze, she’s such a tasty treat.

He knows he must look foolish, vintage ham with a fresh crush

This girl has got him flummoxed, her mere presence a warm rush.

With crimson lips and twisted braid, Kandikane will drive him mad

Passion’s poetry trapped inside: his only word, “Egad!”

She hopes that there’s a cure for this, to lift the stubborn trance

Flintheart knows just what he needs: a late-in-life romance.

She could send him into orbit with just a single kiss

His ticker soon may well give out: death by happiness.