Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 16, 2017

  1. Mmdash6
    Pequod  over 7 years ago

    Currently under audit

    Hickman comes up short

    Loves himself some luxury

    Dresses like a sport.

    Tracy gives him a heads up

    Blackjack on the loose

    Hickman waves police away

    Sits on his caboose.

    Amount he’s short is ample

    Numbers don’t make sense

    Hickman ponders his next move

    Shorts could use a rinse.

    Sam and Tracy stake it out

    Drudgery ensues

    Blackjack finally makes a move

    Has his own issues.

    In the trash a match is tossed

    Flames begin to spread

    Blackjack calls the whole thing off

    Tracy’s seeing red.

    Hickman thinks he’s quite the brain

    Smoke now fills the air

    Feels he’s beat the auditors

    Scoundrels best beware.

     •  Reply
  2. Komi 0001
    AnyFace  over 7 years ago

    Seems Blackjack has a zero-tolerance policy for people getting hurt during his robberies, even from causes not directly related to the crime.

     •  Reply
  3. Neil2009
    Neil Wick  over 7 years ago

    State of the World of DT

    I didn’t post an update last week because I wasn’t at home and didn’t really have it ready. I have updated my storyline map:

    http://worldofdt.info/banksoplenty/

    So, we have three acts and three separate, but related, stories. First, B.O. and Gertie contact the bank, who tries to foreclose on them. Blackjack gets to meet them.

    Second, Sparkle Plenty, Blackjack’s favourite Plenty happens into a different branch of that bank just before Blackjack appears and she talks him out of robbing it in exchange for a private autographing session.

    Finally, we have a third bank robbery (at a different bank) and a development that Blackjack certainly didn’t expect, so the robber is about to become the rescuer. Any other robber would have run away, fast, but not Blackjack.

     •  Reply
  4. Blunebottle
    blunebottle  over 7 years ago

    Hey, where’s his music?

     •  Reply
  5. Me 2020
    Don Bagert Premium Member over 7 years ago

    Arson, or carelessness?

     •  Reply
  6. Tumblr mbbz3vrusj1qdlmheo1 250
    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  over 7 years ago

    Someone else has added to the mix. The fire won’t help anyone there except to get the people out. Won’t stop the audit at all.

     •  Reply
  7. Michael j fox marty mcfly back to the future johnny b goode
    avenger09  over 7 years ago

    Fire set, place your bet

    Odds on favorite that Hickman gent

    Theft was the plan, murder is banned

    BJ yells an evacuation command

    Tracy’s late, for his bromance date

    Time will tell what’s BJ’s fate

    Sam wonders why, Tracy loves this guy

    And how he’ll react if his BJ should die

     •  Reply
  8. Neil2009
    Neil Wick  over 7 years ago

    Regarding the Hall of Fame feature, here is more about the incident with Cpl. Awagy:

    http://www.arabnews.com/node/1036296/saudi-arabia

    I wonder how unusual it would be for an Arabian woman to propose marriage to a man. It doesn’t say if the woman was Arabian, but it seems likely to me.

     •  Reply
  9. Bill 1960
    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 7 years ago

    Good morning fellow DT and BJ fans far and wide!

     •  Reply
  10. Missing large
    dag8686 Premium Member over 7 years ago

    I knew that full trash can would probably come into play sometime…

     •  Reply
  11. German typewriter detail small
    Cheapskate0  over 7 years ago

    Hey! I’m still waiting for Sven and those rubber chickens!

     •  Reply
  12. Frankblack
    Constantine500  over 7 years ago

    Hopefully not another gunfight in a smokecloud. I’m aware of the visual restrictions placed on Team Tracy ie. singular panel cannot feature someone firing gun, someone else getting hit but we’ve been down this road several times before.

     •  Reply
  13. Oddball
    Morrow Cummings  over 7 years ago

    Blackjack’s teeth look like he and Mortimer Snerd go to the same orthodontist.

     •  Reply
  14. Mmdash6
    Pequod  over 7 years ago

    Blackjack’s in a tight spot. He and his partners in crime are amply armed. Just for show? If those guns aren’t loaded the judge will have another reason to reduce the sentences. Getting people out will earn some good will, but it seems unlikely that Blackjack will elude Tracy. Smoke gets in your eyes, of course, but we may soon see Blackjack tub-thumping in a cell. Hickman? Where there’s smoke there’s fire. The audit will go on. Will Matty Squared fix Hickman’s mess…for a price?

    Thanks to Willy Carlson, Neil Wick, Gweedo (nice!), Night-Gaunt49, Vista Bill, 22ph, JPuzzleWhiz and Ray Toler for the kind words. Very much appreciated.

     •  Reply
  15. Thinker
    Sisyphos  over 7 years ago

    With only Tracy and Sam on the scene so far to represent John Law, Blackjack might have a good chance at getting away in the smoke and confusion of the fire and the soon-to-arrive Fire Department. I guess much depends upon how much care Blackjack puts into assuring the safe evacuation of all bank staff and customers; whether he meets and decides to confront Frankie-boy Hickman; and whether or not he is determined to carry through with the robbery (though that option seems rather dicey).

    IMO, there can be no doubt that Hickman has added arson to embezzlement on his pending rap-sheet….

     •  Reply
  16. Images
    BreathlessMahoney77  over 7 years ago

    Looks like a false flag operation to me!

     •  Reply
  17. Neil2009
    Neil Wick  over 7 years ago

    Off-topic, but George A. Romero, director of Night of the Living Dead has died at the age of 77. He was once of the Hollywood elite that I was privileged to meet.

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/george-romero-dead-1.4207900

     •  Reply
  18. Neil2009
    Neil Wick  over 7 years ago

    While we’re at it, Martin Landau also died yesterday. Among other roles, he was in 76 of 171 episodes of Mission: Impossible but was listed as a special guest star for the entire first season for various reasons.

     •  Reply
  19. Missing large
    boboscar  8 months ago

    Well, there’s no mention of Tubthumping here but it’s Blackjack robbing a bank, and I can’t imagine him doing that without Tubthumping playing somewhere in the background, so here it is:

    h

    t

    t

    p

    s

    :

    /

    /

    www

    .

    youtube

    .

    com

    /watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc

     •  Reply
Sign in to comment

More From Dick Tracy