Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 19, 2014

Well, Tracy found Annie. What’s he going to do now, figure out who framed Roger Rabbit? Looks like he just dropped in to Toontown. Even the Crimestoppers Textbook drawing looks toony. Actually, I think Mike is just softening us up for a future crossover with Hot Stuff the little devil.

Or, is this the animated movie Vera Aldid was making, now produced by Kane Studios? Anyway, this is silly.

Th-th-th-that’s all folks!

The best crossover EVER!!

Barney Google with those goo-goo-googly eyes.

Good morning fellow fans!

“Barney Google” (the song) (1923): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DG6hXziLPs

Thanks, Mike, Joe, and Shelley, for a great week of Vista Bill and my pal, Blowhard!

Jughaid bribed Mayor Armstrong to get Tracy on special assignment.

Nice to see Dick Tracy doesn’t go from one shootout or crime wave to another. Always thought he had a more varied existence than it seemed…..

Love these tributes from Team Tracy to the comic strips that started it all!

I hope that Snuffy doesn’t mistake Detective Tracy for one of them infernal revenoors.

Macy shoulda brought BO with him. He knows his way around them thar hills. Ptooey!

When’s Dick Tracy gonna meet Fearless Fosdick?

WHEN?!?

Even Jim Doherty’s Crimestoppers Textbook has he silhouette of a character as the hitchhiker that I’m sure we all should know, but I’m at a loss to identify! Great Sunday all around!

Also, I wouldn’t mind gettin’ a 10 cent pickle from a barrel one more time!

Perhaps Snuffy’s moonshine is the secret ingredient in Professor Kenyon’s formula…

Remember Tabby Angus and Sparkplug?

Bodacious! I love it!

That’s the real Sparkplug, not the namesake we saw in a previous story. For those who don’t know these characters, see Barney Google and Snuffy Smith on Wikipedia. According the the Wikipedia article, it’s currently in more than 900 papers. It’s also the ultimate origin of the name of the famous search engine, Google.

Soon to be known as “Shootin’ Holler”… or maybe “Shoot And Holler”…

O. M. G. This is not a serious crossover, I hope! Tracy and Snuffy Smith are from different universes! As a one-off gag, fine, but not as a protracted crossover arc!

Second time in the last couple of years that I saw Barney Google. The first was a guest-starring appearance in a Popeye comic book.

I wonder why Pequod hasn’t written his weekly poem.

It took weeks for Tracy to find Annie, now in one day he finds Barney Google, who hasn’t been seen in his own comic for decades. Or maybe Barney has just been busy on his computer.

Will we see Lil’ Abner and the people of Dogpatch too? Imagine Tracy having to deal with Leena the Hyena and Sadie Hawkins’ Day.

I miss the Little Orphan Annie crossover BADLY. Since then:—1. Used to read all comments. Now maybe 2 or 3 times a week2. The number of comments per day are down by maybe 60%3. At least most of the bitching and backstabbing has stopped4. I love the art to bits, even if I have no idea where DT is going! 5. In Joe Staton, Mike Curtis et. al. I trust. Hallelujah!

Wow – another cross over – I know one board member that isn’t going to be happy.

Morning, Tracyville!I doubt if we’re starting another crossover story. It’s probably a cameo, like we had with Lum and Abner a while back, something Team Tracy enjoys doing. And it’s so much fun!

There’s another Coffee cameo (well, sort of) in Gasoline Alley today.

I love these crossovers!

When I was a kid, I remember being fascinated by the landscape in the Barney Google and Snuffy Smith strip. All the cliffs and ledges, back roads and such. Joe did a great job on that in the first main panel!However, I agree with the folks who don’t want to see Dick Tracy get too cartoony. We got the word a while ago that Mike and Joe were going to use about two weeks after Annie to catch up on several characters. We seem to be wandering down a new path here. Crossovers and cameos are fun, but I hope they use moderation.

Snuffy Smith the Crossover? Oh My…I was SO hoping for Nova Kane

Wow ! With SPARKPLUG - comes “promise” of a ‘step up’ (even two?) in the pacing department – on this new assignment, over the - leisurely, Dicky (‘billy-stick’) - dalliance, seen in Simmons Corners !

So, from 1940s Simmon’s Corner to 1920s Hottin’ Holler. What the next stop – 1890s Little Nemo’s Dreamland?

Good morning DT and Barney fans. Have a blessed Sunday.

I am crazy for these ‘cross-overs’!!! The Annie tale was great and now…Snuffy Smith!!!

will these be collected anywhere? hope so.

say it aint so

Wow!I’m as surprised by the comments as I am to see Barney Google! (I was expecting a loud chorus of shouts of horror and anger!) Looks like most people agree with me, that it’s fun to see the other characters visit the Tracyverse.

Bodacious thanks Joe and Mike! You guys are amazing! The Barney Google and Snuffy Smith/Dick Tracy crossover continues tomorrow at www.snuffysmithcomics.com and comicskingdom.com!

OK, bringing old comics characters out of mothballs is all well and good, but I think THIS is taking it a bit far…

Oh no, not more crossovers!

After all those internet billions he still does pony rentals!

By the way, I was on a road like that this summer. At least it looked like a road on the map but it wasn’t very suitable for a car and we eventually found a place where it was possible to turn around. Maybe we should have had a horse. I wonder what brings Dick Tracy to this remote place and I wonder if it’s still under the jurisdiction of the City. I guess so.

Uggg. Yup, that’s my comment today. Uggg.

Snuffy Smith runs daily in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. And Barney Google does sometimes appear. But that’s no excuse for letting B B Eyes and the rest run riot. What’s next—chasing Krazy Kat?

First Little Orphan Annie, now Barney Google?

Special Thanks to Willy 007 for the blast from the past. Chet sure knew how to create the Mystic Beauty…Gotta love the funny pages..

OMG!!!I love this!

Really? (He said with a sarcastic tone in his voice.)

Here is a link to the current “Barney Google and Snuffy Smith” strip by John Rose. You will not want to miss tomorrow’s strip!“Dick Tracy in Hootin’ Holler!”

My error, that was a link to John’s blog about crossovers. Here is the current strip. Check this link tomorrow!“Dick Tracy in Hootin’ Holler!”

Is Jughaid missing?

I will definitely start reading D Tracy, if it’s featuring one my favorite strips! this will be bodacious!

Gee maybe Tracy will meet up with Zippy The Pinhead someday.

LOL! I wish my grandmother could see this! She was a big fan of Snuffy!

Love Joe’s art today. Has to be tougher for him to combine his usual style with pure cartoon than it was to draw like Harold Grey.

Meanwhile, in the city, Sam and Lizz have busted Hans and Fritz, the Katzenjammer Kids, for vandalism, felonious mischief, and attacking the captain (theirs, not the Chief) with a baboon.

Really??? C’mon guys I mean there are reasons these strips aren’t around. Next up, Ignatz throws bricks at Sam

Absolutely adore these crossovers. So glad this strip is still going strong.

Crossover Who?

You can’t get to Hootin Holler from here..

Could Tracy be looking to meet someone hiding in Hootin’ Holler? (I wouldn’t recommend it to the Witness Protection Program.)

I was wondering if anyone caught the subtle “Batman” reference in yesterday’s panel 3.

I didn’t see any Batman reference and I still can’t see it. Would you care to explain.

OK, Puzz…… I’ll bite. What is the Batman reference?

LOVE IT!

Bob Kane – Kane Studios.

“Kane Studios?” There’s nothing to support that’s a Batman reference except similarity of name. Bob Kane didn’t make films, but if the speculation about the woman having a candy cane in her mouth is correct, it is even less likely a Batman reference.

I love Staton and Curtis for what they’ve done for Dick Tracy, and I would never attack them for decisions they make. It’s their strip and they have to make it the way they want to make it, like Gould did. That said, if they really want our opinions on the crossovers, I would tell them I’m a little tired of it and leave it at that.Unless we’re talking about a Nova Kane or Jessica Rabbit crossover. Green lights and thumbs up all around in that case. :)

Shouldn’t this be an April fool’s strip?

These comic crossovers are starting to get a little weird.

oh,darn it… Barney Google didn’t get around his own comic strip with Snuffy Smith very much…………..wish get more BG and his horse do more often with Smith guy.

Never pick up a hitchhiking clown. Good advice.