Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 21, 2010

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    Steve Bartholomew  almost 15 years ago

    They’re both playing at the same time???

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    margueritem  almost 15 years ago

    Now the black claw like items look like hair again.

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    Llewellenbruce  almost 15 years ago

    There’s that word Trifles again.

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    Steve Bartholomew  almost 15 years ago

    Don’t bother me with petifors.

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    watcha  almost 15 years ago

    You are playing the embassy? What the…

    Why is that kid looking older than his dad. A few weeks ago when he appeared the first time with the scarf going one way and the hair the other way, he was really a smooth faced kid.

    Is this what rock and roll does to you? I guess Mick Jaggers face answers that for me.

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    sydney  almost 15 years ago

    RayC,

    Reading ahead we do see that a crime is planned for the Embassy Ball. Most are already expecting a major event of sorts, to come to a head there, But it has nothing to do with hypnotizing people. Unfortunately I can’t say exactly what. as it would spoil things for daily readers

    But what I can say, is that it requires a most roundabout, implausible set of “assumptions”, dependent on so many incremental things coming about (for success) that I’ve ever read in a plan, And spending $2 million on a “hope” and no prayer ? Its real silly season. A flawed product from - spur of the moment , “seat of the pants” writing.

    Additionaly, in the build up we find no “motive” has been established for the proposed crime.

    You decide when the story does get there. It may not be a red-herring but if nothing else the plot hits a whole bunch of “silly” notes on the Stradivarious.

    In many a way it’s DL entrenching his flawed writing style, one that points everything one way only to try to turn it “artlessly” into another.

    It’s the sort of thing (wrong footing readers) he likes to call a “mystery”!

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    Akenta  almost 15 years ago

    Sydney here I was hoping for a battle of the bands with the revamped violin.

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    ridenslide65  almost 15 years ago

    Air Band Competition anyone?

    Love the Trifle recipe. Think I’ll give it a try.

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    Ray_C  almost 15 years ago

    Joe: Neufchatel cheese and raspberries. Can’t go wrong with those ingredients! I might substitute whipping cream for the COOL WHIP, though…

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    Ray_C  almost 15 years ago

    Sydney, Thank you for “walking the line” on that preview. I take from this that the father/son feud will not develop (just a guess). Margueritem’s comment: is this going to be a large room with both groups playing at the same time? That would be absurd. You’d have to be in a field, like Woodstock. Obviously, the lady thinks that they’ll be in parallel rather than in series, though. Yuk!

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    puddleglum1066  almost 15 years ago

    Any band can play “good and loud.” It’s a lot harder to play “loud and good.”

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    sydney  almost 15 years ago

    You’re all right. And peceptive. The second panel today seems to be “pointedly” setting the stage (showing drums and “loud”). A sort of signal that “reveals” that Locher does indeed, think of story developments a few days ahead. ;)

    I do recall a Carnival “Road March” tune, here in Trinidad, several years ago called “STEEL Band CLASH”. The words speak for themselves

    Can’t (and wouldn’t) say, what the father/son reaction will be (?) - in any event, it hasn’t happened yet ! But I’m sure it will. If nothing else, it’s already setting another stage, one for a possible “emotional” reunion. But I’m not sure that Author Locher has a fertile enough imagination to see the warm “touching” advantage to it, as the story ends.

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    kab2rb  almost 15 years ago

    Joe that recipe does sound good. I’m glad I’m not at that future concert my ears couldn’t take it.

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    idarke  almost 15 years ago

    You don’t see too many rock bands with kettle drums nowadays.

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  almost 15 years ago

    What more could one want at an embassy reception… a rock band with kettle drums and a string quartet playing at the same time while one eats petifors!

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    coratelli  almost 15 years ago

    Probably we have a terrorist attack on the embassy. I think it’s a good idea.

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    sydney  almost 15 years ago

    A little “spat” going on over on the Annie board today. Check it out. Leaky ain’t too “squeaky” not to “belt” them out on the posterior as needed

    That’s what I like about additional nom de plumes

    And let me add, at the end another poster from here dropped the “heavy hammer” ;).

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    chromosome Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    I’d like to see the writers step up the tempo on this strip!

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    sydney  almost 15 years ago

    Carlo, no need to really tell you I’m continuing to enjoy your Frank Carter strip. We’ve got a new twist to create interest, and then I note, you have Frank introducing himself like he was 007,

    ”Bond … James Bond” ;)

    Looks like someone gave you that “link” you asked about (?)

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    FLIGHT SUIT  almost 15 years ago

    Speaking as a Cambastanian-American, I am deeply offended by this strip’s portrayal of Cambastanians. We never overlook trifles, and our women’s hair-mandibles are always covered out of modesty.

    To see a Cambastanian women brazenly brandishing her hair-mandibles as depicted in this strip is an affront to God!

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    countoftowergrove  almost 15 years ago

    Hasn’t Locher ever heard of battle of the bands?

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