Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 20, 2013

Bada-Bing!!!!! Good shot Toad!!

Yeah! Bean ball!!!

Good morning all…

That’s using your head Sweatbox.

“Cops are here, Toad, you’re coming with me.” This development is ludicrous. Do I even need to clarify why? Also: in real life a police officer would need 2 seconds to exit the car and aim their gun at a criminal. What in blazes is going on here? Bullet time?

I think Tracy and Lee are waiting for Joe Jitsu to arrive to scene and take care of the situation.

Way to knock some sense into him, Toad.Or knock it out of him, same diff.

Lizz, Lee, Moon Maid, Honeymoon, and now Toad.I love it that there are so many strong female characters.Thank you, Team Tracy!

Ok, mole, belt him one… or better yet kick him in the groin, and put him out of commission ;)

Looks like this story’s going to end quickly, which is a shame because I’m really enjoying it.

Hmmm… Toad, don’t you know that softballs are supposed to be thrown underhand?

Lee: “I see Toad.” Lee exits the car and crawls: “Hey, Toad, come here now!” and grabs Toad, At the same time Tracy takes position and aims his gun, just in case SB releases Mole and tries to move towards Toad.2 seconds time.

We saw this coming, but it’s still excellent action! Toad sticking up for herself AND Mole.

Toad’s a southpaw.

Right in the temple, just as I suggested yesterday, good work Toad!

Go, Toad! Nice to see another Lefty in action.

She heard you !^^All the way from Chicago? That IS impressive!

Toad’s “high and tight” put a little pain in the old Sweatbox noggin, and bought a little more time for Tracy and Lee to nab him. With an arm like that it won’t be long before ’Bama, Oklahoma and Florida have scouts on hand, although I hear she may be leaning towards Northwestern. Projected as a center fielder.

Yay!Good morning, VB!

Good throw Toad! Thanks to the person who directed me back to the beginning of the Dick Tracy strip as done by Staton and Curtis. It is awesome.

You go,Girl!!!!!!!

Toad is ambidextrous. On February 10, she was throwing right handed. Today she is throwing left handed.

I’d love the team to bring back Little Halikaki or Little Pineapple from the 1960 story of a small feisty Hawaiian girl. Have Tracy take a trip to Hawaii and find her all grown up and running a resort hotel she inherited and helps Tracy solve some crime there.

“THOK it to me!”

Toad is a Lefty! (Softball pitchers throw underhand)

Take your base, Sweatbox.

Man I hate to say this but, SB looks like me without whiskers. The main difference is I am not a criminal. If I didn’t know better I’d think that Joe knew me. Check out that form from our little right-hander, and impact just between the right eye and temple; now in the real world he’d drop like a BOX OF ROCKS! If Toad takes him out I think that would be poetic justice.

Dick Tracy team, bravo it doesn’t get any better than this for comic strip world.

Softball pitches are thrown underhand— IN A GAME. This is no game, Toad is playing for her life— and thought the pitch would be more powerful— and more accurate— if she threw overhand. So far, she’s right about the accuracy, and I’ll bet she just threw the most powerful pitch in her life too.

I saw that too.

SHE IS A Lefty.

I never looked dat good

The coloring doesn’t do it justice, but Joe’s depiction of the cop car with all it’s lights on is teriffic!

Perhaps her ambidextriousness is the reason why she was being scouted for Sweatbox’s team.

Be glad that’s a baseball and not one of those ditto balls!Hate to see what happens if he got hit with one of those!

The artwork is terrific; story is not so much. Sorry folks…

All this discussion on how to throw a softball? Really? Anybody in this situation would throw it overhand. And while im on here, I might as well leave a comment. I didnt really care for this story at first, but I like the outcome. I didnt like Sweatbox and his constant beads of sweat, but Chester Gould had Shaky and his ‘shake lines’, Headache with his hand constantly at his head and Empty and his “as a matter a’ fact” comments, so the sweat beads are fine. I give the story a 6 out of 10, but with the Mole and Pouch co-starring, Ill up that to a 7.Now lets get on with the longer stories, which hopefully involve a long chase away from the city into farm country or wilderness.

I vote for “terrific.” The coloring, however, isn’t. (Remember that the coloring on daily strips is outsourced; most strip cartoonists only do their own coloring on Sundays.)Replace all the blue in the last panel with yellow. Color Toad and Sweatbox completely in the shade of blue that you just replaced. Change the yellow headlights to white. Everything else stays the same. Then you have a gorgeous panel.

Toad is an accurate southpaw! Terrific! Now, I still hope Mole gets busy on Simon Baux. Or Lee or Tracy could take him out. I’d be happy either way. I don’t like that murderous old lecher.

Toad saves Mole from the weasel! Hey, that could be from “The Wind in the Willows”!

A southpaw with both speed and control!

You said: “NightShade09, to call something terrific is very strong praise. I’m curious as to why you feel this way. Can you elaborate on your reasons? Thanks.”-—————————————————No prob, SDM.Joe drew the police car coming right at us. So most of what we see are those blinding coronas of light (drawn as circles and elipses), coming from the headlights and roof lights.IN fact, there’s so much light coming from them, that most of the car isn’t visible, and what is – the roof rack, windshield frame, and hood – are shilouettes.We don’t see the passengers because the windshield would be reflecting the roof lights.My favorite element in the drawing is that small part of the front grille – also in shilouette – that would be visible where the headlight beams don’t overlap!It’s too bad this was colored the way it was; given time and detail, this would be, well, teriffic.Thanks fer askin’ SDM!

I have had this silly commercial running through my head all day. I thought to myself, why should I be the only one who is thinking about this, so here you go!Boy and Father playing catchVolkswagen Passat CommercialI apologize for the audio. I couldn’t find a better version.

…….uh, a Bruce Willis movie? DH5 is waaaaay more unbelievable than this, though very entertaining…..

…….when you stop and think about it, Mole’s gotta be embarrassed that a young girl had to step in and save him, ha ha. Anyways, I hope we actually are going to get some answers in the next few days instead of the sometimes leave everything hanging rush job to end it (like who did and didn’t die in previous stories) also 1) why did Sweatie confess in the first place then? 2) why did he keep killing people, and who were they….any significance? 3) when will his book signing tour, reality show, and talk show appearances begin, lol?

…….finally, a big THUMBS UP to Mike (and Joe) for the great VARIETY in their stories……not just one standard bad vs good scenerio after another….

Hey Batter-Batter!

newsflash: Toad is no longer going to appear in this strip……she has just been signed by the Chicago Cubs, because she already throws harder than half their pitchers do…….

….the “old” Mole always kicked butt…..but the new one seems to get HIS butt kicked lately now…..although that may be more due to the fact he’s been picking tougher fights….he still rocks!

She’s a Southpaw! Don’t mess with us lefties. From Julius Caesar to Bart Simpson we can be trouble!

like I said on the San Antonio Express-News site Dick Tracy comments that was a baseball in Toad’s jacket?..she looked pregnant don’t get mad at me y’all….guess the round shape of the ball threw me huh??

also why is Toad’s jacket purple here.. on the San Antonio Express-News website it was green what’s going on here? also on the site since the strip takes place in Chicago some people in the comments there said Toad should be signed by the White Sox or the Cubs cause of her goood throwing that’s good huh????

I think just out of poetic justice, Toad needed to land a killer blow somehow. Though I’d still like to see Mole get his last lilcks in. I thought he’d have had the upper hand from the beginning of the week, but guess not.

I kinda like the coloring to today’s strip. The characters really stand out against it. I like the constant blue against all the action. And really good artwork, to boot (but I’d expect no less from Joe)..

This whole week of strips (so far) have really emphasized why I like this creative team so much. They actually put SUSPENSE into their stories, a feeling I got from the car chase sequence in the Blackjack story, and also in the Stiletta story as well. Team Tracy is putting everyone to shame, showing what can still be done in the comics medium. With this type of quality, this has been a great week for comics all around.

I didn’t have anything to say at this point. I just wanted to be poster #100