Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 23, 2013

Well, at least they don’t seem worse for wear.

Hope I can say the same for Tracy.

You’d better hurry up and use them quickly, Tracy!

Who is that hunky policeman? How and where he found Bonnie and Ray? Weren’t they Kadaver’s prisoners?

Kadaver didn’t need the prisoners any more once he had his real target, and he doesn’t lose anything by releasing them. (Presumably they never woke up in captivity.)

Since when is Lizz’s name Worthington? Shouldn’t it be Grove since her (however brief) marriage?

I think Kadaver would like Tracy to survive and enter the final trap…

“So do you expect me to talk, Kadaver?” “No Detective Tracy, I expect you to die!” If Kadaver wanted Tracy to suffer, he would have kept Ray and Bonnie and shown Tracy they were in peril. I’d agree he doesn’t mind if Tracy makes it to trap number three, the grand finale.

Well, if Tracy survives the last trap himself, with no help, Abner will release him and be writing a refund check to Stiletta, I bet. Figure anyone into games as much as Kadaver has to be a good sport about it….funny now if BB eyes takes out Kadaver on a contract for failing TO kill Tracy though….or ironic at least

You’d better hurry up and use them quickly, Tracy…….

He is going to form himself into the shape left by the missing spikes ! ??

Wait until Ray Tracy comes to and realizes he’s not getting a free dinner, boy will he be mad.

So the kidnapping was just a ruse to get Tracy to enter the trap. Now that he’s in the trap, the hostages are no longer useful. I suppose it goes without saying that Kadaver is not to be trusted, but I wasn’t expecting him to let go of Bonnie and Ray right now. Anyway, I’m happy to see that they’re apparently safe — it wouldn’t be good to have anything harmful happen to them close to Christmas. They probably don’t remember anything after they got into the coach.

As for Dick, he’s obviously not going to be home for Christmas now. I think we’re probably spending Christmas with Stella, Retik, and Mysta.

It’s good to see the uniformed cops have found Bonnie and Uncle Ray, apparently unharmed (except for the knock-out gassing). With luck, they’’ll be home for Christmas.On the other hand, If Dick doesn’t stop musing and start doing, fast, he’ll end up as a trophy on Kadaver’s wall! I don’t know what Tracy has in mind, but it’s time to do it, now!

I noted previously that the knockout gas equipped coach had been used in “The Wild, Wild West”. As it happens, so was the wall of spikes trap. Of course, the spike wall is a classic and has been used on many TV shows, including “Batman”.

Looking at the strips from 12/20 & 12/22. The spikes appeared to be farther apart. Wide enough that Tracy could possibly squeeze between them. Perhaps there is still enough room between the top tier of spikes and the ceiling that Tracy can use to defeat this trap?

So Rikki didn’t kidnap Bonnie and Uncle Ray after all, they just used them to lure Tracy to them. Wow, Kadaver has a heart!

Good morning everyone…

Kadaver got tired of providing room and board for his captives, I suppose. Even criminals need to watch their budget.

Tracy has spotted a maintenance issue with the room full of spikes (holes & cracks). My theory is that he will get out his gun again and blast a few more holes in the wall, making enough cracks for him to punch his way out through the side and escape. Kadaver should learn how to keep his death traps in good working order.

Look back at the December 10, 2013 strip, where Kadaver shows Tracy his missing family members.Uncle Ray is on the left, Bonnie is on the right. There is a brick wall behind them. Today their positions are reversed, and they are situated on a bench outdoors.Kadaver must have made a video of his prisoners and then had Rikki deposit them where they could be found.

Sometimes mitake are made when you use a complicated task insead of something straight and simple.

Generally “lol”.

Will Mysta pick up on Tracy’s distress signal…?

uh oh! bonnie and uncle ray have been found and tracy is already halfway thrut he second trap!

waitaminnit!! is that a SWEATBOX ENDING i see in teh distance?!?

this story started out GREAT but no time was given to the search for uncle ray and bonnie at all….now if the MCU/MCS can somehow get a message thru to tracy that his family is safe, kadaver wont be long for this world.

and for the record.. i am tired of make-believe-mindy and her lunarian nutjobs. why cant they just fade away?

The spiked wall is almost a cliché now… Add Get Smart to that list (Max uses his pen to stop the spikes)

Do you feel the every time the poster who calls him/herself “RightWingMoron” posts a comment he/she is making a political statement? ^^No, it’s a statement about being a moron :P

….so Tracy enters trap # 3 and just when it looks like he’s going to die he pulls out his ace-in-the-hole, and informs Kadaver "if you kill me off, you kill the whole comic strip off, and everyone else in it, too…..including YOU! “curses, foiled again!” ~ Abner

of course, Kadaver could always find work as the Grinch’s body double, I suppose…..

Kadaver is the king of overcoming challenges though…looking like he does and snagging a hot looking chick young enough to be his granddaughter despite that ha ha

Stilldamatt, I just turned this soaper on a few minutes ago, and long enough to read every post you offered. On no less than a half dozen times you have tried to suck RWM into a pi$$ing match, labeling him as political. Why? RWM even went to the trouble that I wouldn’t have done and offered a humble explanation. There are a lot of people who would have told you to pound sand if you had come at them like that. I can tell you one thing from reading all of this; RWM is a gentleman. In case you are unfamiliar with that terminology, that is considered an asset in my neck of the woods.