Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 25, 2014

Interesting…

Good morning fellow DT/Trustworthy fans

OK. SOMETHING got into the water over at the cartoonist syndicate!

Think this is a first for the “Dick Tracy”. Don’t believe “Sawdust” or “the Invisible Tribe” actually had a whole strip dedicated to them without some appearance by Tracy or one of the other regulars at least holding the newspaper.

Except for the artwork, it’s not that different from the standard Tracy Storyline.

This is an absolute hoot to read – great stuff.

Holy smokes! I haven’t heard that expression in many decades- that was my high-school English teacher’s favourite saying.

Yikes who’s next? Noodles Romanoff?

I’ll admit that the Wikipedia example does show L’il Abner holding a page before it launches into the parody full frame, but there’s not really room for an extra intro frame in current daily strips.

Here are a couple of sample Fearless Fosdick dailies. Click to view full size:

So this is a spoof of a spoof?

I’m wondering if Tracy will think this is funny. Hmm.

I preferred Fearless Fosdic before copyright threats from Tribune Syndicate forced Capp to have him give up his yellow snap-brim fedora in favor of the less Tracy-like bowler seen in the samples posted here (above).

……………………………………………………………Vera Alldid’s parody is very close to home. Tracy really should have a better sense of humor about it!

Ye Gods!! A Fearless Fosdick parody. I want to see the dozen bullet holes through Trustworthy!!

Great strip today. I like the new Artist/Writer.

LOL! I like this guy better than Tracy! Maybe he’ll complete a storyline. Like, Hmmm, I wonder whatever happened to the Nitrates and Lena the Hyena? Did the police eventually rescue them from the bottom of the lake and arrest them for murder and fraud? And hmmm, I wonder if Dr. Sail, Dr. Ghote and that other guy ever figure out how to to the space craft around and return to earth or did they fly into the sun?

I also wonder how is this leading up to the next caper? Will Tracy sue this guy for defamation of character? And what are Mrs. Flattop, Mumbles, B.B. Eyes, DoubleUp and the BlackHearts up to?

wishful thinking gweedo…..unless sprocket packed an aqualung in the trunk according to the others on this board theyre dead… tho i would love to see them haul a waterlogged car out of the drink.

funny how some posters here have accepted the nitrate’s fate without a second thought, yet some of them were ones who clamored for difinitive resolutions earlier when the new team kicked in.

Does this storyline have anything to do with April Fools Day being tomorrow?

“Flat Iron” looks like Alfalfa from Our Gang!

Gee whiz Mike ‘n Joe’s names are at the bottom of the last panel: ’n I thought Vera Alldid “dood” that strip!! Oh shuckie-darns!! Ya had me there fer a minnit, fellers!! Hyuk! Yuk! Nyuk!!

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Sorry, I’ve lost track of the days. I realize now that April Fools day is next Tuesday. Still, that maybe why this storyline is being done now.

Interesting villain rundown in panel 2. Lowbrow? Highbrow was a bad apple in the Kerry Drake strip, which was an attempt to follow Tracy’s popularity some 12 years to the day after Tracy’s debut. Looks like the current team is going the Al Capp Fearless Fosdick route. This could get intriguing.

Wow! I would actually follow Trustworthy if it ran as a spinoff strip.

Yesterday, Tracy’s co-workers and friends expressed concern about showing the new strip to Tracy. They felt concern for how he would react. But, they seem to be fair game for Vera Aldid as well. Today’s strip certainly has a parody of Chief Patton.

Then you’d have Mattie (and all his aliases) on the ground with a cardiac arrest!

It’s truly amazing how some people just can’t keep their promise to ignore those they don’t get along with. Toss a little chum Zzzzzz’s in Lake Tracy and they pounce on you like a school of piranhas! What would happen if I put in the water a couple of SIGHS? LOL!!!!

Joe Blahminose looks like Jimmy Durante.

i Love the Funny Pages…this is Hoot Supreme and a blast from the past

Very funny.

At least the Flatiron arc had an ending.

The one major faux pas in today’s strip is the lack of Vera’s infamous signature, which was a staple in “The Invisible Tribe”…

where’s “Anyface?”

It looks like Joe and Mike have been reading the National Lampoon.

Good lord… how long has it been? Three years? No matter what you thought of his work, isn’t it time to stop the pot shots??

I would think that Tracy would be able to laugh at himself. After all, he has encountered some bizarre foes. And since he is supposed to be a public figure I am sure he has faced something like that before.

And this would upset Tracy how?

Is this a cross between Fearless Fosdick and Tricky Prickears?

I haven’t read it in quite some time, but doesn’t Joe B… look like the king from “Wizard of Id”?

This is from December 2, 2011:It is possible Vera Alldid’s reason for starting this strip contains ulterior motives that are more sinister than appears on the surface.

Thanks for the Bronx cheer!

“Patience, Grasshopper!” I’m sure we’ll see a resolution to the Nitrates in due course. (Mike says we will.) We left them in a bit of a cliffhanger situation, but in the meantime, I like this developing story. Even if it seems like an “interlude” it is no doubt connected to something upcoming. Even the TV interview and the meetup up with “Popeye” came up in later stories.

The picture is good. But, you forgot the noise which is rrrzzzzz. AKA, the razzzzzzberry. I hope this works for you.

Reminds me of that animated series of DT back in the 60’s.

I’m surprised that nobody mentioned the Warner Brothers Cartoon with Daffy Duck as Duck Twacy.. I remember two villians. One was Neon Noodle who ended up as a neon light by Daffy. Another one was Eraser Head who tried to rub out Duck with no luck. But, it was only a dream.

Ray Toler: Surprised to see you remarking about unfinished story lines!.Jonathan K: Thanks for the reminder that Vera Aldid is probably up to no good. I was hoping otherwise..And to whom it may concern, a Dick Locher signature on April Fool’s Day seems more than appropriate!

I think it was really a reference to The Brow.

That’s what I thought, too.

In spite of my upfront noise I always try to keep it in the back of me that the boys aren’t gonna let us down.

I have a lot of confidence that they won’t let us down. They are trying a lot of new things, so they have to have some latitude.

Everybody wants to get into the act! It’s revolting to the development. Ha, cha, cha, cha.

I’ll wager that it was no coincidence. I always enjoy these ‘cameo’ characters who are recast in whatever comic they happen to appear. In Annie, there was one who was a dead ringer for Peter Lorre; I can’t remember the name now, but he was a thoroughly nasty character who met an appropriately gruesome end.

Looks just like Locher’s version of Dick Tracy…