Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 28, 2014

Montana Joe, Gertie, a Blackheart?"

No matter who, Tracy & Sam are safe!

Try to flap your arms up and down Angus!

With the loud “krakk” I wonder if something broke, but I suppose it was likely a crack of electricity. In any case all three frames today are magnificent, but the last one in particular sums up the whole story. I love it.

From yesterday…tsull2121 said, about 17 hours ago@Well Hung Hippie

awww you beat me to it hippie! lol..No worries my man, if it happens I’ll share the glory with you and then we can pat each other on the back. :-)

My guess is the Detective from the Sheriff’s department

Rifle shot.

Good morning, DT fans!It was probably lighting, in any case a deserved end! Great strip today!Say with me:THEY CAN’T WIN!

I’m wagering that Angus was “rubbed out” by the Blackhearts!

Come to think of it, it can’t be lightning…in the last strip the sky was clear! Gertie with a rifle, perhaps?

Somehow, I don’t Tabby will land on his feet. That’s the way the Scottish Folds.

Good morning fellow DT fans!

“Krakk”? Rice Krispies, perhaps!

…..we need the space coupe to magically re-appear now and join the party in time to rescue Angus!

There is a sharply defined shadow behind them ::I think, it isn’t a shadow, it’s the artist showing a moveing downward motion….

There go my hopes for him being trampled by Nightmare.

Well that’s the end of Angus. I wonder who shot him? Montana Joe? Blackjack again?

It wasn’t Montana Joe. It was the one-armed man. Or maybe Lt. Gerard.

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Montana Joe with the 30-06, Whooooo! called it!Don’t ever piss off a country boy..We take care of things our own way!

I thought upon reading today’s strip that the KRAKK was the sound of the ladder giving way and causing Tabby to fall; but I see that most of the commentators up to this point interpret it as a gunshot from a rifle, perhaps fired by Montana Joe. That is certainly possible, and it would explain where Joe went: to fetch his rifle from wherever he kept it. It would, however, be a case of sheer luck that he noticed Angus up there in time to fire, unless he had seen Angus ascending…. It could also have been Gertie or even Sparkle shooting, I suppose.

A villain falls from a tower, Tracy says “Ye Gods!”…yes, all’s right with the world…

Sam even lost his cigarette. I think it was a rifle shot from Montana Joe…

My first thought was it was Blackjack again. But then Sam would have to join Tracy in the coverup and I don’t think Mike & Joe want to expand on that. It’s not good for business. Therefore, I think it was Joe and his rifle.

Great strip!Now – the question is what (or who) took him down.(I’m betting it’s one of the Munro Bros. That’s what Tabby gets for peeking behind Venus’ screen.)

Great Scott! That’s no way to fly, Tabby. If you want to be a bird, don’t flap your arms, just hold ’em straight out and glide. Show him, George. Watch this, Tabby. Tabby?

Aim for the haystack Angus.

don’t mess with gravity

Tabby, like many Scots, gets “kilt”.

Bad guys need to stay off ladders. Tabby must not have seen what happened to Bardoll.

Krakk! Could it be Blackjack to the rescue once again? Or was it Doubleup Doubleup’s whip?

Congrats to who over shot Angus. No one will have to listen to his “beef” anymore.

“Besides, it would be too trite a device to use, considering how recently it was done.”.That’s a thought I’m having with the increased frequency that Tracy has been using “Ye Gods!”

“One hand for the ship, and one hand for yourself.” That’s something I thought was basic for anybody trying to climb tall structures. Angus had no safety harness, so he would always need one hand to hold onto the tower. I can’t be sure, but I think I see him using both hands to aim the gun in panel #2. The “Krak” was his own gun and the fact is that his aim was spoiled by his own fall. Probably tried to shoot as he began falling, hoping to get the detective as his last dying act.

My first impression of the Krakk was of part of the tower giving way, but perhaps I was mistaken. I’m sure we’ll find out tomorrow ;)

My guess is, the krakk was from the gun Angus had and the backfire caused him to fall.

Montana Joe used to own a rodeo. He is an expert trick sharpshooter and bronco buster. He could have easily picked off Angus with one Krakk of his rifle.

Whoever shot, it was a mixed blessing for Tracy. Angus was obviously connected to the Blackhearts. Now any information he had will not be known by Tracy. Remember, we, the readers, know more about Venus and the Blackhearts than the Tracyville police. As far as I can discern, Tracy knows nothing of Melies,Venus, or the Munro Brothers (doubtful that they even know Flash is aboard the Space Coupe) even though they have been in the strip for a while now. Tracy was just starting to get clues from Clark but with Angus dead kand without further information, Tracy’s investigation into the Blackhearts seems to be put back to square one.

When one fires a gun is there not a back kick (one of Newton’s laws etc.)? So if he was only holding on with the other hand….

Please please please let him have a vintage Gould ironic death in which he falls into the hay barn and is impaled on a pitchfork right next to Sparkplug!

Someone shot him, I wonder who!?

I’m still rooting for it to be Mysta — the KRAKK of one of her electrical zaps! But I know that’s unlikely, so my money is still on Montana Joe.

gleeb only reads the panels he likes.He doesn’t read much.

KRAKK of a bullwhip?

Tracy’s ultimate expletive: “Ye Gods!”

Krakk? bullwhip? nah, that would have to be a lonnnng whip, but if it’s the Blackhearts, wouldn’t Tracy still be in danger if it’s a sniper. They must be fans of Sounds O’Plenty too. Everyone who was listening knew Angus was there and that more than likely Tracy would show up.

And Angus does a swan dive into a nearby smokestack…

All the kings horses and all the kings men…

ten bucks says he lands on the engine of a train ;) lol

Tracy […] has not had to lift a finger as this case solved itself around him.

I don’t buy that. He was poring through files in an unprecedented way not to long ago. The case never would have solved itself if he hadn’t gathered evidence of the connections.

Space Coupe death ray!

As much as I wish it was a Space Coupe cannon responsible for Tabby’s fall, I think we’ll have to settle for a more conventional weapon. Or maybe Tabby was standing on a ledge or platform that simply gave way?

I like the teeth in P1.

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I know no one’s going to see this, but I always knew this was how “Garfield” would end.