Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 06, 2010

I stayed up for this?

VistaBill how’s the snow situation?

Do you think they’ll come to blows?

Quit talking and start playing the violin so we can watch you go boom.

margueritem said, “VistaBill how’s the snow situation?”

Looks terrible outside, margueritem. Appears to have stopped for now, but there’s a lot more to come.

Take me to your leader, dude.

The microphone in Panel Three appears to be in front of the guy’s face, but look down and the mic stand is behind his hand and the guitar. Very MC Escher.

Stay warm and cozy, VistaBill.

Let’s hope the rock band hits a loud, high C; sets off the bomb prematurely; and wipes out this whole sorry excuse for a plot-line.

What’s the stuff in the top right hand corner of panel 3 ? Looks like some kind of furry barrel …?

Maybe that’s the travel container for the pig on wheels.

the mic stand is behind the guitar and in front of his arm

This is once again NO GO progress on GoComics

It’s been a week of “explaining” what went before, an unnecessary exercise if it had not been concealed in the first place when it acually happened. I fail to see any advantage to the story line by “wrong-footing” readers on the first time round (?) Result, we’ve been deprived of this weeks “tit-bit” of forward movement, (usually coming Friday to Saturday). It’s not clever and there’s NO UPside,

We’ll now have to wait for the single panel nudge forward on Sunday.

And this is one of the Artist who bemoans small panel space as inhibiting text to drive the story forward.

What a tragic waste of time and of limited space. Locher’s D.T. strips have become a replicating machine, effectively showing the same thing “over and over”, sadly, to explain what actually happened the FIRST fime round !

Then progress further “frustrated” by that irritating Sunday repeat requirement.

I’m seeing Locher here, more like a “bed-time” story man with a limited repertoire. It’s rather surprising … he still puts me to sleep..

N7326 Foxtrot said, “Maybe that’s the travel container for the pig on wheels.”

Long live the pig on wheels!

For an artistic example of incongruous groups playing together, see Richard Strauss’ opera, “Ariadne auf Naxos”. A serious opera company shares the stage with musical comedians.

Where’s the funny dead duck?

The band IS starting. Pity we can’t HEAR the high C note.

It would have been a comic strip FIRST !.

Then, before we passed on with the cast we might even have enjoyed a version of “Adriane auf Naxos”

That bass guitar only has 3 strings.

I guess the 4th string went to the violin.

Channce, there are instances of rock bands playing with a full orchestra, so perhaps it isn’t too far-fetched.

Deep Purple’s (in)famous “Concerto for Group and Orchestra…” Ah, a classic indeed…

I think it’s more likely, given what’s there, that the band and the quartet will come together and do a spontaneous ELO reunion.

Anthony, You’re .darned tooting right. Three strings on the guitar *… now you’ve “botched it”, as all this time Doty thought you were seeing “his” shadows on the violin too.

This further reinforces the point I made yesterday. Brozman has gone careless bananas. TMS needs to do a “Larry King” on him, and PULL him “upright” by the “suspenders”.

Upon further examination, I see that not only is the mic stand between the guitar and the guy’s arm, but his arm is between the mic stand and the mic’s audio cable! Must be all those drugs that rock musicians are known to indulge in.

When (and if) it finally happens, it will be more exciting than when Mammy Yokum played HIGH Z on the Trumpappy.

I think the Maestro would be happy to see what $2 mil bought! Junior needs a pole dancer to go with the group!

And Virgil wants to blow up the ambassador because…???