Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 20, 2014

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    cpalmeresq  over 10 years ago

    Amazing, indeed!

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    cpalmeresq  over 10 years ago

    For those of you who didn’t like the Moon era, maybe you should just stop reading now! As for me, I’m staying!

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    Rod Gonzalez  over 10 years ago

    Diet, ol’ Doc Wonmug beat you to it.

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    retropop  over 10 years ago
    I can buy a race of moon people and Dick having a half Alien granddaughter, but this really is crossing the line of reality.
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    atomicdog  over 10 years ago

    Wait a minute. Diet Smith considers space travel “too dangerous” and he’s playing around with TIME TRAVEL?

    He needs to have a talk with Marty McFly.

    “Time travel gives me a headache.” – Captain Kathryn Janeway

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    cpalmeresq  over 10 years ago

    Whoever it is that has constantly been asking for the return of Flattop, here’s your chance!

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    cpalmeresq  over 10 years ago

    Also, thought the other day that Axel & Pruneface would have been good conspirators…

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    Neil Wick  over 10 years ago

    A very interesting development! I wonder where it will go. By the way, the neighbourhood around Diet Smith Industries seems quite prone to thunderstorms. At least, thunderstorms have been a major plot device twice in recent years.

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    avenger09  over 10 years ago

    Oh oh, The estate of Michael Crichton might sue for copyright infringement! LOL! Great book but the movie was terrible. Too bad.

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    nerdhoof  over 10 years ago

    A few days ago I was thinking Mr. Am might be a time traveler.

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    blunebottle  over 10 years ago

    It wouldn’t be Diet Smith if it wasn’t far out and over the top!Write on, Joe & Mike!

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    doctor075  over 10 years ago

    Better talk to Time Lords about traveling through Time & Space.

    ;>)

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    AKHenderson Premium Member over 10 years ago

    ooo wee ooo…WEE oooooooooo….

    (Doctor Who theme)

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    coldsooner  over 10 years ago

    Mystery Ship? It IS Blues Image! RIDE CAPTAIN RIDE!

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    tripwire45  over 10 years ago

    As I recall, the original Philadelphia Experiment was supposed to be about invisibility, either to visual wavelengths or radar, although one variant of the legend had to do with time travel. The story goes that after the ship rematerialized, men were found stuck between bulkheads. Of course nothing was ever substantiated.

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    davidf42  over 10 years ago

    Wow! Here I was expecting a crossover between Dick Tracy and Little Orphan Annie, but it looks more like a crossover between Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, and Alley Oop, with the possibility of a little Gasoline Alley thrown in for good measure!

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    Sisyphos  over 10 years ago

    I do hope that Diet Smith Industries is at least a few years away from practical applications of time travel, because if some of us find Dick Tracy plots a bit confusing now, imagine what they might be like when any character, from any era, even if completely dead, might show up again! Oyy, my head aches (just like Janeway’s, AtomivDog)!

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    Pequod  over 10 years ago

    Taking the time to say I find making the time to take delight in this strip a wise investment of my time.

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    ladykat  over 10 years ago

    Diet, you need to speak to Dr. Who.

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    RBurt  over 10 years ago

    Quick send Warbucks back in time so he can make even more money by knowing what companies to buy and where to invest. Wait a minute send me instead

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    SKJAM! Premium Member over 10 years ago

    I predict that by the end of this storyline, one of the villains will be trapped in the Jurassic Era, or at least have it implied that’s where they ended up.

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 10 years ago

    Good morning, Gweedo! Good morning fellow DT and Annie fans!

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    I Go Pogo   over 10 years ago

    People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint – it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly… time-y wimey… stuff.

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    Ken in Ohio  over 10 years ago

    Coldsooner already mentioned it, but the first thing I thought of this morning is: “Mystery Ship”! So Mike really was referencing Blues Image yesterday.The next thing I thought of has also been mentioned by fellow readers, but it bears repeating: If Diet really was all that concerned about the possible bad side effects of his Magnetic Space Coupe, how does it not occur to him that messing with time travel might not be such a good idea?But, if we read the dialog carefully yesterday and today, he didn’t actually say it was time travel. He talks about sending his video camera from a place where it was raining to a place where it was sunny and blue sky. That could be an experiment with teleporting. or something. It was Tracy who jumped on the time travel idea, unless, there was dialog off panel where Diet said “This is our experiment with time travel”If it is time travel, then Diet’s remark to Oliver about Moon Gear yesterday – “That’s all in the past” – takes on a double meaning!

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    abdullahbaba999  over 10 years ago

    We All create our own Reality..its got nothing to do with TV

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    jrankin1959  over 10 years ago

    I read the comic, get a good idea for a comment (both here and over at “Nancy”), then find someone’s beaten me to it. What, you folks staying up until midnight for the daly change of panels or something? ;-)

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    avenger09  over 10 years ago

    Might you be thinking of H. G. Wells, who wrote “The Time Machine”?

    No! LOL!! Guess again.

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    tsull2121  over 10 years ago

    maybe they can go back in time and get Chester Gould or Fletcher & Collins to start writing again, This is a bit too much of a stretch even WITH suspension of disbelief.

    Hey wait, now that I think about it.. maybe Tracy can go back in time and actually solve some of his OWN cases without outside help! Thinkn about it… he oculd actually find and apprehend the nitrates BEFORE they end up in the river (or he could stick around long enough to find out where they went!) he could alert Uncle Ray and Bonnie NOT to accept the invitation from Abner and apprehend BOTH abner and blackjack (and hell why not throw rikki mortis in there too), stop tabby angus from escaping, apprehend mrs flattop, bb eyes, mumbles, prevent diet from sending ghote, sail and the sputnik clod into space, prevent ghote and sail from creating franken mindy, hjeck he could even go back and figureo ut what the REAL ENDING to the sweatbox fiasco was supposed to be!

    oh my word, this opens a whole NEW trove of treasures doesnt it?!?!?!

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    willy007  over 10 years ago

    Time travel?? Sign me up!! I’ve argued many times in this forum that science fantasy is all the rage in pop culture, and that Team Tracy shouldn’t be shy about embracing that part of this strip’s legacy. Today’s installment tells me they aren’t. Yahoo!

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    s.gottlieb  over 10 years ago

    OMG, Diet created a TARDIS? Chameleon circuit and all?

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    willy007  over 10 years ago

    “Run with it team!”Absolutely!

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    Tommygunner  over 10 years ago

    Yes! This is the kind of stuff that hooked me on Dick Tracy as a kid. I hope Curtis and Staton have the temerity to run with this.

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    DrSid1  over 10 years ago

    I suspect this tie-ins with Sparkle’s “strangely written” mystery letter (postage due, a fan commenting on her past childhood singing career.)

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    yumpinyiminey  over 10 years ago

    “Are you serious, Diet?”Here’s hoping he is! I love this development. Diet Smith Industries has always been on the cutting edge of scientific achievement, and in a comic strip world, why not? Time travel provides endless story possibilities. I for one hope Mike Curtis lets his imagination run wild with this.

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    fhoffman01  over 10 years ago

    Now this is fun.

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    LittleIggy  over 10 years ago

    Don’t step on s butterfly in the past.

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    jonahhex1  over 10 years ago

    Better be careful with that stuff…..a host of disasters can happen from dabbling in time travel.

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    MJ Premium Member over 10 years ago

    So will they be loading 73 men into the Mystery Ship?

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    Jerry1967  over 10 years ago

    I agree with others that this is a very fun development. We’ll see where it goes, but I like.

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    Tarry Plaguer  over 10 years ago

    Diet, this time machine is Brilliant!”“Not yet, but it could be.”

    Think about it. Warbucks is doing everything in his power to find his ward, Annie. Who would Diet do anything for?

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    Can't Sleep  over 10 years ago

    “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” by Chicago.

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    Can't Sleep  over 10 years ago

    @Night-Gaunt49“Now you are talking about parallel worlds, not time traveling.”—But time travel lets you create an alternate timeline, and a parallel world from where you deviate history.Suppose you went back to Ford’s Theater in a union uniform, and stood guard outside the President’s box, stopping John Wilkes Booth. That would have changed the past 150 years of US history, and likely had ever expanding repercussions in world events.Of course, if you didn’t want to alter history, you’d have to be very, very careful. No introducing new diseases, advanced technology, etc.

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    I Go Pogo   over 10 years ago

    Perhaps Diet Smith bought GeoComTex from Henry van Statten, eh Doctor?

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    coldsooner  over 10 years ago

    “Turn Back The Hands Of Time” Tyrone Davis

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    ewalnut  over 10 years ago

    So are they going to go back in time and get Annie — which would explain why she was missing before?

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    jrankin1959  over 10 years ago

    Aaaand, if you noticed the control panel he was working with, he might have been a Time Lord.

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    Pequod  over 10 years ago

    I am very pleased to see Diet Smith back in action as an industrialist who supports research and experimentation. I was sorry to see the moon tech scrubbed, believing this was a sign of timidity. It seems I was wrong. The shift to more audacious work going on at Smith Industries is delightful, with implications for future fun. .“The Times They are A-Changin’”“Born in Time”“Most of the Time”“Fourth Time Around”“Pledging My Time”.~Bob Dylan

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    Can't Sleep  over 10 years ago

    I wonder if Axel gets his hands on this, will he use it to send Warbucks back to the concentration camp where he ‘killed’ Axel years ago?Hoo boy.

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    TJ000  over 10 years ago

    I love this.

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    Chris-One  over 10 years ago

    The Doctor’s TARDIS was the better time machine

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    ajaxxphat  over 10 years ago

    “Blue Image”?! Yow baby! Ride Captain Ride!Time travel is like music to my ears. I’m so stoked for this story now. Wherever Mike Curtis takes us, I see much fun ahead.

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    Neil Wick  over 10 years ago

    Too obvious, I know but you missed“Back in Time,” by Huey Lewis and the News

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    DayDay2001  over 10 years ago

    Time Travel? Gimme gimme! Reminds me of the 60’s and that great old show, The Time Tunnel. Wild and imaginative!

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    s.gottlieb  over 10 years ago

    I wonder if Sparkle’s letter had anything to do with a weeping angel…

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    Chief Patton  over 10 years ago

    What a great development! Fascinated to see what happens with Diet’s time travel machine.And here are a few more songs!16. Time in a Bottle – Jim Croce17. Future Games – Fleetwood Mac18. For The Longest Time – Billy Joel19. As Time Goes By – from Casablanca20. The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year – Andy Williams

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