Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 13, 2010

Hold on, hold on…

DT actually gets to fire his weapon!?

ON PURPOSE!?

In the direction of a living being!?

Who are you and what have you done with our comic strip?

Sorry to see the kid get it, but DT responded quickly with a “blam” from his pistol … into the crowd? Let’s hope his bullet penetrated Virgil Ohso’s clothing and body!

I do see what Sydney’s been saying about the angle of Virgil’s gun. For the bullet’s trajectory to match from yesterday to today, Virgil would have to have been on his knees when he pulled the trigger.

Roll Call

Flight Suit………………………Present

Vista Bill…………………………Present

Margueritem…………………ABSENT

Pow & Blam _OK

Here I am, Leaky! Who am I today?

Suddnly Dad is not appreciative that someone actually killed Jr.?

Flight Suit, I haven’t had a chance to get back to YouTube yet and see your other photos.

margueritem’s out there, leakysqueaky712. Betcha she’ll be here soon.

Please excuse me if I appear to be thick But why is Virgil poking sonny with a stick Tracy pulls his trusty gun And shoots sonny just for fun With rumpled suit and tousled hair He displays a certain flair His detective skills were not much use For which he received well deserved abuse But hopefully the story is winding down Maybe after this he’ll leave town.

margueritem: If I may…Percy Dovetonsils.

The answer can be found in Cul de Sac Marg.

Marg, I wasn’t saying I have other pics on YouTube (other than moving ones); I’m saying if you go there and PM me an address I can e-mail such things to you.

Now maybe the Maestro will change his attitude he had for his now deceased son.

margueritem, are you Percy Dovetonsils today?

That gun was fired by somebody standing behind Tracy. His arm could no way be that short.

WW your still on top of your game.

WTG Brother.

barticle35

All of the characters in these drawing have taken extensive courses in shorthand. So YES their arms could be that short.

Flight Suit said, “DT actually gets to fire his weapon!?”

I’m surprised that he even remembered he had it! He certainly forgot when he was in the 80’ high tiger cage!

Yas, I am Percy Dovetonsils his very own self!

And I see that you are ‘Young Frankenstein’, aka Gene Wilder.

margueritem said, “And I see that you are ‘Young Frankenstein’, aka Gene Wilder.”

None other! And note that Dick Tracy’s playing the role of a detective today!

Good Morning one & All. I just wonder why Tracy’s gun went “BLAM” instead of well you know “FLOOOOOOOMMMM!”

LordDogmore said, “Good Morning one & All. I just wonder why Tracy’s gun went “BLAM” instead of well you know “FLOOOOOOOMMMM!” ”

Good morning! And, why did Virgil Ohso’s gun say, “Pow”? Unless the guns say, “Bang!”, they don’t count! I believe Flight Suit has cornered the market on the “Flooooms”.

Yeah, I’ve got all my assets tied up in floom futures right now.

Whoa! Strap me in so I don’t fly off!

What happened? The plot is actually moving along from one day to the next! It’s no longer a still-life.

A tragedy, I’m so sad for the boy… :(

sob.

Jr may not be dead, in great pain no doubt.

Any one have night mares about that face. (panel 3)

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dkram

That face in panel 3 looks like a clogged up Don Imus.

Gut Shot should be able to be treated, IF they get to it right away instead of standing around for 2 weeks wondering “What Happened”(IT happened)

I have groupies? Wow, I have finally arrived! Now I know how Navin R. Johnson felt when he got his name in the phone book.

LOL @ Flight Suit!

FS, Marg, Leaky, VistaBill, et al, keep the banter coming! I’m right there with you in spirit every day. I feel like a “silent” member of the family!

Dont be so silent neonleon59 join in on the fun.

Good luck today!!!

Is there a race today, leakysqueaky?

Amid all the celebrations I just noted looking at the line-of-flight of the bullet, it seems Vergil fired from the HIP (?)

Yesterday, as the gun went “POW” it was under his chin, and pointing upward The positions and results simply don’t match.

As for the sound “BLAM”, I’d guess Brozman got tired of writing “POW”, a softer, gentler sound Locher uses to ease the harshness of gun fighting to appease TMS and a few left wing Moms.

Ray C

You know there is. :-)) Her prep race before the Clash of the two Titans next month. Gonna be a doozy.

Persons being shot once with a handgun not at point blank range have an approximately 70% chance of living through the injury. My son, on the other hand was shot to death by a robber wielding a shotgun. Please tell me how handgun laws will make any place safer? The two shooters at Columbine High School broke 16 different state and federal gun laws in their spree of ignorance. How many more gun laws would it have taken to stop them if 16 didn’t? (stepping down off of my soapbox)

I realize this was a bit of a non-sequitur, but I believe Jr could easily survive the shooting. Virgil Ohso also , unless it was Barnaby Jones who really fired the shot from behind Dick Tracy’s back, because when Barnaby Jones shoots, someone dies.

“IT HAPPENED!!!!”

MisngNOLA

My heart goes out to you on the tragic loss of your son.

Are you ever coming back home, or are you staying in Philly forever??

You cant expect to get the kind of food up there that you get down here…….hey, its crawfish season :-)))

At least this will put an end to “I’ll kill him.” On to the next repetitious dialog.

Hopefully the kid can live thru this…

The most profound writing this strip has seen in months!

This tragedy could have engendered great pathos (as it should) had there not been so many comedic blunders in the same strip

A ‘Jerky-pork’ art style started with the line of the bullet, an elbow length arm in panel 2 growing OUT of the shoulder socket and an unconvincing DEMEANOR on the father’s facs.

They all add up to a failure in achieving the deep feeling of sorrow - one believes the Author intended

Nothing more than a nervous “half laugh” !

Does the syndicate allow Dick to shoot his gun if most of it is out of frame? How much of it has to be out of frame? 70%? 80%?

The funny pages would look quite different if everybody framed their drawings like Locher & Brozman. Art museums, too. Imagine Washington Crossing the Delaware – with most of Washington cut off by the frame. Imagine Picasso’s Three Musicians – 2 1/8 Musicians.

Looks like Virgil crouched down to squat on the sidewalk between yesterday & today, so of course he has to aim upward, and Dick has to aim downward, which you see he’s doing. Can’t fault him there.

Of course Virgil was standing upright and holding his gun high when it started to go POW yesterday – so he must be able to move amazingly fast to squat down before the bullet exited the muzzle. Very fast indeed, since even a relatively low velocity pistol round has a muzzle velocity close to the speed of sound…. With moves like that, we can expect Virgil to dodge Dick’s bullet with ease. He could run circles around it.

-Cougar :{)

There is nothing the matter with the drawing of Tracy’s arm in the middle panel.

It is, after all, an example of small arms fire.

leakysqueaky, ahh, the evil villainess, Zenyatta !! We’ll boo and hiss when she comes to the gate! That’s about the best we can do to help.

OW! OW! OW!

My vote is that Jr. is only wounded! After all if he was actually dead how could this ridiculus plot continue for another 2 months!

Misng: Sorry to hear about your loss. In answer to your question,another 25! and even then it will not matter or be enougth.

The comment section is written much better and is much more entertaining then the actual strip!!! Keep up the good work gang.

Back in the old days of Dick Tracy comics, Dick used to shoot criminals all the time - and they’d show the bullets meandering out the other side of the criminals’ bodies. Guess that’s not PC enough for today’s readers.

I should clarify that my last comment was in response to one by LelandReport criticizing this comic strip and, to provide an example of how bad things have gotten, asserting that the situation had deteriorated to “…this idiot Flight Suit and his chat room full of groupies entertaining themselves!”

And Flight Suit I came immediately to your defense. But as soon as he removed HIS post, I removed mine.

I guess us “groupies” have to stick together.

Ya know Flight, you are looking a little Charles Mansonish lately.

Do I need to be scared?

As long as everybody does exactly what I say, everything should be just fine.

MisngNOLA, I’m very sorry to read about the los of your son.

Hey Aunt Marg! You’re hot today! Woo-hoo! Woot, Woot!

Can switching to Geico really save you up to 15% or more on car insurance?

Did Tracy have ample cause to question the son about the violin?

1-1-2010 The maestro TELLS Tracy his Strad is gone!

1-5-2010 The maestro TELLS Tracy “All I want from him (my son) is the return of my priceless Stradivarius.”

Hmm ! - A post from LelandReport, and he erased it ? And called FlightSuit an “idiot” ? That’s unfortunate.

Perhaps it was Liam that did the erasing (?)

As I recall, LelandReport is a comercial artist !

Marg, is that the lovely Edie Adams? Not that it couldn’t be the lovely Marguerite, of course.

I believe it is Ray C

Now why don’t you “Pick her up and smoke her sometime”??