Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 18, 2014

Good morning guys!

Sam has got a very wry sense of humor

Scout complaining about the school play … she has to dress as a “ham” … nice reference Mr. Curtis!!!

RIP Glen LarsonI’ve been bummed all day. I literally grew up watching his shows, and all of them were my favorites. I even own the DVD sets to a few of them now, and re-watch them sometimes. Hard to think what life would have been like without The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Battlestar Galactica, Knight Rider, Magnum PI, and Quincy.

@Tarry PlaugerNot to mention The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, McCloud, and others I’ve forgotten, but used to watch all time. For the last 24 hours or so, I’ve had the Knight Rider theme going through my head. Geln Larson was a writer of that music, as he was for many of the themes of his shows.

Pat’s just being kind to you Sam, it was very lame!

“Personal and private”… that’s why we’re watching from the one-way mirror.

Morning, Tracyville!Time out for a little levity.

Well done, Sam. The film adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel is tremendous, providing Gregory Peck the role of a lifetime, as Atticus Finch.

One of the papers on the bulletin board shifted. MAGICAL! I know what to buy Sam for Christmas; a joke book!

the exact quote from Kandikane to Margot on 11/8/14 says this

“Oh hush Margot, I dont teas you Lois about the men in your lives. At least Vitamin doesnt wear a cape.”

Sorry Tarry, Neilwick and Jpuzz.. but Kandikane mentioning Lois in that statement lends itself to mean that she is a sister rather than a maid, a close friend etc… and Jpuzz… ys Margot is The Shdow’s “main squeeze” just like Lois Lane is Superman’s.

Why would Kandikane reference a maid, or a close friend etc in a comment like that?

Nope, sorry.. but it seems obvious that the hint here is that Margot, Kandikane and Lois Lane are all sisters… and for whoever it was yesterday that said Lois Lane only has one sister, named Lucy… perhaps you werent reading this strip a little over a year ago when “Oswald’s Brother” Broadway Bates made his return. The storyline itself started out with some sort of spotlight signal flashing across the sky and Broadway leaving the town and mentioning something about his brother

Good morning VistaBill, davidf42 and fans. Y’all have a blessed day.

GREAT reference and shout-out to Harper Lee! Love this comic strip, just love it!

Comments moving a bit slowly this morning * . . .*

Not much to comment on, cause Not Much of Substance Happening !

Except Staton does have a nice," healthy looking" profile of Sam in panel 3In the pink of health and apparently toothpick and Nicotine Patch FREE. Would be excellent art to go with a No Smoking Ad !

Vitamin had a fiancé in the 1990’s named Fame...She jumped to her death from the H in the Hollywood sign and died in Vitamin’s arms.

Egads..

Well, decades ago, I jumped from the “D” and landed without even a sprained ankle, lol…

This whole thing about capes assumes Kandikane was talking about super-heroes.Historical reenactors wear capes. So do some people who dress up as fictional characters for conventions (or just for fun). Such characters include Dracula, Doctor Who (the 3rd doctor), the Phantom of the Opera, Little Red Riding Hood, and even some super-types. And I know a doctor who works at a local hospital and wears a cape (though he calls it a cloak). Gosh – maybe Margot or Lois is dating him?

So will VF be talking to Tracy about his infatuation with Kandikane Lane? Or will it be about his costar Mr. Cushing? Or both?

I don’t think he’s taken much notice of Mr. Cushing. Vitamin tends to have a one-track mind in my opinion.

I’m always interested to see how comic strips are adapted into films. I actually think that the 1990 Disney Dick Tracy film did a pretty good job of reproducing that comic book feel. Obviously, not everyone would agree with me on that.

Robert Rorke, TV editor at the New York Post didn’t get it, in my opinion. He wrote a new days ago, “Pacino won an Oscar nomination for his hammy performance as Big Boy Caprice in the “Dick Tracy” spoof. Everything about his makeup and costume was over-the-top — including that schnozz.” Do any of you honestly believe that movie was a “spoof” of the Dick Tracy strip?

Just released today, is a trailer for the Peanuts 3-D movie coming out next Christmas (2015). I think they’ve actually done a good job of translating the comic flat comic strip drawings into three dimensions without losing the look of the original.

Ian Keith as Flintheart in the Morgan Conway Dick Tracy movies of the 40s. Pretty good adaptation.

How did you know my rank, Gweedo?

Regarding capes, I believe Orson Welles also wore a cape.

It didn’t advance the plot, but it gave us a laugh. It was entertaining, and isn’t that the point?

Succumb to what? Being entertaining? Trying to please everyone?

I don’t lead by yelling at the troops, Gweedo.