Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 14, 2014

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    Pequod  almost 10 years ago

    Look to see a Christmas tree, reminder of the seasonThe Nitrates have returned to town, not without a reason.They seek to con the actress, Aggie: riches they would takeAgainst long odds they did survive frozen plunge into the lake.The Wonder Car did take them far from deep in Davey’s lockerLook to see redux history: destination such a shocker.Onstage at the Patterson, crashes curtains on the playEinstein waits in the alley to aid Gruesome’s getaway.A hidden bomb makes Gruesome calm; a smoke-screen masks his flightThe audience now terrified, scrambles in frenzied fright.Outside, in the alleyway, Lizz is calm and steadyHer eyes glued to the doorway, skilled hands at the ready.Blocking Gruesome’s getaway, the brave Detective LizzCourage and tenacity to stymie plans of his.Lizz she is a dynamo, protector so persistentDoes great honor to the badge, for justice she’s insistent.The fiend would cremate innocents or maim them in a blastCommands Einstein to mow Lizz down; may such words be his last.

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    cpalmeresq  almost 10 years ago

    Don’t think that’s going to happen, Gruesome!

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  almost 10 years ago

    Good morning all!

    Nice work Pequod77.

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    jonahhex1  almost 10 years ago

    Told you Lizz was on the spot…..somehow I don’t think Einstein is going to “mow her down”.

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    Neil Wick  almost 10 years ago

    They won’t get past Lizz all that easily!

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    Tarry Plaguer  almost 10 years ago

    Einstein – “I’m a doctor, not a get away driver!”Oh, wrong show.

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    Jim Douglas  almost 10 years ago

    Explosion was so great yesterday,we got it again !

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    Can't Sleep  almost 10 years ago

    “Mow her down”? I don’t think so.

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    coldsooner  almost 10 years ago

    Totally agree that Grusome is barking up the wrong tree if he thinks he’s just going to “mow down” this lady cop!

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    Sisyphos  almost 10 years ago

    I dunno. That explosion is looking more serious today than it did yesterday: the folks on stage seem to be pretty badly knocked about….Meanwhile, if Einstein follows Gruesome’s cold-blooded directive and rams Lizz’s car, she may not be able to stop their escape. Gruesome at this point is looking all too successful, and the MCU is being battered and bettered by baddies. If the Nitrates should show up soon, things could get even worse!

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    AnyFace  almost 10 years ago

    Hope the actors survive this.

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    davidf42  almost 10 years ago

    Morning, Tracyville!Nice work Pequod! Thanks!

    Comparing today’s explosion scene to the strip on December 10, I believe the people in the picture to be Sam, Dick, Vitamin, Agate, and Mel.

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    Starman1948  almost 10 years ago

    Good morning my friends. Another winner Pequod,Excellent comments all. Have a great day.

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    Morrow Cummings  almost 10 years ago

    I think PQ has finally upstaged the cast of the MCU! Take a bow, PQ! Bravo! (Crowd throwing bouquets of cut flowers at PQ’s feet)

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    AnyFace  almost 10 years ago

    Question …

    Is the Gruesome storyline definitely a limited run, short term event?

    Beginning to wonder now if he’ll make a relatively clean getaway (… to eventually join up with the Blackhearts?) while the strip focuses on the aftermath of the blast, then eventually segues into the hinted at Nitrates/Agate plot.

    Wouldn’t be the first time Joe and Mike put a villain’s capture on hold whilst building towards a larger overarching event.

    [They’d most recently teased the Blackheart’s ongoing recruitment drive in the 10/22/14 – 10/26/14 strips, be a missed opportunity if it didn’t dovetail somehow.]

    And speaking of teases …

    From 11/4/14 – 11/6/14, we seemingly randomly cut to Diet Smith, who’s in the midst of dismantling his “Blue Image” time travel project (… introduced during the “Annie” crossover!) where he leaves us with these ominous words …

    “Of all the images we received, the last was most telling. It was of this building, all gone but for some rubble atop its cornerstone, while aircraft filled the sky overhead.”

    Holy “Crisis on Infinite Amounts of Foreshadowing!”

    Wonder if this will pay off ‘round about Tracy’s 100th Anniversary in 2031.

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    abdullahbaba999  almost 10 years ago

    Its up to you, Lizz…get the bast**d…

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    abdullahbaba999  almost 10 years ago

    WOW, THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT….

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    Pequod  almost 10 years ago

    Lizz and Karloff face off! What a thrill. Mr. Staton has captured Lizz perfectly. Big snowflakes fall, reminders of the season and Team Tracy’s rich attention to detail. Yesterday we had silhouettes, a close up and an explosion from the vantage point of the aisle, as theatre patrons ran for their lives. Kandikane is safe, but will Vitamin need to be nursed back to robust health? I like the way the play and Gruesome intersected for a new twist on an old classic. Gruesome looks a bit worse for the wear, himself, as he emerges from the theatre. Very nice work with the colors!.Will Lizz take out Gruesome and Einstein on her lonesome, or will help come running? It would be just like Tracy and Sam to dust themselves off and jump back in the fray. My money is on Lizz in the battle of beauty versus the beast.

    Thanks to VistaBill, cpalmeresq, boboscar, Gweedo, davidf42, Starman1948, Willy007 (welcome back), Neil Wick, Morrow and mzkdad for the kind words. Very much appreciated!

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    Chris Sherlock  almost 10 years ago

    I don’t think it’s possible to “mow down” Lizz quite as easily as Gruesome apparently thinks!

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    the too late song  almost 10 years ago

    Damn. The last 3 panels SMOKE!

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    RonBerg13 Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Per the star badge… or, someone made a design error, and it looked so good, they decided to keep it.

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    Sopranos  almost 10 years ago

    If Mr. Gould were here still doing this strip, he’d have Lizz do something violent such as fire her weapon, peppering the front windshield in a hail of hot lead, killing both Gruesome & Einstein and swerving into something resulting in their getaway car exploding in a fireball.

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    Jerryjohn52  almost 10 years ago

    It seems rather odd that there are so many restrictions on what can be put in a comic strip now when so many other media have expanded the limits of what they can show.For example, TV shows, video games, music videos, comic books and movies. All of those have upped the violence yet they are so scared to offend in comic strips.

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    Pequod  almost 8 years ago

    Look to see a Christmas tree, reminder of the season

    The Nitrates have returned to town, not without a reason.

    They seek to con the actress, Aggie: riches they would take

    Against long odds they did survive frozen plunge into the lake.

    The Wonder Car did take them far from deep in Davey’s locker

    Look to see redux history: destination such a shocker.

    Onstage at the Patterson, crashes curtains on the play

    Einstein waits in the alley to aid Gruesome’s getaway.

    A hidden bomb makes Gruesome calm; a smoke-screen masks his flight

    The audience now terrified, scrambles in frenzied fright.

    Outside, in the alleyway, Lizz is calm and steady

    Her eyes glued to the doorway, skilled hands at the ready.

    Blocking Gruesome’s getaway, the brave Detective Lizz

    Courage and tenacity to stymie plans of his.

    Lizz she is a dynamo, protector so persistent

    Does great honor to the badge, for justice she’s insistent.

    The fiend would cremate innocents or maim them in a blast

    Commands Einstein to mow Lizz down; may such words be his last.

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    Civanfan  about 3 years ago

    In the trunk onstage? I guess that’s how you sow some wild Otis.

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