Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 11, 2010

Again with this “makeup” business! Explain to me please what kind of makeup would completely smooth over a person’s face, yet allow them to see and breathe?

Ye gads! Anja Nu is sure going downhill in a hurry! Things are really moving along here!

OMG, what’s happening to her face??

VistaBill It is possible, I’m sorry to say, she is uglier than she was the other day…

Flight Suit said, “Again with this “makeup” business! Explain to me please what kind of makeup would completely smooth over a person’s face, yet allow them to see and breathe?”

Some sort of acid, perhaps.

It looks like Anja Nu is turning into Mrs. Pruneface!

Flight Suit… Nevermind the makeup. How is it possible for someone to even survive this long without a face? How is he breathing now? And, what does he plan to do when lunch arrives?

Aaaagh! Delete P3…pleeeeese!

VistaBil said;

“Ye gads! Anja Nu is sure going downhill in a hurry! Things are really moving along here!”

Anja Nu is not her real name. She was born Nancy Tropy - N. Tropy. That explains her decay.

Instead of Anja Nu, I think that Locher should’ve made the director Anaïs Nin. Of course, that would mean no kiddies could read about Dick during this adventure.

Flight Suit said:

“Again with this ‘makeup’ business! Explain to me please what kind of makeup would completely smooth over a person’s face, yet allow them to see and breathe?”

I think it’s called vanishing cream. And Anja Nu needs some, stat!

Yesterday Handrew provided this link:

http://glasshousepresents.com/Mike_Curtis.htm

You do have to scroll down a ways but it’s worth it to see how others could be handling this strip.

I enjoyed Joe Staton’s work years ago on a fun comic book called E-Man. While I wouldn’t associate his style with Gould’s work, the examples given at that site plainly show that Staton’s stuff sure beats this junk.

Good link, Handrew.

Yikes! Anja Nu is getting uglier everytime I look at her. What happened to my antivirus software! I think she’s attacking my computer! I won’t be VistaBill if she does… I’ll just be Bill…

OK people, Johnny Nothing is not wearing makeup; he’s had a cosmetic procedure called a “face wipe.” For more info, skip to the four minute, thirty-five second mark in the following video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRgroOwo5iQ

http://shockdom.com/open/carl/2010/05/11/striscia-18/

Great stuff, Carlo!

Was in such a hurry to “have the first dialogue” and now stands around jaw jacking.

Anja is aging quite rapidly.

As she plummeted from on high She knew her death was drawing nigh Her only salvation seemed to be To hit every branch on the ugly tree.

I’ve got it… There have been stories in the news lately about the first full face transplant having been performed in Spain a few weeks ago. Johnny Nothing was the donor!

Makeup can include a mask such as the original Blank used.

I’d like 2 no who does her makeup? No mystery about her, she’s just bleeep ugly!

Anja Nu’s face has all those lines because Johnny Nothing’s face has none at all. Locher and Brozman are required to use a certain amount of ink each day, and since none’s going into Johnny’s face…

This story gets slower each day.

blankity-blank-blank-blank. again.

“Again with this “makeup” business! Explain to me please what kind of makeup would completely smooth over a person’s face, yet allow them to see and breathe?”

I would assume the very same “make up” the original Blank used: flesh colored cheese cloth.

oh yeh? ask him to take a deep breath. ask him how he walks around without running into stuff. ask him how he talks….. unless that is a mask, this is really stupid

Anja Nu could use some of that makeup too!

Don’t know that makeup could fix that

I think Johnny Nothing would be qualified to receive a face transplant. Surgeons are doing wonders these days.

Rightwingmoron, you are right….I believe Anja Nu IS a decendent of Pruneface.

Guys, on my blog about the comic strip a little review on the previous Dick Tracy storyline:

http://usacomicstrips.blogspot.com/2010/05/dick-tracy-il-punto-della-situazione.html

It’s in italian but you can click the google translate botton, scroll down.

I’m still using this blank face to draw on.

i think Anja Nu is really Ugly Chirstine, who managed to extricate herself from the smoke stack she fell in forty-five years ago and has forgotten to upkeep her face lifts.

BTW Chester Gould died 25 years ago today.

Carlo, I still can’t find the “translate” button on your blog. For anybody who wants to read the English translation via Google Language Tools, here it is:

http://tinyurl.com/278gppt

Flight Suit:

Thanks for the link. I also had trouble finding the translation button on Carlo’s blog.

I wonder how well the sarcastic comments here translate to other languages via Google Language Tools.