Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 28, 2010

Real blood? I knew this story would be a winner!

Good Morning Bill, I still think Tracy couldn’t catch a wave in Tsunami.

ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz…….

Where did this clown suddenly appear from?

Wake up Flight Suit! You’re missing all the action here! The fast pace of this strip waits for nobody!

Copper? How about Gold and Silver?

In Mad Max, they call the cops “Bronze.”

3rd panel, the sideways silhouette of Tracy: Wha…!? He has the chiseled features of an Easter Island statue. Look at the area of his eyeball, the position of his eyelash. How can can he see blood with his eyes closed? Even with his eyes wide open the optical view formed by his overhanging brow and sunken orbits must give him severe tunnel vision.

It’s too bad that such poor art distracts from the excellent storyline.

3rd panel, body on floor and blood.

I think Locher got mixed up. That body is supposed to be over at his editorial cartoon commenting on the Gulf Oil spill with a caption like “BP: the Armpit of Pollution.”

Another murder committed in a room full of people. Geez…

Hey! My decoder ring is the same as Poe’s The Gold Bug. Rip!

Looks like Tracy back to being right handed, but appears to have a problem with those fingers

I’ll bet the audience is on the edge of their seats. Disappointed that Macy wasn’t the guy on the floor, but still excited.

The slit eyes in panel one suggests a new Chinese newspaper is nibbling at the TMS door. They’ve baited the hook again. Given a little more luck they may get back up to 50 newspapers before Locher retires

So Johnny Nothing wasn’t trying to kill Tracy after all–he had a long-standing grudge against the bit-part actor who’s playing King Pynn! Probably goes back to their shared childhood, when Pynn wouldn’t let little Johnny play with the Pig on Wheels.

Tracy, from years of experience on the force, knows the difference between stage blood and real blood…which the audience probably can’t see…

…or Johnny Nothing’s not that great a script writer….

The criminals in this strip should really rethink this practice of committing their crimes in front of an audience.

In the last panel, the part of Dick Tracy will be played by Bert from Sesame Street.

Oh boy! Now we’re getting somewhere.

Hold tight kids, things are going to get exciting!

Wow! Tracy is ambidextrous. A couple of days ago he was left-handed.

Correction: YESTERDAY Tracy was left-handed.

morrow - You say ‘open sesame’ … the door opens, and BASSMANBOB is happily back over on the Annie board today !

Joe-Allen “Joe” Doty said, No one is LITERALLY “ambidextrous.” That word refers to a person who can use BOTH OF HIS RIGHT HANDS.

How you figure that, Joe-Allen “Joe”? Since the Merriam-Webster definition of “ambidextrous” is “using both hands with equal ease,” wouldn’t somebody who could use both hands be, by definition, literally ambidextrous?

(I suppose you’re going to blather something about the word deriving from the Latin dexter, meaning “situated on the right,” but the word “literal” refers to something adhering to a word’s primary meaning, not to its etymology.)

Great post neonleon59, Alway good to do the ‘research’.

According to Webster it’s “using both hands with equal ease”. That’s literal enough for me. Remember, we speak English here, not Latin.

Yeah Joe-Allen “Joe” Doty, this here’s America! If you wanna speak Latin, you can just move back to…

Um…

Whatever country it is where they speak Latin.

I just love bickering and sqoabbling as long as I’m. in the audience and not part of the cast