Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 30, 2015

Bets on the barge

If the barge is where the gold is, I wonder if it will burst open and all the gold will spill out?

Good morning Tracy fans and the ‘legal here’ Gweedo. Sunday or Monday we may see Ted saved and Jimmy get his just rewards.____________@Ken in Ohio: thank you my friend. Your prayers are greatly appreciated.____________@John Russell: I left you a message late yesterday. Thank you for your kind words my friend. ____________Have a great weekend everyone.

Tellum stay calm???

If that’s what’s necessary, hope his life insurance is paid up as well because someone about to get rich.

That barge is such a seemingly random element.

And where did Choo Shooz end up?

What’s the big deal about a barge going down? —Unless, as already suggested, it has somehow become the repository of the missing gold….Tellum, zip it, or maybe the copter will just “forget” about you!

Gweedo – It’s legal here !!! – Murray said, about 5 hours ago

A barge pocket full of Gold ?-——————————————————————————————————That’s what I’m placing my bets on.

Geez Louise… “the seven stranded castaways” got rescued quicker

A barge pocket full of Gold?-———————————————-I suggested that back on the 6th, but no one commented.Oh, well, I’m usually wrong, so….

Good morning guys!

Where was the barge hiding? Is it the gold that was lost years ago or the current heist?

Just to nitpick, one panel one, the water is not rising. It’s draining into the drill hole. It’s the land that Tellum is standing on that is sinking. I am sure Tellum will appreciate that clarification.

Strange. The water’s going down into the salt mine. Yet it’s rising on the island.

Looks like a telescoping megaphone in panel 2

Seems like Jimmy would have some idea where/how the gold was hidden. If it is on the barge, why would he have been digging on the shore trying to find it?

Most ladders from helicopters don’t terminate at a window in the helicopter. They terminate at an opening, like a door. Not nitpicking, but I see we need to send Joe to Chopper Top Gun School, or at least get him a GI Joe Helicopter Kit with Action Figures.

question how is the water rising when the lake is draining out it’s bottom?

Why not jump in Jimmy’s Pick Up Truck and drive OUT of the Area ? On land safer platform !Sure Jimmy left the key there, for a quick getaway !Beats the heck out of standing in raising, knee deep water.

And it can’t be the water rising (that’s being ‘sucked’ underground), The land area might be subsiding if there were salt tunnels nearby underground ?

And it’s not like those Salt miners (now up from below) or the Rig workers, last seen just ashore, are “SCREAMING” for Help ?

seems to be following the pattern of the lake incident that was referenced earlier this week. Gas Drilling, Salt Mine, whirlpool, sinking island, and disappearing barges. Most of the barges reappeared several days later when the whirlpool subsided. Great story that you should read about, A very expensive mistake, lawsuit payouts over 50 million if I remember right….

I was thinking that the barge is holding the 1924 gold.

@Gweedo: thank you. Your best wishes are greatly appreciated.__________@John Russell: thank you for you prayers. They are greatly appreciated. The doctor told me it would take weeks and perhaps months for my vision to return to normal after the surgery.

Ye Gods ! What, no Great Caesar’s ghost???

Perfect Tracy: “Ye Gods!”

This gold thing has us all perplexed and I am thinking that if it was placed in that barge there would have been a lot of activity around it that would not have gone unnoticed. We saw Jimmy poking around with a spade trying to find that massive amount of gold that just did not make sense. I hope we get a confirmation that he went to another world and that he will be reminded that the gun will not help his situation. Sometimes … Always a gun will produce a sense a security and when the bullets run out the gun becomes throwing weapon. I wonder if Jimmy will try to shoot that whirlpool and when he runs out of ammo will he throw the pistol at it? Of all the D.T. villains Jimmy Choo Shooz has to be my least favorite. This guy is truly the stinkers’ stinker, and I see him as a cross eyed, humpback, bowlegged, pigeon toed, ornery, no mining criminal that has a big time spanking coming to him, If not now in this lifetime, then the next one to come. Dying in a natural (so to speak) disaster is too easy for a guy like him. Considering all the people that he murdered (that we know about) I’d like to see him go to trial.

Tracy calling to a rescue victim through a bull horn from a helicopter! Excellent! Reminds me of the March 1961 rescue of Fresh from an ice floe – Tracy used the bull horn to instruct her what to do as they attempted to rescue her. Very similar art.

How can the water be rising when it is going down the drain?

Same thing Sir.

If the water started spinning into a whirlpool, centrifugal force could cause the water to be forced outward and rise temporarily until enough water drained to allow it to fall again.

@Night-Gaunt49: thank you for your best wishes my friend. Be well._________@NightShade09: your thoughts and prayers are greatly appreciated my friend. Be well.

We haven’t seen the truck for a while, but if we see it again, we might see it spinning down into the whirlpool.

It seems I was right about the ladder. I think that how they usually rescue people by helicopter.

Noticing again how big “POLICE” is written on the side of the helicopter, I marvel at how Jimmy guessed that it was a police chopper before he fled. He seems to wear very thick glasses. I guess they don’t do a lot for his vision.

Yes, I did get to meet Alexandra Cousteau. She was on the jury of judges who decided on the winners, so we discussed some aspects of my team’s app. She flew all the way from France to be here and she’s pregnant, too!

… yes, that is a good point

Can’t say that for sure. Gold was $35 an ounce then; $1200 now.