Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 23, 2010

Good morning all!

“Last run through gang!”… another month or so and we’ll see the show!… maybe…

VB, don’t hold your breath….

Crime Slobber’s Gripe Book: Yes, kids, the days when a passing motorist would stop to help are long over. be prepared to pay through the nose if you have a break down.

He’s celebrating, Gweedo.

It’ll be up to Flight Suit to tell us the make of the car in Crimestoppers Textbook…

Why is he drawing this woman to look like Kitty Carlisle??

And what is “The Unknown Comic” from the Gong Show doing in this??

And is it me or does that man look like Wink Martindale??

You see, that is why I stopped coming here. This is too stupid. I come back just to take a peek, and it’s just as goofy as before.

That is not a car in crimestoppers textbook.

It’s one of Joy Manganos travel cases that she hawks on one of those shopping channels. This is too stupid.

leakysqueaky712 said, “That is not a car in crimestoppers textbook.”

Thanks. leaky. I couldn’t figure out what it was.

What, oh what, will happen to our fearless dick Does the Blank have up his sleeve, a trick? With bated breath we wait and wait That is a feeling that we have come to hate Molasses in February moves faster than this That is why with our comments we do diss With dynamite or with a gun Killing Tracy should be fun Old and feeble he has become Retirement he should not shun Lackluster scripts and atrocious art Has led many their ways to part No suspense is there here to see A point which we can agree So we gather to view the wreck Of a once great strip turned to drek.

Another classic by wndrwrthg.

I’m not one for poetry, at least the vague symbolic free verse stuff. But your poems I appreciate because they rhyme, they’re easy to understand, and unlike the DT strip, they entertain.

Realistic props? Is it me or do they look like flat cardboard cut-outs?

When the cast goes for a soda break, they can use Tracy’s nose to pop off the bottle caps.

wndrwrthg?

Wonder Warthog? That’s there’s comic book entertainment!

Every day the same situation. Uff…

If it’s almost curtain time why are they doing a run through??

I dread Sundays and the “weekly recap” - it’s bad enough having the same stuff repeated over and over and over on weekdays.

I’m gonna go with Leaky Squeaky: That’s a travel case, or a purse. I’ve certainly never seen an engine compartment that looked anything like that, except maybe in certain science fiction comics.

More importantly, this is very good advice: Any time your car breaks down, you should immediately phone 911 for emergency help. The police really appreciate that.

Last panel:

This is dinner theater, not the set of Ben Hur. You do not need a bullhorn to communicate with your four cast members and one stage hand.

Well, Locher seems to have found something even more ridiculous than Tracy’s “play by play commentary” of the circus story (and I use the term “story” reluctantly): Now we’ve got Johnny’s ongoing silent commentary. Coming next week: all the stuff finally happens, Tracy narrates it all for our vision-impaired readers, and Johnny provides the comments. We’ve finally found the Dandy Don and Pompous Howard of detective comics!

I think the thing in the Blankshooter’s Textbook picture is a view inside Cathy’s purse.

”CAR TROUBLE” ? - No COMIC STRIP TROUBLE !

If you crack the bonnet on this storyline (to use a Locher pun line) … you’ll see NOTHING of Value … a story crafted to go ‘nowhere’, and doing it slowly.

As puddleglum notes Locher punished us, actually standing for TWO full months in the Circus ring, with Tracy ‘eyeing’ the Bathroom door … for as Ringo’s nose told him – “it had happened”

On this occasion, thank the ‘Smell’ Fairy it’s only ONE month of “Aroma” ! But will the smell linger on ?

Panel 3 How can “Nancy Pelosi” fly with short “wings” like that ?

It’s a dead give away that Locher did the ‘penciling

Ah, in the second to last panel, the fabulous gravity defying bracelet appears again!

Grimegobber’s Tipsbook: No more playing parcheesi in the broke-down car till dawn before you finally call for the tow truck! Get out the cell phone and call now. You can play a quick game while you’re waiting for the tow truck but that’s all. :(

-Cougar :{)

i get the feeling that j-nothing-blank doesn’t like dt.

How did Nancy Pelosi get in this comic strip?

Groundzero7 asked, “How did Nancy Pelosi get in this comic strip?” Good question for Locher … he’s the Editorial Cartoonist.

This has gotten way beyond laughable! It’s almost slapstick! Move over Moe, Larry & Curly! You’ve met your match!

morrow said, “This has gotten way beyond laughable! It’s almost slapstick! Move over Moe, Larry & Curly! You’ve met your match”

And Sunday’s the best because it has Crime Stoppers Textbook in addition the strip! Like a double feature…

Flight Suit said, “This is dinner theater, not the set of Ben Hur. You do not need a bullhorn to communicate with your four cast members and one stage hand.”

It’s a small bullhorn, Flight Suit. Maybe a toy one.

Perhaps one of the four is hard of hearing.

Rightwingmoron said, “The car in the crimestopper panel is an Italian Import known as a “Ronzoni Downhill”.”

Wow! Those babies are really fast cars (going downhill). I wish they had brakes and a steering wheel, though.

Can anyone name anything that isn’t wrong with today’s offering?

fishbulb said, “Can anyone name anything that isn’t wrong with today’s offering?”

It was published on time.

This is getting so ridiculous it’s actually funny….

This storyline has been so achingly bad. Locher/Brozman clearly don’t have the SLIGHTEST idea about how theatre works. Why do they have movie set lighting? Why are they seemingly only finding out the end of the play on the night of opening? dress rehearsal?

And (going back several days) NOBODY yells “Quiet on the set!” in theatre. Make it stop! Make it stoooop!