Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 27, 2015

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    cpalmeresq  over 9 years ago

    Maybe a little TOO much honesty with the nutty Mr. Bribery, Diet! (Whether you are being truthful or not!)

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    AnyFace  over 9 years ago

    And yet, here we are.

    Still broaching the subject.

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    AnyFace  over 9 years ago

    Coupe or not Coupe.

    That is the question.

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    AnyFace  over 9 years ago

    Still gives me chills whenever Joe renders Moon Tech.

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    atomicdog  over 9 years ago

    Smith may find out that technology is harder to destroy than he thinks.

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    atomicdog  over 9 years ago

    Elon Musk may have to hire some bodyguards….

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    doctor075  over 9 years ago

    “Once you let the Genie out of the bottle ….”

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    Can't Sleep  over 9 years ago

    “All the space technology at Smith Industries has been destroyed…”He’s got a coupe tucked away somewhere else.

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    jonahhex1  over 9 years ago

    I’m thinking that someone got a copy of the plans for a Space Coupe….wouldn’t surprise me if Bribery has them.

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    Jerryjohn52  over 9 years ago

    A few days ago we viewed some old strips that showed Mr. Bribery having the 2 unnamed twins study the blueprints of the Space Coupe. What did he do with those blueprints? He must still have them somewhere. Besides that I’ve said before that there must be plans out there somewhere along with engineers that worked with them on earth or at Diet Smith’s moon base. He couldn’t erase what’s inside people’s heads.

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    Ashmael  over 9 years ago

    Diet is in for some rough treatment. Bribery is not the type who takes no for an answer.

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    Ashmael  over 9 years ago

    As I understand it, we saw Joie Pcket all the time whilst his twin Bribery remained hidden hell knows where. Still, a bit hard to swallow, but so be it. Further discussion is futile, I think.But I hope there are no more repechases of dead characters.

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    retropop  over 9 years ago

    Really, he destroyed every last piece – even hard copies – blueprints,paper,etc?

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    William Weedman  over 9 years ago

    No industrialist destroys everything, those blueprints are out there and probably the old coupe with police markings is hidden away…

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    corpcasselbury  over 9 years ago

    I’d almost swear that Mr. Bigg/Bribery has had a rather large whiff of The Joker’s gas.

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 9 years ago

    Good morning guys!.Good morning Gweedo wherever you are..I vote “bring back the space coupes”!

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    crobinson019  over 9 years ago

    Even the Patent office is likely to have copies of the Blueprints, to affix Diet’s claims. And I can’t imagine the government didn’t get ahold of it.

    And even if the Space Coupes have been destroyed, I’m sure the tech has helped Smith Industries and been used in OTHER applications. Reverse Engineering should be possible too!

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    Ashmael  over 9 years ago

    @Corpcasselbury I’m sure that after Diet’s flat out refusal the smile will disappear…

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    jz27wk Premium Member over 9 years ago

    And we still have not dealt with the apparent moon people who were shown viewing Mysta’s tombstone how many months ago. Will they eventually tie into this story line?

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    BiggerJ  over 9 years ago

    As someone who hadn’t heard of Mr. Bribery before: this was the PERFECT choice for the conclusion to a build-up to a mysterious criminal mastermind. He’s horrifyingly twistedly creepy in a way I never expected.

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    Can't Sleep  over 9 years ago

    Unless Diet has kept the particulars of his EM craft from others there must be knock offs out there.-——————————————————-And they are being built by kids in a factory somewhere in China.

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    Starman1948  over 9 years ago

    A pleasant day to all my friends.-———-@AtomivDog, Jim in CT, blunebottle, JonahHex, Jerryjohn52, retropop, William Weedman, Neil Wick, Vista Bill, Chris Robinson: I agree Mr B has the plans. He may force Smith Industries to build a space coupe. Alternately Mr B may have his own lab.-————Be happy and healthy everyone.

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    Can't Sleep  over 9 years ago
    Yesterday someone suggested that Mr. Bribery was based on FDR.

    I remembered character actor Franklin Pangborn from the 30’s-40’s. (That’s his picture as my avatar.)If someone can tell me how to post photos, I’d share. (I thought I’d had the formula copied down correctly, but it didn’t work when I tried it yesterday.)

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    Starman1948  over 9 years ago

    @BiggerJ: I agree. Be well my friend.

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    TracyFan 65  over 9 years ago

    Any more tilt and Bribery’s head will be horizontal.Ouch!

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    JB2K  over 9 years ago

    Thinking the next step is to have Diet Smith’s remote control bring back the Space Coupe which was jettisoned into space, during its’ last appearance (we never saw the device being destroyed, did we?).

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    atomicdog  over 9 years ago

    I think that the reason that Bribery let Notta live is now clear. She’s a fully rated Space Coupe engineer.

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    tsull2121  over 9 years ago

    Oh joy!! the BIGG reveal has finally happened! (pun intended) and its…MR BRIBERY! umm…yay?

    I have quite an imagination, but even I don’t buy this excuse at resurrection

    having never read a single story involving mr bribery, I don’t really see the big deal behind this revelation (yup, like Britney Spears.. I did it again lol)

    apparently the man has a slinky for a neck..either that or he is part owl and able to turn his head completely around in angles physically impossible for human beings

    visually, he isn’t very intimidating at all and I am monstrously underwhelmed by the whole thing so far

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    William Neal McPheeters  over 9 years ago

    How about a “Space Sedan” ???

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    William Neal McPheeters  over 9 years ago

    :-D

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    Pequod  over 9 years ago

    Mr. Bribery and the Space Coupe together in a new Dick Tracy strip. Wonderful! Diet Smith: Bullwinkle is calling and he wants his antlers back. He can see them there, right above your eyes.

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    Don Bagert Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Mr. Bribery actually makes a good point here in panel 1. Nowadays, several private companies are developing spacecraft; meanwhile, Smith has deliberately taken himself out of the space industry. A good point brought up in this thread today: there are engineers out there who have seen the blueprints, and although they likely signed nondisclosure statements, are still subsceptible to pressure or um, bribery :)

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    Lyons Group, Inc.  over 9 years ago

    I don’t think Mr. Bribery will get any coupe-operation from Diet Smith.

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    mumbles  over 9 years ago

    It looks like ol’ Bribes has been using his cell phone too much. Time for a chiropractor to work on that neck.

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    abdullahbaba999  over 9 years ago

    Where is Dick Tracy???

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    Ricky Bennett  over 9 years ago

    It almost looks like you could spin Mr. Bribery’s head around like a carny wheel…

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    Judge Magney  over 9 years ago

    As Jerryjohn52 pointed out, Bribery had a set of blueprints/schematics for the Space Coupe. The twins said it would be difficult to build a Space Coupe from those alone, but that doesn’t mean Bribery hasn’t tried – but he apparently hasn’t succeeded. So he now wants Smith to troubleshoot his unsuccessful version. Will he have someone else kidnapped to use for leverage against Smith?

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    Starman1948  over 9 years ago

    @Jim in CT: Definitely a close resemblance. Be well my friend.

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    Can't Sleep  over 9 years ago

    Sorry the picture’s so large. Didn’t realize the size of it. To be honest, I’d try to re-size it, but getting it to appear at all qualifies as a technical miracle, and one miracle per day is my limit. Phew. I need to lay down…

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    AnyFace  over 9 years ago

    This is an issue which occasionally plagues modern Shonen manga and anime, there are often so many “moving pieces” to keep track of that it can slow the pace of the core action to a crawl.

    Can’t accuse Mike & Joe of being less than ambitious in scope, though. ;)

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    AnyFace  over 9 years ago

    Woo! Gosh! Think you might’ve hit the nail on the head there, Jim!

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    AnyFace  over 9 years ago

    And Gould would occasionally employ caricatures.

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    AnyFace  over 9 years ago

    Someone a day or so ago also noted a character who might partially have been inspired by Mr. Bribery, one who – Fittingly enough – Met a rather Rosy fate …

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    fredville  over 9 years ago

    of course, now a return of the original space coupe by Sail and Ghote who figured out how to turn it around and have been in hiding with it would be timely…..

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    K M  over 9 years ago

    “Hangers?” Don’t you mean hangars?

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    Sisyphos  over 9 years ago

    I think it’s too late for Diet Smith to have obliterated “moon technology” in general and the space coupe in particular. Somewhere, somehow, the plans are around for someone with plenty of dough and a few good captive scientists to recreate what he wants.!

    The Pangborn Prototype for Mr. Bigg/Bribery looks good!

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