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

Don’t tell me… Johnny Nothing’s going to cut the support cable with the fire ax!

Promises, promises……ho hum…..

So if Johnny Nothing cuts the cable, and the plane crashes and nobody’s around to hear it, do we still have a very lame story line?

Della Contessa’s not here to save you this time!

It’s ok, duck down will cushion the fall.

Don’t be surprised if Tracy doesn’t fly that thing right into the bad guy. This is really strange & not the strip my father used to read to me every Sunday morning after church and before Sunday dinner. Of course Eisenhower isn’t president anymore either.

I get it! How clever of Tracy. First the sub, now the plane. Johnny Nothing will be hit by a double whammy of seasickness and air sickness.

Like the kids say: Sick!

That airplane does have stubby wings.

VOTE.. I’ve received only 5 votes in two days. This is not a city, county, state or national election. For cryin’ out loud, you can vote from where you’re sitting right now. Pick a name from the list below and tyype it on a post. Nothing more needs to be said. I see name, I mark a vote for it.

ONE VOTE PER PERSON PLEASE

Dumb Twits-Daily Torture–Dull Times–Ditzy Trembler Ditzy Trouble–Dadaist Tripe–Definitly Terrible–Doof Twitsy Definitly Trash–Distubingly Tedious–Dim Twilight–Do Tell Doesn’t Track–Dumb Trick–Dip Twit–Defective Twaddle Delightful Trope–Doofis T**–Demented TediumDetestable Treckle–Dubious Technique Daily Tribulation–Danger? Tremble!–Deleterious Tripe Disturbingly Tedious–Dying Train–Dickless Tracy Dumb Thickhead–DeliriumTremens–Defecttive Tracy Deficient Talent–Duped Tribune–Doodling Trash– Dicks Tragedy–Dick Talentless

There they are. Come Thur. morning I will remove all titles that have not received a vote. That will give you Thursday and Friday to vote for the remainder.

Of the 5 votes I have received, 3 were for one title.

Now that would be funny. To see Tracy drop out of the plane in a duck costume!

By the way – What happens to a duck when it flies upside down?

It quacks up!

I nm so tired. Hasta luego

Spam flagged. Perhaps Tracy should look in on it before it gets dumped though. He could probably use a good pair of running shoes.

A pity my friend the Roadie isn’t around. He’d get on the trail of this spammer and end the problem at the source. Most affiliate programs have anti-spamming rules and if you violate them you get cut from the program. Many ISPs won’t put up with their services being used to spam either, and they’ll cut you off in half a heartbeat if you get caught spamming.

So what is that in Johnny’s left hand?

I do believe that’s a Corsair, one of the fastest and most durable fighters of WW ll.

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You mean Macy switched over to the Allies’ side?

dkram, it’s actually a Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber. You’ll notice the engine nacelle is pointed meaning the engine was an inline engine vice the flat engine front which would have indicated a radial engine which the Corsair had. Both did have the inverted gull-wing wing style though.

Slim, Disturbingly Tedious works for me.

This drivel has gone on so long, Johnny Nothing/Not-The-Blank has been beset by arthritis in his right hand.

He already has a dead duck. Remember DT’s got duck down in there.

I need help DT’s in a museum DT’s in a theater DT’s in a submarine DT’s in an aircraft fighter Is there a rocket ship?

Does Blank have 5 fingers on his right or left hand?

Is the theater giving free doughnuts to the cops in the audience?

Why isn’t Tracey’s understudy doing the second act?

MisngNOLA: I took another look at it, and it didn’t look right, took a third look, and I finally saw it. Then I read your comment, thank you for the info.

My dad said they could deadly, unless they were being shot at, then they couldn’t hit the side of a barn. (with their bombs of course)

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This is what happens when you turn a strip over to a quack cartoonist.

dkram: According to *my* dad, Stukas were so slow and had such poor maneuverability that theoretically you could shoot one out of the air pretty easily with an M-1, but the emphasis was on theoretically: the siren on the aircraft was fiendishly designed to scramble the nerves of the GIs below so they couldn’t think of anything but diving for cover. Fortunately (?), my dad spent most of his time in the Hurtgen forest, where Stukas were useless.

swing away, Merrill

no face ,s real name is CARROT TOP

So would that be the “funny dead duck”

Swooping down menacingly from the sky Hardly giving you time to kiss your … goodbye Came the deadly Stuka with siren shrieking Making a deep hole you would be seeking As airborne artillery, used were they Ranging forward in the fray With fixed gear on which to land Their airspeed was not so grand But in a dive it showed its mettle Robbing those below of their fine fettle But then came the Battle of Britain And their behinds were sorely bitten To slow they were against the Brits Spitfires and Hurricanes gave them the … Without total control of the air They seem to lose most of their flair Over the Hurtgen forest they were not used But by the deadly 88’s were the soldiers abused And now it just serves as a prop In the tale of a cowardly cop Whose has seen a better day And an egg, soon, I think he will lay.

Thank you everyone, for your kind comments from previous days.

What is that thing at the end of Blank’s left arm?

I vote for Demented Tedium.

Heard about this yet? “A Tribute Site to the Original Crimestopper”:

http://www.plainclothescomics.com/

Lots of good stuff here, and best of all, via the “Major Crime Squad” link, Curtis and Staton finally on a Dick Tracy universe strip:

http://www.plainclothescomics.com/mcs.htm

Apologies if someone already posted.

I want to thank those of you who have voted, Apparently most of those that submitted Title Avatars were more interested in displaying their cleverness than anything else, as only four or five submitters have cast their vote.

There are now 8 votes cast??????????????

Are you that busy?????????

I’ll vote Daily Tribulation

I have gone hunting the spammer. Found it on 14 out of 17checked. Including DT, Bleep the spammer in the most uncomfortable way.

Shirttail, the spammer, using an account created today, has already spammed 248 times.

Go-Comics could easily auto-delete anyone, and their posts, who posts the same message multiple times, if they wanted to.

Why doesn’t Tracy shoot the bad guy?

I don’t know about a duck but if Liz flies that plane upside down, she will definitely have “crack-up”–

I could have sworn that I had submitted Disgraceful Travesty a couple of days before the voting began, but I don’t see it listed among the ones to vote for.

Oh well. Dim Twilight is as good a metaphor for the current state of the strip; I’ll vote for that.

Anthony2816….

People who find this spammer an unwelcome Bleeping pest should contact go-comics and complain. Don’t know if it would do any good but, at least a statement would have been made.

“Coniact us”, bottom of page under “HELP”

I’ve been in the hospital for 2 long weeks. Isn’t it wonderful to come back and find that practically nothing has happened? :-)

I think “Daily Torture” is the best - except that everybody’s comments do make it worthwhile to come to this page.

Tracy is acting like a CHICKEN but Locher is pushing a Yellow Rubber Duckie “memorial” head - for late son John.

Check out today’s ‘Frog Applause’ and click on the blog entries. ‘Dick Crazy’ is featured, with a wall of strip villains.

Disturbingly Tedious; lord knows this is taking too loooooonnnnng. I am totally afraid that this is going to the coal mine.

Dickless Tracy… he seems to have lost something ;)

the perspective and blank in the last panel - incredible! truly, looks as if drawn by a marmoset with one eye that someone squirted lemon juice in

Maxine_Viller

My sincerest apologiy. It is entirely possible that I missed your submission. :-((((

But I’m glad you’ve voted.

Hmmm……Just noticed. I thought B;ank had the gun in his right hand but, it now seems to be in his left hand and he’reaching for the axe with his riight hand. HE’S GONNA CHOP TRACY AND HIS AIRPLANE DOWN?

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