Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 24, 2010

Instead of actually drawing the villain in panel one, it appears Locher just copied and pasted the Insane Clown Posse logo. Here it is if you’re not familiar with it:

http://tinyurl.com/33prs6o

Dick looks really bewildered and frightened.

I tell you, I’m on the edge of my seat.

We all know a fall is acoming.

Dick’s on the edge of his seat! Just wait till the restoration buffs get hold of old blank-face. Whooo is he in for it!!

Now that Johnny Nothing has smashed the window, he can shoot Tracy! I wonder if Liz and Sam will come to the rescue or are they still waiting for the show to resume?

Good morning Dick Tracy fans….Of some sort..

I see Blank has the axe in both hands and has put a hole in the glass. I must say the terror on Tracy’s face is well drawn. (That is most unusual).

Frog Blog is showing its love:

http://obituarytypo.blogspot.com/2010/06/dick-crazy.html

What IS that thing leaping in panel 1?????? Is Anja still yelling “Come back!”? Has anyone called 911 for the bleeding man on the stage? Are Liz and Sam still in a stupor? Are we all crazy? Stay tuned…..

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VOTING WILL END AT 12:00 A.M. EDS TIME, SATURDAY MORNING

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Of course it’s not your duty to vote bue, it has to send a message to somebody. We can only hope they are aware.

Margueritem

in order

Blank-face yes no probably of course might as well

margueritem, Time to check :

http://www.plainclothescomics.com

Yesterday, the plane’s starboard horizontal stabilizer was about twice as long as the one on the port side.

Today they’re the same size, but the vertical stabilizer has grown considerably.

A bullet-proof windshield but not axe-proof? REALLY

HOW STUPID CAN YOU GET!!!????

Yesterday the canopy was open. Today it’s closed.

Panel 3: Tracy’s head already looks like it’s decapitated, stuck on the dashboard.

Shouldn’t he be squinting with all that flying glass? At least putting up a hand to shield his eyes.

Like Vista Bill pointed out, why smash open the window when Johnny Nothing has a gun? Bullet-proof glass? Then if that’s the case, then WHY WOULD A CLUMSILY WIELDED AX BREAK THE GLASS??? And Tracy didn’t hear or see JB coming?

And why hide in such a confined space with no way of escaping? Tracy could have kept playing peek-a-boo among the giant “vibrators.”

Meanwhile there’s body lying on the stage, bleeding all over the frakking place, Anja Nu hasn’t witnessed JB trying to kill Tracy while searching all over, the police chief with her slow-firing synapses is on the verge of thinking there might be a problem–

HOW STUPID CAN YOU GET!!!????

Is that Dick Tracy or the husband from Fred Basset… or indeed Fred Basset?

Sydney Phillips said, “margueritem, Time to check : http://www.plainclothescomics.com”

Ah, those were the days. Tracy had a communications device and a firearm. Now, he has only his wits to defend himself.

Sydney Phillips, that brought a nostalgic tear to my eye…. if only…..

SmithRA, yes, your answers have made things much clearer….

Mud is always so clear. Good for slinging though.

Dick’s new slogan is, PLEASE DON’T HURT ME!

I am totally urinated. I had everything typed out; the namesand all and just as I was about to post it, this BLEEPING BLEEP OF A BLEEPER WENT BACI TO THE STRIP LIST!?!?!

Now I start again and hopefully the computer will behave, or I qill start getting paranoid. So…………..the Avatars.

DAILY TORTURE__DISTURBINGLY TEDIOUS

DIM TWILIGHT__DIP TWIT

DEMENTED TEDIUM__DAILY TRIBULATION

DICKLESS TRACY*__DUMB THICKHEAD

DEFICIENT TAKENT

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOR\ITE. VOTED ALREADY, NOT AGAIN. YOUR VOTE STANDS

there must not have been any prudes around

VistaBill wrote:

“Ah, those were the days. Tracy had a communications device and a firearm. Now, he has only his wits to defend himself.”

That last sentence is excellent sarcasm. “Wits?”

And I flagged the spammer. What is it with Go Comics that it can bleeep me over a minor word but let the spammers go wild? I clicked on the spammer’s profile: 58 hits all over this site. Instead of screwing around with a Net Nanny for “naughty” words, Go Comics should have a program that spots the same message being pasted all over at the same time. But nnnoooooooo — Gad bleeep words are more of a nuisance.

Well, at last Gad made it through. Of course, Tracy used it the other day…

Ny computer is an e-machine withe a dial-up modem

Where broadband users go , click..click.click.click

This thing I have goes click……..click……..click…….click, if that fast. Does get frustrating!!! “=(((((

The sun will set, the sun will rise On the one we’ve come to despise From day to day and night to night We are treated to this comic blight What can you say about this strip Other than that Locher is a dip The destruction of the fabled dick Has wounded us to the quick Once a man of action and decision Each day now, he’s met with derision We ask “well can it get any worse” Yes it can, time to queue up the hearse We laugh at the wrong times, cry when we should not The strip has become nothing but a bunch of tommyrot So I’ll see you here on the ‘morrow Where we can express our deepest sorrow.

Panel Panner said:

“HOW STUPID CABN IT GET?”

that, my friend is what we have come here to learn. There is no better place to learn how not to draw/wrie a comic strip than here at the J&T school of inanity and ludicrousness. Geez i’m glad i got a Franklin “/spelling Ace”. While I’m usually right, I don;t like to take the chabce. Besides I can Play “Hangman on it, Good brain exercise! And fun> :-))

WW, hiw cab you do it every day, and now for two strips???Comgrats for another nailhead hit.

Time to tune out people. just one thing to keep in mind for toda7 and tomorrow,,,,,,,,,,,,

VOTE,,,,,VOTE…..VOTE….VOTE…..VOTE…..VOTE,,,,,VOTE……

…………………………………..PLEASE……………………………………………

I didn’t know we were suppose to vote if we submitted something. I guess I should go with Daily Torture :-)

This is where Johnny stands over Spacy and talks him to death over the next 3 or 4 weeks

At least the duck down soaks up blood

Panel-Panner said, HOW STUPID CAN YOU GET!!!????

Sadly, Locher and Brozman keep redefining that threshold every day.

Bullet -proof? I wouldn’t think so, more likely very thick glass or plexiglass. Not likely to shatter like that with just an axe blow.

I do wonder, though, how Tracy was able to get the canopy open to get in when the entire plane seems to be suspended from a pole attached to only the canopy.

I guess another question would be where did that axe come from? Fire axe? Not shaped like any fire axe I’ve ever seen in buildings or that we have on our trucks. Actually a fire axe might have done a better job of breaking the canopy out, using the ripper point on the back side of the axe.

But but but When Gramps would read me DT on his knee there were no inconsistencies?

Hey, everybody, this is fun! When Annie was cancelled, I was sort of at a loss as to what forum I could go to for fun. Brenda Starr is OK, as well as Gasoline Alley. But the comments section here is funnier than all the comics on this site put together.

Wow. The spammer hit this forum 3 times. The same spammer hit Annie 4 times. I flagged the bleeep out of ‘em.

GRRRRRRRRR What is it with all the bleeeping spammers today????!!!

Does this “Science Museum” have any guards on duty?

Just which way is Tracy facing in the plane? Johnny Nothing jumps onto the rear of the plane in panel 1, but by panel 3 he seems to be hacking away at the front of the canopy… unless Tracy’s in a rear-facing seat (I don’t immediately recall any WWII fighters with a tail gunner seat, but perhaps somebody else remembers one).

BTW, if Johnny is hacking at the front of the canopy, it most likely is bulletproof glass between 1/2 and 1 inch thick. Much too strong to be shattered by a fire axe.

Since Johnny has both hands on the axe, where is his gun? With the plane suspended by one rod holding a thinner canopy strut, anyone jumping on the plane, as both of these morons have done, would send the plane into spinning. I have been following this strip for only 6 months. I can’t believe that it continues to get worse. Why? If Locher is writing it, has he gone completely demented? If Brozman is doing the “artwork” doesn’t he care about the reputation he is getting for work that any 6 year old could do better? If Locher is doing the “art” is Brozman getting paid for Nothing? Don’t any of the TMS people care? Inquiring minds want to know.

For the love of Pete! Get this accursed episode over with!

They did have guards-but gave them the night off since they had an auditorium full of police officers

akenta…….In a way, this is much like a real election, In a real election the polititions get to vote. I would thyink they’d vote for themselves but they do get to vote. In the present case i expected a lot of “I’m voting for mine”. As I have remarked earlier, I think most of them just wanted to show their cleverness. Some did it in vain. :-))

Thank you for your vote.

And, as The Blank smashed out the canopy, a certain noxious smell escaped the cockpit much like a rupture in an ammonia tank, and knocked the breath out of the pursuer, causing him to drop the axe, drop the pistol, slip down on the metallic skin of the Ju-87 Stuka, and fall to the floor below, as he crushed part of the audience that was sneaking out the back door. Chief Liz(z) slaps a set of cuffs on him (her favorite cuffs that she had plans for later that night), and arrests him, reading him his Miranda rights. Next story, please!

Welcome davidf42. yes, we do have a lot of fun here. The strip isn’t worth the computer space that it uses, but the comments are usually great.

Somebody might get 2 votes because I did not vote for mine.

Thank you again, Shirttail Slim. If I am not to late, may I vote for Daily Torture?

Did they just “jump the shark”??? This is probably the lowest the strip has ever fallen … I am so sad!!!

WW, of course you can vote. You just did.

Margueritem said:

“Welcome davidf142,, yes, we do have a lot of fun here. The strip isn’t worth the computer space it uses, but the comments are usually great.”

So true. Marg. Also we get to see professional nit-pickers do their thing!! :-)))

Fusnr said:

“Somebody might get two votes because I did not vote for mine”

Fusnr, hardly anybody that voted voted for their’s. In fact, only nine got voted for, period?

As an experienced camper,(no tent, no Coleman lantern or heater. I am also an experienced woodsman and lumberjack. In all that time I have never ever seen an axe with the handle around trhe axe blade. Except, of course, in those caveman movies and comics (see Alley Oop).

Just another instance of the J&C Academy of the Lost. :-(((

This is an all time low for stupidity. Clearly Locher does not want this strip to continue after his retirement.

This is an all time low for our hero ( cough) Dick Tracy.

I’ll go for Daily Torture

cartoon physics - leap on the plane. somehow held up by barely anything and with one stroke breaks the glass without falling off the wing

scarily stupid

hire the guy from plainclothes, please

If we get to vote again due to the shortened list, I vote for Daily Torture.

brownceb satd:

“If we get to vote again because of the shorten\ned list, I votefor Daily .Torture.”

brownceb, I sis not find your name on the list of those who voted. Therefore you have cast a vote for Daily Torture.

There is no repeat voting. All the otiginal votes are still standing. I removed all pf those without a vote this morning.