Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 25, 2010

  1. Bren suit
    FLIGHT SUIT  over 14 years ago

    Yesterday we saw the front of the canopy smashed with an axe. Now it’s miraculously healed.

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  2. Bren suit
    FLIGHT SUIT  over 14 years ago

    Good thing Locher’s built up so much suspense though, ‘cause Johnny Nothing’s really workin’ that Friday the 13th vibe, what with that mask and that axe and everything. Are you all as frightened as I am?

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    FLIGHT SUIT  over 14 years ago

    More nitpicking: Look at the way he’s precariously perched on that narrow, curved fuselage. Look at the wide, sweeping arc of his axe swing. Would it even be possible to do that without falling?

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 14 years ago

    Like a Saturday movie serial! I’m glad that the canopy has grown in size, otherwise this’d be the end for Tracy! Will Anja Nu come to the rescue saying, “All right boys, stop playing and return to the stage!”

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    Steve Bartholomew  over 14 years ago

    I am really really scared.

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    Kiba65  over 14 years ago

    absolutely, amazingly, just down right plain terrible, comic strip!!!!

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    margueritem  over 14 years ago

    Fore!

    ‘Morning Bill and Flightsuit!

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    shirttailslim  over 14 years ago

    Look at the handle on the axe. Ain’t no axe got a handle like that, Outside the head” Impossible, and this is in my field of experience. And look! His hands change position before he swings, When he does swing (crossed hand grip) the axe looks more like a 9 iron.

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 14 years ago

    margueritem said, “Fore!”

    Perfect!

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    shirttailslim  over 14 years ago

    Margueritem said:

    “Fore!”

    Were we on the same page? I didn’t see your post befpre I posted.

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    Panel-Panner  over 14 years ago

    Check panel 1, yesterday’s strip. Johnny is holding both a handgun and the axe. Where is the gun today? Do you see it stuck in his belt? Maybe he opened up the canopy, gave it to Tracy and said, “Could you hold this for me? Thanks.” Of course craven Tracy was more than happy to agree.

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    Panel-Panner  over 14 years ago

    Klueless Kop Report

    Science Museum Incident

    “Detective Tracy said he tried to duck away from Johnny Blank but we saw no signs of fowl play.”

    “When asked why he hid in the plane, making himself an easy cornered target for the killer, Detective Tracy said he didn’t have time to think, he was just winging it. He added that he ‘stuka stayed in bed’ that morning.”

    “Questions have been raised why a group of police officers who were in the audience didn’t notice the actor being shot on the stage. In their defense they said they weren’t paying attention because they were texting among themselves about how much the play sucked.”

    “The point has been made that no one thought it was odd when the intermission dragged on for an hour. The police officers who attended the play said they were distracted by counting all the freckles on Detective Sam Catchem’s face. A ten dollar bet was involved.”

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    Panel-Panner  over 14 years ago

    Before I forget:

    Good morning, my fellow members of the Dick Tracy Pan Club!

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    shirttailslim  over 14 years ago

    VOTE FOR ONE OF THE FOLLOWING IF YOU HAVE NOT VOTED YET:

    DAILY TORTURE——-DISTUBINGLY TEDIOUS

    DIM TWILIGHT——DIP TWIT

    DEMENTED TEDIUM—–DAILY TRIBULATION

    DICKLESS TRACY——DUMB THICKHEAD

    DEFICIENT TALENT

    VOTING ENDS AT 12:00 A.M. EDS TIME SAT. MORNING. 9:00 :P.M. PDS TIME FRIDAY NIGHT.

    SATURDAY MORNING THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED. VOTE!!

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    FLIGHT SUIT  over 14 years ago

    I’m sorry, but I don’t recall what the deal is with this voting business. What does the winner get?

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    shirttailslim  over 14 years ago

    Flight Suit, our #1 nit-picker ( I nit-pick too :-)) ) said:

    “What does the winner get?”

    Bragging right to the position of Best Dick Tracy Put-down Artist..

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    btmosley  over 14 years ago

    On the plus side, seldom have we seen such brilliant and scintillating dialogue from Locher.

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    Akenta  over 14 years ago

    the winner only gets bragging rights?!?! I was hoping for a way out this comic. I think I’m in trouble now.

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    Dkram  over 14 years ago

    A real air craft canopy probably wouldn’t brake that easy.

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    veldy  over 14 years ago

    The real tragedy here is in going to two panels, to REALLY drag things out

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    Plods with ...™  over 14 years ago

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    wndrwrthg  over 14 years ago

    With a swing that would put Paul Bunyan to shame Johnny smashes through the canopy frame Even more amazing one can see The rear gun has ceased to be Another day with this swill We hope Tracy he will kill Will there be great lamentations Or many joyous exclamations When this strip if finally over And Tracy is pushing clover? Each day brings more pain Our protests are in vain What can motivate TMS To continue with this awful mess?

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    Froxkrybra  over 14 years ago

    Why doesn’t he just blast Tracy with the gun instead of hacking away with an axe?

    And Lizz and Sam are where???

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    davidf42  over 14 years ago

    WW - very good!

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    prrdh  over 14 years ago

    Shirttail Slim said, about 7 hours ago

    Look at the handle on the axe. Ain’t no axe got a handle like that, Outside the head” Impossible, and this is in my field of experience. And look! His hands change position before he swings, When he does swing (crossed hand grip) the axe looks more like a 9 iron.

    That’s because it *is* a 9 iron. Like everyone in this strip, Johnny has the attention span of a mayfly with ADHD, and has suddenly decided to practice his bunker shots.

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    Morrow Cummings  over 14 years ago

    Wouldn’t a museum displaying a German Ju 87 Stuka display it with it’s official insignia? This one has a “Cessna” civilian paint job! And, yeah, where’s the rear gun? It was a 2-seater with gunner.

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    DatBigGuy Premium Member over 14 years ago

    @ FlightSuit – I looked at yesterday’s strip, and panel 2 does seem to kinda show Tracy looking out the back of the plane.

    Sorta.

    A bit.

    Kinda.

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    jpozenel  over 14 years ago

    Lack of dialog is a definite improvement.

    Will Dick Tracy become the next “Henry” or “Ferd’nand”?

    We can only cross our fingers and hope.

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    marchman3354  over 14 years ago

    DEFICIENT TALENT the story could be told in one week or at most two. Problem no story.

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    billdi Premium Member over 14 years ago

    btw where is the gun?

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    shirttailslim  over 14 years ago

    TO ALL WHO HAVE NOT YET VOTED:

    THE POLL CLOSES AT 9:00 P.M. PDS TIME

    MIDNIGHT EDS TIME

    YOU ARE SITTING IN THE POLL AS YOU READ THIS. IF YOU HAVEN’T VOTED YET, PLEASE DO SO NOW..

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    Fusnr  over 14 years ago

    Can one vote if in the waiting line 5 minutes after the polls close?

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    Saucy1121 Premium Member over 14 years ago

    There’s an interview with Dick Locher over at the daily cartoonist. He says he still draws the strip and Brozman only inks it.

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    fishbulb  over 14 years ago

    Heeerrrreee’s Johnnnnnyyyyy!!!!

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    sydney  over 14 years ago

    See Dick Locher interview here :

    http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2010/06/24/interviewed-dick-locher-talks-about-his-cartooning-career-future-and-parkinson’s

    Kind of long. Hope I got it right

    He claims he now has about 100 newspaper, when Kilian died they had only 50. Sounds like a “stretch”

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    browngsa  over 14 years ago

    Great interview. If it all is accurate, that explains some of our problems. Locher has Parkinson’s. Brozman IS only inking what Locher pencils. But Locher’s editorial cartoons are better drawn than the DT strip. So, I don’t know. If he does appreciate Gould’s legacy as he says, and if he is as sharp as the interviewer says, then it would appear that he would know that the strip has lost all of its reason and rational and that he should step away from it. TMS may just be waiting until his comtract expires because of his illness. If so, there will be no DT base left to build on by another cartoonist.

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    shirttailslim  over 14 years ago

    Fusnr said:

    “Can one vote if in the waiting line 5 minutes after the polls close?”

    NO. I gave plenty of notice. Are you asking for a friend? If so, tell them they hsve to vote before closing time. If you are asking for yourself………. why? You have already voted.

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    sydney  over 14 years ago

    morrow, - For a minute there reading your post yesterday I thought you had bassmanbob in - as a ghost writer. The paragraph seemed phrased in HIS language :-)

    You’ve been asking about Mattie ! Well after a long absence (even by Yahoo Board ‘standards’) he has come out of the tool shed with a rather good post to explain how much (and the way) Dick Locher still contributes to the ART in the strip. Despite the ‘goofs’, it seems to be quite substanial.

    You’d have to think ALL Brozman did, was “inking”. But read on and you decide.

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/11173

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    mjmsprt40  over 14 years ago

    I vote—- DAILY TORTURE. Actually, it’s getting to the point where words fail to explain what we see here. Didn’t Tracy EVER see one of those mad slasher films? Specifically the scene where the girl runs into the basement and manages to find the one room in the whole house with no other exit? Then the slasher fills the only door with his presence and we hear his maniacal laugh as he approaches his helpless victim?

    If he had, maybe he wouldn’t have chosen the worst possible hiding place in the entire museum. But, then again, Tracy hasn’t done one thing right since the brick came through his window. No real detective ever would have behaved as Tracy did from that point on. Even Inspector WD40 would know better than to do this, and that’s saying something.

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    trekkermint  over 14 years ago

    parkinson’s - sad michael j fox - talented, just finished a book - still occasionally does acting and was fun on the colbert show a while back dick tracy bad

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    shirttailslim  over 14 years ago

    IT IS MIDNIGHT ON THE EAST COAST

    THE POLLS ARE CLOSED/ NO MORE VOTING

    RESULTS IN THE MORNING.

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