Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 09, 2010

“And unfortunately it’s Tracy!”

Dick needs his glucosamine.

Apparently the Stuka has now tipped back onto it’s belly. Which one is live? probably the stiff lying down. Anja would not be believable. Never heard the shots!! And no silencers either.

In this mess, I can’t guess. It could be Nothing….

Panel 3: Weird perspective. Instead of someone trapped under the plane, it looks like the legs are upright, that the Stuka grew legs and is tap-dancing.

If Liz had been doing her job, she wouldn’t need to ask Tracy what in the world he’s doing….

PP Why not? It’s about as logical as any other scenario we’ve seen so far.

Where’s SimonPenn been? The commenter who wrote:

“Just another great strip today! A fun chase sequence and a great cliff-hanger. Great Stuff! Just enough of a cliff-hanger to keep us guessing without giving away the next day’s surprise.”

And he also wrote:

“Very exciting strip. No dialogue needed. Fantastic use of shadows and black to create drama. Still one of the best daily strips out there.”

I wanted to remind him that there are only 168 days before Christmas!

So we don’t see Johnny Nothing’s face? Apparently he didn’t want to be seen in this strip. He wouldn’t be caught dead here.

We all hurt all over!

What? How? Who? Why?

All these morphings sre undecipherable?

Liz should kiss it and make it better.

In inflicting pain that can’t be stopped The Tracy strip can’t be topped From inane dialogue and insane plots It makes a reader want to plotz As the Stuka dances a little jig Wishing that it were a Mig Lizz certainly does seem surprised To find that Tracy is not demised His death she had greatly hoped ‘cause he is really such a dope The canopy is repaired again It’s another continuity sin Now where have I seen that shape before Why it’s the rear turret on a B-24 Johnny Nothing has been shot Then he fell, the distance was quite a lot Still he lives, and by the plane he was missed You would think he would have been squished. Thanks Panel-Panner and (?) Margueritem from yesterday. Good observation on the dancing Stuka, PP.

I heard on NPR today that the city of Naperville has been forced to cut a lot of police jobs due to the recession.

True story.

Liz, you really don’t want to know what Tracy was doing in there. Trust me on this. Further, Tracy really doesn’t want you to know what he was doing in there.

Locher, the rest of us still want to know: Anja was firing at the Blank, then aiming at Tracy, from the left rear of the aircraft. At that position, there should have been no way for the plane to hit her. She had to run several feet to get under the nose of the plane once it started to fall…. maybe a sudden impulse to off herself?

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The propeller is back today, and someone should tell whichever idiot it is that if it’s still alive,it’s not “a body”

Howcum the prop went from 3-blades to 4?

Panel 2 - “What in the world are you doing there?”

Waiting for a streetcar. Haw! Haw! Haw!

Panel 3 - Two bodies? Nothing makes 1. Anja makes 2, DT makes 3. I guess DT is the one that’s still alive.

But I tell ya one dang thang. The plot is a whole lot easier to follow than Brenda Starr.

And the plane landed before Gertie caught her crooks.

Those look like a woman’s shoes in the last panel, though that means nothing. I have to agree with Radish. I think Anja survives at least long enough to explain why she wanted to kill Tracy.

Gould used to draw Lizz with a “heart shaped” face not square jawed like she shares with Tracy. Also we never saw her pupils but had that curly q joining of eye/lash almost question mark like. She was also drawn almost always in the most provacative sexy dresses. I really dislike the way Locher has changed and made Lizz to look. Ugh!

What about the body lying bleeding on the stage? He should be bled out and dead by now.

SPOILER ALERT!

I just love to type that

Truly heroic dialogue from the title character.

436rge said, about 1 hour ago

Gould used to draw Lizz with a “heart shaped” face not square jawed like she shares with Tracy. Also we never saw her pupils but had that curly q joining of eye/lash almost question mark like. She was also drawn almost always in the most provacative sexy dresses. I really dislike the way Locher has changed and made Lizz to look. Ugh!

Well, 436 I can’t wrap my brain around the fact that Lizz looks different in every panel she appears in. It’s like snowflakes, no two Lizzes are alike! No consistency.

morrow: one of them broke off in the fall and the other three migrated to compensate. (Makes as much sense as anything else in this strip.)

Sad thing is this story is so carelessly written the dead body on the stage won’t even be ‘MENTIONED’ again !

Think about that, on July 17th asTracy on stage, bandage on head, apologises to the audience for the long intermission

And hear the laughable rational (motive) for Anja’s action - * “she wanted to be in the spotlight”!*

Is she perchance the grand-daughter of Selbert Depool (1941) With most of his life in an Insane Asylum we can’t even be sure if he was ever got in with a woman !

The SLOPPY Art (?)

I used to blame Brozman (poor fellow) until I read in the recent Locher interview that he only “INKS” what Locher draws

Not much to boast about. !

See full Interview : http://dailycartoonist.com/index-phd/2010/06/24/interviewed-dick-locher-talks-about-his-cartooning-career-future-and-parkinsons/

“One of the bodies is alive!!” Oh, wait. It’s just Tracy. He hasn’t been alive for years.

Michael McMillan, ” At that position, there should have been no way for the plane to hit her. She had to run several feet to get under the nose of the plane once it started to fall…. maybe a sudden impulse to off herself?”

Maybe she was trying to “catch a plane”. : )

The Cartoon Art Museum is currwently celebrating 60 years of Beattle Baily

Relevance to Dick Tracy (?) :

In a recent interview Mort Walker implied that his early success spured him to keep on doing better and stated that ”If you’re not moving forward in this business. you’re moving backward”

Dick L. Somehow got it all “mixed up”. Tracy’s not moving forward to catch a bad guy he’s just running away till the bad guy gets killed by someone else, who he said, did it — “just to be in the “SPOTLIGHT” !

Again, I say WTF?

After running and hiding like a little girl, our hero now whines about his bruises

awww the poor guy hurts all over after his plane ride and all the running, hiding and cowering he had to endure…

Unbelievable…

It won’t get much better than this!

Liz:” Dick! What are you doing there?! What about the play? Do I get my admission money back or what?”

I was thinking the Blank had to be dead. He was standing on the fuselage just aft of the canopy when he was shot. No way to brace himself. From that height, even a flesh wound results in an uncontrolled fall which has to be fatal— probably a broken neck if nothing else.

Anja got crushed under the nose of the plane— don’t ask how— so of course she’s dead.

The guy Locher forgot died early on in this story and was ignored, even though the audience was full of cops. So, of course he’s dead.

That leaves Tracy. He rode the plane down, and even given the miracle of getting back into the plane while it’s falling he wouldn’t have had time to strap himself in, so now he’s hurting and wishing he were dead. If Liz ever figures out how Tracy spent his time, she just might be inclined to fulfill that wish.

Absolutely, Michael! I think she has more cajones than Macy.

This is suppose to be a hero figure?!?! What a Sad Sack.

HEY!!!! Don’t be slamming my buddy Sad Sack