Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 12, 2010

Is Tracy asking Mrs. 3D to come to his home? He’s not planning any hanky panty while Tess is grocery shopping is he?

Locher has gone from drawing phones with only nine buttons on their keypads to just blacking out the keypad so we can’t count ‘em.

Meanwhile, Mrs. D has caved in to social pressure and adopted a more conventional phone-holding technique.

Panel Two:

Hey, the vibrators from the Science Museum are back!

What, this story is strange? Do tell!

VistaBill says, “hanky panty”….lmao!!!

I don’t think that’s Tracy on the phone, he’s busy at the morgue.

JanCinVV said, “I don’t think that’s Tracy on the phone, he’s busy at the morgue.’

You could be right, JanCinVV. That means that someone else has their eye on Mrs. 3D! Ah… romance!

Panel 1: Quite the chin on Mrs. D’B. Gives her that Easter Island look.

This latest story definitely needs a WW poem and a pig on wheels.

@Flight Suit:

Vibrators? I thought those were snowshoes. Hey, maybe Dick will team up with Sgt. Preston of the Yukon and his faithful sled dog, Yukon King.

“Well, King, this case is closed.”

“Wuff.”

“King, you look bloated. You don’t know where Dick Tracy is, do you?”

“Belch.”

” I did suspect you were part wolf. Well, King, this case is chewed.”

Now that her billionaire husband is confirmed dead, Mrs. D is looking a lot more attractive. Dick has made sure he’ll be first in line.

Tracy calls Ms 3-D with news, then is getting news at the morgue? Were the panels flip-flopped?

What’s so STRANGE Doc ?

Are you going to say the CORPSE somehow doesn’t have a DNA ?

Why will Tracy and the Doc SKIRT around this item (?) which can tell 100% if the body is* that of the missing *David D’Buckworth ! ?

Not for the first time Tracy will use a ’SIMPLE SIMON’ type I.D. clue so that it can be discerdited at a later date - as a … ’FAKE’ !.

I’ll bet, it will all prove to be an intentional “red-herring”

Reader Simon might LIKE THAT, he’s been reading seriously in ’3-D’ and seeing SUGAR-APPLE quality all along in both the art and story *content ! *

I am so glad the medical examiner uses formal names. I can just imagine the fun we’d be having if his line in the last panel had been, “Strange, Dick.”

Tracy calls Mrs D to go to his home while he goes to the morgue. Ridiculous! He should call her to the morgue to identify the body and he should go home and back to bed where he belongs.

In the future, police stations will be so cramped there is insufficient room to conduct business and no money to expand. In order to save money policemen will be required to conduct police business such as interviewing suspects in their homes. Besides benefiting taxpayers, the policy will make for closer relationships between police and criminals since the criminals will all know where the policemen live.

-Cougar :{)

Boy this story is just zipping along!

That ‘CHIN’ Panel-Panner must be one of Locher’s obscure ‘CLUES’. Note the cleft, which she never had before August 4, immediately prior to Locher introducing that (still unamed) character who stole 3-D’s copyright secrets.

See him with identical CLEFT the day after : http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2010/08/05/

A brother perhaps ? Elsa Crystal had one !

Writing has never been Dick Locher’s thing ! - You’d have to ‘assume’ that in all those years working with Gould and later Max Collins he never paid much attention to that aspect of the business. Now he has paid for it as we - DO every day !

Grockstein, - a no nonsense poster here up to early last year, described his propensity for ’GLACIAL PACING’ this way : He called him the ”tid-bit” man, for realeasing only one tiny element of forward movment in the story each week.

Look closely with an ‘eye’ to that problem and you will note it immediately !

Locher tries to keep it all SIMPLE for ‘simple simon’ type readers.

I don’t think they have a positive ID yet so telling Mrs D. there is news about her husband is premature. She should come to the morgue.

Where IS WW? Does anyone know? I miss his poems.

@Flight Suit, Mrs. 3D has an iPhone.

“It’s strange, Tracy.” No doubt the corpse has traces of ipecac from a pie he stole from Gasoline Alley.