It’s almost like the panhandler has gone from being an old man to being in his mid twenties overnight! It’s almost like the weird photo disappeared from the newspaper while I was holding it!
Almost like you’ve been played for a fool, DT? Drop the “almost” and you got it. Quick, DT, call the cops and tell them you need a detective! Wait, you are a detective! Quit schmoozing the widow and get to work! Have the ME make a positive ID of that corpse, follow the trail of that hundred million dollar withdrawal, and have somebody else check out the recent activities of Mrs. D’apostrophe and M-S-D.
Even money says that if the homeless guy is D-cubed, DT still won’t arrest him for complicity in the murder of whoever the corpse is. No, DT will examine him, find that he doesn’t have a butterfly tattoo on his chest, and arrest him for impersonating the late D-cubed.
Yes, Doofus Tracy, your laxative is finally kicking in!
Flight Suit, I noticed Homeless Guy’s sudden youth, too. It fits in with a theory I’ve been pondering for the past five or six seconds. Have you noticed that we never see Mrs. D and M-S-D together? How the old lady vanishes and the young lady suddenly appears?
My theory is this: Doofus Tracy has just realized he’s dealing with vampires. Anyone who’s read Dracula knows that vampires appear old when they’re hungry, and turn young when they’ve just fed. Doofus is sweating because he’s been hitting on a vampire, and once the widow bites him she’ll rejuvenate and appear as M-S-D. And she has an ally in D-cubed, who she recently turned into a vampire and is now using thousand dollar bills to entice victims into his reach!
VistaBill…….do I remember that story from last year you ask?? hmmmm
I remember “Johnny hadda Plenty” who was married to “Fresh Upp” who had a wicked alcholic mother named “Burpie Upp” Fresh Upp had a baby who was born with a beard and was being exploited by Burpie. Spots and Ogden came upon the scene to wreak more havoc.
That was in the 60’s……….and you ask me if I remember last year…………….No what happened??
I can’t make sense of the idea that Homeless Guy is D-cubed. If his plan is to make it look like he’s dead, why does he draw attention to himself by handing out money? (And DT can’t possibly know about Homeless Guy at this point.)
Maybe we’ve been misdirected about D-cubed. Perhaps he’s only hated by crooked executives who realize that he’s really a good guy with a conscience. Perhaps he, M-S-D and the missus are working to destroy the mob at We’re-Lyin’-terprises by making it appeared they murdered him to protect their corruption. Perhaps he’s giving money to families who were victimized by the bad guys.
But. If he’s a good guy, how to explain the corpse with his tattoo? Good guys don’t murder innocent bystanders to cover their plans. Possibly the ex-partners sent him to kill D-cubed, who got lucky and won their confrontation. Perhaps M-S-D killed him without telling her boss, because he stumbled onto the truth and she’s a fanatic about getting the job done. Perhaps the widow lied about the tattoo, thinking this would be a good way to inherit her flaky husband’s fortune.
What we need is for Doofus to get his act in gear and deliver some reliable clues to the readers.
Lizz looks at the headline of the paper, then comes to some decisions she’s been thinking about for some time. She calls Sam into the office.
“Sam, I want you to get Dick Tracy in here. I’ve got some bad news for him, maybe he can detect that his days with the department are through. Next, I want you to find that reporter who’s been doing these stories. He’s got some great skills, the department can use some detectives like him.”
Sam leaves the office in search of Tracy. He’s a little sad, since he likes DT as a person, but he has to admit that the old guy just isn’t cutting it anymore as a detective. He has to admit to being impressed by the reporter too, he wonders if the reporter would be as good on the police force as he is for the newspaper.
Yeah….. I like BillThompson’s logic. But I don’t give Locher an ounce of credit for being capable of weaving an interesting story. There’s the makings of a Guiness Record here (a plausable plot involving Macy), but I ain’t buying in. I’ve seen too much of Locher during the past few years.
In panel one! Could it be? Yes! It’s Shaggy from Scooby Doo! The long awaited Dick Tracy/Scooby Doo crossover is happening. With Scooby and the gang on his side, Tracy is sure to solve this mystery.
Great Dick Tracy comic strip today and color Sunday on tap for tomorrow… Looking forward to Sunday’s all-new color Dick Tracy! Always great seeing Tracy in full color, not to mention Crimestopper’s Textbook!
Sunday’s color Dick Tracy is usually a series of flashbacks and ends with a cliffhanger to boot! It’s great if you miss the strip or don’t get the daily paper and only read the Dick Tracy strip on Sunday.
Super Stylized Dick Tracy in the second Panel! Very cool! My favorite spot on Tracy that we’ve seen here for a while. Great stuff today!
Locher has a five year history of slow paced tales - ‘puctuated’ with an overload of contradictions. Many serving to make Tracy look stupid and cowardly
T’was Murder determined yesterday, on one flimsy butterfly clue
While the newspapers AGAIN do the work Tracy should do
Tigger, it’s still possible that Homeless Guy is not D-cubed, and that the waterlogged corpse is D-cubed. Locher hasn’t given enough clues to settle he issue.
One of the possibilities is that M-S-D and D-cubed went jogging, and M-S-D drowned him as part of a scheme to abscond with that hundred million dollars he’d just withdrawn. Alas for M-S-D, Homeless Guy saw the murder and instantly recognized both her and his victim, then cooked up a brilliant blackmail scheme. “You will become a force for good!” he tells M-S-D. “Use your insider knowledge to help destroy We’re-Lyin-terprises, and give me oodles of cash to hand out to people!”
But, yes, it is just as likely the Homeless Guy is D-cubed. D-cubed is an old man, to judge by his wife, and is a clever businessman. He should have found a more sensible way to hide than as a street person–and when was the last time common sense figured in this strip?
marvee, I’m afraid you’re correct. This strip depends on what damon knight called the “idiot plot.” The story’s plot only works if all the characters are idiots.
trickdacy, you may have something there! Homeless Guy just might be Shaggy from Scooby Doo, and that dog we saw with him might be one of Scooby’s relatives. Maybe there really are vampires afoot here! (re my earlier theory–notice how Mrs. D’apostrophe and M-S-D both wear the exact same type of bracelet. Coincidence? Or proof that they are one and the same vampiress, changing her apparent age after she drinks blood? And that mysterious hundred-million-dollar withdrawal–was it taken from the blood bank?)
FLIGHT SUIT about 14 years ago
It’s almost like the panhandler has gone from being an old man to being in his mid twenties overnight! It’s almost like the weird photo disappeared from the newspaper while I was holding it!
No, it couldn’t be.
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ about 14 years ago
Tracy’s got us wondering…
At least 3D (or whoever the homeless guy is) has a clean shave!
margueritem about 14 years ago
”NO, it couldn’t be.” This bad, perhaps?
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
Almost like you’ve been played for a fool, DT? Drop the “almost” and you got it. Quick, DT, call the cops and tell them you need a detective! Wait, you are a detective! Quit schmoozing the widow and get to work! Have the ME make a positive ID of that corpse, follow the trail of that hundred million dollar withdrawal, and have somebody else check out the recent activities of Mrs. D’apostrophe and M-S-D.
Even money says that if the homeless guy is D-cubed, DT still won’t arrest him for complicity in the murder of whoever the corpse is. No, DT will examine him, find that he doesn’t have a butterfly tattoo on his chest, and arrest him for impersonating the late D-cubed.
leakysqueaky712 about 14 years ago
He looks like he should be on a playing card………..Like a Jack.
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ about 14 years ago
leakysqueaky712 said, “He looks like he should be on a playing card………..Like a Jack.”
Leaky, that story was a year or so ago. Remember the casino guys that looked like playing card figures. One of my favorite DT cases.
Fusnr about 14 years ago
Yeah, I think he is a Bauer or (Bower) in Euchre.
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
Yes, Doofus Tracy, your laxative is finally kicking in!
Flight Suit, I noticed Homeless Guy’s sudden youth, too. It fits in with a theory I’ve been pondering for the past five or six seconds. Have you noticed that we never see Mrs. D and M-S-D together? How the old lady vanishes and the young lady suddenly appears?
My theory is this: Doofus Tracy has just realized he’s dealing with vampires. Anyone who’s read Dracula knows that vampires appear old when they’re hungry, and turn young when they’ve just fed. Doofus is sweating because he’s been hitting on a vampire, and once the widow bites him she’ll rejuvenate and appear as M-S-D. And she has an ally in D-cubed, who she recently turned into a vampire and is now using thousand dollar bills to entice victims into his reach!
leakysqueaky712 about 14 years ago
VistaBill…….do I remember that story from last year you ask?? hmmmm
I remember “Johnny hadda Plenty” who was married to “Fresh Upp” who had a wicked alcholic mother named “Burpie Upp” Fresh Upp had a baby who was born with a beard and was being exploited by Burpie. Spots and Ogden came upon the scene to wreak more havoc. That was in the 60’s……….and you ask me if I remember last year…………….No what happened??
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
I can’t make sense of the idea that Homeless Guy is D-cubed. If his plan is to make it look like he’s dead, why does he draw attention to himself by handing out money? (And DT can’t possibly know about Homeless Guy at this point.)
Maybe we’ve been misdirected about D-cubed. Perhaps he’s only hated by crooked executives who realize that he’s really a good guy with a conscience. Perhaps he, M-S-D and the missus are working to destroy the mob at We’re-Lyin’-terprises by making it appeared they murdered him to protect their corruption. Perhaps he’s giving money to families who were victimized by the bad guys.
But. If he’s a good guy, how to explain the corpse with his tattoo? Good guys don’t murder innocent bystanders to cover their plans. Possibly the ex-partners sent him to kill D-cubed, who got lucky and won their confrontation. Perhaps M-S-D killed him without telling her boss, because he stumbled onto the truth and she’s a fanatic about getting the job done. Perhaps the widow lied about the tattoo, thinking this would be a good way to inherit her flaky husband’s fortune.
What we need is for Doofus to get his act in gear and deliver some reliable clues to the readers.
mjmsprt40 about 14 years ago
Lizz looks at the headline of the paper, then comes to some decisions she’s been thinking about for some time. She calls Sam into the office.
“Sam, I want you to get Dick Tracy in here. I’ve got some bad news for him, maybe he can detect that his days with the department are through. Next, I want you to find that reporter who’s been doing these stories. He’s got some great skills, the department can use some detectives like him.”
Sam leaves the office in search of Tracy. He’s a little sad, since he likes DT as a person, but he has to admit that the old guy just isn’t cutting it anymore as a detective. He has to admit to being impressed by the reporter too, he wonders if the reporter would be as good on the police force as he is for the newspaper.
goodyart about 14 years ago
“Score one for the good guys?” “Revenge from the grave?” “No, it couldn’t be?”
I can’t wait for tomorrow’s Sunday spread to tie all this together. Or will that be next Sunday? Or any Sunday?
Sky_Shachaq about 14 years ago
It must have been a shock. Tracy finally opened his eyes.
Morrow Cummings about 14 years ago
Yeah….. I like BillThompson’s logic. But I don’t give Locher an ounce of credit for being capable of weaving an interesting story. There’s the makings of a Guiness Record here (a plausable plot involving Macy), but I ain’t buying in. I’ve seen too much of Locher during the past few years.
JCFremont about 14 years ago
“My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts about - grave robbers from outer space?”
trickdacy about 14 years ago
In panel one! Could it be? Yes! It’s Shaggy from Scooby Doo! The long awaited Dick Tracy/Scooby Doo crossover is happening. With Scooby and the gang on his side, Tracy is sure to solve this mystery.
Dr. Midnight about 14 years ago
“No, it couldn’t be….
IT HAPPENED!!!!!!”
idarke about 14 years ago
At least we know that newspapers will never disappear as long as there are bums in pirate costumes and detectives to read them.
SimonPenn about 14 years ago
Great Dick Tracy comic strip today and color Sunday on tap for tomorrow… Looking forward to Sunday’s all-new color Dick Tracy! Always great seeing Tracy in full color, not to mention Crimestopper’s Textbook!
Sunday’s color Dick Tracy is usually a series of flashbacks and ends with a cliffhanger to boot! It’s great if you miss the strip or don’t get the daily paper and only read the Dick Tracy strip on Sunday.
Super Stylized Dick Tracy in the second Panel! Very cool! My favorite spot on Tracy that we’ve seen here for a while. Great stuff today!
You Go, GoComics!
LudwigVonDrake about 14 years ago
I’m with Morrow. There’s no way Locher can write a plausible storyline.
Groundzero7 about 14 years ago
Most recent strips have been silly,nutty,and fun to make light of but this one is just plain boring.
sydney about 14 years ago
I’m here agreeing with morrow too.
Locher has a five year history of slow paced tales - ‘puctuated’ with an overload of contradictions. Many serving to make Tracy look stupid and cowardly
T’was Murder determined yesterday, on one flimsy butterfly clue
While the newspapers AGAIN do the work Tracy should do
billdi Premium Member about 14 years ago
it’s almost like… magic! he’s really alive! i should get a butterfly tattoo, or at least a remnant!
akado2000 about 14 years ago
The old guy is now the young musician from the previous episode, the buddy of the guy with the bomb in the violin.
mjmsprt40 about 14 years ago
Simon, I have a question— well, actually, two questions.
What are you smoking?
Where can I get some?
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
Tigger, it’s still possible that Homeless Guy is not D-cubed, and that the waterlogged corpse is D-cubed. Locher hasn’t given enough clues to settle he issue.
One of the possibilities is that M-S-D and D-cubed went jogging, and M-S-D drowned him as part of a scheme to abscond with that hundred million dollars he’d just withdrawn. Alas for M-S-D, Homeless Guy saw the murder and instantly recognized both her and his victim, then cooked up a brilliant blackmail scheme. “You will become a force for good!” he tells M-S-D. “Use your insider knowledge to help destroy We’re-Lyin-terprises, and give me oodles of cash to hand out to people!”
But, yes, it is just as likely the Homeless Guy is D-cubed. D-cubed is an old man, to judge by his wife, and is a clever businessman. He should have found a more sensible way to hide than as a street person–and when was the last time common sense figured in this strip?
marvee about 14 years ago
BillT, you write a credible story, but there’s no way the “clues” in this strip will fit in a credible story.
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
marvee, I’m afraid you’re correct. This strip depends on what damon knight called the “idiot plot.” The story’s plot only works if all the characters are idiots.
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
trickdacy, you may have something there! Homeless Guy just might be Shaggy from Scooby Doo, and that dog we saw with him might be one of Scooby’s relatives. Maybe there really are vampires afoot here! (re my earlier theory–notice how Mrs. D’apostrophe and M-S-D both wear the exact same type of bracelet. Coincidence? Or proof that they are one and the same vampiress, changing her apparent age after she drinks blood? And that mysterious hundred-million-dollar withdrawal–was it taken from the blood bank?)