Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 12, 2011

Panel one: Already said that yesterday. Get on with it already!

Panel #1: Testicle Chin is not answering the question Horn Hair asked yesterday. And he seems to know a lot more about AWACS capacities than you can learn from globalsecurity.org, fas.org and other reliable sources.

Horn Hair can’t get one of her flunkies to answer a simple question. How did she get the Chief’s job?

Panel #2: Time drags when you ain’t having fun. Speaking of drags, what are the boys wearing today?

Panel #3: “One thing?” Froggy, you really underestimate Thivk’s ability to overlook things.

Something big hes overlooking? Could it be that the granary appears to be in the middle of the ocean now?

Wow! First date and already they’ve spent the night together.

Is Sam really that much larger than Liz?

Lot’s of double entendre here. I’m almost embarrassed.

What is wrong with Sams face? Why is his mouth twisted all the time like that? Did he just eat a lemon?

VistaBill,

With Sam’s mouth closed and his finger up his nose blocking the air getting out, his head is blowing up like a balloon.

Is it bigger than a breadbox?

NVash said, “Something big hes overlooking? Could it be that the granary appears to be in the middle of the ocean now?”

I also think the granary washed out into the ocean. Will the AWACS plane be able to fly in that kind of storm?

On Sunday, Feb 6th, Sam gave his good news. The AWACS plane from Brett Air Force base said if Tracy has his wrist Geenee on, they can pin point his location.

Jumping ahead to Friday, Feb 10th, Lizz says:

Sam, we can’t even call out. How will we ever contact the AWACS plane to search for Tracy.

So, how did Sam find out about the AWACS plane and how did he talk to the air force to look for Dick. Remember, all communications are down.

Also, Sam told Liz on Sunday about the AWACS plane and that they would be able to find Tracy if he has his wrist Geenee on.

On Friday, Liz doesn.t remember this.

Plus, Liz says they can’t call out, but how did she know about AWACS plane if there is no communication.

Now Mordred has told Tracy that he is missing something Big.

Has Dick forgotten that Monday is Valentine’s Day???

Comics Kingdom Viewer Thursday night posted the strips for next week.

Another week of torture for the readers.

Maybe if you smoked some weed while reading this story, it might help to make sense of it.

I think that’s a new picture of the Camelot Granary in panel #3. Of course it’s hard to tell with the exciting dialog balloons in the way, but the number of windows and shape of the tree are different this time.

I don’t know how many times Lazy Locher has shown the granary from the same perspective. What did he do, set up a shoebox and candle on a table as guides, then do several rough sketches of “Storm with Tree and Building?”

Meanwhile look at the “wave” at the base of the “tree.” Same to you, Locher!

safeway674 said, “Comics Kingdom Viewer Thursday night posted the strips for next week. Another week of torture for the readers.”

I couldn’t belive my eyes… DT is getting even worse…

Yanno, I never really thought I’d find myself cheering a hurricane on…

Someday, geologists will study the movement of Dick Tracy plots.

VB…..LS,,,,,

PLEASE DON’T LEAVE. DON’T GVE UP SO EASILY!!

Overlooking something big? OK, I hazard a guess that it has something to do with yesterday’s panels where— I know you’re not going to believe this— Thick and Mordred are standing in water again.

Michael, I noticed the rising water too. Locher’s track record means the water has nothing to do with the story.

I still say that it’s all an hallucination and they’re stuck at the traffic lights. Only two days together? Seems like months.

BT, you asked how Horn Hair got her job? Wait ‘till I quit laughing and I’ll tell you!

Appears HornHair smashed Testicle Chin’s face in

I can’t wait for tomorrow’s strip when they will have to summarize all of the action from this week into only 7 panels.

OldTracy said, less than a geologic epoch ago: “I can’t wait for tomorrow’s strip when they will have to summarize all of the action from this week into only 7 panels.”

Summarizing all the action from this week… check. Now, what are Locher and Brozman going to do with the remaining six panels?

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: if most of you are just going to gripe about this strip, WHY DO YOU KEEP READING IT?! Seriously, this is a comic strip for ENTERTAINMENT purposes. If you’re looking for perfection, fine art and epic literature, go to a museum or pick up Tolstoy.

wwcameralab, I second that emotion.

“If I can guess the time right, this is our second full month together.”

wwcameralab said, 29 minutes ago

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: if most of you are just going to gripe about this strip, WHY DO YOU KEEP READING IT?! Seriously, this is a comic strip for ENTERTAINMENT purposes. If you’re looking for perfection, fine art and epic literature, go to a museum or pick up Tolstoy.

————————————————————————— We keep reading it in hopes that it will make sense and entertain us. We are not looking for perfection, just something that makes sense with a decent story line. If you are entertained by this strip than you have some serious problems. You don/t have to read our comments, so enough already.

“WHY DO YOU KEEP READING IT?!”

I ask myself that every day.

But seriously, an epic story of forbidden love complete with bondage & gimp masks and set in a Victorian granary with violent storm surges mirroring the passions within - How can I NOT read this every day? (I was going to go with italics for the word “not,” but I went with all caps instead as a sort of tip of the ENTERTAINMENT hat.)

HA HA HA HO HO HA!

Alarm! The Carping Magpie Chorus is being taken to task No longer in our self righteousness will we be allowed to bask Voices tell us we are in the wrong For singing our doleful song Young whippersnappers they must be For the glory days they did not see We who daily gather here To hoot and holler and maybe jeer Have grown long in the tooth with this strip So to us it has been a long strange trip Entertainment is something that we all seek But that value now has become exceedingly weak Even on a child’s scale This strip would surely pale This arc is particularly corrupt Being padded and shored up By petty dialogue and a feeble plot It’s nothing more than a bunch of tommyrot So to those who snarl and nip at our heels I sincerely doubt you know how we feels To watch a once great detective Become so bloody ineffective.

Great installment yesterday BB6, and thank you BillT and woodworker318.

Wonderfully stated, WW!

wwcameralab,

THIS is why we read this strip every day.

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I think tcayer nailed it.

“i’m too big for you to take in”

Thanks WW you’re spot-on. the faithful group of commentators here are the only thing that makes this strip bearable and entertaining. yes it’s perverse but perhaps in a small way our snarking helped push locher into retirement and the change of the guard coming next month. he got away with trashing and diminishing the DT legacy for way too long.

Also, Locher couldn’t go three days in a row without showing us the outside of the granary again.

Current record: two days.

Go for THREE, Locher!!

Tomorrow marks 4 weeks inside the granary and 29 days before a New Dick Tracy.

I will have to check down for a spell. I made the mistake of looking ahead. Bad mistake. So, to avoid possible libel and slander issues I’m going to keep quiet for a bit.

OK, I actually checked, and the record is five days without showing the outside of the granary… Feb 4-8, 2011.

Sorry about that.

Although Tracy better start thinking about building an ark, because the length of this storm is closing in on the one in Genesis 6-8.

Even though someone beat me to the punch, I’ll put my 2-cents in anyway.

For tomorrow’s “sleepasode” ” Locher won’t need 7 panels to summarize this week’s strips. It so predictable, and so insipid, that it can be done with just two panels!

Here’s my prediction for the Sunday strip.

Panel 1: (At headquarter): Chief horn hair (drawn in all her color dripping splendor!) asks the eternal question: “What’s the big news Sam? “. Sam (looking like he’s just been sucking on a under ripe lemon) just gives her the usual enigmatic, pinched poker-faced, bow tie quivering stare, but says nothing. A thought balloon above Sam’s head says “Huh! Like I’m going to tell you what the big news is!! Don’t hold your breath b*#?@.”

Panel 2: (Back in the moldy “old” granary): Mordred continues to taunt Spacey’s sexual inadequacy:

“You’re missing something really BIG here, Tracy”.

Spacey, having been nervously looking down at his shoes at the rising water, jerks up his head, gives Morass his famous lock-jawed stare and asks “Oh yah, what am I missing?” To be continued…

That’s it! Riveting dialog, right? Two panels, no outside view of the now rotting and decayed granary needed. Of course, knowing Locher, he’ll add 5 panels of “boring filler” just to further annoy his critics.

wwcameralab, half the fun is reading the comments. Many times they are much more entertaining than this strip. Seriously, has this plot moved at all in the past month? This is ridiculous.

wndrwrthg, another great one!

I just read up until the 20th. It doesnt get better. Sorry. It only gets worse and makes even less sense.

Spoiler alert: Next week has nothing to do with this week. Most of tomorrow’s installment has nothing to do with this week. This was done by a person who absolutely doesn’t care about his workmanship and is, as I write this, just filling time until retirement.

Now I’d better stop before I start questioning the ancestry of Tracy, Mordred, Sam, Lizz and last but not least Locher and Brozman.

Panel 1 , I don’t get it . Horn Hair is about four or five feet behind Testicle Chin . What is she looking at ?

Horn Hair is standing next to Testicle Chin. She’s struck dumb because she can look in his ear and see light.

WW–Great, Great, Great one. I think it sums up the feelings of all of the regulars. I wonder how much longer the storm of the century is going to last? I hope not until the next century. No, I’m wrong there. Only until March 13th, then I hope the sun will come out tomorrow, just like Annie.