Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 28, 2019

A good Sensei is hard to find. Both mentor and a friend

Ms. Mysta teaches Honeymoon to strike and to defend.

Producing heat to warm or ward off those who would do harm

Can freeze a foe from head to toe. Frigidity disarms.

A lightning bolt can save a life; defuse a violent thug

When Sensei’s lesson is complete they share a heartfelt hug.

Elsewhere, at the Playhouse, look to see Wilder’s, Our Town

Stage Manager is Flintheart, thespian of wide renown.

Floor manager is little Limpp. He bring with him his flies

Forever circling his head and buzzing ‘round his eyes.

A bantam fiend thinks himself huge. Shot Tracy in the back

Sally is his better half. A conscience they both lack.

Good morning™, punsters!

Just Doc, acting like a normal guy, making small talk about the weather. I suppose that’s not too different from the content of the play, although I’m not sure there were any jokes quite like this in the play.

Kandikane’s hair has assumed its normal hues for Sunday. It would be nice if there were a bit more subtlety like this in the daily colouring.

Why would the theater hire someone who has poor hygiene habits and probably stinks worse than a skunk??

Good morning™, mirthful managers !

Kandi is amused while Vitamin endures.

I suppose it’s too late

To fix the mistake

That the ever present flies

Yesterday said goodbye

They fooled us one and all

Into thinking “Doc” let water fall

Over his crust infested head

But a mistake it was instead

Now it’s time for me to rest

Goodnight to all and to everyone all my best!

Must be the intermission for the Annie story.

Still waiting to find out about Warbucks’ wives!

A LIMPP PUN…

With a wit like that he should write comic strips…

Candy: “Yeah, Doc, that’s . . . um . . . hilarious. Hey, I got one for you! How do you keep flies out of the kitchen? Put Doc in the living room!”

This weather report stinks!

OK, I admit I will probably use that joke sometime. But that’s all we get from a whole Sunday strip? By reason of the extra panels, Sunday strips would be a great time to move the story along, either with exposition dialog or action, or both. But so often, we just find all that potential wasted with lame jokes or goofy guest appearances that have nothing to do with the story at hand. I say again to Mike and crew – reread Gould, whom you claim to admire – see how he did it! PLEASE!

Maybe Mr. Limpp is a wanna-be comedian!!!

Portly cloudy? I guess a cloud was extra big? Or did he see a large person?

“Bah-dum-tcha!”

I hate to be nitpicky, but I think there’s an error in the HOF panel.

It said that “no students at the school were injured”. But, the shooter himself, who was wounded, was a student.

(On second thought, maybe he wasn’t a student at that school, and that’s what they meant?)

Whoa. A full Sunday panel to deliver a single terrible punch line. That’s my deal Tracy writers! To use a now hackneyed phrase – stay in your lane. If we wanted groaners like that one we’d read Nancy. In fact, I’m going to Nancy now to get the stench of that joke outta my system. What? You tellin’ me to try to do better if I can? Well, I can only try…

Welcome to “Bad Joke Sunday” and everybody and on the count of 1-2-3, everybody say : “Gro-a-an-n-n”…

1- SUGAR DADDY: Tell me Doctor Limp, how did you come to be both a psychiatrist AND a dentist. 2- DR. LIMP: It’s a long story… 3- …I was shrinking the head of a woman who had a phobia about brushing her teeth. 4- …and it occurred to me that if you aren’t true to your teeth they’ll be false to you. HA! 5- BARBER POLE: That may be worse than that “portly cloudy” joke I heard the other day. SUGAR DADDY: Yes. Not all ‘oldies’ are ‘goodies’ Dr. Limp. DR. LIMP: That’s what she said! Snap! BARBER POLE: NO I DIDN’T SUGAR DADDY!

Okay. I get a sense of why his uncle was called ‘Flyface’…Flies come in several sizes. Take note of the size of fruit flies – darn small. – After noting that Doc has several flies following his face around, I don’t really need to see it every frame. … – And I note that Doc has other talents; such as good enough to raise money and mount a theatrical production of Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’. – Have to wonder whether there will be a tie-in to the story, like there was in Flintheart’s last performance, ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’. & I wonder if Gruesome participates in the prison theatrical troupe. …

Re: Ken in Ohio; couldn’t agree more. Problem is whoever writes these “stories” obviously never read any of Gould’s scripts. Someone should send them the IDW reprints for Christmas, so far 26 volumes. Maybe they’d learn something. Like, for instance, NO Crossovers in any of the volumes. PLEASE

Crikey! Even the characters in the strip recognize how horrible a “joke” this is from Doc Limpp, Floor Manager. Spare us, O Lord!

I am forced to think of Don Knotts, The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964), due to the similarity in the names. But Don Knotts was consistently funny. Doc Limpp, not Knotts….

He’s just an ugly little troll-like book bomber (vel sim.) and back-shooter. This cannot go well….

Why did Kandy Kane refer to him as “Doc”?

SO..i just noticed a little detail that is “off” in this strip… KandiLame calls “Mr Limpp” by the name “Doc” tho they werent introduced to him as Doc at all… and instead of giving me the tired old “it happened off panel” crap just admit they screwed up