Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 02, 2020

Can anyone say acrophobia. ;-) Or maybe the rope is breaking? LOL

These choices never end well. ✨

Does Shaky take a high dive to his doom?

Or will be captured to spend a long stretch in THE BIG HOUSE?

Ladies and gentlemen….place your bets……

Your really have to trust the Crane Operator to do something like that.

Good morning™, desperate death wishers !

He’s really going through with this upsy daisy. He falls or gets shot or waits, whimpering, while lawmen make the ascent.

The people on the ground are waiting for Shaky to shoot them

Shaky’s face in the 1st. panel looks like a premonition of death…

Good morning™, friends!

This is one situation where constantly shaking is definitely not a good thing. I agree that he seems a little scared of heights.

I can see now that this won’t end well (for him, that is).

Gee, I wonder what’s gonna happen….

The topping off ceremony means the tree will be at the very top….I wonder if there is a peaked roof, or a radio tower?

A very bad decision on Shaky’s part. I thought he wanted to blend in?

Bit of a shaky decision to make….

What a dumbass. How to trap yourself in one easy lesson.

Yup—here comes another dramatic death plunge

“Always remember. You, asked for it.” (an old radio show.)

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I think our overgrown bully has gone completely “blood simple”. What’s his next boneheaded move: dropping the gun to steady himself with two hands, not realizing that he just threw away his final shred of leverage?

As I said a couple of weeks ago, Locherian levels of inanity.

Does being hoisted on an I-beam to the top of a high building and pointing a gun at a crowd while being lifted in the air seem like a poor way to go into hiding? He’s made a lot of poor choices, this one is almost as foolproof as trying to shake down Dick Tracy’s wife.

Shaky’s got to be the stupidest bad guy I’ve ever seen in this strip.

Why is he doing this?

This story has me completely confused. Why was Quiver introduced? And the charity scam? Does Edison have any actual role – was she the one who said she was going to get lost in the construction site? What, exactly, is Shaky doing? WHY does he want to get to the top of the building?

He did not think this one through.

This strip has a monopoly on stupid crooks.

Well, this looks like a spectacular exit coming up… so to speak…

Well, my theory from yesterday that Shaky has no intention of going to the top of the building appears to be incorrect.

I can’t with this absurdity anymore

So shaky gets shaky with heights?

Someone forgot,,, If you are on Top of A Building,,, Where can you run??

Shout out to the Fleischers’ cartoon “A Dream Walking”

You’re not shooting anybody now, are you smart guy. They could just leave you hanging and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Wertham Woods — you have a new client, assuming he survives this stunt.

I can’t wait to see Edison show up with a helicopter and whisk him away. And the tree.

Would they really have a spare girder lying around a finished building just to take a Christmas tree to the top? Not to mention the cost of a crane.

His plan doesn’t seem well thought out.

A. He’s SHAKY! Not the best combination for balancing on a moving beam.B. What’s to stop them from leaving him hanging in midair? He can’t hit them from there. See “A.”C. What’s his plan? Living at the top of an under-construction high rise?

Suddenly, this has become a tale of “WHOA!” d;o)

Riffin In The Sky (Still desperately hanging on to the Theater/Play conceit)

1-DUDE: Hey. Are we doing a chickens*** version of Peter Pan now? That’s not how Mary Martin done it.

2-JAY BOGART: Whoa baby! This theater has a high ceiling! OK YOU GUYS! DON’T TELL TRACY WHERE I AM. DEAL? OTHERWISE I USE MY UNERRING AIM TO FILL YOU LITTLE ANTS WITH LEAD D-CON!

DUDE: He’s up there Tracy. JAY: HEY! WE HAD A…UH OH…

Lotta stripes on that flag.

It looks like Shakey’s gonna go out like the Brow … plunging to his doom. The Brow ended up impaling himself on a flag pole (a strip that many newspapers at the time censored), is history about to totally repeat itself? Thats a pretty big flag at the site.

To (mis?)quote, Cleavon Little from Blazing Saddles…“Where’s the white women”? Quiver and Eddie?. Relative to that flag…this story is so illogical, the flag should be flying upside down. BTW, the Brow’s tale made sense

I don’t even get why he wants to go up. Maybe to be better seen and more easily captured, I guess.

Well, this sort of attention-getting play will certainly make easier for Edison and Quiver to slip away unnoticed.

why is that fir tree growing on that I beam?

You ever notice how Tracy’s villains aren’t too bright?

With the bullet wound exacerbating Shaky’s tremors, that construction worker may be in less danger than he believes.

Anybody else notice that Shakey appears to be a southpaw?

why is he trapping himself?

You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you just might find you get what you need. So it goes, Shaky. Don’t fall off that beam and mess up that nice tuxedo. Oh, no!

Can you say really dumb Bad Guy?

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New self-disposing villains. All they leave behind the the fresh scent of pine. Almost through with the archives. Soon I can show off my blazing wit in real-time. Also, if you’re reading this in the future, I might be dead from cancer. Fun!