Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 03, 2011

Unless we’re about to see a really strange villain, he probably isn’t equipped to handle maternal instincts!

I’m liking the vehicle designs. And I’m not even bothered by the fact that no crime has been committed, because I feel confident that all of this is leading somewhere.

A prop from a horror movie…

Ok now I want to see what the kid looks like…He he.

When I saw the medical staffing running and screaming at the hospital, it reminded me of the 1974 movie - “It’s Alive”

In short, the movie plot was : The Davies expect a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing when it’s scared. And it’s easily scared.

Read the plot at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It’sAlive(1974_film)

see the movie trailer at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA3iusK4p78

Could this be a simliar story to the 1974 movie!!!!!

Do any of you remember this cult flick????

I’m beginning to think that we’ll never see the baby!

Good morning all…

Safeway674 -

I remember that flick, and it was an excellent horror movie. Yet another that Hollyweird shouldn’t have tried to make 3-5 sequels with.

Safeway, way ahead of you there. I posted this last week, I think:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/flightsuit/itsalive.jpg

Also, GoComics formatting broke your Wikipedia link. Here’s the same link, in the form of a TinyURL:

http://tinyurl.com/3ozyp3g

Here is a pic of the baby from It’s Alive.

WARNING! This is one ugly baby.

http://www.cheese-magnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/its_alive.jpg

I really hope the Plenty’s baby doesn’t look like that!

YES, It’s alive, IT’S ALIVE! B.O. AND GERTIE’S CREATION, IT’S ALIVE!!

Couldn’t resist…

I think VistaBill is right. We’ll never see the baby. It will be a running joke for years to come.

By the looks ofthe parents, he must look like Marty Feldman.

Not to change the subject, but wasn’t Sunny Dell Acres located under a highway overpass?

I’m glad it isn’t anymore, btw…

I still think the kid looks like the one from Eraserhead.

SUNNY DELL ACRES (panel 1) ! Well I guess, that’s the first soft elbow on Locher’s favorite depiction of the Plenty home, one which by virtue of repetition seemed like a pasteup photocopy panel when you noticed that every little art ‘squigle’ was repeated in every one of them.

Reason for retention was that it was DRAWN by late son John - and so to speak, effectively a third “in strip” MEMORIAL, after the character likeness in new Junior and the Sunday Rubber Ducky symbol

Here it is in all it’s GLORY. Don’t mind the ‘credit name’, the ORIGINAL which appeared in an earlier strip was ‘signed’ by JOHN LOCHER.

http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2006/04/12/

I haven’t a problen with a loving father grieving for his son, but enough is enough,(we have MEMORIAL in ‘triplicate’ HERE), and there is a point beyond which it loses a sense of subtlety, becomes borish and is too much ‘in your face’ !

And no Matty, (I KNOW you are reading this), I don’t HATE Locher, just think he let his emotions push him into foolishness.

Hey, is that a young Quenten Tarantino driving Hot Rize? Sure looks like him…

Really love the art!

And I have NO idea where this story is going (other than the world’s worst Mother’s Day family photo).

This goes way back…I think there was a country music TV show that featured Flatt and Scruggs, sponsored by Martha White’s Self Rising Flour. Lester and Earl would sing the jingle, which ended, “It’s got Hot Rise.” Oh yeah… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FgpQyk5ibw

(if you like this genre).

I had no idea that John Locher drew Locher’s Sunny Dell Acres. It’s a beautiful rendering, but it did look more like a mansion rather than a redneck dwelling. Mr Staton’s is much better.

Haven’t seen a “butch” news reporter since Hank O’hare in Brenda Starr.

Ray C, I loved it! I had to try and find the song you were talking about and found it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsDnaF-T1e0

I also found this animated clip for Martha White Corn Meal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTyhK6SSoP0

Now if I could only get the Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres themes out of my head (grin)

Methinks those two may be up to no good. We’ll see……..

Fred? As in Kruger?

The videographer reminds me of Jack Lemmon in “How to Murder Your Wife.”