Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 24, 2009

Panel #1: That cop has a mighty strange head. Panel #3: Let me guess, he has an ACE up his sleeve.

2 Schmoes Standing by……

Panel 3 - One man has a GIANT Tie. The other, a GIANT HEAD, skinny tie.

The policeman is holding the ketchup….

The Phosgene Dilema !

Panel 1 {Police Headquarters}: Eagle and Jefferson ? Chief Buzz misdirects the Fuzz. Didn’t the King say (6-12-09) turn “Wright” ?

Panel 2 {The Casino} Currency collapse ? The hand is quicker than the eye (?) Who pinched the missing One million ? Ouch !

Panel 3 {Outside the Art Studio} Big ‘Tons’ tells Skinny ‘Tons’ – “Here is the evidence ! Nobody beats him – they don’t call him Big Confusion for nothing. Imagine, two bloopers in one day !!

And the whole world clearly sees what thousands of readers complain about our Author falling victim to the *”Phosgene Dilema”

It’s forgetting, and empty to over simplistic content. Gould’s Empty Williams died from a fall (5-06-51) and “As a matter a’ fact” I’d rather have Williams back than a flawed Jack.

*FOR THOSE WHO CAME IN LATE - - Dr. Phosgene was a Kilian character depicted by Locher on a jet flight in 2000 with Tracy, Diet Smith and Miss Spray. Dr. Phosgene disappeared in “mid-flight” without discernable reason or explanation, never to be seen again. This dilema and others of a similar nature have dogged the strip for several years.

I feel genuinely sorry for the Author who has certainly had better days (and some great moments). But we must thank him and hope he moves on now, age 80, to a Happy retirement full of fond memories.

We deserve better than this.

Now it’s only half a million?

It started with 3/4 of a million. Went up to 6 million. Then back down to 3/4 of a million, to play for double that. which is only 1/2 a million.

Mr Locher, I can remember the number you put in last week, and a couple days ago, Why can’t you?

I stand on my comment from yesterday. Beware Tracy…the ace in the hole.

Sigh…

Is Eagle and Jefferson Naperville’s S.W.A.T. team? What Liz(z) needs to dispatch is the guys with the butterfly nets and straight jackets.

To the Zitpicker’s Notebook kids: See what happens to you when you don’t do your math homework? You’ll wind up like the characters in the strip!

On 6/12 the King of Clubs told Tracy that Monte’s Casino is on Wright Street. Now it’s at Eagle and Jefferson. Maybe a twister blew it away along with Dorothy’s house in Kansas?

Hey guys !

Don’t you recognize the cop in panel one ?

Look at the nose ! Why , it’s Dick Junior !

C’est évident .

Boy, does Lizz look P.O.’d. I guess I would be mad, 2, if 1 of my police officer was out gambling half a million dollars, and I was stuck in the office…

I’ll bet that while Big Ace has the Ace (duh) Mr. Tracer has the JOKER!

Well, okay, maybe not, but Big Ace definitely needs a calculator or some scratch paper, seeing that he can’t even remember how much he’s betting on from shuffle to shuffle.

And how many times do we need to be told that Tracy requested back-up / a SWAT team at the casino?

The two flunkies in panel 3 look more like a comedy duo.

Jeff said (on what’s ‘going on’ in this storyline) : “Here’s a little hint – the trouble isn’t with US” ;)

Now no one really believes that you took the trouble to come out of self imposed retitrement to impart “ZERO” Cola type information

It’s a little disrespectful to imply that all the posters here don’t know what the heck is occuring then gratuitously you become “pussy footing” polite in pointing out that THEY haven’t got a clue on what is happening, whlie you and one other (Dick Locher perhaps?) triumphantly do (?).

It would seem to most readers that an Author/Artist HAS a professional obligation to make what he producws easily understandable to his readers, less far-fetched or in need of laborIous interpritation. Even more compelling, IF his target audience happens to be young children. And in the “flexibe” world of rearranging comic-strip “facts” (at times for convenience), let’s not have a Mattie like “NO-ball” e.g. – “Locher only has to please his Editors”. A position, by ommisson implying, that the Author can display a far less civilized physical action toward his readers (l’eau de caneton jaune).

But Mattie will find out as he grows up into a big Duck (and contemplates that action) that there is a huge differece between barely “getting by” and scoring 100%. In this competetive world, the just “getting by” strip or Artist quickly looses readership and circulation.

The situation with the current story line in not ambigious in any way . It’s crearly rediculous, flawed in two major areas (IN the Author’s written text) and in several others, misleadinging and inauthentic, as a Police Detective strip

If everything was all so simple and easy to understand you wouldn’t be here doing a “Back to Baatan” invasion effort. But if you do feel a compulsion to be here, please shine a powerful searchlight on the important facts that we are all missing. Time to stop “hinting”. Time to hit the nail with the hammer !

I don’t expect you to ! For like me, you know they are none ! Fess up ! We’d all like a reason to cease eating Prunes in June.

OMG! WTF?

I missed a post?!? Clue me in, Sydney.

It sure appears that a post has been deleted. Those of us who came in late have no indication as to what Grok and Sydney are referring.

I do feel compelled, however, to add one remark……..

sigh……………

margueritem asks :

“I missed a post?!? Clue me in. Sydney.

Glad to, if I knew specifically “what” you need clarified. I take it that you read my first post earlier on this morning shortly after yours ? That’s the essence of today’s subject plus Jeff’s indirect, tepid, (nothing of substance) response.

He’s become a “black belt” master of verbal moves and “faking” hints that look good but cant seem to put any successful Ideas down on the boards.

Pity ! In many a way I like him, but like someone else we know, needs to overcome an obsession that warps and distorts his vision. Anything the current Author writes or draws “stands” straight up in his eyes, as if.influenced by Bois Bande’ (a drink from the bark of a local tree) that has performance enhancing qualities

Hey Grok and/or Sydney - Did Mattie or little Jeffie post something and then delete it? I haven’t seen hide nor hair out of those two in months…….. Don’t think I’m complaining! I’m not! I miss them like I miss a hemmoroid. Being a charter member of the Magpies is an honor!

Grok,

I rather liked your post about three hours ago. In particular, the paragraph on his obsevation on the pacing,which appearsd to move at “breakneck speed”, because the strip hadn’t gone backward that week !

I have a clear recollection on that one, and another, of being on the” edge of his seat” with excitment, waiting to find out what would happen tomorrow, while everyone else was snoring away like Warren Christopher.

But you were a little heavy handed in parts.

Well bless my soul, morrow, you’re right !

Hadn’t noticed but Jeff cancelled that “invasion” rather quickly. I guess he realized he didn’t have a leg to stand on.

He didn’t say much but most of it is captured in Grok’s post It’s hands up ! And running up the “white flag”. An unconditional surrender and by default an implicit agreement that DL “goofed”, TWICE today.

You have to wonder if Mattie is weeping in a corner (?)

And there is more to come in about a week from now !

Chester Gould he ain’t.

Backup has been ordered to two different (yet, DISTINCT) locations. Riddle me this–how can one criticize when one hasn’t all the facts?

;)

For the record, GoComics has never threatened to ban complainers. Your assertion, channce, is patently false. It’s obvious when anyone can look back through the archive and see that the overwhelming majority of comments about this strip are complaints. If complaints got people banned, most of the people on this page would have been banned a long time ago.

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You guys are such pessimists. Be an optimist! Look at the bright side! The word balloons are placed to cover up part of the horribly drawn faces. Rejoice!

Maybe next time they’ll place word balloons to cover up the horribly drawn hands.

-Cougar :{)

Maybe they could place the faces over the word ballons, to cover up the horribly thought up dialogue?

Hmm … maybe alternate weeks? Cover up the horrible drawing with word balloons one week, cover up the horrible dialogue with drawing the next?

-Cougar :{)