“The dawning of a new age” marks the dawning of a new Dick Tracy story today.
We saw this scene from a slightly different angle in the July 20 strip. Stellaluna had arrived with news about Mysta, just as Smith was instructing his two assistants to focus in, tone down the colors, and fly around taking lots of pictures. As we see today, they were likely looking at that image of Flattop’s arrival at the train station in 1943 that we saw on August 6. In any case, they are looking at it now.
Did they re-invent the lunar magnetic drive air cars that were hinted at several arcs back (I believe it was the arc that gave use B.O. Plenty’s flash back history) when one was being dredged out of a swamp / pond
Good morning™, For Tracy’s eyes only ! ….Since we sure can’t see what this great new development is !
So, Diet can send devices into the past to see events unfold like they are just happening for the first time. I bet they could tie up a lot of unsolved crimes with this and prevent deaths that came too soon to their victims.
With Archival now in custody and with Diet Smith’s project he was seen working on reaching success (which doesn’t seem to have anything to do with Archival), it appears we’ve reached the start of a new story. When I’ve decided a new story’s started, I do a list of every Tracy story on GoComics. Unfortunately, soon after I started doing this GC imposed a stupid, asinine character limit of only 2000 characters which includes every letter, space, punctuation, & html, which means I have to do this over several posts. I’ll do my initial introduction in this post and start the list in the next one, because otherwise, I can’t even get past the second year.
My notes are fairly simple. Just my name for the story (usually the name of the main villain or villains, unless they just aren’t the emphasis) followed by the dates the story began and ended. If someone was the main villain for more than one story, I add a “II” and so on to emphasize this. If more than one villain from a past story are in the same story committing major crimes, I include them altogether. Finally, for the 3 cases of more than one villain with the same name (Chameleon, Mr. Crime, Shaky) I add, “The Second” in front of their names.
Minit Mysteries Note: at the request of people who wanted to see these listed here, I’ve decided to make a separate post for them to keep the listing of Mike Curtis stories in as few posts as possible.
At the start of the GoComics archive, the writer was the late Mike Kilian. Personally, I like his work on Tracy and think he’s very underrated. At the very least, he knew how to tell a story in the daily strip format where every day, something happens that moves the story along, a quality his successor sorely lacked. I recommend anyone here who hasn’t read these stories to check them out.
So the rumors are true and Diet’s team has invented some sort of time viewer. Will the screen become a portal like in the 1964 classic SciFi B-movie (and inspiration for TV’s “Time Tunnel”,)”The Time Travelers”?
Don’t forget that a proper time machine is actually a spacetime machine, because you have to take into account the fact that the Earth travels through space in 6 different ways simultaneously. (1) It rotates on its axis, giving us night and day.(2) It orbits the sun once a year, and on a wavy path because it’s dragging the Moon with it.(3) It wobbles on its axis, meaning that in the future, the North Pole will no longer be pointing at Polaris.(4) The Earth’s orbit changes orientation because of the gravitational influence of the other planets, especially Venus and Jupiter.(5) The sun, dragging the solar system with it, orbits the center of the galaxy, going around once every 250,000,000 years. (6) The galaxy itself is on a collision course with the Andromeda galaxy at a rate of nearly 500,000 miles an hour. Think of that. In the time it takes to watch a movie, the Earth will travel approximately 1,000,000 miles and you won’t even notice it.
The Time Tunnel and the Guardian of Forever are perfect examples of such machines. (In one episode of TTT, Tony ’n Doug were sent to another planet 900 light years away.)
Stephen Hawking said traveling into the past is impossible anyway, and I can’t refute him. But I like sharing what I know. (I got all this information from a Science Channel series, How the Universe Works.) Now I can go to bed.
When companies that are developing new technologies that are inspired by the concepts of a leader [Bezos, Ford, Edison, or Dr. Land etc.] with a vision beyond the norm, one wonders how often a first thought is to check with local law enforcement.
Although it is not quite as smooth as Chester Gould would haven written, we have a pretty good segue here from one story to the next. (Yesterday’s strip followed immediately by today’s.)
Haven’t seen anyone comment on the circular port over Smith’s right shoulder with the insert designed so that you can reach through. Assuming this is a time viewer… Can you steal something from the past? Can you create a time paradox by shooting your grandfather before dad was born?
Mmmph! Hmmmmmm!! Just in time fer the Sunday Special, eh? Kinda (oh, O.K. not “kinda” but LOTS like the S.S. from them Golden Days Of Yesteryear that gave us a first peek of Moon Maid’s antenna sending out zzt-zzt-zzzzzts over a tuft of platinum blond hair as she recovered from the rigors of her flight as a stowaway…….) Gee Whiz!!…..
The smoke to the left of Diets ear looks like a painting of a butt and there’s a woman with yellow hair and a mink admiring it. See it? Do you think Joe is intentionally hiding funny stuff in his artwork? I know I’ll be looking from now on!
1-DOIT: A MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGH THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD!
2-DOIT: We can continue to call it the Big Purple Sphincter for now. The Marketing Department can come up with a better name later. BUT FIRST, we need to miniaturize it. Or find a giant in need of a new sphincter.
It gets rather tiring to read the handful of continued negative comments about Mike Curtis and the quality of his writing. I think the strip has been solid and stable for the last decade.
Anyone who has a problem with Mike’s writing – rather than make a “show” here on GoComics, why not tell him DIRECTLY your feelings and comments (He’s on Facebook, so he is reachable) you got a problem with his work – tell him directly, rather than in an open forum! Everyone a critic! Yeh, be a “big shot” by criticizing him hear and not have the guts to tell the man personally! You handful of you armchair critics are in the MINORITY of the fans, thankfully.
Yeh, I have nitpicked a couple of things, but I have never questioned the quality of the writing. I have always been respectful of Mike’s work. No writer is perfect, and there’s stuff Chet and Max did that can be nitpicked as well!
Mike had given the syndicate WHAT they wanted for these past 10 years – and if the syndicate wasn’t happy, they would have fired Mike and Joe a long time ago. The syndicate for the most part gives Mike a good level of creative freedom as well. (Yeh, there’s been a little “requested last minute editing” in a storyline or two but that is usually to be expected)
The reviving of old dormant Tribune characters (Especially Annie and the surprise return of Friday Foster – who’s better known from the Pam Grier film than the 4 year run of the comic!) has been enjoyable, as well as the cross-overs (official or the “cameos”) of other properties have been alot of fun. (Who’d expect the Trib could get “Green Hornet” and “The Spirit”!) I hope we see more in 2022. I also like the minit mysteries – nice short little bits, and it gives Mike and Joe a breather.
Also worth reminding people that the strip has added newspapers under Mike and Joe. Perhaps with Tribune having new owners (Who also own 200 newspapers) the strip will get a few more.
What we know: Smith Industries has successfully developed a way to see events in the past (train station with Flattop 1943).
What we do not know: everything else about what the new technology can or cannot do. Alter the timeline? Change the past? See the future? None of those things, nor any others, has been established. We may learn more (or not) as days progress.
For my part, I find the starting of a new story on a Saturday to be somewhat strange. It leaves Sunday open either to a reiteration at once or to some other angle (such as a Minit Mystery, though I do not expect one). Again, we’ll see….
Neil Wick over 3 years ago
Good morning™, fellow Tracyites!
“The dawning of a new age” marks the dawning of a new Dick Tracy story today.
We saw this scene from a slightly different angle in the July 20 strip. Stellaluna had arrived with news about Mysta, just as Smith was instructing his two assistants to focus in, tone down the colors, and fly around taking lots of pictures. As we see today, they were likely looking at that image of Flattop’s arrival at the train station in 1943 that we saw on August 6. In any case, they are looking at it now.
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AnyFace over 3 years ago
… surely, Joe & Mike wouldn’t pull Flattop out of the time stream …
… would they? ✨seanyj over 3 years ago
I got a feeling were gonna have a brand new Minute Mystery come Sunday. What do you guys think?
h.v.greenman over 3 years ago
Did they re-invent the lunar magnetic drive air cars that were hinted at several arcs back (I believe it was the arc that gave use B.O. Plenty’s flash back history) when one was being dredged out of a swamp / pond
finkd over 3 years ago
I think Diet Smith has just invented the Guardian of Forever.
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray over 3 years ago
Good morning™, For Tracy’s eyes only ! ….Since we sure can’t see what this great new development is !
So, Diet can send devices into the past to see events unfold like they are just happening for the first time. I bet they could tie up a lot of unsolved crimes with this and prevent deaths that came too soon to their victims.
boboscar over 3 years ago
With Archival now in custody and with Diet Smith’s project he was seen working on reaching success (which doesn’t seem to have anything to do with Archival), it appears we’ve reached the start of a new story. When I’ve decided a new story’s started, I do a list of every Tracy story on GoComics. Unfortunately, soon after I started doing this GC imposed a stupid, asinine character limit of only 2000 characters which includes every letter, space, punctuation, & html, which means I have to do this over several posts. I’ll do my initial introduction in this post and start the list in the next one, because otherwise, I can’t even get past the second year.
My notes are fairly simple. Just my name for the story (usually the name of the main villain or villains, unless they just aren’t the emphasis) followed by the dates the story began and ended. If someone was the main villain for more than one story, I add a “II” and so on to emphasize this. If more than one villain from a past story are in the same story committing major crimes, I include them altogether. Finally, for the 3 cases of more than one villain with the same name (Chameleon, Mr. Crime, Shaky) I add, “The Second” in front of their names.
Minit Mysteries Note: at the request of people who wanted to see these listed here, I’ve decided to make a separate post for them to keep the listing of Mike Curtis stories in as few posts as possible.
At the start of the GoComics archive, the writer was the late Mike Kilian. Personally, I like his work on Tracy and think he’s very underrated. At the very least, he knew how to tell a story in the daily strip format where every day, something happens that moves the story along, a quality his successor sorely lacked. I recommend anyone here who hasn’t read these stories to check them out.
TBC cuz GC decided to suck now
artsyguy65 over 3 years ago
Good Morning™, Time Tunnelers!
So the rumors are true and Diet’s team has invented some sort of time viewer. Will the screen become a portal like in the 1964 classic SciFi B-movie (and inspiration for TV’s “Time Tunnel”,)”The Time Travelers”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Travelers_(1964_film)Or is it showing not the past, but alternate, parallel universes like the recent adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s “Man in the High Castle”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle_(TV_series)
I hope Mike has something less derivative in store.
BigDaveGlass over 3 years ago
As long as it’s just a time viewer, it could solve a lot of the unsolved historic crimes…..
Jab Jr 1957 over 3 years ago
Don’t forget that a proper time machine is actually a spacetime machine, because you have to take into account the fact that the Earth travels through space in 6 different ways simultaneously. (1) It rotates on its axis, giving us night and day.(2) It orbits the sun once a year, and on a wavy path because it’s dragging the Moon with it.(3) It wobbles on its axis, meaning that in the future, the North Pole will no longer be pointing at Polaris.(4) The Earth’s orbit changes orientation because of the gravitational influence of the other planets, especially Venus and Jupiter.(5) The sun, dragging the solar system with it, orbits the center of the galaxy, going around once every 250,000,000 years. (6) The galaxy itself is on a collision course with the Andromeda galaxy at a rate of nearly 500,000 miles an hour. Think of that. In the time it takes to watch a movie, the Earth will travel approximately 1,000,000 miles and you won’t even notice it.
The Time Tunnel and the Guardian of Forever are perfect examples of such machines. (In one episode of TTT, Tony ’n Doug were sent to another planet 900 light years away.)
Stephen Hawking said traveling into the past is impossible anyway, and I can’t refute him. But I like sharing what I know. (I got all this information from a Science Channel series, How the Universe Works.) Now I can go to bed.
Dean over 3 years ago
When companies that are developing new technologies that are inspired by the concepts of a leader [Bezos, Ford, Edison, or Dr. Land etc.] with a vision beyond the norm, one wonders how often a first thought is to check with local law enforcement.
Major Matt Mason Premium Member over 3 years ago
The first mentholated cigar?
crobinson019 over 3 years ago
The Chronoscope? The Vatican will hear about this. Dick Tracy versus The Church Police
GoComicsGo! over 3 years ago
The first kid proof lid that can be opened by an adult?
STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member over 3 years ago
Maybe Diet Coke has broken the mystery of the ring, and now can manufacture them and items based on it.
Ken in Ohio over 3 years ago
Although it is not quite as smooth as Chester Gould would haven written, we have a pretty good segue here from one story to the next. (Yesterday’s strip followed immediately by today’s.)
LawrenceS over 3 years ago
Haven’t seen anyone comment on the circular port over Smith’s right shoulder with the insert designed so that you can reach through. Assuming this is a time viewer… Can you steal something from the past? Can you create a time paradox by shooting your grandfather before dad was born?
orbenjawell Premium Member over 3 years ago
Mmmph! Hmmmmmm!! Just in time fer the Sunday Special, eh? Kinda (oh, O.K. not “kinda” but LOTS like the S.S. from them Golden Days Of Yesteryear that gave us a first peek of Moon Maid’s antenna sending out zzt-zzt-zzzzzts over a tuft of platinum blond hair as she recovered from the rigors of her flight as a stowaway…….) Gee Whiz!!…..
Binky over 3 years ago
Reminds me slightly of the basis for the tv show “Person of Interest”
Wichita1.0 over 3 years ago
“We can get old PATTY DUKE SHOW reruns without cable! Cute kids! Who KNEW they had cloning back then?!?!?!!”
Another Take over 3 years ago
The smoke to the left of Diets ear looks like a painting of a butt and there’s a woman with yellow hair and a mink admiring it. See it? Do you think Joe is intentionally hiding funny stuff in his artwork? I know I’ll be looking from now on!
TheFiddleBackSpider over 3 years ago
Suspenseful music plays in background…
Durak Premium Member over 3 years ago
“YES! My wall mounted sphincter is a success! Thumbs UP all around!”
Another Take over 3 years ago
1-DOIT: A MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGH THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD!
2-DOIT: We can continue to call it the Big Purple Sphincter for now. The Marketing Department can come up with a better name later. BUT FIRST, we need to miniaturize it. Or find a giant in need of a new sphincter.
TECHIE FACE: HA! Good one, boss!
DOIT: I’m serious.
Kip Williams over 3 years ago
“I’ve colorized CASABLANCA—with MAGNETISM!”
buckman-j over 3 years ago
Gasp, I sense a crossover with Flash Gordon. I wouldn’t put anything past these “Storytellers”.. Gould rolls over
Jonathan K. and the Elusive Dream Girl over 3 years ago
Did Diet Smith finally perfect “Project Blue Image”?
https://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2017/12/04
EOCostello over 3 years ago
Time travel? (Note the steam train in the b/g, plus the Flattop (?) strip of some days ago.)
retropop over 3 years ago
It gets rather tiring to read the handful of continued negative comments about Mike Curtis and the quality of his writing. I think the strip has been solid and stable for the last decade.
Anyone who has a problem with Mike’s writing – rather than make a “show” here on GoComics, why not tell him DIRECTLY your feelings and comments (He’s on Facebook, so he is reachable) you got a problem with his work – tell him directly, rather than in an open forum! Everyone a critic! Yeh, be a “big shot” by criticizing him hear and not have the guts to tell the man personally! You handful of you armchair critics are in the MINORITY of the fans, thankfully.
Yeh, I have nitpicked a couple of things, but I have never questioned the quality of the writing. I have always been respectful of Mike’s work. No writer is perfect, and there’s stuff Chet and Max did that can be nitpicked as well!
Mike had given the syndicate WHAT they wanted for these past 10 years – and if the syndicate wasn’t happy, they would have fired Mike and Joe a long time ago. The syndicate for the most part gives Mike a good level of creative freedom as well. (Yeh, there’s been a little “requested last minute editing” in a storyline or two but that is usually to be expected)
The reviving of old dormant Tribune characters (Especially Annie and the surprise return of Friday Foster – who’s better known from the Pam Grier film than the 4 year run of the comic!) has been enjoyable, as well as the cross-overs (official or the “cameos”) of other properties have been alot of fun. (Who’d expect the Trib could get “Green Hornet” and “The Spirit”!) I hope we see more in 2022. I also like the minit mysteries – nice short little bits, and it gives Mike and Joe a breather.
Also worth reminding people that the strip has added newspapers under Mike and Joe. Perhaps with Tribune having new owners (Who also own 200 newspapers) the strip will get a few more.
Kip Williams over 3 years ago
“It’s an unstable asterisk of Pu-238, and if we don’t handle it just right, it’ll be nothing but a footnote to history.”
Jab Jr 1957 over 3 years ago
There’s another loose end in the previous story: Archival’s lady assistant we saw in one strip. She’s out of a job!
MuddyUSA Premium Member over 3 years ago
GC imposed something stupid?
Sisyphos over 3 years ago
What we know: Smith Industries has successfully developed a way to see events in the past (train station with Flattop 1943).
What we do not know: everything else about what the new technology can or cannot do. Alter the timeline? Change the past? See the future? None of those things, nor any others, has been established. We may learn more (or not) as days progress.
For my part, I find the starting of a new story on a Saturday to be somewhat strange. It leaves Sunday open either to a reiteration at once or to some other angle (such as a Minit Mystery, though I do not expect one). Again, we’ll see….