Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 17, 2021

Poor Sam! LOL

Good morning™, everyone!

Sam’s technology training certainly isn’t going very well. It seems to be the famous Windows “blue screen of death.”

Sam is experiencing something very usual, at least in the Nineties a machine that tells you there’s an unspecified error but fails to tell you how to fix it.

“I was right in the middle of Grand Theft Auto IV! I gotta get my ‘running over hobos’ fix in!!”

Is the parade of highly respected citizens over?

“Chief Detective Tracy, are you always this boring?”

I must admit I laughed over poor Sam’s frustration!

Good morning™, inept users !

“Why does police work have to be so hard” ?

Time to retire if you can’t hack it, Gramps.

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Yesterday I got a simple email from a neighbor asking if I had an Amazon account. The email looked legitimate, but there was no reason why he would ask, so I replied to ask what was going on. A few hours later he sent out a mass email warning people that he’d been hacked and to ignore any odd emails from him.

I just can’t guess what the hacker was hoping for unless it was to get the long list of recipients from the follow-up warning email.

To err is human, but to really foul up use the computer!

But computer-generated error messages are so much more believable.

To those who work in, or train I.T. Is Sam Doing it right? /s ;p

(Sam) Meshuggenevelt…!

From silly to boring….And high tech could confidently be called the source of the biggest crime in world history…

I tried that, Sam… it doesn’t work.

The Tracyville PD MCU seems to be the mirror of the classic NCIS Navy Yard MCu. Tracy seems comfortable with technology, and, his second in command, Sam doesn’t. While at NCIS Gibbs seemingly can barely use his computer for email, while Tony is much more comfortable with it. (Not to the extent McGee is. Reputably he can make a computer stand up and sing one of Abby Sciuto’s favorite groups hits.)

as frustrating as it may seem.

I feel like the Apparatus is stalling us, not Tracy, from the story…..

A bit like when I worked for a cable/telephone/ISP outfit and a cust called with a locked computer. The tech told them to try hitting any key. Pause, then the plaintive inquiry “Where’s the ‘any’ key?”

Soooo, will the prisons suddenly have a LOT more room when he hits the ‘Execute’ option in error?

Can’t wait for Sunday, by which time Ms. Rose will hopefully have concluded her no-holds-barred grilling of Tracy and we can return to something resembling a plot. (Though kudos to Sam for giving us something resembling an action scene.)

Poor Sam, his fingers are not very nimble?

Blue Screen of “Oy gevalt!” ;D

1-SUKI: Well, I’ve been here for days now so I probably got enough…

2-DT: It’s only been an hour. Wait, you gotta hear this one…

3-…One day Sam decided to use what was then our new computer system to check the fledgling Internet for some of that “porno” he’d heard about. Well, when it finally opened, there was a video featuring…his MOM! HA! She was nearly right when she told him as a young boy that he could go blind doing that kind of thing.

SUKI: I bet she also told him about getting “hairy palms” if he did that!

DT: Odd you should mention my old nemesis, Harry Palms. Sit back and get comfortable – this is a looong story…

SUKI: dammit

“That reminds me. Didn’t someone once escape from your holding cells by requesting potatoes and iodine, then carving a gun out of the potato and using the iodine to make it black?”

“This interview is over.”

Sam Catchem,you speak for all of us.We were better off with The Pony Express.

Error readings…I guess Sam could power the computer off and then reboot. Probably ran into a brick wall trying to find out who the Ace of Spades character is.

Miss Rose and Tracy have been at their discussion for several days. Should buy enough time for Ace of Spades and the Apparatus to make their move. Maybe the “inside person” at Diet Smith Industries is not ready yet? How much rehearsal do they need to steal the time drone?

Oh wait a minute….Ace of Spades done blown the Apparatus off. They ain’t going to be happy campers about that. “Dang, hood-wearing card guy played us. We’ll fix his wagon”.

Who can blame Sam Catchem for getting irate at his computer post? I’ve seen plenty of foul-ups like this in various cartoon strips and panels, as well as the computer-programming class at the NECCO in Haverhill Mass many years ago! I have my father who’s up in Heaven for many years to thank for the word processing classes he took me along to the Gordon Institute in Beverly!!

Almost nobody converses like the dialog in the first panel. it sounds so stilted and overly formal. After their formal introduction, and an hour or so of pleasant interviewing over coffee, it would be much more natural for her to just say “Detective Tracy”

What kind of softball question is that?

Poor Sam!

Sam, banging on the keyboard (like in days of yore when you banged on the top ‘o yer T.V to “make it work better”…..) isn’t the answer………..

Sam just Caughtem a virus.

DMITROI:

On again I ask you to remove my “block”.All I want to do Is contribute accurate informationto the Wi/Fandom site.

I will only work on people who already have pictures attatched.Have plans for Bolo,Dade Plenty,Mrs.Bumpstead(1934).Please answer.

3 weeks to go until the Anniversary.

I asked Texie Garcia,but she said she had to stay home and wash her hair.

Poor Sam, drafted as today’s example of a technologically-challenged cop!

And Tracy’s interview with Ms. Vapid Reporter of 2021 (or whatever year it is in strip-time) drones on!

Speaking of drones, umm, err, ahh, Time Drone, anyone?

We just had an earthquake here in Southern California. It was a 4.4 and the epicenter was just a couple of miles away. It lasted only a few seconds, but even the little ones can be scary till they stop.