Junior is looking good. We haven’t seen his artistic skills for a while. I don’t remember seeing this woman before. She might have been a customer at the bank. As we already noticed, Croptop’s “disguise” was not very good. Dick Tracy also looks good today.
Great to see some actual detective work in the strip today! The question now is if Tracy gets to CropTop before CropTop gets to Scadol’s loot. Stay tuned.
When it comes to describing garb and physical features ya can’t beat a woman. Chuck is shining so bright today I had to get my welding helmet on to view it. Mikey has done surprisingly well too ! :-O
Wouldn’t the video from the bank supplied all those details? Banks in Tracyville haven’t upgraded technology since 1940 and have no security cameras? (Although I suspect that even in 1940 banks didn’t have piles of loose currency just sitting in the vault. The lack of exploding dye capsules has already been mentioned.)
Tracy, who relies heavily on coincidence for anything more difficult than finding his own rear end, should have known Blowtop was going to commit a crime the minute the newspaper ran the feature article.
Why did he need to be tipped off? Couldn’t he have started the investigation without this? Actually used facial recognition software for something? (I mean it’s fairly effective for white people, since white people did the programming it there are difficulties with people of color – they all look the same to the software.) Of course then we wouldn’t have the cameo by Junior. I like Junior, but wouldn’t mind an occasional reminder of reality.
Gee. The sure was some breeelliant creeminals disguising as COVID era peoples. And them bank peoples was too cleverer too, ya knows they is save very lotsa money by not installing CCTV cameras. For they is knews how stoopid creeminals is in this place anyways.
Nice artworks by Carlos Magnifico again. Nice perspectives and attention to details. Even a table lamp switch and a used eraser. Only odd thing being it look like he drawing with only a regular pencil but picture is appears in full colour as if he use crayons colour pencils or sometheeng but none of those is seen anywhere.
For some reason, The Chicago Tribune is printing rerun strips on Sundays instead of today’s strip. This is the second week they’ve done this and it’s irritating. Other print papers are running the correct strip but I’ve gotten reruns for 2 weeks in a row. I’m not happy.
1-WITNESS: After the robbery, me and another bank customer were so relieved to have survived that we had sex in the bank restroom. His excited “thing” was just this long. JUNIOR: WOW! I never knew they got that big!
2-…OK. So Tracy had me draw this from someone’s mug shot so you just have to describe their kerchief.
3-WITNESS: Hmmm. I thought it was a beard but if you say it was a kerchief I guess it was…
4-JUNIOR: Here you go, Tracy – suitable for framing.
5-DT: Exactly, Junior. Exactly… BWA HA HAAAAAAAAAA! JUNIOR: Huh?
Please tell the whole story on Kilo. Kilo died in the shoot out and the perp was found a sort time later DEAD of a gun shot wound. Thank goodness, the state didn’t have to waste funds on the zero.
Thugs and crooks have been using the facemasks from the pandemic to hide their identity. Thank goodness some businesses are not allowing hoodies and facemasks into the business.
The page hasn’t been this much good fun since Vista Bill did his Reichenbach Falls “news coverage” and later on, Rikki and Abner stories.
I still have daughter Gayle’s phone number if anyone should want to speak with her. I would first make sure it still works and get permission to give it.
This is a Big eye opener from the moment I opened today’s feature. :-)
Junior is, as they say, “old school”. He drew Croptop as the eye witness described her. Some police departments depicted in the movies and on television have sets of eyes, lips, faces, etc. Just a matter of matching profiles.
I don’t like to complain, but the colorist went too far here. The identikit is done in pencil and there was no need to color it. Left in black and white it would have made a lot more sense.
Pequod 7 months ago
Eyewitness shares what she did see. Junior starts to sketch
More memories come flooding back. Details she does fetch.
Red bandanna ‘neath the eyes. Pistol each did grasp
Everyone reached for the sky. Innocents did gasp.
Navel jewelry, leather bands, and half-closed squinting eyes
Piercings, freckles, skin-tight pants. Focused on the prize.
Dick Tracy takes a gander. He knows just who’s to blame
Croptop up to her old ways without regrets or shame.
Neil Wick 7 months ago
Good morning™ everyone!
Junior is looking good. We haven’t seen his artistic skills for a while. I don’t remember seeing this woman before. She might have been a customer at the bank. As we already noticed, Croptop’s “disguise” was not very good. Dick Tracy also looks good today.
Brian Premium Member 7 months ago
Yeah, the disguise worked about well as expected.
firestrike1 7 months ago
Junior’s back and doing what he was always meant to do and should have been doing all these years…
Mike did SOMETHING right, for a change…
firestrike1 7 months ago
Chuck’s art and Shane’s colors are looking EXCEPTIONALLY well together…
it all complements each other…
well done and thank you, Carlo the Magnifico and Shano…
BreathlessMahoney77 7 months ago
Great to see some actual detective work in the strip today! The question now is if Tracy gets to CropTop before CropTop gets to Scadol’s loot. Stay tuned.
jonahhex1 7 months ago
Good to see Junior at work….been a long time……
Ida No 7 months ago
Wonder what would have happened if the bank had security cameras…
Junior’s pretty good. Maybe Curtis and Ettinger should bring him in as a guest artist.
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray 7 months ago
Good morning™, Great Sketch Artists !
When it comes to describing garb and physical features ya can’t beat a woman. Chuck is shining so bright today I had to get my welding helmet on to view it. Mikey has done surprisingly well too ! :-O
iggyman 7 months ago
Exceptional well done visuals today!
therese_callahan2002 7 months ago
So Sparkle Jr grew up and joined the team?
LawrenceS 7 months ago
“K-9 Kilo … was involved in a shootout … "
The suspect never expected the dog to be packing heat. I wonder what adaptations were necessary for use by an animal without opposable thumbs?
LawrenceS 7 months ago
Wouldn’t the video from the bank supplied all those details? Banks in Tracyville haven’t upgraded technology since 1940 and have no security cameras? (Although I suspect that even in 1940 banks didn’t have piles of loose currency just sitting in the vault. The lack of exploding dye capsules has already been mentioned.)
LawrenceS 7 months ago
Tracy, who relies heavily on coincidence for anything more difficult than finding his own rear end, should have known Blowtop was going to commit a crime the minute the newspaper ran the feature article.
Why did he need to be tipped off? Couldn’t he have started the investigation without this? Actually used facial recognition software for something? (I mean it’s fairly effective for white people, since white people did the programming it there are difficulties with people of color – they all look the same to the software.) Of course then we wouldn’t have the cameo by Junior. I like Junior, but wouldn’t mind an occasional reminder of reality.
Lafsalot 7 months ago
How meta.
Gent 7 months ago
Gee. The sure was some breeelliant creeminals disguising as COVID era peoples. And them bank peoples was too cleverer too, ya knows they is save very lotsa money by not installing CCTV cameras. For they is knews how stoopid creeminals is in this place anyways.
Elmer6 7 months ago
Charles’ art today reminds me of Shawn McManus.
GoComicsGo! 7 months ago
I got a feeling that Charles enjoyed drawing the eyewitness sketch, especially the start of the sketching.
Gent 7 months ago
Nice artworks by Carlos Magnifico again. Nice perspectives and attention to details. Even a table lamp switch and a used eraser. Only odd thing being it look like he drawing with only a regular pencil but picture is appears in full colour as if he use crayons colour pencils or sometheeng but none of those is seen anywhere.
General Trelane (Ret.) Premium Member 7 months ago
Bottom middle panel . There’s a Dick Tracy I can definitely live with . Excellent !
tcayer 7 months ago
Like there’s only ONE person who fits that description. Junior just happens to draw an exact likeness of the villain?
avenger09 7 months ago
Well done today. Nothing to complain about (Rats!).
Other than Chucky’s obsession with super long fingers(Check out that witness index finger) a very acceptable day’s strip.
A 4 Goat head day!
avenger09 7 months ago
Obsessions can bring
The strongest to their knees
Desire outweighing the facts
Greener grass
Usually brings gas
Causing coughs, sneezing and hacks
The need to aquire
Through rain, sleet or fire
Possessions they hope will bring joy
Almost always end
With a case of the bends
And a trip back to the land of misfit toys.
markwillman4 7 months ago
For some reason, The Chicago Tribune is printing rerun strips on Sundays instead of today’s strip. This is the second week they’ve done this and it’s irritating. Other print papers are running the correct strip but I’ve gotten reruns for 2 weeks in a row. I’m not happy.
MuddyUSA Premium Member 7 months ago
The artistic skills Charles has is demonstrated in today’s strip. Masterful!!!
tsull2121 7 months ago
Gotta give chuckie a thumbs up, junior looks better here than he has in years…I like the sticking out tongue touch
Another Take 7 months ago
1-WITNESS: After the robbery, me and another bank customer were so relieved to have survived that we had sex in the bank restroom. His excited “thing” was just this long. JUNIOR: WOW! I never knew they got that big!
2-…OK. So Tracy had me draw this from someone’s mug shot so you just have to describe their kerchief.
3-WITNESS: Hmmm. I thought it was a beard but if you say it was a kerchief I guess it was…
4-JUNIOR: Here you go, Tracy – suitable for framing.
5-DT: Exactly, Junior. Exactly… BWA HA HAAAAAAAAAA! JUNIOR: Huh?
BeniHanna6 Premium Member 7 months ago
Please tell the whole story on Kilo. Kilo died in the shoot out and the perp was found a sort time later DEAD of a gun shot wound. Thank goodness, the state didn’t have to waste funds on the zero.
BeniHanna6 Premium Member 7 months ago
Thugs and crooks have been using the facemasks from the pandemic to hide their identity. Thank goodness some businesses are not allowing hoodies and facemasks into the business.
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray 7 months ago
The page hasn’t been this much good fun since Vista Bill did his Reichenbach Falls “news coverage” and later on, Rikki and Abner stories.
I still have daughter Gayle’s phone number if anyone should want to speak with her. I would first make sure it still works and get permission to give it.
This is a Big eye opener from the moment I opened today’s feature. :-)
patroman 7 months ago
The question is: Will Croptop be wearing a red shirt or an orange jumpsuit by the time this story is over?
kantuck-nadie 7 months ago
This really surprised me when I first pulled it up, this morn. Well done Mr. Ettinger!
jwitt 7 months ago
The strip shown here and the one in my paper today are entirely different. I’ve never seen two different stories on the same day. What gives??
jim_pem 7 months ago
Wait. They knocked over a bank and the police are investigating? This is hopeful. We don’t always see that.
It’s good to see Junior!
Don Bagert Premium Member 7 months ago
Looks like a retail store’s knockoff of Coke in the last panel :)
billyk75 7 months ago
When I saw Junior back in a Tracy strip in 1991 his hair was gray. Maybe he died it back to red.
IvanB.Cohen 7 months ago
Junior is, as they say, “old school”. He drew Croptop as the eye witness described her. Some police departments depicted in the movies and on television have sets of eyes, lips, faces, etc. Just a matter of matching profiles.
Aladar30 Premium Member 7 months ago
I don’t like to complain, but the colorist went too far here. The identikit is done in pencil and there was no need to color it. Left in black and white it would have made a lot more sense.
charlesdbrown 7 months ago
That is one darned alert bank teller!! You keep t hinking SHE should be working for the cops
charlesdbrown 7 months ago
A policeman was killed in Chicago t he other day and the Police Chief really WAS wearing one of those “checkered caps” I’ve seen in the strip.
But when I see one, I still want to yell TAXI!!
charlesdbrown 7 months ago
Pantsy, in 1958, was one of Gould’s biggest “dud” villains. But t he treasure hunt in that story is starting to pop into my mind.