Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 24, 2024

two hirsute hands… oh wow, excitement abounds…

The 33rd Bomb Squadron will target this area.

The “schooner” the better to pay for someone’s new yacht with misappropriated funds.

Call me old-fashioned but when I think of “action” in a Dick Tracy strip I’m not thinking of urban renewal projects.

I’m guessing either an underworld lair or underworld treasure.

Great art!

Good morning™, all!

It seems that a lot of the action in this strip lately takes place in abandoned warehouse districts.

The most prominent eyesore is that hairy arm! LOL!

A single panel in a daily comics is always a grave injustice.

Sometheeng tells me this whole week gonna be wasted in building up this opening sequence.

“Eenie, meeny, miney, mo”

I’ve long gone past being an eyesore to being a crime against nature

I’ve long gone from being an eyesore to a crime against nature

I believe I know what this is ‘building’ up too. Serious arson of old dilapidated buildings and someone getting hurt.

The theater sequence for example. Yes, I’ve sadly seen that, but our place is being re-innovated by a dedicated cast of people who remember the ‘good old days’. I went into it once a month or so ago, and it brought back lots of good memories, especially in the balcony with a good ‘friend’ (ahems) ;)

I’m more into “Whose body is about to be discovered during demolition” Trope.

Good morning™, City Planners !

We are treated to yet some more pre story set up time.

The City Engineer is a lefty—he has his wristwatch on his right arm

Day 4 – Urban renewal. Still no plot holes… Ended up in Albany a few years ago. A few decades ago Albany had a cheap mayor who ignored the urban renewal going on in other cities. The old buildings were just left to decay. When the fad of urban renewal passed, “Tear ’em all down, NOW!” He claimed to have wanted to preserve the historic nature of the city. But they are now being torn down or collapsing. Leaving a decaying building standing does not preserve it.

Are they going to find a body in one of the buildings? I remember a story line from long ago where lightning blasted a tree and a skeleton was exposed, forcing Tracy to solve a murder from many years earlier.

All the cracks on that tabletop really are an eyesore. I’m glad somebody is going to do something about it.

“Charles, I got your Dick Tracy artwork for the week, thanks.” “Dick Tracy? No, no, that was for my friend’s civics project!”

Even I must admit that this is going a tad to slowly for my liking. :-(

lake michigan sure has gotten smaller

I’m watching Dick Tracy in its death throes . The strip is dying before my very eyes . Maybe another year at best before Dick and his friend’s breathe their last ?

Here’s a plot idea: have Tracy rescue a kidnapped child. Or have an armed man burst into the police station. Or have a cat-burglar creeping around Tracy’s apartment for reasons yet unknown. Or have the prize be missing from the bottom of the cereal box.

Looks like Lake Michigan, Kennedy Expressway, etc.

MOVIE QUOTE—-“Gentlemen,give him a chance! We just finished cleaning the blood off the stage from the last act!”

Tavern owner (pointing to Bob Hope)

THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATE—1944

Nothing is happening. I have nothing to say.

I don’t know if a slow-burn approach to storytelling works in comic strips. I’m ready for something, anything, to happen here.

How can y ou not be impressed with a panel that was probably drawn with a jeweler’s eyepiece?

Lots of people looking for old skeletons(literally)—-or maybe an undelivered letter that got stuck in the mail chute?

On to Lou Mitchell’s for the best breakfast ever….

At the theater gone extremely old……….

I’d say the plot thickens, except, to date, there hasn’t been a story to have a plot

AS THE “SAM, LOST IN THE CITY SAGA” CONTINUES…

DT: Ok – so we found you at this deli right here, Sam – just two blocks from the Station House. So how could you possibly have been lost? And why are you wearing that helmet??? SAM: Uhhh…I’m in concussion protocol – it’s required.

DT: OH! THAT’S why you got lost then – concussion! SAM: Yeah, sure – let’s go with that…

Can I assume that a story will start at some point?

The comments are more interesting than the strip. How can they not notice? If there is a problem with storytelling,, maybe it’s time to fix the problem.

We don’t even have a plot to bury the strip in.

How would they handle the City of Baltimore or the Banana Republic of Miami ? They are eyesores among themselves full of illegal politicians and illegal aliens but which is worse ?

Meanwhile, at the bank,Mark Masters unwraps what looks like a roll of quarters…..

Costello went to the Russian Academy of Storytelling. See Karamazov, Brothers, or Peace, War and

Wonder if they’ll find evidence from an old crime……

“SAM! STOP COLORING IN BETWEEN THE LINES! DESPITE WHAT YOU THINKING, YOU WILL NOT GET A ‘FRISKY PONY’!!!”

Let’s hope the “urban renewal” takes place at the train yard and THE SWEATBOX EXPRESS is early