Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 17, 2008

Shall he use the pincers or the hands, Diet?

Robo-Tracy’s head seems to have grown in the last day or so.

SMUNK????

I want to find out if it can do dishes, shirts, windows and floors. If it can cook and not complain, I’m going to order one from Diet and my wife’s outta here!

“SMUNK”??!! Is that like a combination of smash and clunk? WTF?

I think it is hilarious that Traze-R’s own creator can’t tell it what to do. How did he even test it out? Also, Why is Diet still trying to drink more milk? I think Diet really created the robot so that Diet could lay around like a mope while someone else opens his cartons for him. Genius, nice. Why don’t you ask Tracy to ask Traze-R to go grab you a #2 at McDonald’s when he’s done?

Robo Dick’s head totally grew over the past day. Also, it now appears that he has fists. The creativity never ends…Gad!!!

Actually DT, his name is Diet, and its really not appropriate to call him by your pet name for him during business hours.

Instead of tailing a car, resisting bullets, etc…, Diet shows off how trazr can punch holes in walls and open milk cartons. How excactly is this useful to the police? Trazr seems well equiped to prevent school yard bullying. Poor Diet must have been picked on at school for his large, constantly changing size, and inability to decide between sitting and standing. Those bullies always took his milk and drank it behind brick walls! You smunck Diet.

We all know that Diet doesn’t drink skim milk.

“Okay Traze-R, bring the fat boy his carton of whole milk”.

Hi Guys! Lots of good comments today! Grokenstein,EatDickTracySandwiches,Morrow,Richard…thanks for the chuckles! BTW, I also think the robot’s head has grown. Maybe that’s what happens after he gets activated. :)

Hey g6793, after all we’ve been thru,,, I’m heart broken to think I can no longer cause even a little chuckle for you. I must be losing my touch. I guess I’ll just make way for the new guys.

Goodbye cruel world, tossed aside like Diet’s last super sized meal.

Maybe Dorothy & Toto will let me hang with them.(on second though, never mind)

Peace.

BB

Don’t fret, Bassman; you know we all still love ya!

Has anybody else noticed that Diet never opens his mouth when he speaks anymore? I can’t find a single panel so far within this storyline indicating that Diet even has a mouth beneath his mustache; just lots of chin. He must take his milk intravenously. Ew.

Thanks for the encourging words Maxine, I was beginning to feel like a fighter past his prime who was just smunked!. “Oh, the agony of de feet!” (or de wheels)

By the way, where did that brick wall come from? None of the previous strips showed anything like it. Looks like one of the walls from my old school.

Glad to hear you and your family were mostly spared from IKE’s devastation, Morrow. It ceases to amaze me how seemingly discriminate the forces of nature can be when such devastation ensues. Take it from Me and Toto, Morrow – we’ve similarly been spared! :)

I’ve really enjoyed reading the comical comments posted here over the past week or so! This forum seems so much more enjoyable to this reader than the old comicspage BB, for which I cannot readily explain. Thanks to each for your “colorful” commentary – its nice to know when I awake each morning that I’m guaranteed a good belly-laugh here, if nothing else!

MPH and I will be joining DL and his family in Dubuque, IA this Friday evening at a reception in his honor at the local Museum of Art and I can’t wait to talk to him about TRAZE-R. I’ll be sure to follow-up HERE with some of his (hopefully) enlightening comments on Saturday, folks.

Dorothy, so good to hear from you. Thanks for dropping by the ‘hood once in a while. Please tell Toto we miss him tremendously! I think the answer to why your enjoying this forum more then the old bb is pretty apparent, at least to me. Could it have something to do with the ‘one & done’ pattern here? You don’t have to deal with a million continuing topics at the same time. Anyway, have a great time at the reception. Don’t spill any soda on Dick’s head.

Oh, please tell Toto not to embarrass us by licking Dick’s boots too much.

Cheers,

BB

No, Diet. Tracy would be better asking it to repair the wall. (Wonder if it speaks Spanish?)

Don’t worry about teaching him to eat donuts. I think that goes with the territory.

“Smunk”? That is the lamest sound effect I’ve ever seen for smashing a brick wall. I would have expected a nice, sharp “THRAKK!”

But, then, Robert Fripp seems to be the only one doing thrakk attacks these days.