Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 18, 2009

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    margueritem  almost 16 years ago

    How did Noll know to play possum? Did they hear her car drive up? And will Tracy futilely call 911 again?

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    wndrwrthg  almost 16 years ago

    No. This will never do. She attempts to off the doc, splits to sell the purloined formula, meets the boss of Major Oil, gets shown the door, makes it back to the scene of the crime, and Tracy and the doc are waiting? She can do this in the span of…what, minutes, hours? And the cops could not find the perp? Dick Tracy is an insult to Police departments everywhere. I can suspend belief with the best of them but this is an outrage!

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    fishbulb  almost 16 years ago

    The end is near. For Angelawfulus , anyway. More questions. Did Noll accidentally give Tess & co. the gasoline substitute as perfume? Why would it smell like perfume? Or why else would one put it on? What happened to the toxic perfume story? Why is Angeloctane puncturing Tracy’s tank? Surely she thinks he is unaware of her attempted murder of Noll. No logic at all anywhere.

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    LudwigVonDrake  almost 16 years ago

    This is absolutely ludicrous. Where did she get the screwdriver? I thought the door was blown off the house? Why would she be opening a door that was hanging off its hinges? She took off her bracelets again.

    Geez…

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    sydney  almost 16 years ago

    Like a single shot in the night, today’s 3 panels, as a one off, stand alone strip, actually looks quite good. It’s when it’s brought together with the contradictions and the pall of what has gone before that a disquieting fear of opprobrium decends on the whole presentation. There have been other such good isolated mini segments but the components of the story fail to hold intellegently together and emmbarrassingly for the Author fall apart like a poorly constructed house of cards. There have been more “Drillers” on this board than the Lord allows, not for oil, but for nonsense and the have hit more “gushers” than experts expect in Anwar, Alaska. It’s a good thing (for him) that Locher doesn’t read this board, the presentation lacks cohesivenes and the dynamics for even a paltry claimm to “passabe” status. The reality would likely shatter his his aplomb. To reach this point this story could have started some 3 to 4 weeks ago and with some needed adjustments retained all the elements, making more sense than the Author has been flaunting repeatedly for several weeks on his Merry-Go-Round

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    HankF  almost 16 years ago

    Gee, what’s the matter with you guys? This all makes sense to me.

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    tcambeul  almost 16 years ago

    Get over it, this is a freaking comic strip!!!

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    RichardT  almost 16 years ago

    Good guess DT. Of course if Angelorious had not been stupid enough to come back, you would have looked like an idiot playing house with Dr. Noll all night/day/as long as it took. Hopefully they heard Angel’s short bus drop her off in front, and purposely posed that way. Otherwise Angel is walking in on a scene that shows us what DT and Noll were doing to pass the time.

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    ridenslide65  almost 16 years ago

    Wow!! This is turning out just like I expected it to!

    I’m glad Anthraxilicious found that screwdriver in the glove box. Those gas tanks are made of paper mache these days.

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    neonleon59  almost 16 years ago

    Of course, there’s no danger of a metal screwdriver piercing through a metal gas tank, causing sparks that would ignite the gasoline, is there???

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    Nighthawks Premium Member almost 16 years ago

    oops! if one uses mock sarcasim about anuther’s genious , one shuld spel genious like it should be speld.

    just a thot

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    bassmanbob  almost 16 years ago

    nighthawks, “genious” is the way a Gungan would spell “genius” on Naboo.

    I thought EVERYONE knew THAT!!!

    :-)

    BB

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    g6793  almost 16 years ago

    Remember…the doc gave Angelorious “something else” that WASN’T the fuel formula…so he (and Tracy) probably figured she’d be back, and made it look convincing so she’d steal the real formula (or…try to steal it…) What will happen next??!!

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    bassmanbob  almost 16 years ago

    Angelorious turned her phone off. She never would have had the nerve to do what had to be done without the pep talk she just got. “Man, talk about cold and callous, puts me to shame”! she gleefully said as she floored the gas pedal. Parking a block away from Tess’s house [Angelorious creeps back into Tracy’s neighborhood]. “Tracy’s car! Gotta puncture his gas tank” she thought, glad she always kept her Swiss Army Knife on her. She knew all those years of watching MacGyver would pay off! “He won’t be chasing me tonight.” She wickedly thought. “Ah, the doctor’s door is still open”. Noll couldn’t believe he was reduced to playing a stiff. “Oh well”, he thought, “Maybe I can get a spot on CSI”! Creeping in, Angelorious wondered how come Noll’s body wasn’t where it was when she shot him. Meanwhile, Tracy stood in the shadows, the suspense causing him to be silent in everyway possible.

    BB

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    sydney  almost 16 years ago

    Simple Simon strikes again. Didn’t Angelorious expect on returning to what SHE thought was a death scene, to see police guards presemt? Waiting for photographers and Forencics to complete their job? Why would she think she only has to disable Tracy’s car? Is Tracy the only man on the Naperville force? no one else to be concerned about? 911 is still coming “FAST” ??? I think today I’ll give the “J. Hennessy Tucker (peeping through the picture) Medal to Chubsy for having spotted that Multi-Purpose tooth brush “Ange” used to puncture Tracy’s gas tank.;) She’s one strange gal, gas that smells like perfume and for a moment there, I thought, a derivative to use as toothpaste. Hey! has Tracy called for back up? or is he going to do this job solo from a hunch? Why not call in Teevo so he could take notes and write up the job report? Time to stop being a “tattle-tale” at HQ !

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    overtop  almost 16 years ago

    You’re right it’s ONLY a comic strip, maybe this one is just a continuation of the satire MAD mag did-Tick Dracy-in about 1955, it makes about the same amount of sense. I’ll check my old books.

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    RockHouse  almost 16 years ago

    Fearless Fosdick is now running on Lil Abner:

    http://tinyurl.com/agymqy

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    margueritem  almost 16 years ago

    RockHouse says:

    Fearless Fosdick is now running on Lil Abner:

    http://tinyurl.com/agymqy

    Thank you, rockhouse, that was very refreshing.

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    margueritem  almost 16 years ago

    In panel #2, she has her eyes shut, rendering her unable to see that what she thought was a screwdriver, is actually her electric toothbrush.

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    countoftowergrove  almost 16 years ago

    Angelgloriosky punctures Tracy’s gas tank and it pools where she’s kneeling. She and Tracy will have a confrontation– a spark from a gun shot flash will strike Angelgloriosky’s slacks, she’ll go up in flames and reignite Noll’s house consuming all in the conflragaration, thus ending the strip.

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