Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 01, 2009

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    margueritem  over 15 years ago

    “…nothin’ but a bear trap…”?

    Evidently this clown has never had the pleasure of having a bear trap smashing his ankle.

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    wndrwrthg  over 15 years ago

    You boys just relax, you are not going anywhere soon.

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    LudwigVonDrake  over 15 years ago

    Where’s B.O.? We haven’t seen him in a while.

    So Jackie’s henchman decided to break into the Plenty’s house using a paint stirrer?

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    HankF  over 15 years ago

    ” OOPS! Make that two bear traps.”

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    neonleon59  over 15 years ago

    I think panel 3 is just a closeup of the trap that was already on the first henchman. His pants are light colored, whereas the second henchman’s are black, so if panel 3 were meant to depict a second trap biting the second henchman, we would have a serious error in continui… oh, wait, never mind.

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    prasrinivara  over 15 years ago

    At least HankF. To Grokenstein: think outside the box; while BO was winning, he (and Gertie) may have set the traps because they were afraid of thieves coming after their cash (since BO is, as OneEye euphemised, “bank-illiterate”)–and then rigged them with the circuits from some car-alarms (you’ve probably passed by cars with these in parking lots–as soon as you get within 7’ of the car, it starts making a racket).

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    avatarjk137  over 15 years ago

    Pras: Yeah, because B.O. and Gertie clearly look capable of rigging car alarms to BEAR TRAPS.

    My theory is that it’s more of this supernatural horror. The scream is coming from the bear trap itself as it bites down on this poor henchman.

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    sydney  over 15 years ago

    Grok, What can you expect from a practioner who spends one third of his working day focused on, (first love), “editorial cartoons”? And an hour or so on “sculpture”?

    Easy ! Swiss cheese, detail free Dick Tracy stories where readers have the “fun” of creating them, filling in those missing gaps. Not unlike the contest of looking for the “rubber duckie” on Sundays.

    It’s a new technique pioneered by Locher to encourage reader “thought” AND “participation” in smoothing out his intentionally (?) left story “holes”.

    Judging from the current board he seems to have had some success

    One would have thought that devotees instead of “tacking” on inane, unmeasurable labels like “genius” and garrulous genuflection at regular intervals, would have pointed out this creative new writing style, to readers (?)

    If this succeeds, who knows (?) - there may be a “Reuben” waiting out there, to be collected at retirement (?) ;)

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    Froxkrybra  over 15 years ago

    I called the story on the bear traps…

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    Nighthawks Premium Member over 15 years ago

    being dedicated, motivated, highly paid, one eyed jack henchmen, they will simply gnaw off their own legs to get to the money and complete the mission.. .employment with one eye offers a sweet health insurance package that includes not only dental but limb replacement , therapy and all hospital costs

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    bassmanbob  over 15 years ago

    Tracy Blooper Alert!!!

    Assuming the leg in panel one is the same one in panel three, the bear claw chain hookup is on the bottom of his leg in panel one and on the top of his leg in panel three.

    Not a blooper but it’s nice to see a civilized crook once in a while. Nice touch the way the dude in panel two has his pinky in the air.

    “Care for a cup of tea, my good fellow”?

    BB

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    mrbribery  over 15 years ago

    Why, that’s obviously a stylized rendition of a carnivorous Venus Flytrap plant.

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    hossblacksilver  over 15 years ago

    What/who they kill, Groken?

    B.O. What’s this meat we’re eating tonight, Gertie? Gertie Don’t know, he bled out before he could tell me his name.

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