Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 31, 2009

CRIMESLOPPER”S: Know the players… is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

Jack’s ‘eye-shadow’ in panel 1? High-octane terrifying. What’s up with that thing?! And in Panel 2, why’s his eye CLOSED, if that’s his only functioning one? Is he pointing a gun at the spot he hopes Tracy is still standing at?

I don’t see the point in doing these re-runs to encourage people to only read the Sunday strip. The compacted Sunday versions are even MORE incomprehensible! Here it just sounds like King shot Jack because he was incompetent.

I decided I was wrong and needed to take Locher’s advice. So, I went to Harrah’s and before I sat down at the $10 Blackjack table, I started schmoozing with the other players, including the dealer. Security threw me out. Except they had more than Locher/Broz led me to expect.

What’d I do wrong, Mr. Locher?

Can they drop this strip and run “Fearless Fosdick” instead. At least those plots would be more believable.

The king of clubs looks a little too pretty in this strip. I think he secretly wants to be the queen of clubs.

wndwrthg, I second your emotion.

A complete waste of ink or kilobytes…..

Twenty bucks says they don’t arrest the King.

Or take his gun away.

I’ve previously been under the impression that police feel uncomfortable when an unknown person who’s just committed a homicide is still holding his gun.

But I guess these police are particularly mellow.

Or maybe Locher forgot that there’s several other police standing politely in the wings.

Who pressed the rewind button?

A number of readers have commented recently about hopes of being done with the tawdry, putrid card puns. I was also hoping, but no such luck. apparently someone gave the writer a very large manual of them.

No pacing ! Closer to “marking” time.

Seems like we saw 43% of today’s strip last week Sunday. What’s the upside for “repeating” it. again ? We already saw it for a SECOND time in the daily strips

Perhaps Locher thinks we’re not just children … we are “challenged” kids. We have the see it repeated more often to understand it

How about four ? Get it ? Get it ? Get it ? ??

But that’s not the problem. Go and read a Chester Gould story.Then, it may come to you !

Then, there is another problem. A new callous attitude Tracy has developed. No interest in the shot Jack. Is he breathing? Alive ? Needs an Ambulance? You don’t even have Tracy look at him. He is not declared dead ! Rather, you have Tracy indulge his curiosity by talking with the King of Clubs as a man bleeds to death ! Similar attitude with Cellphone and Baskerville

Anthony, who is your avatar? Gotta know!

Morrow, she’s Yen Hoang, currently a pharmacy student; prior to that she was a model for Playboy et al:

http://tinyurl.com/ldx8wa

I think that’s Stan Lee playing cards in the Crimegobbers handbook.

I’m having a deja vous experience of a deja vous experience! It’s deja vous all over again!! AAAAHHH!!!!

Today, tips for gamblers. Next week, tips for robbers! Although convenient, convenience stores don’t have much money in the register. Need extra cash? Rob a liquor store!

-Cougar :{)

So if The King is standing at a urinal in panel 5, just what is he holding in his hands?

His pistol.

Hey, it’s Tommy and Dickie Smothers playing poker.