Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 17, 2009

O.k. Get a search warrant, when you find the cut-up magazines make an arrest, next case please.

What WW said.

I suppose Spacy means, the note-writer knows that Ringo’s talking to the police and only a circus trouper could know that.

But anyone in the audience could probably figure that out , too. And I think lots of them are here.

And, an insider would know that Ringo didn’t go to the police, they came to him, because of the very public murder.

5-Card Nancy brought Burroughsian cut-ups to comics.

http://www.7415comics.com/nancy/index.shtml

The murderer must be a member of the circus, since we closed things off and the police reference is to me. Someone produced this note in the last few panels of this strip. Hmm. Who has been missing lately…I know…the killer is Louise, the trapeze artist. There you go. Case solved.

Has Tracy even asked the freak who delivered the note where it came from? How he received it? Does the envelope contain handwriting or more pasted letters? RANSOM?????

Ok, but Ringo DIDN’T go to the Police. The Police went to the circus and that note had to have been done while Tracy was standing there watching Louise move her limbs while she was dead.

There you all go again! Trying to make sense out of this mess. Haven’t we all learned by now? Tsk-tsk!

This is the only strip in GoComics where the comments make more sense than the strip. ( uh, just pointing out the obvious, lol)

Nice to hear from Maxine_Viller, Stooge’s sister, yesterday. She appeared in the June 27th, 1933 strip. Don’t want to embarress you Maxine, but you must be at least 105 years old. I was 3 months old on that date

Ransom? Looks more like another death threat. Bracy seems a bit confused, even for him.

After our success at re-ordering and making sense out of yesterday’s strip, today’s strip makes it clear even the dailies have each panel on a separate page – and they’re all mixed up. :(

Panel 1 refers to a ransom note – a SECOND ransom note. Panel 2 shows a note, but it’s not a ransom note, and we haven’t seen any ransom note at all yet. So Panel 1 is from somewhere in the future after two ransom notes have been delivered. At the current pace of one minute per day I guess Panel 1 is probably from a couple months in the future.

Maybe when the adventure is over we can cut up all the strips into panels and re-order them into a sequence that makes some kind of sense.

If only that durn office boy hadn’t goosed that secretary…. :(

-Cougar :{)

Hmm ! A “CLUE” ?

Readers will want to keep a sceptical EYE on the Matrix finger “conclusion” arising from this CLUE. We just don”t know what card to “expect” (?). It comes from playing cards around fishing holes. Locher regularly pulls in not Aces, but Jokers - some call them “Red Herrings”

Remember the “hot” clue for BLIND Baron Von Klu Meister allowing him to exit unseen from CIA headquarters in DC? Then another that led CIA Agent Cosgrove to locate Mad bomber (poor Ethan Noll) all camoflaged by perfume? And recently the one about Credit card scams that rolled up on Tess’ Slot-Machine?

I’m willing to place a BET in Monte’s Casino now, that this important “CLUE” will be all forgotten a few weeks hence..

In local parlance it’s called – “Making as IF ….”

Sadly, this is the sort of stuff that passes for “mystery” writing in modern day Dick Tracy. Acolyte leap and applaud while “alter egos” herald it, as the work of a living genius !

So, they shoot a trapeze artist in the middle of a performance and they expected the circus to keep the police from finding out? The total lapses of logic and continuity in this strip would be little more bearable if it had any other redeeming qualities. I’ve been back reading it for almost a year now and still can’t get my mind around how sloppy it is these days.

Love DT’s new Prince Valiant hair style in panel 1, also DL needs a thesaurus, which will clearly define the word “Ransom”

Gosh!

This is moving so fast I can hardly follow along anymore!

Flightsuit: nice job. Yours made much more sense than the original.

Good one, Hipster ! :)

Joe Allen Doty said, about 2 hours ago

Apparently, the letters used on the note were cut out of one of the Circus’ posters or flyers. That’s how Tracy figured out that a member of the circus troupe sent it. —————————————————————— Right, because nobody else in the general public could have one of the thousands of “flyers” that the circus handed out.

Hey Carlo, where are you with yesterday’s news????

The word is louvers. Often found on the hoods of hot rods….

http://image.automotive.com/f/tech/9101170+pheader/0704sr01_z+hotrod_louver+.jpg

Sometimes found on robots, too.

http://abqscalemodelers.com/Robot.JPG

Has Tracy been replaced by a robot???

-Cougar :{)

flightsuit, thanks! Cougar was right, it does make much more sense when it’s rearranged.

flightsuit, do us all a big favor, and send that to Locher, will you?

Cougar, maybe they developed a smaller version of the Mecha-Dick robot?

LelandReport, thanks for taking notice of me. I’ll have you know that I drink from the same fountain of youth as that clueless detective (you’ll note that he’s even older than I am)!

And after all these years, he’s never caught me. When he finally took down that wretched brother of mine, he forgot I was still at large. Let the senile old flatfoot have his fun at the circus while I continue to get away with my own criminal schemes…