Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 26, 2011

BB tosses his gun, but doesn’t appear to be a bit nervous…

So he needs a minute to do something fiendish . . .

Well, I didn’t see that coming.I never would have thought BB would drop the gun.Love how you keep surprising us, Mike!Salutations Everyone!

Uh-oh… what’s he up to?

Something does not compute here! B-B Eyes has some scheme in mind. I’d rather have seen him try to shoot it out with Dick. Now what?

Yep.

Great suspense in the first two panels.

Good morning all…Off to a late start today! Can Tracy trust B-B Eyes?

I wonder if Tracy’s “silhouette” isn’t another innovation from the WristWizard.

The suspense created here by Joe and Mike reminds me of the old Saturday chapter serials at our local movie house back when I was a kid. Flash Gordon, Rocket Man, etc. For fifty cents we got two cowboy movies and a chapter from a serial.

Plus cartoons and a newsreel, don’t forget.

APersonOfInterest & Dale Christman

You must be kids if you paid fifty cents. We paid ten cents.

@APersonofInterestI agree with the movie serial comparison. WPIX, New York City’s channel 11, used to show the serials weekday afternoons, back in the 60s.And yeah, B-B Eyes is up to something, but with Joe and Mike, I bet it isn’t anything as simple as having another gun!

Ha! None of you Dick Tracy afficionados called expected THAT, did you!

This strip is awesome in B&W.

Putting it in today’s perspective, maybe BB Eyes has a bomb vest on under his coat……….

I doubt that B-B Eyes would wear a bomb vest. He has a vested interest in surviving.

duh, where is tracys back up

I. LUV. THIS. STRIP.

What is on his evil mind?

Possibly BB Eyes believes he has a better chance with the courts than he does shooting it out with Killer Dick.

Don’t forget the air tank in the old tire. He said it saved him once. I doubt it would have been mentioned in the story line, if it was not going to be used for an escape attempt.

Is the aqualung in a tire casing going to be any help….?

Aw come on. Why cancha TRUST a guy? Maybe he has seen the light and reformed.