Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 25, 2011

One way or another, Ted Tellum is getting bombed!

Good morning all…

Good morning, VistaBill.

Is that a pill bottle at the bottom of panel #3? Dick had better check Tellum while he’s still around. Accidentally or not, it looks like he’s taking himself to a different jurisdiction.

It looks like Jim got his fashion sense from The Joker and The Riddler. What is with the purple coat and the green hat band? Well, at least they aren’t brown. (grin)

I say again, this is good Dick Tracy. I never thought I would see such a thing again.

It’s a good thing Ted has his medsHe’s about to scrutinized by the fedsAnd that tumbler of Jack on the rocksIs bound to be felt down to his socksHis career about to become hell and goneAll for the sake of the mighty arbitronJim there is looking pretty slickIs he channeling someone by the name of Nick?Looking like he’s fit and trimyou might say, man he’s just a little thinSo, Ted does not trust someone with a beardWhen actually the clean shaven ones who should be fearedThink of it, every war we have ever been inHas been started by men with no whiskers on their chinSo Ted, tellum what you want them to knowOn your bigoted, jingoistic, reactionary radio showYou scream and yell about the loss of rightsYet you’re the kind who on the field of battle never fightsYou’re so happy to send others to fight your warsBut if you ever had to, you’d mess your satin drawersYou’re a coward and a bully and dirty chicken hawkYou never do anything worthwhile, but just sit there and squawk.So take your bigotry and that about which you whineAnd stick them where the sun don’t shine.Thank you: Woodworker318, BillT, margueritem and DetDD.

When I first saw this a little while ago on the HChron comics page in black-and-white, I imagined Jim was a very classy dresser, wearing a fine Chesterfield, perhaps even with velvet collar (which, BTW, might legitimately have been brown), and a fine, matching homburg. Seeing the colors here, Mr. Trailer has dropped precipitously in my rankings!Meanwhile, Ted seems to be losing it on air. Might he let slip something significant for the case?

Once again you’ve done good work, Wonder Warthog!

You did a great job Wonder Warthog!

Heck, I could do a better job of coloring, and have! ;)http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll216/marmelmm/Drawings/MCS050color.png

Good morning.

Hmmm….. I’m wondering if Mike Joe are fixing to take a jab at talk radio hosts…….

Love today’s strip – especially the pills and booze fueled rant in panel 3. Sounds like a certain radio ranter, who needed to dope up to get his on-air rush.

You get a standing ovation from me, wndrwrthg! (And one for Mike and Joe & the squad as well!)

“Lenin had a beard. Gabby Hayes had whiskers.” —George Carlin

Great job, wndrwrthg—just as forced and contrived as always!

I have a beard

I really don’t understand why Ted didn’t want to take credit for finding the bodies.

Humpfs…Lincoln was a great man, and leader. So was Dr. King. I think Tellum needs a few more fries in his happy meal, or a good kick in the pants from Tracy.

[laughs] Or a visit from Gloria, and Mina. Can I hope? :)

Beady eyes? Pencil mustache? Trailer looks like a Dick Tracy villain, even without the color.

Poor Jim had no choice in the matter of which colors were choosen for his natty outfit. He have choosen much better neutrals.

I hadn’t mentioned it yesterday, but what do you all think of Lizz’s orange jacket? She will be wearing it quite a bit.

Are we sure that Jim Trailer isn’t really Hercule Poirot?