Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 12, 2012

Must be “Opposite” Day. Blackjack is so happy! DT is so stoic….

Good morning all…

He won’t be laughing later when he’s in jail.

Perfect crazy bad guy logic. Team Tracy keeps hitting home runs.

It’s a classic case of black and white. Could we say that opposites attract?

Total yin-yang.. I agree, margueritem

hmm…bizzarro tracy?

Hmm.. Why am I thinking of Batman and The Joker.

Great Encounters in the Comics! This has to among the tops! Tracy, the consummate pro detective; Blackjack, the obsessively fanatical fiendish bank robber. What could go wrong?

How thoughtful of Blackjack.

Ask yourself this … now that Blackjack has Detective Tracy, what will he do? He walked into this “trap” knowing it was a trap … so he has a plan that goes beyond just meeting DT in the flesh … right Crime Stoppers???

Mr. Staton has to be the best comic artist in history; He draws the most consistent hands that I have ever seen. Anyone can draw a hand but just try and draw a body copy it 3 times and try to draw hands on all of them they will not look proportionally correct. Mr. Staton does. If you try it, you will not mind an error now and then considering this person has drawn over 1,000 pictures for us.

Uh-oh, Tracy has yellow snow on his hat in panel two…

Hey Staton & Curtis I smell a RUBEN !!!

Perfect looney logic! Mike, Blackjack is definitely a keeper! (And he could use one, too!)Love panel 2 – Joe has given us The Classic Tracy profile.Woo Gosh! This strip just keeps getting better!

i’m thinking blackjack is THE looniest tracy villain OF ALL TIME! the guy is just flat out nuts! if he wanted to face tracy for so long, why rob banks all across the country and get the fbi involved.. why not start out in “tracy-ville” instead? theres something not right here kids!

I love that “pardon me if we don’t shake hands” expression on Tracy. He is not amused…

So far BJ doesn’t seem like the homicidal maniac that Batman has in the Joker, who considers himself Bats’ opposite. I guess we’re about to see the other side of BJ

BTW – Tracy/Lil Abner semi-tribute started yesterday in the Liberty Meadows reruns. It’s a kidnap situation with Fearless Richard Stacey, the world’s greatest detective, on the case.

When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arisesWhen it knows good as good, evil arisesThus being and non-being produce each otherDifficult and easy bring about each otherLong and short reveal each otherHigh and low support each otherMusic and voice harmonize each otherFront and back follow each other.—Dao De Jing