Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 22, 2009

“Blast you, Tracy! I can’t see”, but I’ll drive like an idiot any way. Can’t find the mammary today…

Wait, I just saw it, in panel two.

She may not be able to see, but she can drive from Tracys’ home to an area with high rise buildings.

Was that 500 or 300 miles?

A useful tip from the Firestarters’ Textbook?

Remember the Moonmaiden arc from the 60’s? The plotlines made more sense back then.

Tracy made sure to put on his gloves after he splashed Angelwhoozis with the fuel. Gotta keep those fingers warm.

margueritemPro says: Wait, I just saw it, in panel two. Sure enough Marg, good eyes. This is as much fun as finding the bunny on the cover of [Playboy] Magazine…..NOT

Well, That’s another Dick Tracy first. Very first female Villain to carry spare Mammarys around on the back seat.

“Shake …shake … shake Senora, Shake your body line … Shake …shake …shake Senora, The spares are just behind

Yesterday Noll was standing on the other side of his car. Which had a round roof. It’s snowing like mad again, at least in panels 6 & 7. Noll’s car, Tracy’s car, all of which have been kept outside, none of them have any snow on them at all. How many WEEKS since Tracy has actually been to HQ?

I, for one, stick up for the writer of this strip, Locher. I know I’m a numbnuts, but he needs someone to support him.

HankF says: “I, for one, stick up for the writer of this strip, Locher. I know I’m a numbnuts but he needs someone to support him.

I admire that HankF. You’re honest enough to clear the air, to say where you stand, and apparently accept that others are entitled to different opinions The board is not really a fan club for Authors (for example, Locher) but rather for comment on the ‘content’ of the strip which in recent times has been riddled with errors and contradictions. A scenario that’s an “alien” one to most of the readers of the Dick Tracy strip here. It frustrates them and undeserved sympathy for a writer/artist who should KNOW better, is not going to override that determination. If you’re here to “defend”, Dick Locher regardless of “Quality”. Particularly, any “below-standard” work, you’re not likely to have an easy time.

OHno! I put gasoline in my car today. I’m sorry, crimestoppers, but I guess this makes me an arsonist.

I’ve been trying to remember what got me started following this strip. All that comes to mind is DT has been caught and there’s a spike attached to melting ice ready to bore into DT’s chest. Anyone remember when this was done and which artist did it?

Hmmmm. Must be a typical Houston driver.

Akenta, I can see you go way back. The spike and the melting blocks of ice was probably Tracy’s most memorable Death Trap.The spike was through a thick board, and weighted down by an old refigerator placed on top. It was set up by Mrs.Pruneface (newspapers-1943) in revenge for her husband Pruneface’s death. She blamed Tracy. Chained to the floor, he escaped the trap by bouncing the floor with his bottom and the wet melting ice slid on the old, uneven, slanting floor, taking the sharpened stake from over his heart. Patton later found him alive. Many think this is the “best” female villain ever to come up against Dick Tracy. She was a Chester Gould creation appearing in what most will agree was Gould’s most magical, creative period the 1940’s into the early 1950’s

The Crime Stoppers Textbook on Sundays may be the hardest part of doing the strip for Locher. Here he has to put in some real “thought”, the rest ia probably all left on “Cruise Control”, ie Whatever strikes me when I go to the board in the morning … that’s why things often get so darned mixed up!

Sorry Locher. Butane has been out of grasp for probably 25 years. Do you mean Propane? One reason Butane isn’t around is it freezes and Propane doesn’t. Wouldn’t you get your point across better saying that arsonists use flammables to get their work done?

Thanks for the tip, Crimestopper’s Handbook! I wondered why using Dr. Pepper didn’t help start fires.

Forgive me for being a clueless noob but what exactly is the nipple/mammary/duckie thing that appears nearly every Sunday supposed to symbolize? I’ve seen it for quite a few years. A secrect society symbol of some sort?

Panel 3 looks like someone is using one of those plastic squeeze lemons on Angelgloriousness.

to Trickdacy et al. The hidden little yellow ducks are a tribute by Dick Locher to his late son John who died tragically young. He even changed the looks of Jr. who used to be a freckled faced red head to a pudgy white haired man who resembled his late son.

Couldn’t Tracy smell gasoline on the ground as he jumped into his car? I couldn’t’ve evaporated that fast.

Thanks for the info 436rge. Why that particular shape though, I wonder.

Yes I recall when “Junior” changed. I always wondered why. I never knew the new version was modeled on Locher’s son