Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 15, 2010

  1. Emerald
    margueritem  almost 15 years ago

    Mighty quick success….

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    FLIGHT SUIT  almost 15 years ago

    I’m sleepy.

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  3. Emerald
    margueritem  almost 15 years ago

    Sleep on, Flight Suit, nothing to see here.

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    Kiba65  almost 15 years ago

    This guy does have problems drawing hands,,check out the way he holds such tiny scisors in panel 2…

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    farren  almost 15 years ago

    Now it’s a six-string Stradivarius. What’s next, the twelve-string variety?

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  6. Bren suit
    FLIGHT SUIT  almost 15 years ago

    Wake me when the concert begins.

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    watcha  almost 15 years ago

    How is that the Kid got such big success within 5 days but the rest of the DT cast is just where they were a month ago.

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    jkebxjunke  almost 15 years ago

    probably passing off international secrets in a a spy ring… .. ..opps did I just ruin it for the next month or 2?

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  almost 15 years ago

    If Chris Chendo is electrifying the violin, why isn’t there any electrical equipment on his work table…meters and such? I like the scissors. I have similar ones on my Swiss Army Knife. Handy little gadgets.

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    Morrow Cummings  almost 15 years ago

    I think he’s cutting off those extra strings. About the only strings he knows about are those that you slip a rolled-up dollar under.

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    sydney  almost 15 years ago

    Of course it has 4 STRINGS, but it also has TWO more that shouldn’t be there

    No wish to get embroiled in the “controversy of strings” on the violin. But as depicted (inaccurately) today, that certainly seems like SIX strings. Below the frets on the “right” we see one end of the arm ending at the “sound box”, and because of the “tilt” the other side is not visable. In fact, the “STRING” to the left runs right down over the box. And no shadows appear to be there.

    The drawing is further flawed as all (six) strings run over the Peg box, full length up to the Scroll of the violin, And beyond their intended “tuning pegs”.

    See http://www.vanzandtviolins.com/vn75scroll.htm

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    ninmas  almost 15 years ago

    i’m bored of this story.

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    prrdh  almost 15 years ago

    Before he breaks out the champagne, the kid might want to find out what the band was booked for. A gig in a Motel 8 lobby? At the Grand Avenue Red Line stop?

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    Nemesys  almost 15 years ago

    How can anyone be bored with this plot line? I’ve never seen so much violin-ce in a comic strip before!

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    sydney  almost 15 years ago

    Panel 1 : Are we seeing the BACK of the Violin still on ? And are those wooden splinters flying all over the place? (Why bother to tell us - last Sun. (1-10-10) - “* … Now I gingerly take the back off …*”

    Then the “toe finger” is back, the other HAND - just “OBZOKIE”

    Panel 2 : Are those “Nigerian ear-rings” below the Scroll of the Strad (?) … instead of “tuning pegs”? Then look at the inordinate length of the hand behind the violin. It’s way too big to have been guided by Locher “penciling”

    The little finger sticks out - is he clipping his nail

    Where is the ARTISTIC PROBITY one expects in a comic strip like Dick Tracy ?

    ”OBZOKIE” (from “Obliquité _fr_) local meaning - Clumsy, Ungainy. Awkward in appearance. Anything bent or out of place.

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    linsonl  almost 15 years ago

    I miss the elephant and the pig on wheels.

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  almost 15 years ago

    N7326 Foxtrot said, “I miss the elephant and the pig on wheels.”

    Me too! And what about the tiger in the 80’ high cage.

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    idarke  almost 15 years ago

    On the bright side, someone in the DT universe has finally gotten the hang of holding on to a cell phone like a normal human, rather than having it glued to his fingertips or floating inside his hand.

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    Araldite  almost 15 years ago

    Lochers method of getting from the beginning of a story to the end is akin to an elephant running from the front to the back of a china store. Blast your way through and if things get in the way, ignore them like they don’t exist.

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    JPBecker  almost 15 years ago

    If you liked the scissors check out the way he is holding the screwdriver! The only thing electrifying is this so called plot!

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    Steve Bartholomew  almost 15 years ago

    He’s turning the fiddle into a nice decorative lamp.

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    Dylanio21  almost 15 years ago

    There sure is a lot of comments everyday. Today’s strip actually seems to be going faster than usual, not refreshing us on what’s already happened for once. I also really liked the first panel.

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    sydney  almost 15 years ago

    “Frets” are immaterial to the discussion on the number of “strings”. I’ve used the word only to guide your attention to the areas I’m referring to - i.e the “sound box” over which all SIX strings run and the “TUNING PEGS” which are by-passed by the strings instead of going *to* them in Bronzen’s panel.

    Look at the “link” to understand the latter point.

    Earlier in the story the Violin was drawn correctly, with 4 strings. If current “art” is so awfully poor that it creates illusions, that’s not the fault of readers. Art is not a foreign language that requires painful “interpretation” from “specialist observers” for understanding or appreciation. Were it “good” it would be apparent to all.

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