Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 11, 2010

Curses!!!!!

This is really really stupid.

Tracy’s head is off center! Nice job, Mr. Locher!

Tracy kicks the gun out of the guy’s hand, and then, instead of securing the gun and kicking the guy’s keister, he runs away, thus enabling the guy to regain his gun and continue the hunt.

Why even bother kicking the gun out of his hand in the first place if you’re not going to press the advantage once you have it?

And how is it that Pelosi’s worried about the play when she knows there’s been a murder onstage? At this point, shouldn’t she be accepting the fact that the play has been ruined, past-tense?

While inside the submarine Tracy will find the operator’s manual. This will be Locher’s clever way of introducing subtext to the story.

Panel-Panner, I just saw your comment from yesterday speculating about the USS Eldridge. Best explanation I can think of for the morphing museum, not to mention the half-formed “Museum Display” sign weirdly embedded in the wall.

The comments are far more entertaining then the strip.

Do they still have the wrist mini-TV communicators?

Flight Suit:

Thanks for the comment. Shows how bad this strip is when a crazy remark can make sense out of the whole mess.

come2:

You won’t come to for a long time if I whack you in the side of the head with my Air Jordans. Move along, spammer. Please use your free time to work on your English instead of hanging around that cafe in Nigeria, pretending to be a rich British widow who needs help with an “important financial transaction.”

Why doesn’t Go Comics Net Nanny bleeep out that stuff?

Keep flagging,, spammers are nothing but terrorists…

Flagged come2. This website needs a CAPTCHA to comment on something. F-ing spammers.

Horrible…just horrible.

To save her play, Nancy needs to have everyone follow these two around

People read this strip for the same reason they slow down to gawk as they pass a car wreck.

I’m a B-movie buff, and some of those, like 1953’s Robot Monster, are so bad that they’re actually good. This strip isn’t just bad, it’s godawful. If it were a dog, it would have already been put to sleep years ago.

Re Robot Monster, check this URL out if you’re interested: http://www.badmovies.org/movies/robotmonster/

Macy need to lock himself in. like they do now for the Somali pirates.

The Air Jordan spam is written better than this horrible strip.

We need a “Flag” feature for the strip itself.

Madam director is slowly blowing a fuse. We can only hope.

@btmosley - like “Attack of the Killer Tomatos”. I recently watched “Buckaroo Bonzai in the 8th dimension” too. Those movies were so enjoyable. Somehow, DT manages to be stupid without being wacky or funny. The old TV Batman made a science out of campy, corny, and fun.

“Will he suspect I’m sub-human?”

And Sam and Lizz still haven’t got a clue that is not part of the script? How dumb, this story had potential at 1 point, but now it’s fading fast…

You know, submarines are often called “pigboats.” If it were only on wheels …

-Cougar :{)

Has anyone counted the bullets fired by the Nothing? Today’s gun appears to be in the .22 caliber range, and I would guess holds 6-8 bullets tops….

Dick say, “Will he suspect I’m in the submarine?” Yes, Dick, he will, unless the Apollo exhibit is right next to the Submarine. You see, the Blank has done his homework, and would suspect you would try to rocket to the moon, perhaps to visit your ex-inlaws (Are they ex-’s if Moon Maid is dead?)…

THis is exciting! Isn’t the audience becoming impatient about the long intermission? A real audience would be booing and acting up from the wait. And, I suppose Sam and Liz still don’t wonder about the body on the stage.

I believe morrow to be correct with the advice to Spacy to lock himself in, if not mistaken, subs are locked from the inside

“Not only have you ruined my play,this dead man is starting to stink up the joint!”

Saucy1121: The book you are referring to is Dan Gallery’s “We Captured a U-Boat”. He also told the story in his autobiography. All of Gallery’s books are a good read. His fictional accounts of life aboard an aircraft carrier are fun and funny.

das boot is no goot

I grew up with Dick Tracy on TV, in the newspaper, and through re-runs of the serials. This strip is not EVEN in the league of those. Having said that the best part of this strip is your comments. They are GREAT!

I promised to tell you more. In the book “Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy 1931-1951” one of the first stories in color yet, has the original Blank who pretended to be a crime-fighter just like Tracy except he killed crooks, but his real name was Redrum (where have I heard THAT name before?) and he was killing off his old gang members that he had a grudge against. The blank face was just a piece of thin, porous cloth glued to his mug.

Redrum in reverse is … Murder !

Rightwingmoron said, about 16 hours ago

Uh-oh, Anja is so upset her hair is transforming into steer horns. The resolution may come when Anja gores the Blank for ruining the play. ———————————————————————

It’s the return of the hair mandibles! Anja belongs to the same alien-predator species as Agent Karen Ennen!

This could have been written by a child.

If Tracy and The Blank don’t get back on the stage soon, I bet Anja Nu won’t let them perform again!