Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 01, 2010

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    leakysqueaky712  over 14 years ago

    Good God he looks like Eddie Munster.

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    margueritem  over 14 years ago

    LOL, so he does!

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    LordDogmore  over 14 years ago

    “For good reason Tracy, you two clowns RUINED MY PLAY! AND NOW YOU’RE GOING TO GET YOURS YOU HACK!”

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    Llewellenbruce  over 14 years ago

    Darn! Blank landed face down so we can’t see his facial features.

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    shirttailslim  over 14 years ago

    I saw the Eddy, couldn’t remember the last name. he does look like that, a few years older.

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    OneUrantian  over 14 years ago

    Is that the Blank’s “face” lying on the floor in front of him? It always looked like some kind of shield on him. At one point, it resembled a slice of Wonder white bread.

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    Steve Bartholomew  over 14 years ago

    Maybe Blank will turn out to be the real Tracy, not the imposter up on that plane. (How’s he going to get down, anyway??)

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    leakysqueaky712  over 14 years ago

    Rightwing……….If he had a few bolts in his head, I would agree with ya

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    Dberrymanal1  over 14 years ago

    Apology accepted, Morrow. And I’m sorry for not respecting other people’s right to their opinions. Things will be different from now on. And yes, Dick does look kind of like Eddie Munster today. It could be that sometimes the main artist takes the day off and they have a substitute for him. That’s how Al Capp come up with “Little Abner”. He was substitute for Mug Fisher doing “Joe Plulooker”. When Fisher went out of town, Capp did the strip but didn’t care for Plulooker so he started a new story by having him say: “I wonder how the folkes are back in the hills”. Then he created Abner and the other hillbillies. Needless to say, Fisher didn’t apprecate Capp starting a new strip within his strip. Fisher fired Capp. So Capp started is own strip and the rest is history.

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    Panel-Panner  over 14 years ago

    Klueless Kop Report

    Science Museum Incident (cont’d)

    None of the police officers on scene noticed that the intermission was going into its second hour. Like they say, times flies when you’re having fun. We were using our keen observation skills to count the freckles on Detective Sam Catchem’s face. Unfortunately our count – to settle a ten dollar bet – was interrupted when Detective Catchem sneezed due to his allergies. The count was restarted.

    One officer did say that he noticed the actor portraying King Pyn was still lying on the stage, a growing pool of blood coagulating around him. It was decided that the performer was a method actor really into his role.

    What sounded like gunfire was heard in the distance. It was decided that it was nothing more than the sound of an engine backfiring, either from a passing car on the street or from the German U-boat in the museum’s basement.

    Detective Catchem sneezed again and…

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    Panel-Panner  over 14 years ago

    Yesterday CougarAllen said:

    “Then the episode will end, with nothing explained in any rational way, and we will spring into yet another hallucinatory adventure, each one worse than all the others.”

    Ah, a fan of Dick Locher’s psychedelic existential nihilism.

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    Panel-Panner  over 14 years ago

    Now here’s a REAL detective, a sleuth superior to DT:

    http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2010/04/16/

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    btmosley  over 14 years ago

    Shot in the back but bleeding from the front?

    Panel 2 - Tracy is still so scared that his hair is standing on end - hence the Eddie Munster look.

    Has anyone noticed that the Blank’s clothing keeps changing color from day to day? Today his pants are black, and yesterday they were white. Or are they merely dark with blood?

    Good thing Tracy wears dark clothing so no one can tell that he wet himself.

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    LudwigVonDrake  over 14 years ago

    This just makes no sense.

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 14 years ago

    Ya’ gotta love Tracy’s new hair style! Thanks, neonleon59 for the headstart on today’s strip.

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    veldy  over 14 years ago

    Did Eddie fix the canopy glass before he climbed out?

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    neonleon59  over 14 years ago

    I think Tracy wants to head down to Arnold’s with RIchie, Potsie, and the Fonz when they’re done with all this “detective” stuff. Then maybe they can all go to a sock hop.

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    MisngNOLA  over 14 years ago

    A stubby Stuka today.

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    Froxkrybra  over 14 years ago

    Locher must have took the day off, I’ve never seen Tracy look like this…

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    prrdh  over 14 years ago

    btmosley said, about 4 hours ago

    Shot in the back but bleeding from the front?

    I got the ricochet wrong a few days ago

    The bullet knocked the gun out of Johnny’s front pocket, bounced back into his peritoneum from the front (passing through his heart and killing him), then ricocheted off his clavicle through his head, knocking off the mask.

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    DatBigGuy Premium Member over 14 years ago

    For 4 days we saw the Blank falling face up. Today he has finally landed face DOWN. Did he bounce, or did he roll over to get more comfortable for dying?

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    CougarAllen  over 14 years ago

    It’s amazing how that “make-up” that we were repeatedly told Johnny Nothing was wearing has sloughed off during his fall and is now lying next to him, looking almost like a mask that has fallen off. But we were told over and over, it’s make-up…. I guess that’s what they call “pancake make-up,” huh? You slather it on so thick it’s like having a pancake glommed on to your face? And if you happen to get shot and fall off an airplane it sloughs off and lands next to you and looks just like a pancake? I’ve heard of pancake make-up, but I didn’t know it was like that….

    -Cougar :{)

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    CougarAllen  over 14 years ago

    I think I’ve discovered another of Locher’s slogans:

    Repetition is Variety Delay is Suspense Talk is Action Boredom is Excitement Contradiction is Continuity

    :{)

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    veldy  over 14 years ago

    and some are more equal than others

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    CougarAllen  over 14 years ago

    I think Tracy is in the process of disguising himself. While we weren’t looking he slipped into the Men’s and did his hair up to look like Flat-Top, and now he’s trying to make his mouth like Anja Nu’s slot – possibly to influence her into subconsciously treating him like a relative, or more likely trying to look like a robot. Who would shoot a harmless (though ugly) robot?

    What will he do next? Put his jacket on inside-out, maybe…. He doesn’t have a lot of resources available there on top of the wing.

    -Cougar :{)

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    OldTracy  over 14 years ago

    Look out Tracy!!! He’s still alive. In yesterday’s strip he was lying on his back and now he’s on his stomach. Time to RUN away again! Time to look scared again.

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    sydney  over 14 years ago

    It seems the new character in panel 2 is intended to be Dick Tracy and it has been the source of many critiques here today. I hesitate to join in, in fear of offending an old colleague who no longer posts here.

    Just two days ago on the DT Yahoo Board he severly scolded me for the same offence for similar expressions. I’m sure he is of a mind to do the same here, so I’ll repeat it for him :

    ”… why do you expect anything from your complaints? No one else here is joining and calling for Locher’s head on a platter but you. An octanagerian with severe Parkinsons disease is working as hard as as he can each and every day so that you can sample a daily digest of your favorite character and you put him on the spit and roll him over the coals of an open fire everyday here and on go comics … “

    Well, I don’t expect any ’response” or ’change’, he doens’t even like to communicate with his readers and hasn’t given an EAR to anyone, not even taking the ADVICE of his mentor Chester Gould on the techniques to write this strip. He has enbarked on significant CHANGE in the strip (a victim of his own impulses) and stubbornly sticks to them.

    While I’m a “nothing” in the wider scheme of things who doesn’t know his @ss from his elbow on how comic strips should be produced.

    In the meantime, there are two or three who think the whole production is a CLASS ACT ! Miffed perhaps ? And possibly why they have retreated from posting here anymore (?)

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    Araldite  over 14 years ago

    Panel two looks like someone’s first attempt at drawing Dick Tracy’s face. Perhaps, as somebody already suggested, Brozman took the day off and a new guy is trying his hand at it. I can’t believe after all these years of drawing Tracy this is the work of Locher and Brozman.

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    Groundzero  over 14 years ago

    When did Dick turn into JFK?

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    andy.vaughn  over 14 years ago

    One thing has me puzzled over all of this…

    We have been told in the past, mostly by the ones Sydney has termed “The Preatorian Guard”, that the editors at TMS have put huge constraints on the “graphic depiction of violence” in the strip over the years. They say, that’s one of the reasons the strip has been “dumbed down” and is been “juvenilized” for the last few years.

    Yet twice in this story, we have been shown panels of dead bodies lying with streams of blood flowing freely from those bodies.

    IMO, it just doesn’t make any sense! It may not be like in “the old days” when Chet had bullets whizzing through heads and bodies, but violence is still violence, and showing these “streams” of blood pouring forth from the victim’s lifeless bodies is just as bad, or worse, than any bullet line going in the front of a head and coming out of the back.

    It makes me think further, that there really are no editors out there checking this muddle!!!

    Just my 2 cents…

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    billdi Premium Member over 14 years ago

    “because i love you tracy and want to have your babies!”

    “because i couldn’t stand to see you running, hiding and cowering like a yellow dog!”

    “because this is the surprise ending to my play!”

    “because this intermission has gone on for too long!”

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    akado2000  over 14 years ago

    Unbelievable.

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    mumbles  over 14 years ago

    Just finished volume 10 of the Complete Dick Tracy yesterday. Itchy, Shoulders, Gargles, Influence Even a lesser known like Nilon, it makes one want to weep and gnash teeth.

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    runar  over 14 years ago

    She saved his life. Drat. That means more badly-drawn comic strips.

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    btmosley  over 14 years ago

    More comedy gold:

    http://joshreads.com/?cat=-1

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    CougarAllen  over 14 years ago

    Sydney, tell ‘em we only want the poor octogenarian with severe Parkinsons disease to stop working as hard as as he can each and every day to bring us this Orwellian drivel. He should sit on the porch in a rocking chair and enjoy a beverage. He can even continue doing his editorial cartooning if he wants to and if anyone wants to read it. Meanwhile someone with a full complement of functioning brain cells can take over Dick Tracy. Everybody wins! Nobody loses!

    -Cougar :{)

    Repetition is Variety Contradiction is Continuity Phantasmagoria is Plausibility Delay is Suspense Talk is Action Boredom is Excitement

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    Morrow Cummings  over 14 years ago

    Sydney, without divulging any names, was the one who jumped you on the Yahoo Board the one in the same who BB wrote a story about? The one with the DT frilly undies? The one who coined the “Magpie” moniker for us all?

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    trekkermint  over 14 years ago

    magpie? well, he’s been looking like reagan, now he looks like munster i’m interested in what the other board things, as i also miss gould quality

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    sydney  over 14 years ago

    No ’morrow’ ! Strangely, it was the other, but Magpie just laced me a few minutes ago for posting WW’s verse from a day ago which he had posred on Brenda Starr

    If you haven’t seen it you should.

    UPDATE ! - LOOKS LIKE W.W’s message has been ‘scrubbed’ by the censors, Can’t understand why (?) But you can see it here : http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/DickTracy/message/11192

    And if you go there also read message/ 11196

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