Maybe something interesting will happen in this story – like it switches focus to a circulation war between the Daily Blast and the Daily Express. Fist-fighting newsboys are more interesting that this current glacier of drek.
Panel 3: Sam better loosen up on his bow tie. His chin is collecting too much fluid.
I’m sitting here and I just realized something: I don’t give a flying doughnut about who the bum is. Does anyone else share my ennui? (That’s French for “Man,this strip is boring-ass dull.”)
“Something else just came up.” Those are scary words from Testicle Chin! And what’s in the letter? Are the Nappingville newspapers cutting costs by firing all their police-beat reporters? Raising their subscription rates? Or is it a note from Tess telling Dickless that she wants him to stop seeing the widow? Could it be a puzzling revelation about Sue Doko?
It does look like Homeless Guy is D-cubed, in which case he’d better stay in hiding because the police will (or should) have questions about the body in D-cubed’s grave. Or maybe (engage convoluted thought process mode) he’s really Mrs. D’s loyal henchman and is helping her to dispose of the company’s rivals. Remember that she has Dip Tracy convinced that she’s innocent, which no doubt means she’s guilty of something.
Panel Panner, I don’t give rat sass for the guy, either. If he’s D-cubed, he’s a jerk and at the very least an accessory to a suspicious death. It would be wonderful irony if events transpire so that he ends up broke and homeless, but I really don’t care about 3-D’s fate.
If he isn’t D-cubed, as I’ve speculated elsewhere, I still don’t care about him. The best I could hope for here is that he’s somehow working to destroy both We’re-Lyin-twerprises and D-cubed’s empire.
Maybe Testicle Chin has just received the ME’s belated discovery that the corpse wasn’t D-cubed after all.
Yeah, honestly. There’s not even a murder to investigate, and the bad guys are already being prosecuted. The only detective work for Tracy this time is that he has to slowly find out that the justice is being done without his help.
Which, I guess, is how it always goes. It’s just that normally he gets to feel as if he’s in the thick of things by running away and hiding.
Flight Suit, there’s still that dead body to be investigated–but we’d have that one solved by now if Doofus hadn’t spent so much time standing around.
There’s going to be a shoot-out eventually, so Dickless will get his chance to run, hide and cower. It’s just a question of who will do the shooting, and why. The only certainty is that we won’t get a rational explanation.
Thanks, Gweedo! Nailing down his identity lets me trim some branches from the logic tree.
If we’re lucky Testicle Chin has found a recent photo of 3-D without his shirt and with no tattoo. That would prove that Dip has spent the past month taking the word of a liar, although he won’t believe it until he sees it in the newspaper.
The tattoo let the Peruvian police identify the body, and their properly-conducted investigation fingered the husband.
Now if that is D-cubed in the alley, we still have to figure out how the body got his tattoo–assuming the widow didn’t lie when she said he had a tattoo.
Oh what new wrinkle can there be in this loathsome plot
Perhaps it would improve if the writer were to be taken out and shot
Each day it just seems to gets progressively worse
It is as if we readers were placed under a curse
When the creative spark has died and seen its last
You should be kind and just let it slide into the past
Comics come and comics go
Some die fast, others real slow
There are those that linger long past their prime
Barely clinging to life as they slowly decline
Annie has ended and we were very fond of it
This one continues, though it has become ….
Pathetic, odious, vacuous and even puerile
Oh, I should mention I also think that it is vile
So TMS will be allow it to run its course
And in the end there will be no remorse.
Sorry for the rant yesterday.
Thank you for the kind comments, I do appreciate them.
wndrwrthg, your “rant” was well worth reading. *My* original response would have offended believers of at least one major faith, and baffled anyone too young to remember pogo sticks.
If that really is D-cubed smirking at us from the alley, what’s his story? He and Sue Doko went out jogging one morning and were attacked by a lone hit man. After killing him, they recognized him as the hireling of We’re-Lyin-twerprises and D-cubed instantly hit upon a fiendish revenge. “Quick, Sue!” exclaims he, “I will go into hiding as a homeless person while you investigate the evildoers and secretly reveal their crimes to the DA. Tell my wife that if she is shown this corpse, to identify it as me to maintain my secret. Of course that will make her guilty of obstructing justice but it’s in a good cause, and if I’m lucky Dickless Tracy will fall in love with her, foresake Tess and marry her, thus making himself look so foolish that he is at last fired! Meanwhile visit me often with easy-to-circulate thousand dollar bills, which I will give away to help maintain my secret life as a hobo while I gloat over the progress of my fiendish revenge!”
And thus did Sue Doko swoon, thinking not at all that it would make more sense to report the attack to the police and have D-cubed’s enemies arrested, tried and jailed for attempted murder, that being more serious a crime than two whole counts of harrassment and fraud. Thus also did she and he leave the ex-partners free to arrange further acts of violence when they decide that Mrs. D’ingaling must be well aware of her husband’s location and will aid them in a second attack.
Well heck Syndey, that was a whole MONTH ago. These guys can’t even keep continuity straight from day to day.
The glacial pacing does allow plenty of time to notice the haphazard nuances…like, they’re obviously using computer-generated lettering now, so why now use a font that actually looks like a newspaper headline?
I just figured out the logic behind the strip’s revelations. This is meant to be a mystery story–and where’s the mystery if you give the readers any useful clues?
With that in mind, we’ll spend the rest of the week with this new development. “Something just came up, Dipstick! It turns out that D-cubed had scheduled a secret business conference with Yuve bin Had-copr, the head of We’re-Lien-twerprises’ Mid-East operations. They were going to meet alone at midnight on the Cress Creek Lake jogging trail! And we’ve found that Yuve bin Had-copr had a butterfly tattoo on his front shoulder! And now it develops that Yuve bin Had-copr vanished on the exact same day as D-cubed! What can it possibly mean?”
Dickless will then rub his chin (better than rubbing Slacker Sam’s chin), and after the Sunday comic recap he’ll say “Got it! First Deranged Dimwit D’emented and then Yuve bin Had-copr die! And they had the same tattoo! Testicle Chin, we’re obviously dealing with a maniac who victimizes men with tattoos!”
DT will now stop, check his own tattoo (the one on his tuckus that says “This End Up”) and pay a visit to the widow.
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ about 14 years ago
Aha! It’s pretty obvious, the homeless guy is 3D!
Steve Bartholomew about 14 years ago
Something else just came up. My lunch.
Panel-Panner about 14 years ago
Maybe something interesting will happen in this story – like it switches focus to a circulation war between the Daily Blast and the Daily Express. Fist-fighting newsboys are more interesting that this current glacier of drek.
Panel 3: Sam better loosen up on his bow tie. His chin is collecting too much fluid.
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ about 14 years ago
Sam probably has the electric bill for lighting the 20’ high “POLICE” sign…
Panel-Panner about 14 years ago
I’m sitting here and I just realized something: I don’t give a flying doughnut about who the bum is. Does anyone else share my ennui? (That’s French for “Man,this strip is boring-ass dull.”)
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
“Something else just came up.” Those are scary words from Testicle Chin! And what’s in the letter? Are the Nappingville newspapers cutting costs by firing all their police-beat reporters? Raising their subscription rates? Or is it a note from Tess telling Dickless that she wants him to stop seeing the widow? Could it be a puzzling revelation about Sue Doko?
It does look like Homeless Guy is D-cubed, in which case he’d better stay in hiding because the police will (or should) have questions about the body in D-cubed’s grave. Or maybe (engage convoluted thought process mode) he’s really Mrs. D’s loyal henchman and is helping her to dispose of the company’s rivals. Remember that she has Dip Tracy convinced that she’s innocent, which no doubt means she’s guilty of something.
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
Panel Panner, I don’t give rat sass for the guy, either. If he’s D-cubed, he’s a jerk and at the very least an accessory to a suspicious death. It would be wonderful irony if events transpire so that he ends up broke and homeless, but I really don’t care about 3-D’s fate.
If he isn’t D-cubed, as I’ve speculated elsewhere, I still don’t care about him. The best I could hope for here is that he’s somehow working to destroy both We’re-Lyin-twerprises and D-cubed’s empire.
Maybe Testicle Chin has just received the ME’s belated discovery that the corpse wasn’t D-cubed after all.
FLIGHT SUIT about 14 years ago
Yeah, honestly. There’s not even a murder to investigate, and the bad guys are already being prosecuted. The only detective work for Tracy this time is that he has to slowly find out that the justice is being done without his help.
Which, I guess, is how it always goes. It’s just that normally he gets to feel as if he’s in the thick of things by running away and hiding.
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
Flight Suit, there’s still that dead body to be investigated–but we’d have that one solved by now if Doofus hadn’t spent so much time standing around.
There’s going to be a shoot-out eventually, so Dickless will get his chance to run, hide and cower. It’s just a question of who will do the shooting, and why. The only certainty is that we won’t get a rational explanation.
Fusnr about 14 years ago
Will someone check to see if D-Man has a Tat TU !
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
The strip showed a picture of D-cubed on 1 August:
http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2010/08/01
Does it resemble Homeless Guy? I can’t tell.
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
Thanks, Gweedo! Nailing down his identity lets me trim some branches from the logic tree.
If we’re lucky Testicle Chin has found a recent photo of 3-D without his shirt and with no tattoo. That would prove that Dip has spent the past month taking the word of a liar, although he won’t believe it until he sees it in the newspaper.
FLIGHT SUIT about 14 years ago
On September 12, Tracy was questioning some people. I guess that means he finally got that subpoena he’d been waiting for.
I just now thought of that.
OzzieJohn about 14 years ago
I wonder if Locher got his inspiration for the butterfly tatt from the case involving William Trickett Smith II and his murderd wife?
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
OzzieJohn, your knowledge is impressive!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WilliamTrickettSmith
The tattoo let the Peruvian police identify the body, and their properly-conducted investigation fingered the husband.
Now if that is D-cubed in the alley, we still have to figure out how the body got his tattoo–assuming the widow didn’t lie when she said he had a tattoo.
coratelli about 14 years ago
Hi guys, my comic strip n. 27 online:
http://shockdom.com/open/carl/2010/09/14/striscia-27/
Plods with ...™ about 14 years ago
And it’s in my left hand.
wndrwrthg about 14 years ago
Oh what new wrinkle can there be in this loathsome plot Perhaps it would improve if the writer were to be taken out and shot Each day it just seems to gets progressively worse It is as if we readers were placed under a curse When the creative spark has died and seen its last You should be kind and just let it slide into the past Comics come and comics go Some die fast, others real slow There are those that linger long past their prime Barely clinging to life as they slowly decline Annie has ended and we were very fond of it This one continues, though it has become …. Pathetic, odious, vacuous and even puerile Oh, I should mention I also think that it is vile So TMS will be allow it to run its course And in the end there will be no remorse.
Sorry for the rant yesterday. Thank you for the kind comments, I do appreciate them.
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
wndrwrthg, your “rant” was well worth reading. *My* original response would have offended believers of at least one major faith, and baffled anyone too young to remember pogo sticks.
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
If that really is D-cubed smirking at us from the alley, what’s his story? He and Sue Doko went out jogging one morning and were attacked by a lone hit man. After killing him, they recognized him as the hireling of We’re-Lyin-twerprises and D-cubed instantly hit upon a fiendish revenge. “Quick, Sue!” exclaims he, “I will go into hiding as a homeless person while you investigate the evildoers and secretly reveal their crimes to the DA. Tell my wife that if she is shown this corpse, to identify it as me to maintain my secret. Of course that will make her guilty of obstructing justice but it’s in a good cause, and if I’m lucky Dickless Tracy will fall in love with her, foresake Tess and marry her, thus making himself look so foolish that he is at last fired! Meanwhile visit me often with easy-to-circulate thousand dollar bills, which I will give away to help maintain my secret life as a hobo while I gloat over the progress of my fiendish revenge!”
And thus did Sue Doko swoon, thinking not at all that it would make more sense to report the attack to the police and have D-cubed’s enemies arrested, tried and jailed for attempted murder, that being more serious a crime than two whole counts of harrassment and fraud. Thus also did she and he leave the ex-partners free to arrange further acts of violence when they decide that Mrs. D’ingaling must be well aware of her husband’s location and will aid them in a second attack.
rmax4131 about 14 years ago
“Dick, something else just came up”? Bwahahahahahah! That’s the funniest thing I’ve read all day!
Dr. Midnight about 14 years ago
Dick, something else just came up… we got a report about a booby trapped Stradivarius! No, really, IT HAPPENED!!
Morrow Cummings about 14 years ago
I think the Penny is in on the deal. She’s just taking advantage of D-cubed being out of sight to get a little “side action” with Doofus.
sydney about 14 years ago
Penny told us about the first one in years - Dick, but ’something else has come up’ … and they may pay a thousand dollar bill for that one.
veldy about 14 years ago
Press release from the other newspaper I think you should see
sydney about 14 years ago
Take a look back at the face of the beggar : http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2010/08/14/
Doesn’t that look like a woman wearing a shawl (?) now it’s been morphed into a long faced man with a Civil War cap
jumbobrain about 14 years ago
Well heck Syndey, that was a whole MONTH ago. These guys can’t even keep continuity straight from day to day.
The glacial pacing does allow plenty of time to notice the haphazard nuances…like, they’re obviously using computer-generated lettering now, so why now use a font that actually looks like a newspaper headline?
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
I just figured out the logic behind the strip’s revelations. This is meant to be a mystery story–and where’s the mystery if you give the readers any useful clues?
With that in mind, we’ll spend the rest of the week with this new development. “Something just came up, Dipstick! It turns out that D-cubed had scheduled a secret business conference with Yuve bin Had-copr, the head of We’re-Lien-twerprises’ Mid-East operations. They were going to meet alone at midnight on the Cress Creek Lake jogging trail! And we’ve found that Yuve bin Had-copr had a butterfly tattoo on his front shoulder! And now it develops that Yuve bin Had-copr vanished on the exact same day as D-cubed! What can it possibly mean?”
Dickless will then rub his chin (better than rubbing Slacker Sam’s chin), and after the Sunday comic recap he’ll say “Got it! First Deranged Dimwit D’emented and then Yuve bin Had-copr die! And they had the same tattoo! Testicle Chin, we’re obviously dealing with a maniac who victimizes men with tattoos!”
DT will now stop, check his own tattoo (the one on his tuckus that says “This End Up”) and pay a visit to the widow.
trekkermint about 14 years ago
something came up - stop reading those weird classifieds or look for tattoo parlors offering cheap deals on butterfly tattoos