Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 26, 2012

Wow. Have the crayonistas ever seen an American flag?

Sunday strip still missing.

wow, looks like things are going to get complicated!

Very complicated. I saw the Sunday strip, and the two ‘enemies’ are up to something…

With the cigarette holder Broadway reminds me ofThe Penguin.

Mornin’ all!I have to wonder which mystery will be resolved first – what Broadway Bates is up to, or if GoComics can find the Sunday strip? (Isn’t it the second time they’ve done this in one month?)As for our story, I wondered yesterday what would happen if a real criminal mistook our costumed players for the real thing. Have to wait and see…

They couldn’t show Sundays strip, because one of the “costume Invaders” had a costume malfunction ala jackson

Belle came with him! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

AMTRAK uses Chicago’s Union Station? Where the Milwaukee Road’s Hiawathas ran out of?

Really poor coloring job here today all around…. Kinda surprised that West Jewelry Mart is still in the Loop instead of on North Michigan Avenue. Unless The Daily’s headline writer got the locale wrong….

When displaying the flag against a wall, vertically or horizontally, the flag’s union (stars) should be at the top, to the flag’s own right, and to the observer’s left. Source – http://www.usflag.org/flagetiquette.html

Our flag has white stripes, so that’s not an American flag; that’s all. You can see yesterday’s strip at kingdom comics.

Many cities have a Union Station.

Wow! The 80 years or so have really been good for Belle, she looks a whole lot better than she used to! haha

Gouldian Tracy and “Slabface” (Original character in Gould style, with a head shaped like a tombstone):

Remind’s you of Dick’s RUN (2010) in the ‘Science Museum’ the memorable one crafted by Dicky Locher ?At that time, your friend Otto Baron noted :“In the first panel Tracy appears like he’s trying to take off. Unfortunately ‘CHICKENS’ are incapable of flight”.

http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2010/06/10 and . . .http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2010/06/22Locher was always the pace setter in these novel innovations.

If you look at the strip in black and white, Joe drew the “read” stripes as solid black lines, Thus the colorist had no way of making red stripes. He either had to miscolor the white stripes, leaving the flag uncolored, and do like they did at Comic Kingdom and wash the entire panel with a single color. One of the problems with trying to add color to something that was originally complete black and white drawing, and not an "outline"designed to be colored (like they do with comics).

As for the way the flag faces, if you Google a picture of Chicago’s Union Station, you will find that the flag does actually hang that way. Joe is correct in the way that he drew the flag. While it is not the proper way to display it, it is correct that it is displayed that way.

I prefer my flag it looks the same from either side…. you just have to make sure the stem is pointing down XD

seattlepi.com has the missing Sunday strip, and a much better colorist. But no forum.

When the flag is displayed, other than by being flown from a staff, it should be displayed flat in this position whether indoors or out.

Good morning everyone…

It looks like my reasoning for BP’s fin on her back was dead on it! Different strokes for different folks! Whatever turns ya on!

I can’t find my book, but about the American flag hanging improperly- if it is hung in a certain direction, it is hung as is shown. Has to do with North-East-South-West directions.

Shame the Sunday strip isn’t available here. You can find it on Comics Kingdom with just about any paper but unfortunately I don’t have a magnifying glass and the zoom button just brings up a large blur.

To see the Sunday strip go to http://www.nj.com/comics-kingdom/index.ssf?feature_id=Dick_Tracy&feature_date=2012-11-25

To be honest; I won’t use Seattle PI’s comic strips. For one, you have to turn off all security to see it. #2 the strip is so fuzzy I couldn’t read it, and zoom doesn’t work.

I’ll stick with GoComics,

Thx, I was wondering if anyone had even noticed my humble little effort to draw a Gould style panel

The flag as it hangs in Union Station in Chicago

Not only is the choice of colors consistently poor on the gocomics dailies, but it’s done really sloppily. (Notice the beige splotch on the word balloon in the first panel? And… a bright yellow newspaper?) Hey gocomics, if it’s not worth spending more than 5 minutes of your time coloring the thing, just give us the black and white version!

Otto, why would SDM get all bent out of shape when the word “bondage” was mentioned? It’s like it was taken personally.

“Sam don’t look nuttin like himself.”That’s cuz the other guy is supposed to be Slabface, not Sam. ;)

Maybe somebody posted this already, but here’s the missing Sunday strip:http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/comics/king-comics.html?feature_id=Dick_Tracy&feature_date=2012-11-25

Nite-nite, boys! Tomorrow everyone play nice!

Gweedo, no worries, mate. Just havin’ a little fun with ya.

Well maybe that is a full color newspaper, but I suspect it is really the advertising card in the front or at the side of the paper machine. We have them quite regularly around our town. And I contacted GOCOMICS yesterday about the reasons for leaving out Sunday DT as well as the terrible act of disparaging the Nation’s flag. I was advised someone would respond very shortly. Nearly 24 hours later no one has.