Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 11, 2014

Good morning DT and Annie fans. A fitting reminder of 9-11-2001. We will never forget!

As we pause in our World War 2 era story (however fake the 1944 environment may be), we are met with a stark reminder that the end of all wars still hasn’t happened. Beautiful art again today, rendered in Joe Staton’s Dick Tracy style.

Sadly 9-11 was not just a story but a painful reality we must never forget. Thank you team Tracy for honoring all those who were affected by that horrible day.

This is a classic! Kudos to Staton and Curtis.

Thank you Joe and Mike for the remembrance. Not many strips mentioned it at all, and yours was the only one who showed what we are remembering.

What a beautiful strip today. Thank you It’s great to see two classic strips honoring 9/11. Thank you Joe & Mike.

A 9-11 Commemoration supersedes continuity today. We remember.

Warbucks and Punjab seem to be thinking “It’s clobberin’ time.”

Lovely artwork.

Wonderful tribute! Thank you team Tracy! Some of us will never forget!

Some came runningInto dangerRisk their livesHelping strangers.Mighty towersTumbled downMany helpersNever found.Save us from the true believersHateful violence, vile deceivers.Today ‘tis fitting to recallSome came running, sacrificing all.

The other day a man asked if I was a firefighter. I never felt so complimented.

Never forget.

@Pequod77: Thanks for the great poem of remembrance.

WOW!!!

Dick Tracy, Annie, Daddy Warbucks, and Punjab honor 9/11.

Well done, gentlemen.

Excellent, PQ, as usual!

I was working the night shift that day. I went to sleep around five AM with the tv set playing. I woke up briefly that morning to the vision of a fiery tower. My first thought was this nightmare seems very real. It wasn’t until I got up several hours later that I found my nightmare was all too real.

Nice. Really nice, guys.

Thanx PQ77 @ all. 9-11 changed our whole way of thinking about terror….Special Thanx to Joe & Mike…TBC..

The danger never goes away…It diminishes, recedes but always returns in a different form. Thank you all, first responders and those who serve or have served in the military. You are my HEROES!

Tim, it was 13 years ago. Have you forgotten already? If we stop reminding ourselves we stop preparing ourselves. We do not live in the past. But we must remember Pearl Harbor so we are not taken by surprise. We must remember the Holocaust so we are not deceived by hatred toward another group of people, and we must remember 9/11 so we understand that you cannot understand radical fanatics. You cannot have discussions with such people because they have no sense of the value of human life, only their view of dominance.

whatever, the point still remains

…..and what’s wrong with honoring the valor and sacrifice of the many on that day with such a powerful (albeit speechless) image as the strip has done today?

Tim, there is an earlier post by donaldo. Go back and read it. Am I the only one here who finds it offensive? Do you? I posted a response and later deleted it.

Tim, two years ago you had no problem with the strip – “nice touch team tracy.. almost as good as the 4th of july one! i dont mind this kind of interruption to a storyline”. Last year you had a problem, so eleven years is the limit I guess. Whatever.

drsid, youre teling me that you went back thru all my comments on this day for the last few years to compare it to what i wrote today? thats pretty sad.

and for the record, i DONT mind the interruption of the storyline for rememberance, but every single lousy media outlet drags it up all the time. like i said on my facebook page just a few minnutes ago…

i want to see the day when national media covers the reading of all the names of the military and civilians that were killed in pearl harbor, and all the soldiers that are honored on memorial day, and i want it to be televised all day long and on the radio and a moment of silence, and on the front page of every newspaper

since youre such an “archivist” drsid, check this year on memorial day and the fourth of july and on december 7th and on martin luther king day, and then check every single year since mike and joe took over and see if they stayed true to remembering each and every one of those days every single year…. because i can tell you this much.. the media all but IGNORES december 7th, and the government actually had a thought of making september 11 a NATIONAL HOLIDAY before making December 7th one.

what makes one more worthy than the other?

good afternoon guys!

There is a major difference between accepting the death of a parent (whether by their own hand or a disease) and moving on, and ‘accepting and moving on’ when death is caused by an attack launched against people because of their religious beliefs, or the color of their skin.-Right now, yet another group who believe that only their brand of religious belief is acceptable is in the process of murdering those who won’t convert (or kidnapping individuals and beheading them if a ransom is not paid.) Each time a group like this emerges, there are those who hesitate to speak against them or take any action. -Part of that hesitation is based on the belief that if we ‘move on’ from the bad actions and quit commemorating those who were lost, we are not letting the bad actions dictate our lives. -But this is NOT like refusing to let the death of a parent or loved on define us. The result of ‘moving on’ and not commemorating those lost to terror or war is that is not that the terrorist group fades away. It keeps marching on, until others finally have to rise up and oppose them. -The commemorating of those lost to war and terror is part of what it means to learn from history, least we repeat that history…

Tim, I’m genuinely sorry for all the pain you’ve endured, and understand the struggle to deal with it, when it happens and over the rest of your life. I’ve seen a lot of loss myself, and sympathize.

No, you and I don’t need the reminders.But some people who were too young to understand that day, do need to learn how deeply it struck us all, and how it changed the world.

We learned a lot that day, and I hope that on the 100th anniversary the people of the world will not be asking if it really did happen. Yes, it did happen. We learned to go down the stairs to safety instead of going up, that service dogs are amazing, and first responders are awsome people, but most of all we learned that we need to pull together to keep the nation and the world safe and free even if it costs us our lives.

I think in the “commemorate all or nothing” line of thinking nothing would be remembered.

Love today’s strip. Never forget.

Good to see that once again the Authors have had the Dick Tracy strip join in memory of those who perished in the 9/11 attack

It reminds too of the subsequent 3,000 mile cross-country walk by one George Martin who by his effort raised $3. Million Dollars for (I believe) – the families of those FIRST RESPONDERS of NY City who perished in that selfless effort. !

That can’t help but ALSO remind, of another similar and famous in strip, cross-country walk attempt. One by Gould’s Morin Plenty (1957) who’s teenage wife famous for the retort – “CHECK!” would also sadly die by violence !

The occasion was a horrid one for many innocent people who just - “checked out” !

What " beats me " - is having met some US Citizens, who claim it was not by terrorists, it was all an ’ inside ’ job !

We all remember, mourn, resolve and carry on in our own unique way. There really is no right or wrong when it comes to matters of the magnitude we’re discussing today.

Gee some people just can’t get enough. Sad.

It’s amazing that someone actually thinks one of the towers was “Replaced” after the first attack. Almost brings a LOL! out of me.

To take a quote from a Tim McGraw country song and tweak it to say how I feel about today’s DT strip, “I like it, I love it, I want some more 9/11 strips like it!”

This is one of the few I’ve seen this year with my various sources of comics. Sad

I’m pretty sure 9/11 isn’t a “holiday”…