1-CHIEF: Tracy. Some crazy is Trick-R-Treating. City ordinance limits that activity to one day in October. Snatch him up. And Tracy…no questions will be asked about the shape he’s in when you bring him in.
2-DT: Right Chief. I appreciate that but no one could expect me to be responsible for the physical status of someone who eats candy all the time. He probably can’t do one pushup but that’s not my fault.
3-CHIEF: Darn it Tracy! I meant that you should feel free to use ‘extreme prejudice’!
DT: Chief. It’s that kind of attitude that’s got police forces all over the country in trouble. I’m not that…
CHIEF: NOT THAT KIND OF PREJUDICE YOU IDIOT! JUST BRING HIM IN! SERGEANT! GET ME SOME ASPIRIN AND A BROMO!
I’m liking this story already! Looking forward to learning more about Mr. Roboto, and how his crimes will intersect with Vitamin’s play. Happy New Year, all!
—Not that the name by itself will help much, Chief Patton! “Mr. Roboto” is fake name, after all. We have no idea even what the guy looks like, much less what his real name is.
But “calling Dick Tracy” is a classic starter-line (which I seem to recall from radio days, if vaguely). And we do now know that the site of the robbery falls within the Tracyville policing jurisdiction….
Whatever happened to the two way wrist tv’s? Were they recalled by Diet Smith Industries? I supposed the same thing happened with the Wrist Geenies. In the 21st Century but having to rely on technology from the previous century.
Not that I mind in timeless Dick Tracy’s world, but surely payroll deliveries are a thing of a distant past now? Does anyone really pay staff in cash anymore? Even low wage staff get cheques/checks that they can take to a cashing service if they don’t have a bank account. As I understand, the main movements of cash these days are daily collections from cash-heavy retailers such as supermarkets and bars, and the ongoing card revolution is reducing that a lot. Some bars in London no longer accept cash at all, partly for security and partly so their staff don’t have to balance the till at the end of the evening.
AnyFace about 5 years ago
Neil Wick about 5 years ago
Good morning™, audience!
Tracy is now involved. Yes, we already knew that he calls himself Mr. Roboto, but we now know that this wasn’t the first payroll robbery he has done.
HarryCK about 5 years ago
Good morning™, en route responders !
Let those coppers roll, ten-four !
AngeloVentura about 5 years ago
“Mr Roboto” is clearly a nickname, though, wonder what is his true identity.
Lyons Group, Inc. about 5 years ago
Good morning™, New Year Eve-ers!
Well for the last day of 2019, they’re not wasting time with this arc! They’re cutting right to the chase!
a-man2 about 5 years ago
Why is Chief Patton’s wrist radio gray? I guess it otherwise looks like a wrist radio.
iggyman about 5 years ago
I like the action in the first panel, well done!
22ph about 5 years ago
Happy New Year
avenger09 about 5 years ago
Dick’s all decked out in matching color coat hat and wrist radio! What a snazzy dresser indeed!
LOL!
Wishing everyone in Tracyville a happy, safe, healthy, prosperous and blessed New Year!
WilliamVollmer about 5 years ago
Doesn’t Pat know that Tracy and Sam checked out a marked car, one, I’d presume, with a radio, and, a mobile VDT?
Knightman Premium Member about 5 years ago
Holidays don’t slow up cops on duty!!! Hit it Sam!!! And a Happy New Year!!!" Tracy gang!!!
veldy about 5 years ago
Another one? This means payroll offices have been being knocked over while Tracy and Sam hang out at the zoo with their buddies.
Wizard of Ahz-no relation about 5 years ago
a week for an aligator to climb a fence, now a Styx character what do we get in the new year? Blue Meanies?
Durak Premium Member about 5 years ago
“Great, all we need to do is check the phone book! Case solved!”
jrankin1959 about 5 years ago
…and you’re not gonna believe this one…
kurtoons.wilcken about 5 years ago
“Domo arigato, Chief!”
pategar about 5 years ago
Thermopolis Payroll must specialize in some pretty low end clients. ADP & Paychex would never have piles of cash.
Another Take about 5 years ago
1-CHIEF: Tracy. Some crazy is Trick-R-Treating. City ordinance limits that activity to one day in October. Snatch him up. And Tracy…no questions will be asked about the shape he’s in when you bring him in.
2-DT: Right Chief. I appreciate that but no one could expect me to be responsible for the physical status of someone who eats candy all the time. He probably can’t do one pushup but that’s not my fault.
3-CHIEF: Darn it Tracy! I meant that you should feel free to use ‘extreme prejudice’!
DT: Chief. It’s that kind of attitude that’s got police forces all over the country in trouble. I’m not that…
CHIEF: NOT THAT KIND OF PREJUDICE YOU IDIOT! JUST BRING HIM IN! SERGEANT! GET ME SOME ASPIRIN AND A BROMO!
buckman-j about 5 years ago
Hoping for a safe and sane newbie, and also that our narrators made a resolution to tell some interesting stories. Have a good one folks.
TJ000 about 5 years ago
I’m liking this story already! Looking forward to learning more about Mr. Roboto, and how his crimes will intersect with Vitamin’s play. Happy New Year, all!
DaleMcNamee about 5 years ago
Happy New Year, everyone !
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 5 years ago
His/her real name is Raberto Cybe…maybe. (I just made it up.)
sjsczurek about 5 years ago
For those who may never have heard the song before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6f_2nPSX8
Don Bagert Premium Member about 5 years ago
CHIEF: “This time we’ve got a name to go with the crime….His name is Mr, Roboto.”
TRACY: “Sam, which station is the Styx Channel on our Wrist Radios?”
SAM: “I dunno. Do we have a first name for Mr. Roboto? Maybe he’s listed in the phone book.”
Ray Toler about 5 years ago
Happy New Year to all my DT chat friends.
Sisyphos almost 5 years ago
—Not that the name by itself will help much, Chief Patton! “Mr. Roboto” is fake name, after all. We have no idea even what the guy looks like, much less what his real name is.
But “calling Dick Tracy” is a classic starter-line (which I seem to recall from radio days, if vaguely). And we do now know that the site of the robbery falls within the Tracyville policing jurisdiction….
IvanB.Cohen almost 5 years ago
Whatever happened to the two way wrist tv’s? Were they recalled by Diet Smith Industries? I supposed the same thing happened with the Wrist Geenies. In the 21st Century but having to rely on technology from the previous century.
GoComicsGo! almost 5 years ago
“Bank” Robbery by any chance was the name that fit the crime Chief?
Mark Jeffrey almost 5 years ago
Not that I mind in timeless Dick Tracy’s world, but surely payroll deliveries are a thing of a distant past now? Does anyone really pay staff in cash anymore? Even low wage staff get cheques/checks that they can take to a cashing service if they don’t have a bank account. As I understand, the main movements of cash these days are daily collections from cash-heavy retailers such as supermarkets and bars, and the ongoing card revolution is reducing that a lot. Some bars in London no longer accept cash at all, partly for security and partly so their staff don’t have to balance the till at the end of the evening.