Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 12, 2023

Ah, the old “bomb fuse looks like a worm so a chicken grabbed it after fooling the readers into thinking that her football training would somehow enter it but then it really didn’t” trick. Whew.

The chicken has saved the day!!

Good morning™, everyone!

Do you remember when the chicken was pulling at Tracy’s shoelaces and eyeing the electrical cords plugged into the power strips? You might have wondered why this behaviour of Chick Tracy II was shown, but that is what she is doing with the bomb, also.

If that thing IS loaded with C-4 it should blast most of that building into rubble….and everyone nearby right along with it.

~ NoDice is jazzed about old time radio 1 hour ago

WLS was crazy in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

Some of those guys were right outa town. Forget the tunes you always got a thrill when the guy would come on with some wacky rap and some could even talk at light speed and be understood. Speaking really fast is a talent all its own. Jason Alexander (George Can’t stand ya) was in top vocal form on the Duckman series.

Good morning™, Time’s Up !!!

Looks like Chicky is on the one way express to the afterlife. Chick’s face has the best playful expression. Shelley done great on this. She is indeed a master of faces. :-)

Did it go tick-cluck?

Today is blantly a filler. Nothing to advance the story. Mike forfeits the Golden Buzzer I gave him yesterday!

Only Mike could figure out a way to make a ticking bomb scene more duller than operating directions for a vacuum cleaner.

So Chickie-Babe is going to save the day by (implausibly) separating the timing fuse from the C4?

Well looky there Vern. A time bomb!

The early bird catches the detonator.

We will have to wait to see if we will have Tracyville fried chicken on the menu!

Liar, liar, chickens on fire! I think he’s bluffing. Now, the last time I made a statement like this, I was wrong. Now’s my chance for redemption! Mwahahahahaaaa…

That dumb cluck moonlights on the Bomb Squad.

Is Chick about to become chicken delites herself, lol?

If Chick could speak

Through her skilled beak

I know what she would say

“Not here to be your fricassee

Just here to save the day.”

It is not a ( time bomb ) but it is still dangerous , for sure , and " super " great image in the last panel by Shelley : ) And I’m sorry I didn’t pay attention to the cartoon vey well , it is , at least it says it is a time bomb , I’m not sure how a chicken can stop it thought ?

Chick Tracy saves the day by pulling out the fuse ?

Will the chicken pull the fuse out of the bomb thinking it’s a worm? Stay tuned for our next thrilling episode…

Looks like a game bomb to me.

Whatever, Tracy is so impressed that he gives the chicken Sam’s job.Sam is reduced to scraping up the leavings off the deli floor and living in a cardboard box.

On the plus side, the chicken makes dynamite office coffee. Yet another amazing trick effortlessly mastered

He then becomes Yeti’s latest inept henchman. Yeti sees the writing on the wall (working around the misspelled bits) and, after that hastily hushed-up incident in Muncie, turns him self in.

“Chick a boom, chick a boom, don’t you just love it!”

From the smile on Gameboy’s face, I’m betting there’s nothing there but whatever sound it makes when the timer stops.

Whatever happened to the fire alarm? Why are all these people still there?

Chicken drinks his super sauce and throws the bad guys for a loss and no longer are they alive and kickin’. There is one thing you should learn , when there is no one else to turn to , call for Super Chicken .

Okay, Chick Tracy II has a bomb fuse in her mouth…

Fuh-FAW

Tracy says…”What?”

…who’s betting that when Chickie pills out that “fuse”, a ’lil flag pops out that reads BOOM!???…….

March him over to it!

Informal poll: A.) The chicken inadvertently defused the bomb;B.) Chicken soup for dinner.

1-GARAGE GUY: Is the restroom this way…oops. Too late. WOMAN: OMG! THAT GEEZER JUST DROPPED A BOMB IN HIS PANTS! RUN!

2-B.O.: Bomb? Get in front of me, Kliniqally!

3-LAMEBOY: You gotta ask yourself, Tracy, did I… TRACY: I know. Fire 5 or 6 shots. LAMEBOY: What? I don’t have a gun you dolt! No – is the bomb real or fake? DT: Oh…

4-…ok. Is it real or fake? LAMEBOY: Uh, I forget… DT: UGH! What’s that awful smell? Was that a stinkbomb???

GARAGE GUY: Whew! I feel better now. Anyone want to buy a WWII-era Monopoly game?

MOVIE QUOTE—

“YOU eat it!”

Randolph Scott to Walter Barnes—-WESTBOUND—1959

ridiculous… this strip has reached a new low when it’s the chicken who saves the day… this IS the last straw… a change needs to be made, and you KNOW what and WHO I mean… this is NOT what I come to Dick Tracy to read…

Did the chicken defuse the bomb OR somehow activate it?(Itwasn’t making any noise until today)?

Gameboy in Panel 3 looks downright suicidal;hey,if I’m caught I’m going out in a blaze of glory.Or will it just be confetti?

I just noticed — GB’s face looks like a humanized version of a Guy Fawkes mask…

Gould once devoted a whole month to BO Plenty having his life savings stolen by a pack rat(the animal kind)

OT: Got a cover scan today of a one-shot test comic book I ‘tribbed the concept outline and first issue script for. Looks good (but then I also gave them the AI image they used for the cover in order that the artist had an idea of what I’d worked up for the mech). Of course I won’t get extra for that.

I did get the $50 up-front, but I have a sneaking suspicion I won’t see the rest. I have the same vibes I got with MARIONETTTE, another ultra-indie project I scripted this year. Never a good thing when you don’t get formal contract. Still,I can use the money right now. Large outlays with the cars.

Forgit to tell y’all that on April 30th it’s official…“Mick and Keith have left the building”

Two…I don’t want to call them “stones” since meteorites seems more apropos…very large kidney stones were passed…and I managed to catch them as well… put them into a sterile cup that the dr gave me months ago, then dropped them off that Wednesday…the receptionist kinda scrunched her face when she saw them and said “wow, those are pretty big stones” and I just looked at her and said “yeah, try passing them”

They were sending them out to be examined so I probably wont hear anything about it until my next appointment sometime in june

The chicken parts would become chicken fragments…whether these are marketable is another matter. Poor B.O. his chicken done gone to that hen house in the sky.

Gameboy needs a trip to the woodshed and a spanking. Time-outs are ineffective.

Makes me think of the bomb gag from the Adam West Batman movie. “Somedays you just can’t get rid of a bomb!”

Chaos and confusion! Run! Scatter! Where? Hither and yon! Who runs? We run (all eight separate characters in today’s strip, or nine if you count the chicken, too—Brad’s grandpa and grandma [if that is who the elderly two are], plus that supernumerary Bystander or Stagehand in panel 1; B.O. and Klinique Plenty in panel 2; Sam [he’s back!], Gameboy, and Tracy in panel 3; and, all in her own glory, Chick Tracy II in panel 4)!

Has Smartchick activated the fuse or defused the whirring bomb?

Tomorrow should tell the story of the glory or the gory of The Little Chicken Who Could. Sunday, wrap-up/clean-up?…