Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 27, 2024

Vicinity forlorn reborn. Someone checks the clock

Commerce rebirth. Enhanced the worth. Feel the culture shock.

Value soars. See the new stores! Observe the gravy train

Some belly up neath sunny skies. Others stand in rain.

Promise of Greenmarket stalls. Foxes black and red

Business opportunities or a rigged game instead?

Time stands still. Clock fixer will set free the hands of time

Invigorated neighborhood or a fresh chance for crime?

what’s Mr. Unknown going to bring to life?…

and a speaking part at last… LOL…

Another putz with too much “crime” on his hands.

Good morning™, everyone!

So it begins. What’s he bringing to life? It sounds ominous. I really like the foxes logo, apparently based on the graphics on the old clock.

Nothing can bring life to this DOA story!

All the optimism in the world can’t save this snorefest!

Good morning™, Evil Scientists !

Will the clock have a laser beam that issues from somewhere on its face ?  Maybe we’re being lead down a path and that the man in here is an authorized worker who takes a bit of sinister delight in a perfectly harmless everyday task.

This is actually an effective introductory strip for a new story. Unfortunately we had to slog through a whole week of elementary school film-strip level strips to get to it.

On a serious note, today’s First Responders Roll of Honors brought back memories of that tragedy a year ago. Firefighters Acabou & Brooks were true heroes. May they rest in peace.

“Oh sure, the place sits vacant for years. But as soon as I build a madman’s lair and laboratory on my own dime then it’s all ‘time for redevelopment’ with a bunch of tax dollars! Hardly worth being an evil genius anymore. No respect at all.”

Told you the story was about to start.

Maybe he’s a Horologist bringing the clock life again.

Ok Clock King ! Where are you holding Batman ?

Isn’t this going to arouse suspicion? A working clock in a building undergoing a face lift? Odds are that will be some developers involved. Somebody will get greedy. That person will be snuffed out or bought off.

Tick-Tock, time marches on, meanwhile, in Tracy City, a new twist on the plot emerges! Who is the man behind the clock? Stay tuned!

Inside this building are two foxes…

OH GAWD!! WE’RE GETTING A “FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER” STORY please make it stop!

Day 7: One full week with no plot or logic holes. We have a central location for the upcoming action firmly in place, and a sense of gentrification going on in the area. We’ve now glimpsed a portion of a person who will enter into the story. While we’ve still no sense of what crime will bring Tracy into the story the clock fixation of today’s guest hand will very likely play into the story in some way.

Feels a little odd to have an entire week with nothing to complain about. I’ve enjoyed the slow build, but I’m getting a bit nervous. How long can the logic continue? At what point will the criminal pull a rabbit from his rear end, announce he is a Nigerian prince and is there to steal all the marshmallows in Tracyville?

Repent Harlequin, The Tick Tock man said.

Soon? LOLs! How soon?

Is he finally going to clock in?

“And THEN, my mindless golem, I shall rule the world! MY GREATEST AMBITION! But first, I’ll just pop in a TV Dinner. Stooges’ll be on in five minutes!”

(sudden thought) I shall call you NYUK! And then, when I forge a fearsome twin brother for you, I’ll have NYUK NYUK!!"

Hey, the guy’s insane! What can I SAY??

The story is on the runway and almost at takeoff speed .

Gasp! The villain is stroking that enormous clock.

“Totten Organization”?

1-: Tracyville Prison’s broken clock serves to remind felons that time stands still for anyone sentenced within its walls…

2-: …Well, it would if the prisoners could see the clock from their cells and understood the metaphor…

3-: …They are however able to see the sign outside the prison yard and giggle about the “two foxes” who are “coming soon”.

4-: MEANWHILE…

5-: The warden said I could get time off my sentence if I fix the time! There’s a poetic justice in that somewhere… I think I’ll just make myself a shiv instead though.

“They were rescued but pronounced dead” – I don’t think that’s what “rescued” means, brah.

He fixes the clock?

Given the little box that says, “Opening next month” I guess we have another week of this snooze fest, while Costello tries to think of a plot. Then things will get even more boring.

I’m not used to a week-long setup like this, from a daily comic strip. A comic book, yes, but not a daily.

But, I gotta say, I like it. I’m curious enough to see what the next day has to offer.

“Holyyyyyyyyyy HOROLOGY, all you Happy Hyper Hipsters and Super Swell Swingers out there in Terrific Tracy Town! There’s a new place for Sheer, Sharp Shopping being set to open soon! But there’s a Much Mysterious Man working on something that’s Maybe Mainly Menacing inside the Clearly Clandestine Clock tower room! Your Definitely Delightful Deejay, JPuzzle The Whiz, is Weirdly, Wildly Wondering just what that Craftily Chronological Crook is up to! Meanwhile, I’ve got some Pleasingly Pleasant Platters to play for you on the Big, Bold BMBG turntable!”

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Please, bring this storyline to life already!

“It’s Frankenstein-STEEN!”

Barbara Gordon got evicted?

“What time is it?”

“None of your business!”

BUD&LOU—-BUCK PRIVATES—1941