Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 02, 2013

- That WAS Joe. #2 – This was a great interlude…Get over it, all you naysayers!

Arf arf!

Thank God the Popeye tie-in is over already!

Don’t know what happened to my comment!

What’s next, is Tracy going to visit with his old friend who happens to be a carrot-chewing prankster rabbit?

A bit of fun!

Was supposed to be: #1 – It WAS Joe. #2 – That was a great interlude. Get over it, all you naysayers! It’s done!

And just in time to return to Murder Mansion for the big Sunday strip.

What you “yam” is Douglas McArthur? Hardly ex-Navy! Anyway, now that this arc is over, let’s move on to more important things – like busting that meth lab that Slim Skinner runs in the GA garage.

Maybe B.O. and Gertie have relatives in Dogpatch.

As long as they don’t bring the Yellow Kid into things.

Nice finish on this one :) Even Dick Tracy deserves a peaceful respite from time to time…..

Toot TooT!

I think this was great. It humanizes Dick and his family. We probably needed a little break as much as they did. I notice that Popeye was never shown, even though he was obviously referenced. That was the right way to do it.

So, for the purposes of the strip, Dick is “ex-Navy.” I know someone here said that may not be a very accurate description, but there it is. As for Popeye, I suspected he might be ex-Navy, though I don’t know if that ever came up in the Popeye strip.

What is that toy that Joe is playing with? It looks like an old jet like a DC-3 of something. It doesn’t seem to have many windows for a jet. I realize that the drawing is somewhat simplified, but it kind of looks like a cross between a 747 and the Space Shuttle. If not, it’s some kind of shark-shaped submersible (sort of shark-shaped at least).

Speaking of crossovers, Dick Tracy is in my crossover fan fiction “Hottie 3: The Best Fan Fic in the World”. He and the rest of the Major Crimes Unit are members of the Department of Hotness (the heroes of the story). See for yourself: http://fav.me/d4x1dej

For the record, it’s Popeye’s RIGHT eye that’s missing, not his left.

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He’s strong to the finish! Cause he eats his spinach! He’s Tracy the Detective Man! Toot Toot! : )

Tracy “worked as a Navy diver in New York harbor.” - http://dicktracy.wikia.com/wiki/Dick_TracyBut is that accurate? I wasn’t around back then.

The original cartoon Popeye was a civilian seaman. But during WWII, Fleischer studios “enlisted” him in the Navy – but he also showed up in other military branches’ uniforms for propaganda. So… everyone, even the cartoons got involved.

This vacation interlude was refreshing, and the Popeye/Olive Oyl crossover was fun! Arf! Arf!And now the Kadaver kaper may resume….

HI Neil, Its an upside down sailboat not a plan or sub

Great interlude! And Dick didn’t get shot at for a whole week. LOL :)

Now on to Porky Pig’s sty for a week!

and that’s all that I yam!

What a cool Halloween break.

I’m sorry this little vacation is over. I was hoping to see some Goons. And I don’t mean the goons that Dick Tracy usually meets.

cool

Nice Popeye & Olive cameo. Hope we get to see more.Now folks, don’t confuse the cartoon history with the comic history of a character.Comic history usually runs in a chronological order. We can be reasonably sure that if something was stated in 1960, its still true today (Unless we get reboots along the way)Cartoon History has no order, Kinda like historical fiction.As far as reboots go, Take the number of comics converted into movies. Certain elements are to be expected, but chronology is not one of them. Being a Sherlock Holmes fan, I have enjoyed ALL the versions of Sir Arthur’s “Defective Detective”. I simply expect to see certain characters in the story (Watson, Mycroft, Lestrade, Moriarty, et al). We should expect the same here. Allow Team Tracy opportunity to recall past characters in any creative manner they can.

This could be totally unpredictable…let the play unfold…

Excellent tribute to Popeye! No doubt Joe Staton recalled his days of working for Popeye comic book cartoonist George Wildman (Charlton Comics editor). And Joe’s E-Man writing partner, Nick Cuti, also wrote Popeye scripts.

I just can’t wait until Dick Tracy goes back to the office and finds out due to budget cuts he has to share a cubicle with Dilbert.

Call me old school but I love Popeye. Even enjoy the new ones, just like I enjoy Dick Tracy. This interlude was pure fun.

Segar’s Popeye strips were some of my very favorite. The artists and writers that came after Segar (with the possible exception of Bud Sagendorf) not so much. But I was happy to see my two favorite strips do a crossover. I totally enjoyed this little interlude.

It was a nice little bit. I, for one, enjoy things like this in strips. Gasoline Alley does similar every now and then. It’s a comic strip, after all. And Tracy does go back to the 1930s, so it’s unlikely there will be tie ins further back, but anything from then up is fair game for an interlude. We did get Oliver Warbucks for a bit, you know.

Good afternoon all…

That was an enjoyable break. We’ve seen Joe Tracy… what about Bonnie Braids? Has she been banned since she took her mom and dad to the circus to “relax”?

I’m going fishin’ with an old sailor pal. See ya all in 2 weeks…..

Wow. This may be the first time in the history of this strip Dick’s vacation was just a vacation.

The toy is a sailboat. He has it tilted on it’s side and you see the keel on the bottom.

“you might as well try to put a Cadillac V-8 into the back of an original VW Beetle.”

Challenge accepted! Muahahaha!

I just rediscovered DT and I’m impressed with the Neo-Gould artwork I’ve seen here.

The were many jet assist DC-3s over the years. There were 2 different ones that you could see from Spring Street at the Long Beach airport(right near the Douglas plant) in the 70s when I lived there. (or maybe that was Douglas property)

There have always ben engineers that wanted to upgrade the DC-3, by using more powerful engines and turbo-props.

Like to see more of this most definitely!

Count me in as one who think this was a nice little interlude.