Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 26, 2013

What a change from yesterday!

Good morning fellow DT Fans…

Abner! Not the death coach!

And…Huh?

The Death Coach! Nice and spooky.

VB, how did you know that?!

Death Coach is seen as a signifier of the inevitability of death

I’m having Darby O’gill flashbacksDarby O’Gill and the Little People (Part 6)Skip to 07:06 for the Coiste Bodhar.

Rikki is one cool girl. Bet she loves horror movies and “spooning” in the graveyard!

“Another Apparatus member”: So, that must be Mumbles, right? I think Mumbles was mentioned by name when Kadaver was hired, if I’m not mistaken.

“Wicked!” An Ace shout-out?

Good morning, Tracy fans! I bet “coiste bodhar” gets more hits on Wikipedia today than the weather lady!

Fire and Ice. “Wicked” hot Rikki and the Ice Cold Kadaver. What a pair. (And thanks again VB for the definition.)

Abner! (Shudder!) Rikki! (Hottie!) The Death Coach (with a Headless Horseman-driver)! Evil is much more fun than Goodness watching “reality” TV….

Be interesting to see if BB actually gets it……they’ve used him a lot, and he’s basically a regular cast member….

Will we see the Abnermobile?

@AKHendersonIn-between “Survival” and the Fox movie, that might have been what happened to it.

Today’s strip is a silent, but instructive one - on how to draw and where to place HANDS . . .

Note how deftly Joe Staton moves the position of the female hands from panel to panel. The soft touching of the face (mid panel) - a gesture that speaks to curiosity, and blends so naturally with the questions she asks.

Sure beats those depictions of a ‘Little-hand’ Tracy looking at his Wrist Geenee - that readers endured in the past !

Looks like Abner and Rikki were busy since we last saw them. And look how excited Rikki is about her next assignment! But can someone please explain to me how Abner faked his death to get out of prison then suddenly came back to life? Guess the writers left that open to the readers imagination.

Hey folks! I found out how I’ve gotten slammed here on the site. GoComics wasn’t doing it; someone accessed their data and would sign in, using my pin, and simply delete it. That’s why I had to keep logging in, because when they signed in using my stuff, it would automatically knock my own computer off. If I really cared, I’d try to find out who…..

Meanwhile back to the story, Rikki needs some serious counseling. How many of you guys would like to have her on your head-shrink sofa?

or, someone very close to the late Spud!

This is the future. Dick Tracy Trolls on line. Reality Cyber Geeks……

If you don’t know who did it, how do you know that they won’t do it again?

Ray you sound worried. Are you confessing to the crime? This is a job for Secret Squirrel!-—————————————————————————Strange ! ?Ray presses a button and who you think comes to answer the door bell ?

Surprise ! - Secret-Squirrell De Mattie !

I subscribe to LifeLock Ultimate and so far, the only hacking I found is he could log in to my GoComics account with the right numbers. He won’t tomorrow. If my few dollars or my credit gets a bump, I will be on a plane in a heartbeat to see him myself. Then, I’ll file on him. Lifelock makes you prosecute, I think.

I echo that sentiment. I recently got a new cellphone, and I’ve only given the number to just one person, and I doubt he’d give it out to anyone without asking my permission first. Yet, earlier tonight, I got a robo-call on it!

They could just be calling every possible combination of digits in sequence. That’s actually illegal in Canada (not sure about other jurisdictions) but just because it’s against regulations doesn’t mean that nobody does it. Another possibility is that the number is recycled from a previous subscriber. If most of the numbers in your area code have been used up, numbers get re-used sooner than they would otherwise.

It’s so hard to believe this is the same artist I disliked so intensely on those DC comics when I was a kid years and YEARS ago….