Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 01, 2014

It looks like Tracy might be a bit skeptical of Angus’ story.

How disappointing we don’t get to see the gore of Kolossal’s trampled corpse. :(

Tracy is giving Angus the eye. I like seeing Tracy investigating.

I wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t see it myself. Sparkplug is getting blamed for Nightmare’s trampling. Some people predicted that, yesterday. It seems that Kolossal isn’t the only one that can do a horse switcheroo. Tracy has just been examining Sparkplug’s markings. I wonder if he’ll notice that Nightmare is not Sparkplug.

Well. We went from Kolossal figuratively putting his foot in his mouth to having one put there for him

Tracy would be shocked, SHOCKED to find Angus was involved in any of this…

Good morning guys!

I’m ready for Warbucks visit to DT!

“I’m sure you didn’t, Mr. Angus” Except tampering with physical evidence and impeding a criminal investigation for starters…

Heartless stinker!

Good morning everyone! Last week I discovered the new Dick Tracy strip in my local paper (after a co-worker left at the desk) and loved it. I used Go Comics to go back to the start of this creative teams run and get all caught up on the stories, they are all excellent and I look forward to the Annie cast sharing an adventure soon.

uh-huh.. likely story. if i were tracy i’d reply with “Well, since the horse is obviously a threat we have to put him down Mr. Angus.”

btw.. back in the top ten after MONTHS of being at the “mid-card”… i feel so special!! :)

I’m also thinking we’re not likely to be seeing – MIndy in disguise on horseback – anytime soon!

Angus screwed up big time! He’s pulled off so many crimes in the past, that’s he’s become overconfident. An old cop once said to a clas, “You know why we catch crooks? They’re stupid and careless in the long run.”

“I hope I didn’t do anything wrong.”

“Aside from tampering with a crime scene and destroying evidence? Nah, you’re good.”

By now, Tracy knows every mark on Sparkplug and Slowpoke, thanks to Scott. Why the heck didn’t Angus just put a contract on Kolossal and be done with it? One glance at Nightmare and Tracy will figger it out.

Oh, c’mon, Tabby…you know you did!

Very Yellow today…

Hmmmm. Scottish fold ears.

Killing Kolossal isn’t going to get Angus any of his money back.

So we find Kolossal stomped to death by a horse. Under today’s sensibilities we do not see the mutilated body—probably too gruesome. In Gould’s day he would have shown graphically the wages of crime. It’s not that I would particularly want to see the grisly sight of Kolossal’s head smashed in, it’s just that the difference in sensibilities is apparent in the way things are portrayed today compared to Gould’s day. Odd that prime time TV shows have no problem with showing violence and actors portraying dead bodies with horrendous and graphic makeup.

It must be a bit difficult for Mike and Joe to have to tiptoe around graphic violence in a hard-hitting detective strip but they have handled it admirably—the shadow of Doubleup using his whip on Ponytail is an example that comes to mind. It was much more dramatic in Joe’s portrayal than if it had been more graphic. Still, Kolossal was starting to become an interesting character (questions still exist about the reason for bringing back this character from the distant past). Too bad his swan song was as a shadow talking to Mysta.

Now, this is comic art! The text alone does not, because it cannot, carry the full import of today’s storyline. The visuals are essential. Tracy’s skeptical glances add so much in the way of over- and undertones to the text!………………………………………..Meanwhile, I hope Sparkplug doesn’t end up taking the rap for what the imported hit-horse, Nightmare, did!

(I feel so sheepish after making that bovine crack!)______________________________

Ewe are really wolf in sheep’s clothing, trying to ram a baaaad pun in without braying for it. Wool ewe please stop or Tracy might call in the fuzz and ewe will have to go on the lamb. This could be shear madness.

Ewe are really wolf in sheep’s clothing, trying to ram a baaaad pun in without braying for it. Wool ewe please stop or Tracy might call in the fuzz and ewe will have to go on the lamb. This could be shear madness.________________________I hope you do not take offense at my sheep remarks. I have no BEEF with your BOVINE puns. I must have had too much CALFeine this morning.

They cleaned him up? Tampering with evidence? Does Nightmare look like Sparkplug or WILL he when Mr Angus’ crew finishes “cleaning up”?

I am a little surprised that Tracy is not all over Angus for cleaning up his horse before the police had any chance to examine the scene. In today’s world, everybody knows that you leave a scene of violence totally alone until the police get there. But, maybe Tracy is pretending to go along with Angus, just to see what he’ll do. “Give a man enough rope, and he’ll hang himself.”

Yep Ken, like I said previously, crooks are stupid.

I’m also puzzled as to why Angus killed Kolossal. Kolossal was useful to him, even if Kolossal was as shifty as Angus. “Teach him a lesson” was what I was expecting, I was not expecting a “termination.”

I HERD that! ;-)________________________Well, I think we have MILKED this joke for all it’s worth.

That’s kind of shocking, JPW. I wouldn’t have expected that for either of them.

Gweedo is a neighbor of mine, up in Boulder. Hope he gets back on the air soon!.Night-Gaunt49: I enjoy his comments on Prickly City..What the sam hill is going on?

NG and Gweedo are in the penalty box?