Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 20, 2017

Full Figures In Action~!!

One panel! Apparently Spirit only got grazed. Brush is disarmed. Spirit will quickly do so for Painter.

I sort of hope every day this week plays out as a single panel.

Aim true, aim straight

Never blink or hesitate

Try to avoid extensive blood splatter

By making sure the seconds matter

All those hours at the arcade

Worth each and every quarter paid

Practice makes perfect a statement still true

Gun on the floor making robber feel blue

All that remains is to pick up the mess

When will they learn not to play with the best

Let’s wrap this all up real quick and easy

And focus on getting hillbilly Gweedo set free

It does appear that the bullet grazed the Spirit’s arm rather than going directly in.

Also, there is the “Blam!” that people were looking for yesterday.

It certainly looks like neither of the bad guys have the upper hand right now. I don’t expect this to last long.

Kitchen and Brush did not take advantage of their edge. They have a clear view of Tracy and Spirit in the elevator….

Gweedo! I just looked back on some comments from the past couple of days and I saw you in them, testing to see if you were let back in. Reply to this comment, if you can, and if you can, announce your welcome return to us! :)

Happy Presidents Day!

“Blam” is good. I guess I was hoping for the more formal “Blammo!” But “Blam” is better than nuthin’.

Tracy’s shooting a semi-auto pistol. When you see (and hear) the Blam! , you also see the ejected shell casing come out the top. SDM and I will discuss this later.

Silhouettes, shadows, Gunfire and action—One AWESOME panel and it truly tells the story.

most excellent

Now this is Dick Tracy! I miss these scenes :)

Today’s strip rates a Haiku.

Anyone care to take a stab at writing one?

This might help …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rizO3nVJkxE&list=PL47653E776C22D28F#t=556.326916

Blam! Not a Word

Gotta go upstairs and “tune the lady’s plumbing”. We are on well water and despite filtering I have instituted since moving here in ott 2, the white dissolved minerals come through leaving hard crusties that cause fixtures to not work so well. A little Muriatic acid breaks that stuff up real good !

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I would like to see “watermelon” head for the Brush too !

GWEEDO LIVES!!! Let’s celebrate by playing some honky tonk music!!

Welcome back Gweedo!

♫♫ Hail to the Chief! We salute him, one and all! ♫♫

So, Gweedo, did you get anything that even remotely resembled an explanation for why you’d been banned?

Who needs dialogue? This is Joe Staton at his BEST!

A single panel is more than enough! What a winner! We see that the Spirit was grazed, barely, by the bullet yesterday. But he readily takes down Kitchen. Tracy Sure-Shot plugs Brush!

Crime does not pay today….

Beautiful artwork. Joe could sell prints of this one easily!

Today’s strip is suitable for framing!

Brush just learned the hard way a lesson many criminals can attest to….NOBODY beats Dick Tracy in a gun battle. Tracy is one of the deadliest lawmen in comics.