Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 29, 2011

Yeah, Locher had Moribund talk about Thick writing a book two days ago. Locher repeated it because it took him this long to think of a retort to put in Thick’s mouth, which I believe is represented by one of the horizontal lines in panel #1. Today’s astonishing developments are that in panel #1 we see water coming through a broken window, and in panel #3 the granary and waves are represented by a somewhat new drawing.

Who knew that Nappingville had such good surf?

So which is it? Is Spacy a liar or just a moron?

What a clever joke.

What’s annoying here is that Locher is now going on about “motive.” In a way it’s funny that for once it’s Thick who is being questioned on his motives, but that’s an even feebler joke than the thrown-the-book away line. Has Mordred decided he doesn’t want Thick to unleash him after all? Or is he just playing hard to get?

Zzzz-zzzzzzzz

Dick’s high-powered negotiations have resulted in a deal? Well OK then, you’d better remove those chains if you have a deal.

An ending I’d like to see:

Mordred is hit by a brick or electrocuted,and lying there.

Spacy goes to him, says” Now let’s see what the evil Mordred looks like”, and pulls off the hood.

And there’s nothing inside.

Amen to that. Come on, March 14!

Take a closer look at panel 3. The waves indicate that the wind is blowing to the right. Yet the rain is being blown to the left.

Locher is stalling because he wants to say “serial killers are bad” but he can’t figure out why they’re bad.

This could be the inspiration for Moribund and his “Mr. Dickhead” mask:

http://tinyurl.com/4gsap8l

I wonder how Dick and Tess ever had kids, because if it took Dick this long just to get to the point where he might take Mothra’s chains off, how long would have taken him to unhook Tess’ brassiere and garters?

So before Morbid dies his ironic death, he has to explain why he kills. This is going to be something dumb, like “To prove I’m above your petty sense of law and order, copper!” Then he’ll vow to kill again, after his lawyer gets him released on a technicality. But when he attacks Thick he slips on a banana peel and accidentally hangs himself. As he dangles outside a granary window Thick declares “So he’s ‘above’ us after all!”

This story has turned into a ridiculous waste of time and space. It’s pitiful.

That sure isn’t Dick Tracy in Panel 1. It’s a guy who looks a little bit like him, but it’s not him. Must be one of the decoys.

Of course anything Mordred (if that’s the real Mordred and not a decoy Mordred too) says in return for being released from the chains is inadmissable as evidence. The decoy Tracy might be too dumb to know that, though … might not even be a real cop….

-Cougar :{)

TALK IS ACTION DELAY IS SUSPENSE STASIS IS EXCITEMENT

Mordred’s mask today looks like two Mordreds in profile, side by side. Its freaking me out, man!

That last panel reminds me of the opening from “The Secret Storm” way back when. I’ll bet there’s organ music playing in the background. (Hey, I was a little kid. I am not that old! But get off my lawn anyway!)

If Mordred’s PhD is in English grammar, we can guess who he targets and why Thick is doomed.

Modred is really Pat Patton under a hood. Pat was upset that no one ever gave him a party and acknowledged his many years on the force (and the strip). He was just kicked out and ignored.

this will be our book, our book of love my darling!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xM21E8WWKk&feature=related

Ooh! Can we have “DbaD” bracelets?

Review the present arc - if you can stomach it: Mordred was delivered to Macy secured with 40 pounds of chains - and sedated. When Macy finally found a pothole to drive into, it became a lake that swallowed the car. Mordred’s chains somehow loosened, or was loosened by Macy who must have had a key to the locks, as Macy led Mordred out of the Pothole Lake, thus saving his life. When they got out of Pothole Lake, the bigger Mordred just laid back, thankful to be alive, and let Macy chain him up again with 40 pounds of chains. But, as we have seen, Tracy didn’t secure Mordred as well as originally, because Mordred’s hands have alternally been out of the chains. He will soon reveal that he is free from those chains. I’m waiting for us to be free from this terrible excuse for an action strip.

30+ days and counting

I have also peeked ahead at the coming week. Guaranteed to be absolutely hilarious. Specially the art work.

@ barticle: how about the height of the “flood”? Can you believe such in a continuity strip that shold have some form of reality? If it flooded that deep in this “storm of the century” I believe that either that area is in a crater or the whole earth has been judged again like in Noah’s day.

The CGDT Museum launched its first quarterly content update since introducing the Members HQ in October, 2010. They added three new biographies to the previously launched Villains Gallery and added 1940s examples of the Tracy strip–dailies and Sundays–to the previously launched Anniversary Exhibition Gallery, as well. They also launched the Fan Letters Gallery and Doodles and Drawings Gallery, both of which feature never-before-published material.

To top it all off they added a special sneak-preview video trailer for the upcoming feature-length documentary on Gould entitled, Chester Gould–An American Original. It features commentary from the film by Max Allan Collins, Dr. Garyn G. Roberts, Dick Locher, Jean O’Connell and Mal Ballairs–a MUST SEE for any Tracy or Gould fan!

scuttlebutt99 - Geez, I hate being a stickler and all, but growing up as a farm kid offers little advantage in life except for knowledge of ill-tempered, psychokiller Blue Andalusian chickens, Allis Chalmers tractors and, yes, granaries. (Yeah, it’s a heavy burden.) Mills were located near running water, but granaries (and their modern-day heirs, grain elevators) are located in dry locations for the storage and preservation of harvested grain. A lot of them were actually built well off the ground to keep out water and rats. And guys in chains.

If it’s any consolation, farm kids are also well acquainted with darkness, isolation and crippling depression. It’s a lot like growing up in a Bergman film, but with cattle. While running for your life from a blue chicken. And yes, Napoleon Dynamite, they do have large talons. Very, very large talons. Lovely plumage, though.

I guess the point is, that’s a lot of water.

If Tracy unties him, goodbye Tracy and goodbye strip.

JCFremont, Thanks for the insight. I was thinking that this was a storage facility, not a mill. But with the awful story, who knows what it is and who knows where it is going. One thing good, however - it is headed to Collins and Staton!

Good one Dick!

But don’t listen to him. HE TRYING TO TRICK YOU!

Did I miss something? What deal? Mordred never agreed Tracy! He just diverted you by asking what youre going to do with the information and youre diverting him! No one agreed to anything!

I know. Tracy is going to loosen the chains, wrap them around Mordreds throat and kick him out the window. Just as he does that the chains will get caught and Mordred will choke to death. Brilliant!

Except Thick is so dumb, he’ll help Morbid by wrapping the chains around his own neck.

Haven’t seen wndrwrthg for several days. Hope there’s nothing wrong. I guess it’s getting too bad to inspire. What more can you say about it when they repeat the obvious every day?

Agreed, marvee. It’s getting hard to even make snarky comments, this has gotten so bad. Let alone trying to do it in rhyme.