Your car Tracy? You can justify your bumbling and the death (murder?) of someone by saying, “Bummer, she should have driven a hybrid”? Perhaps you should call for back-up now, the bad stuff is over, they’ll show.
The whole point of hybrids is they use electric AND petrol/diesel, hence the name.
The concept of a car running miles on drops of fuel is also flawed. If the fuel contained so much energy a drop could run it for mile, the energy would blow the car up with the force of a large bomb. As soon as the fuel is burnt in the cylinders, it’s spent, all on one revolution of the drive shaft, even when atomised with the carburettor/injectors.
Tracy feeling guilt? Nahh… getting the best out of your engine is MUCH more important.
I think what it says in the last panel is, “It’ll GO miles on drops of fuel…” Either way this storyline was heavily flawed (what else is new?) and it’s time to get a real writer on this strip.
I thought it was Noll’s car that could go miles on drops of fuel. And for those who were asking about 911, they were called a few days (weeks?) ago - they should be showing up soon.
Smackin’ da forehead again!! this whole longgggg drawn out string of schmuck has been simply an ad for green toyotas????
oh yeh, and “fire’s too hot” not even an exclamation point wow, that’s a classic
Cosgrove: “So much fuel on board. Glad my car’s a Hybrid”
Instesd of wasting a daily strip to “toady up” to those with fuel economy interests (the high price crisis is over)… and have Tracy philosophizing like an Al Gore clone, walk over to the snow bank to see by her tracks in which direction the “perp” walked away!
Call in another APB and did Tracy as he chased Angelorious into the town pass 911 and the Ambulance going on their way out to Dr. Noll’s house? (DL: “Gosh! I plain forgot”)
Oh! a further thought as Tracy contemplates the virtues of “new fuel” against the blaze from a full tank of her regular car gas … remember the “explosion” of “New Gas” from a test tube
in the Doctor’s house with all those doors flying around the neighborhood!
Think a few drops of Noll’s fuel in a crash would have taken out Cosgove’s and YOUR car as well!
WHY do you THINK Noll in his Antique car was so alarmed on 12-20-08?: “He yelled at me to get out of his way!” (Yes! for good reason)
But it was a relief to find a hidden ‘grain’ of CONSISTENCY here, particularly after I was shaken on noticing that only a few strips earlier, Diet Smith’s well known Office Building had somehow ‘miraculously’ reduced from THREE floors down to TWO, and that the sign said DS “Enterprises” rather than DS “Industries” as it had been known all along!
Perhap’s Locher’s next villain should be called “FOCUS”. Think of what it may do for HIM (and the strip!) as he “researches” the subject!
AMAZON BOOKS is advertising a new DVD called “WATCHMAN”, the “illustration” looks like pure Dick Tracy with yellow coat AND hat. Face blacked out like a reverse “The Blank”.
It seems someone forgot to tell the Movie copy-cats that Dick Locher had discovered a better way to enhance the fashion and general aura of the Dick Tracy image by “dropping” the Hat.
Silly, silly movie makers, not taking a brilliant cue from a living genious!
I cant accept the last 2 panels because isnt this known already and why would she be driving a car other than hers.Instead of a loss of life the concentration is on the enviroment &products there of ;Goodbye Dick Tracy comic strip.
margueritem about 15 years ago
Do you feel just the littlest tinge of guilt, Tracy?
wndrwrthg about 15 years ago
Your car Tracy? You can justify your bumbling and the death (murder?) of someone by saying, “Bummer, she should have driven a hybrid”? Perhaps you should call for back-up now, the bad stuff is over, they’ll show.
margueritem about 15 years ago
Gweedo Murray says:
Who’s the cops who wont come out when there’s fire all about..♪♫
~ They’ll give you the’Shaft’, can you dig it?
drwatson about 15 years ago
The whole point of hybrids is they use electric AND petrol/diesel, hence the name.
The concept of a car running miles on drops of fuel is also flawed. If the fuel contained so much energy a drop could run it for mile, the energy would blow the car up with the force of a large bomb. As soon as the fuel is burnt in the cylinders, it’s spent, all on one revolution of the drive shaft, even when atomised with the carburettor/injectors.
Tracy feeling guilt? Nahh… getting the best out of your engine is MUCH more important.
Radical-Knight about 15 years ago
Throw snowballs at it. hehehe
riley05 about 15 years ago
Everyone is so struck by the idiocy of the storyline that no one has noticed the blatant error in the last panel?
“It’ll 60 miles on drops of fuel.”
Are you reading these comments, Locher? If so, contact me and I’ll start editing your sorry prose for free.
(I feel confident that there’s no way Locher reads these comments…)
drwatson about 15 years ago
It’ll GO miles on drops of fuel
LudwigVonDrake about 15 years ago
I think what it says in the last panel is, “It’ll GO miles on drops of fuel…” Either way this storyline was heavily flawed (what else is new?) and it’s time to get a real writer on this strip.
Akenta about 15 years ago
I thought it was Noll’s car that could go miles on drops of fuel. And for those who were asking about 911, they were called a few days (weeks?) ago - they should be showing up soon.
HankF about 15 years ago
Man gets rich… SHE went fromworking…? Screwy ad.
JonD17 about 15 years ago
Smackin’ da forehead again!! this whole longgggg drawn out string of schmuck has been simply an ad for green toyotas???? oh yeh, and “fire’s too hot” not even an exclamation point wow, that’s a classic
sydney about 15 years ago
Cosgrove: “So much fuel on board. Glad my car’s a Hybrid”
Instesd of wasting a daily strip to “toady up” to those with fuel economy interests (the high price crisis is over)… and have Tracy philosophizing like an Al Gore clone, walk over to the snow bank to see by her tracks in which direction the “perp” walked away! Call in another APB and did Tracy as he chased Angelorious into the town pass 911 and the Ambulance going on their way out to Dr. Noll’s house? (DL: “Gosh! I plain forgot”) Oh! a further thought as Tracy contemplates the virtues of “new fuel” against the blaze from a full tank of her regular car gas … remember the “explosion” of “New Gas” from a test tube in the Doctor’s house with all those doors flying around the neighborhood! Think a few drops of Noll’s fuel in a crash would have taken out Cosgove’s and YOUR car as well! WHY do you THINK Noll in his Antique car was so alarmed on 12-20-08?: “He yelled at me to get out of his way!” (Yes! for good reason)
But it was a relief to find a hidden ‘grain’ of CONSISTENCY here, particularly after I was shaken on noticing that only a few strips earlier, Diet Smith’s well known Office Building had somehow ‘miraculously’ reduced from THREE floors down to TWO, and that the sign said DS “Enterprises” rather than DS “Industries” as it had been known all along!
Perhap’s Locher’s next villain should be called “FOCUS”. Think of what it may do for HIM (and the strip!) as he “researches” the subject!
gigabyte03 about 15 years ago
Gweedo Murray
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Mrs. Tubbsbottl just loves the notes, she says that they are “just too cute!”
Nighthawks Premium Member about 15 years ago
oh boy! the high gas price crisis is over! yes! there is no way they will ever EVER get high again. Let’s all go out and buy an suv!
sydney about 15 years ago
AMAZON BOOKS is advertising a new DVD called “WATCHMAN”, the “illustration” looks like pure Dick Tracy with yellow coat AND hat. Face blacked out like a reverse “The Blank”.
It seems someone forgot to tell the Movie copy-cats that Dick Locher had discovered a better way to enhance the fashion and general aura of the Dick Tracy image by “dropping” the Hat.
Silly, silly movie makers, not taking a brilliant cue from a living genious!
jabo about 15 years ago
I cant accept the last 2 panels because isnt this known already and why would she be driving a car other than hers.Instead of a loss of life the concentration is on the enviroment &products there of ;Goodbye Dick Tracy comic strip.
DonnieTevault about 15 years ago
Excuse me, but, isn’t Tracy supposed to be a detective? Where’s the detective work been in this story?