Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 16, 2012

Good morning everyone…

I had to get back up to see the entrance of Vitamin Flintheart!

Vitamin has returned, looking as theatrical as ever!

Does Flintheart have any experience in entertainment law?

Yesterday APersonOFInterest wrote, “Thanks for all the kind words yesterday.”

But I still didn’t see him or her posting any links so we could see more of, or purchase, his or her work.

Phooey!

And -HUZZAH! Vitamin Flintheart has returned! (And he hasn’t aged a day!)

Actually, Vitamin does look like an elderly Vincent Price – although he came along when Vincent was a young man. (And I appreciate the Sesame Street shout out to the host of “Mysterious Theatre,” Vincent Twice, Vincent Twice. You can’t beat the classics!)

Vitamin Flintheart! He’s looking great, and definitely still knows how to make an entrance!

Woo Hoo! The gang is all here! Thank you Team Tracy! You make staying up late to read the funnies Fun!

Yow! Vitamin looks all fired up! I dig it a lot!

Well, we hoped (many of us, anyhow) that the next visitor from the strip’s past would be Vitamin, but — Wow! Wotta entrance! Joe and Mike thoroughly understand and appreciate the sheer theatricality of the character. Chester Gould (as well as big Flintheart fan Max Allan Collins) would be impressed. Reading the Tracy strip is a highlight of my day.

Wow! This comic keeps getting better and better, Thank you!

Wow. Great reintroduction! As I recall, Vitamin was based on John Barrymore. If you do a Google search, you’ll find several images that look like the spitting image.

i’m surprised matt hasnt chimed in yet complaining about vitamin’s smoking and questioning how a man of his advanced age could still be alive what wth smoking so much. the LAST time i saw vitamin was when Joe was born. I’m glad I got “re-addicted” to Tracy! NOW we gotta wait for Johnny Adonis to come back! lol!

What an entrance! Once a ham, always a ham!-Hope Drew Barrymore reads this. I’m sure she’ll get a kick out of it.-Mike and Joe nailed it again.

“Star of stage and screen”

and ham ;)

Yay! Vitamin finally re-appears! Whoo Gosh!!

He looks good for one who had to eat peas for awile, hm?

I was going though my DT books, and may I add this list to old characters to re-appear? What about Themesong? She gave Vitamin a run for his money :). Rainbow O’Riley too?

I’ll post others as I see. Keep up the good work, gentlemen.

- Kc

Ah.. VITAMIN FLINTHART HAS ENTERED THE BUILDING!

VITAMIN FLINTHEART!! He looks as dramatic as ever! Thank you, Team Tracy!

Whoa, I was just wondering when Vitamin would make another appearance, and here he is! Right on! Glad to see him.

Excellent! So excited! I absolutely love Vitamin.

I’m right there with you Randy!

Well, we would have had Vitamin before, but wanted just the right REASON for him to reenter the strip. And this is it.

WHAT is that over Vitamin’s left shoulder?Vitamin has one of those long cigarette holders clenched between his teeth, with a lit cigarette making a cloud of smoke. The colorist didn’t color the smoke, and the word balloon covers a lot of it.. I also believe that the line coming from Vitamin’s hat brim to the word balloon and the line from the top of the receptionist’s head to the word balloon are part of the open doorway behind the receptionist. If the colorist wanted to be consistent that area should be the nice bright blue (gak) with a light grey cloud over it. I also HATE what was done with the receptionists dress in the last panel. All of the detail lines are totally obscured by the dark purple.

Well Ms Cure?, I wouldn’t want to be in your toes right now. I had to say it.

Vitamin is back!!

Good Ol’ Vitamin! Was an agent for Sparkle Plenty, and helped saving her from TV Wiggles. last time we saw him.Glad to see him again!

Ahh, the triumphal return of the Master Thespian, Lillian Gish’s pin-up boy! I’m so delighted! Pass me the bismuth!

I always wondered what happened to Themesong. Maybe she met Peanutbutter?I remember the post-Gould team’s dramatic Flintheart return; he was a steady character for about 4 years. My paper dropped the strip in 82, alas, during the “Mole as a farmer” story. I like that he is surrounded by women, that did not happen much in the old days unless he was under the Influence.