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   Margueritem said, 6 months ago

   I don’t recognize the guy in panel 1. Man, that Jack is one flat cat.

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   wndrwrthg said, 6 months ago

   Why didn’t any of the cops save Tracys life? I stated it once before, Dick Tracy was known in my youth for a fair portrayal of police procedures, sadly that is no longer the case. These plots have become so juvenile and pedestrian as to be a poor parody of itself.

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   Roto13 said, 6 months ago

   Dick Tracy has eyes now?

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   Carlo Coratelli said, 6 months ago

   But the cop with Tracy in the Casinò…is missing?

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   safeway674 said, 6 months ago

   With luck, “the last hand has been dealt” .

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   Fearless_Fosdick said, 6 months ago

   If you try to get into any of the King’s clubs, expect to get carded. Jack’s character really lacked depth. He seemed so two-dimensional.

   Tracy seems to get saved by these miraculous shots in the bad guy’s back about every other story-line.

   There is an old saying, “lucky at cards, unlucky at love.” I feel really sorry for Tess right now.

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   LudwigVonDrake said, 6 months ago

   What the heck is that look on Tracy’s face in panel 1? He looks like he’s starry eyed in love. All because some freak dressed like a playing card saved his life?

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   morrow said, 6 months ago

   One Eyed Jack was an inflatable. Now where does Big Ace fit into the story? I do, however, like the KOC’s means of handling Human Resources problems.

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   Ray C said, 6 months ago

   I just saw a news report about a fatal shooting in the Trump Casino yesterday. (Yes, TRUMP casino. No pun intended.)
   So, this really happened. Locher has hit the jackpot!! (Sorry)
   No comments about the strange costumes worn by the killer and his victim, though. Must be a cover-up. I know the cops like to keep a hole-card in these homicide cases.
   (Sorry again)

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    Esfletcher said, 6 months ago

    “King of Clubs” is an interesting moniker in this context.

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    nighthawks said, 6 months ago

    that sounded final!…yes! this is certainly the last of the playing card puns….finally we can move on to the adventures of Bo, his wife and the entrapment going on at their house

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    kreniigh said, 6 months ago

    Weird em-PHASIS on the word YOU in the first line…

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    whardin1960 said, 6 months ago

    I wish they would cut to the chase. Sure, Jack has shuffled off this mortal coil, since he was trumped by KOC, but what’s the deal? Call a spade a spade. You’ve got to hand it to Tracy.

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    JanCinVV said, 6 months ago

    Nighthawks that’s B.O. not Bo. You should have seen him in the old Gould comics with wavy lines indicating stink coming from him all the time.

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    Sydney Phillips said, 6 months ago

    Well, that’s Jack the pancake, “take 2”. ! That paper-thin “layout” by Brozman must have impressed Locher. So now we will have it repeated ‘over and over’ again all of next week till June 7th.

    What I suspect has been quietly introduced for Brozman is a work schedule similar to the one Locher had with his late son his assistant, John (of yellow rubber duckie fame) in 1983. That is, first week Dad does the penciling of the daily strips and Son does the inking but same time John penciled the Sunday page and Dad did the inking.
    The following week they switch activities around.

    That practise explains why we still have the contradiction of “little” hands peppering the strip periodically. Mattie, who is a faithful and dutiful student sees every ‘comma’ Locher writes as being simply “superb”. He might want to know that it’s one of the few things Dick actually learnt from Chet that he hasn’t discarded, yet. (and there’s much good stuff already in his disposal bin).

    But while Dick draws hands for ‘ladies’, the folks that know, say the Syndicate controls most of what else happens with an iron fist. That’s why you may have noticed that Tracy and the Police just can’t shoot criminals anymore. In fact, in the last 16 years there’s been only ONE exception (2001), to this Syndicate “ovrer-cautious” rule ! And back in 2001 it was carefully screened and we were never told if the felon died.

    Kills by the Police could be deemed as “executions”. And TMS is too queasy to risk that ! .So we see Tracy inhibited to only shooting at Robots or (hIlariously) “missing” targets, every time he pulls the trigger. Like mandating panels full of words like “pow”, “bang”,”kapow” to simulatre heat (?). A neutered Tracy is no longer the strong exemplar promoting law and order some of us remember. Poor grimacing fellow, even if he shot in self defence, he’s just NOT gonna hit a target !
    Note - Effective shooting will either be performed by other bad guys or unconnected civilians. For police, VERBOTEN !

    No need to ask WHY armed police milled around helplessly, with the King of Clubs having to come in for the rescue and do the “dirty” ! Yet, it could ALL have been avoided had Locher allowed Tracy to follow normal procedure, by earlier using handcuffs. Seems this script glorified incompetence just to achieve a little more cheap action.

    And these pressures are why I suspect, that from frustration, Locher occasionally practices a discreet form of “passive resistance” (Mahatma Ghandi style). I can’t nail it down for sure, but if so, it’s the sort of example that his better spurred, loquacious acolytes should consider following.

    Most will agree, resistance perhaps but observing fine decorum, and in far better taste than unseemly brawling around in heat like one of Miss Egghead’s rambunctious, Game bleeep champions.

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    overtop said, 6 months ago

    OEJ is flat because it will make it easier for him to “fold” Bye Now

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    LudwigVonDrake said, 6 months ago

    Have we forgotten about B.O., Gertie and the bleeding Henchmen?

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    Tigger said, 6 months ago

    Guess this means BO and Gurtie are going to have to give up their illegal winnings

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    CougarAllen said, 6 months ago

    Who is the simpering bleeep in panel 1? Seems like he’s stolen Dick Tracy’s eyebrows….

    And who is the bleeep in panel 2 telling a bunch of cops he’s running a cartel? Doesn’t he know cartels are illegal?

    The floor mosaic in panel 3 is not bad. It looks almost 3-dimensional if you squint your eyes a little … well, no … but if you squint your eyes a lot … no, still looks flat … oh well.

    -Cougar :{)

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    CougarAllen said, 6 months ago

    Apparently you can’t call a re-tard a bleeep here. Yay for censorship!