Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 10, 2010

What are you going to do to your son again? I know you told me, but I forgot.

OMG…….I cant believe this is STILL going on.

And now he wants to kill him……….A G A I N

Ohso and dad both have a go at killing the kid while Tracy and the one man Terror Squad look on. Maybe someone will call the police.

“You have an overadeveloped sense of vengence, it’ll be the death of you.” Good morning Flight Suit.

VistaBill LOL!

Hope you had a good trip, Ms. Squeaky. Shall I call you Kukla, or Ollie?

And a good morning to you, Lord Dogmore!

I’m betting when Dad sees the son with a gun in his back, he’s gonna come to the rescue and the “bonding” will start.

The Maestro is starting to sound like a stuck record.

Marg, the casino giveth and the casino taketh away.

Somehow they taketh away a lot more than they giveth!!!

It’s a twice a month ritual with me, so they know I’ll be back :-)))

Wait, Leaky, you didn’t mysteriously get a windfall fortune out of the slot machines?

Oh that’s right, I forgot: One Eyed Jack is dead.

Virgil: “Hey Kid - Want yer picture taken? (1) Smile. (2) Wait for flash.”

* I know Flight Suit, how could this not possibly happen?*

If this strip were a dog, it would have been put to sleep decades ago. Remember Steve Roper and Mike Nomad? I think they were down to about 20 subscribers before the syndicate pulled the plug, and that was better than this. This strip is becoming painful to read, and there’s not even a pig on wheels to break the monotony of “I’ll kill him”.

Why do you want to kill him? You got your stupid Strad back, didn’t you? How long will this current activity, the son howling “Police”, the maestro saying “I’ll kill him”, and the police standing around, useless as a zamboni in the desert? At least a week?

I’m with Vista I think Ohso and Dad will fight over who gets to kill the son. Maybe the two of them will end up dead and the son gets a new start on his rock career. I’m not sure where Tracy fits into all of this, but I’m sure Tess is working on another cultural event to take him too.

Sigh…

I really hope the son doesn’t get to start over. I don’t like the kid and don’t like the father. Virgil’s the most likable character in this story.

Flight Suit, Mind Liam C starts thinking of your beautiful “Flooooom” pictures as a Stradivarious … and you know what happened to that one * ;-)*

typical crowd scene in panel one, everyone bunched together on the ramp

Panel 1: Tracy and his Uniformed DOPPELGANGER watch a black blob that Brozman somehow expects us to believe is a crowd. After a similar Sam experience - you know DEATH is in the air !

Panel 2 : Ohso stupid pulls a gun, with the Police and a huge crown all around him (?) Better odds to run ! - Does he have a “suicide” mindset ? Rather than that lame COCKAMAMIE Violin bomb plot, better to have saved the bullet for the Ambassador.

Panel 3 : And Repetition King Dick Locher chalks up his fifteenth “repeat” of his favorite line.

Well, it’s obvious as to how all of this is going to end.

Once again, the detective work falls to the wayside. Such an ignominious way for ths once-great strip to end!

Oh no! I missed a day. Will I ever catch up?

I think I’m getting the picture here. The son has spotted Virgil, Virgil has pulled a gun, the dad is trying to find the son so he can give him the big goodnight. If I had studied with this much repetition in school, I’d have had a 4.0 every semester. Tracy’s contribution at least was significant this time. He turned a $10 million violin into a depth charge and saved the ambassador’s life. Calling in the photographer was superfluous, because Virgil has stupidly pulled a gun and thus “outed” himself.

Good strip.

You’re a KIND guy Carlo !

You have to get in line and take a number to be able to kill the kid.

Ms. Squeaky I like you icon brings back memory’s of childhood when kids like me watch that show.

Maestro, again I pray unto you, time to walk the walk!

How many times have we read the saying

“My son, I’ll kill him.”

during this story???????????

16?

It is a testament to our will That we even bother with this swill Were it not for those who here do gather I would not read Lochers insipid blather “It happened” and “I’ll kill him” pad the script They are nothing but a bunch of useless Flight Suit’s “Floooooms” are a master stroke I wonder if TMS even gets the joke And we hail the return of leakysqueaky Who went to the coast to get all freaky Her new avatar sure is grand Even if it appears to be sans Fran So to all posters I raise a beer And to Tracy I shed a tear.

Agonizingly slow.

Hundreds of years from now, English Lit majors will read WW’s poems and speculate furiously about who his contemporaries, such as Leakysqueaky and FlightSuit were, or what they were meant to symbolize in his writings.

It’s good to be immortal.

Flight Suit, your latest “Floooom” is outstanding! That’s the kind of “Floooom” I imagined Tracy being caught in.

Thank you, Vista, thank you!

By the way…

What does your name mean, exactly? Is it in honor of your favorite operating system?

I’ll happily “second’ that !

Flight Suit said, “What does your name mean, exactly? Is it in honor of your favorite operating system?”

Yes. We get along quite well together.

WW you never cease to amaze us all. Very well done

I miss BB. Sigh.