Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 26, 2010

Absolutely nothing to move the story forward even a tiny bit.

Appears that Tracy is done for! Nothing quickly retrieved his gun as he discards the axe! How large is the cockpit on the plane?

Fear is written all over Tracy’s mug, as he stares at the gun held in the hand supported by Nothing’s short arm…

His arms are too short to reach Tracy anyway.

It also appears that Nothing is about to fall.

Just think, we get to see all this again tomorrow! In full color!

I have to apologise for a slip on my part at the beginning. for the first few votes I odo not write down the name of the submitters .

the winner is one of the ones I goofed on. it was the second Title Avatar submitted. It is also, by percent of votes, a run-away victory There were 19 (WOW) votes cast. Of that 19 one entry got eight votes. TwO got 2 votes, the rest one each.

Have i drawn this out far enouigh?

I hope the person who submitted the winner will come forward and take credit for their inventiveness and bragging right with it.

Who submitted DAILY TORTURE? ? ? ? ?

i ONLY WANT ONE NAME. IF YOU WANT TO BE A FECES PORT, THEN LIE AND SCREW IT UP FOR OUR WINNER.

It was Akenta, Slim. Hooray, good job, girl!

wouldn’t Tracy be blinded by all that glass being smashed to the INSIDE of the aircraft, as it would in a normal world where laws of gravity and physics etc. apply.

Margueritem saud:

“It was Akenta, Slim”.

Thanks Marg. So now we know who the winner is!!

)))))))))))))))))))))))))AKENTA((((((((((((((((((((((

WINNER, WITH THE RIGHT TO BRAG ABOUT IT!! :-))

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ DAILY TORTURE //////////////////////////////////

Yesterday someone posted a link to an article that mentioned that Dick Locher has Parkinson’s disease. His age might be another factor affecting the quality of the strip, who knows. I personally have no ill will towards Locher or Brozman but the fact remains this strip is sorely lacking in too many areas. Ignoring a problem doesn’t improve it.

And so I will continue to criticize.

Some confusion whether or not JB was whacking his ax first at the front of the canopy but suddenly was breaking the rear window. The poor artwork lends itself to confusion. If Tracy is indeed looking backward, then he must be able to twist his head around a bit more than 180 degrees like an owl. There wouldn’t be enough room in his seat for him to twist his body around that way to watch JB., would there?

Anyway, it seems Tracy will be the victim of a rear entry attack.

Of course, the gun has miraculously returned to JB’s other hand while missing yesterday.

Next time I’m at Home Depot, I’ll be sure and ask for one of those special axes where the handle is on the outside of the blade.

Tracy still has the ejection seat. I suppose it still works!

I doubt very much if Stukas had ejectiob seat. There were three options:

Land the plane

Open the cowl and junp.

Or die.

With no guarantee you will survive either of the first two options? :-)))

Flight Suit said, “Next time I’m at Home Depot, I’ll be sure and ask for one of those special axes where the handle is on the outside of the blade.”

I believe these are the amazing genuine ginzu axes available only through a special offer on your television! You not only get the amazing ginzu axe also included is a special bonus offer of two genuine indian tomahawk hatchets with every order… available for the first 50 callers only… call now… have your cresit card ready… this incredible offer is not available in stores…

The gun has reappeared in Johnny’s hand.

Yay? I just want to thank all the people who comment here. If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t be subjected to this torture everyday :-)

In the first panel, Tracy seems to have overloaded his Depends capacity. The chief will probably arrive just in time to put a bullet in the Blank (does that mean she’ll be shooting Blanks?). Another arc where Tracy is victim, not protagonist. Sad. Very sad about Locher.

It appears the “rubber ducky” that used to appear hidden in the Sunday strips has made an appearance in the second panel! Maybe he’s the source of the “duck down” we were discussing earlier this week???

It seems like a waste of time to continually criticize this mess, as it’s so easy, but if you were sitting in front of a window with someone smashing it with an ax and broken glass flying around, wouldn’t you at least duck down or cover your face?

Wow. Amazing. That axe just shattered the UNIVERSE!

Another two panel day to drag out the suspense

well, there IS a fourth option for a stuka pilot . he is captured in a tractor beam from an alien spacecraft that wants to examine the curious-looking, fragile little aircraft that the silly humans use to exterminate each other with. In which case he can climb out of his captured aircraft none for the worse

Shattering glass inches from Tracy’s face, and his eyes are wide open. Maybe he’s hoping for blindness so he can’t see “the end”…

Tomorrow we’ll see the Blank say, “I know what you’re thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, Tracy?”

Then a click, and the gun’s empty. The Blank takes off the mask, and it turns out to be Diet Smith who then asks, “So, Tracy, how do you like my latest invention? Do you think the expanding/contracting museum will catch on?”

Locher’s panicky, scared-shitless, run-and-hide, sissy-Tracy disgusts me. Remember how Tracy looked when Flattop pointed his gun at him and was about to execute him?

There was a drop of sweat, a masculine lock of hair falling out of place, but it was nothing to change ones hard-bitten expression for.

It just occurred to me that Blank’s arms are so short that he might have hygienic problems when he can’t wipe his bleep after going potty unless he has one of those Japanese toilets that blast water up into his bleepal area.

Why not just shoot through the glass?

So once again we find Tracy in the same kind of situation as the tiger cage. No gun, no wrist radio, no nerve. Time to retire, pal.

OK let’s see…what might happen? H’mmm. Anja will show up…or Liz and co. might show up…Tracy will do something to save himself (I think he has his gun on him, maybe…he could shoot Johnny)… or, just as Johnny shoots, the cable holding the plane breaks…guess we’ll find out.

Use the ray gun!

Araldite, For a good while now I suspect Dick Locher fantsizes and thinks the Tracy chatacter is actually ‘HIM’ in the comic strip.

In a 1995 interview he said : ” … left to go with Chester Gould in 1958. And I’ve been a cousin to Dick Tracy ever since. He lives with us, he eats with us, he breathes with us, we grieve with him, we sob with him, we linger with doubts in our minds, he’s very much alive …”

Then the whole personal delussion became ‘REAL’ to him, when in the late 1980’s his son JOHN died unexpectedly, and Junior Tracy’s face was duly morphed into looking exactly like late son John.

Locher’s contract with TMS expires in late December 2010 and he retires from the strip. I have to suspect that he’s trying to RETIRE Dick Tracy at the* same time* (?)

So you may be right on the scoreboard on that line.

The lack of dialog is a real time-saver! Thanks Dick.

Considering that aliens would be so far beyond us in technology, there is a very good chance that they would have little aversion to checking out the pilot in a similar, if messier manner that they did the Stuka.

While there is no factual evidence to what happened (the only witness was his wing-man who was sworn to secrecy on pain of death) there were rumors after the war of something strange happening over the Baltic Sea.

German records report only that the pilot was MIA over the Baltic.

I researched this as much as possible, but couldn’t even get a second-hand account. Even the rumors vary widely.

This is the only info I’ve beem able to get, NIGHTHAWKS. While it doesn’t verify the “alien abduction” theory it certainly indicates that something untoward did happen.

I have see now the strips of the next week. There’s a stupid and without explanation surprise.

For Sidney: I’m not agree. I think TMS try to have a new team for the strips. We need a new writer absolutely for a new restart.

The Sand wedge will bounce into whatever that is (cable/pole) that holds the plane up and the plane will then come crashing down, giving Spacy time to run and hide in whatever obvious hiding place he might find

Very exciting strip. No dialogue needed. Fantastic use of shadows and black to create drama. Still one of the best daily strips out there.

The gun looks like the original gangster from Chester.

How sturdy is that support holding that plane to the ceiling? Judging by his size and stature, I’d say that Tracy weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of 220 lbs. I’d put the Blank somewhere around 165. You’ve got these two running around on the aircraft, and eventually, something’s got to give.

To those of you who think something’s soon going to happen that will end this story, let me remind you that Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry (after which the strip’s “Science Museum” is obviously patterned) still has lots and lots of exhibits for Tracy to hide in. There’s still the ten-foot heart, the coal mine, and of course the real live Boeing 727… I predict this chase will go on for months…

I just used Google Earth to look at street views and a 3D model of the Museum of Science and Industry. It’s interesting to compare the actual thing to Locher’s illustrations.