Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 16, 2010

Good morning all!

Oh look! Tracy’s all bandaged up again… ‘Morning, VB!

Criminals never succeed??

Anyone hear of O.J.??

Oh yeah, I’m way off base.

This is Locher’s most inane plot twist to date!

And that’s saying something!

He’ll have to really work hard to come up with something more inane for the next story arc, but I have faith that he will succeed.

Flight Suit…………don’t hold back, tell us how you really feel.

leakysqueaky712 said:

“Criminals never succeed??

“Anyone hear of O.J.??”

Don’t forget Robert Blake. Like OJ, he was found not guilty with the criminal charges but he was nailed by the civil suit. So both bad “actors” half-succeeded – although I will admit beating a criminal rap is more important.

“I wanted to kill you first.” Then Anja could kill him second?

Maybe by the end of next week we’ll get to see Blank’s face.

Panel 2: I want day-glo bandages like DT!

And why did JB/the Blank put this mask back on? He doesn’t want to be seen in this strip? I don’t blame him.

And why does Tracy want to know if JB was in Cahoots with Anja Nu when they made their plans? Why not Fond du Lac or Sheybogan?

PP………I don’t think OJ coughed up a dime in that civil suit, did he??

Good point PP. Those would have been good locations.

Barticle35 - isn’t that called overkill?

On DT’s bandages, maybe we can call it a wrap? We hope.

And as we all know: nothing says “accident” like a fatal gun shot from a good distance.

And wasn’t Anja’s previous plan to pin the blame on Johnny Nothing? How would that make her look like Tracy’s accidental killer?

Flight Suit, I disagree. I started following this strip on an everyday basis late in 2009. I’ve seen three story arcs in their entirety: the circus one, the concert one and this one.

Easily the worst was the circus one.

“PP………I don’t think OJ coughed up a dime in that civil suit, did he??”

I did a quick Google and found this:

http://www.hollywood.com/news/SimpsonNameda_Suspect/4835022

“Simpson was famously acquitted in 1995 of the 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, but was found liable for their deaths in a civil trial in 1996.

”As a result, he was forced to auction off his sports trophies and collectibles to help pay off the $33.5 million awarded to the Goldman family.”

That’s why OJ is sitting in prison now. He was desparate for cash – or at least getting back his trophies – because of the civil suit. I remember Ron Goldman’s dad making this observation on TV,

Also, if OJ and Blake both won their civil suits, then most people would think that each one was probably innocent. But losing a civil suit does leaves a cloud of suspicion.

(Sorry for getting off topic, DT fans.)

Thanks, much appreciated.

One word…C-O-N-T-I-N-U-I-T-Y!!!

Also, FlightSuit is right on about the “next inane plot”.

They just keep gettin’ better!

“Criminals never succeed.” I remember reading many times in DT years ago the phrase “crime doesn’t pay.” I think people have pretty well abandoned that philosophy these days. Drug pushers and other criminals have pretty well proven that crime does indeed pay. In fact, unfortunately, it pays very well.

I Think you might find a few exceptions to our unusual Friday ‘Zitpicker’s Notebook’ in Washington, DC. Matter-of-fact, look at the current South Carolina Senate race! Crime pays well, if you have a little luck to go with it!

I want to put a little thought in everybody’s minds for later. You know I’m as much of a critic of this drivel as anybody. But I’ve seen the next few weeks of strips, including the first week or two of the next storyline, and I am cautiously optimistic that the artwork is about to get a lot better. It seems a lot more consistent and less like it was done by the runner-up in a third grade art class contest. It’s almost as if Locher is handing the drawing duties over to Brozman, instead of Brozman just filling out Locher’s sketches. We shall see.

The writing, on the other hand, that’s another story.

Our trip to the circus wasn’t that long ago, it just seems like it

“It Happened!!!”

I’m puzzled that with all the counterexamples to DT’s silly remark, no one mentioned this strip.

plot twist? plot? in DT? it’s all random nonsense here

DB Cooper succeeded and is now a legend. They even wrote a song about him. And what about John Dillinger?…Oh,wait..Never mind.

Remember the old “The Shadow” radio broadcasts of yesteryear? The end of the prologue to each new radio adventure was (as I recall):”The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay; the Shadow knows!” This was followed by his deep baritone laugh.

“Criminals never succeed”? Ever hear of Bush-Chenney?

If you go to Audible.com you pay $7.50 a month for an introductory period during which you can download as many Shadow radio programs as you can for less than a dollare each. A handful of Shadow and Space Patrol programs are available for free if you Google the titles and the word “free.” This was a public service announcement. The Shadow series created half a century ago was very well crafted with Lamont Cranston (The shadow) very human and vulnerable and aided by the beautiful Margo Lane.

Clearly in panel 2 we see Tracy is a user of the Maybelline eyelash lengthener. After all these years, that sly devil still has his secrets.

Crime doesn’t pay unless you’re very good at it. Neither does playing Tennis or the violin.