Six simultaneous back Zaps coming up ! I thought and had hoped the ladies would pitch in or least be in motion by the time the ring has done its foul deed.
I’m a little late today. There’s too much going on around my place.
Anyway, I love the image of the armsman firing squad and like dennis4476, the unusual layout of today’s strip. What Mysta and Honeymoon are afraid to look at, we also do not get to see — at least until tomorrow. When Honeymoon was given permission to go on this trip, I don’t suppose that anyone suspected she was about to witness the execution — or at least attempted execution — of her two grandfathers!
At first I was thinking that Tracy’s rubberized raincoat would protect him from hostile Moon zaps, but now I’m thinking he has something else up his sleeve.
well, I didn’t expect THAT reaction from Honey, but she IS a young girl, to begin with, and frightened as all-hell in witnessing an attempted execution of her granddads, so I can accept that… at THIS point, I don’t believe Mysta will come into play against the Armsmen, as she is there only to catch and comfort Honey… and if this IS the case, then there was absolutely no reason for them to even be there if they weren’t going to play a major factor in assisting or saving Dick and Thorin… so yes, tomorrow’s installment will finally have the grand reappearance of the much heralded, much vaunted, fallback easy solution known as the Bribery ring… all the easy-to-pleasers out there will finally have a good night’s sleep knowing that logic and common sense in this case went out the window… so disappointing to have to fall back on such a convenient and contrived excuse to use… if it DOES happen in the Sunday installment… thanks for NOTHIN’, Mike…
Are the girls huddling together in their rock shelter in order to maximize the (somewhat debilitating) strength of their defensive mindcast for Thorin and Tracy? Or are they just unable to face the disintegration of the Pop Pops?
Does Tracy have some defense we are not aware of (and please don’t mention that durned ring again!)? Is some other outside agency going to nullify the deadly discharge from the Armsmen’s fingers?
Sunday’s strip should be full of revelation and revolution!
I haven’t been on the board much lately. I have designed the scenery for a production of the 1925 Noel Coward comedy HAY FEVER and Previews began last night.
Previews are performances before the show has officially opened. Audience members get the chance to purchase tickets at a greatly reduced rate and the Directors and Designers get the opportunity to view the show for errors, problems, audience reaction, etc. and make corrections and tweaks before facing the press and critics at Opening Night. In a comedy like HAY FEVER it allows the actors to hear audience response and judge where in the show their laughs will come so that they may improve their comedy timing.
Many times in previews, actors and Costume Designers discover that they may not have enough time for a costume change. Scenic Designers (the position I have on this production) get to see if there are problems with any scenery that must change, if doors and windows work, if the scenery shakes when doors get slammed, and other minor things that could go wrong.
We had a relatively smooth first preview last night. One of the walls of the set did not seem as solid as it should and that problem was corrected before tonight’s show. An unforseen problem occurred when the garden door was slammed—the curtain on the window next to the door kept blowing from the air movement of the slamming door and getting caught in the door when it slammed. Problem fixed for tonight’s show.
Meetings tomorrow morning, matinee preview in the afternoon, meeting following matinee. This will be my schedule pretty much for the next week. Official Opening September 4th.
DaJellyBelly over 1 year ago
Have the girls put up a shield to protect Thorin and Tracy?
a-man2 over 1 year ago
Dick has a surprise. What is happening with Honeymoon? Is she just scared for her Grandpas?
22ph over 1 year ago
Dick Tracy is very confident because he has the one ring….
22ph over 1 year ago
retropop over 1 year ago
Cliffhanger to Sunday… :)
AnyFace over 1 year ago
dennis4476 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Please NO! Don’t kill off Thorin! Please!
dennis4476 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Love the layout of today’s strip.
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray over 1 year ago
Good morning™, Hellfire and weeping angels !
Six simultaneous back Zaps coming up ! I thought and had hoped the ladies would pitch in or least be in motion by the time the ring has done its foul deed.
ScottHolman over 1 year ago
Looks like trouble.
Neil Wick over 1 year ago
Good morning™, everyone!
I’m a little late today. There’s too much going on around my place.
Anyway, I love the image of the armsman firing squad and like dennis4476, the unusual layout of today’s strip. What Mysta and Honeymoon are afraid to look at, we also do not get to see — at least until tomorrow. When Honeymoon was given permission to go on this trip, I don’t suppose that anyone suspected she was about to witness the execution — or at least attempted execution — of her two grandfathers!
pschearer Premium Member over 1 year ago
Shouldn’t they be FINGERMEN?
The Reader Premium Member over 1 year ago
They are giving Dick the finger!
Ricky Bennett over 1 year ago
If Dick Tracy has a mirror, it won’t be a good reflection on them…
Sporteric11 over 1 year ago
Tune In Tomorrow!! At least we get a full Sunday strip to explain what happened next !!!
iggyman over 1 year ago
Apprehension ! Suspense! Really looking forward to Sunday’s strip!
iggyman over 1 year ago
I just noticed the unusual fog or clouds around Mysta’s and Honeymoon’s antennae! Representing sorrow?
therese_callahan2002 over 1 year ago
If this is the very last strip to be published, at least Tracy went down in a blaze of glory.
BreathlessMahoney77 over 1 year ago
For all my recent criticism of Mike, I have to give credit when due; he can still craft a great cliffhanger!
kurtoons.wilcken over 1 year ago
At first I was thinking that Tracy’s rubberized raincoat would protect him from hostile Moon zaps, but now I’m thinking he has something else up his sleeve.
crobinson019 over 1 year ago
A full house beats four aces, but Nothing beats a loaded finger!
GoComicsGo! over 1 year ago
Oh. No! the finger points of shame… Yeah they’re dead.
GoComicsGo! over 1 year ago
DT – “I have a cunning plan.”
jerumulligan1 over 1 year ago
Tune in tomorrow for the newest Minit Mystery!!!!
Aladar30 Premium Member over 1 year ago
The ultimate friendship proof!
Ignatz Premium Member over 1 year ago
He isn’t dead, the strip is named after him.
oakie817 over 1 year ago
aw…they should be going ‘pew pew pew’
Droptma Styx over 1 year ago
I suppose “fingermen” was out of the question.
Durak Premium Member over 1 year ago
Tracy starts to chant:
“Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul."
Don Bagert Premium Member over 1 year ago
So Sunday will be the last day of the strip? Or will they have another week or two of mourning before discontinuing it? LOL j/k!
Durak Premium Member over 1 year ago
When they do this on Broadway (Dick Tracy and the Return of the Moon Men) this will be the big show stopping number.
MuddyUSA Premium Member over 1 year ago
Art work is problematic here?
firestrike1 over 1 year ago
well, I didn’t expect THAT reaction from Honey, but she IS a young girl, to begin with, and frightened as all-hell in witnessing an attempted execution of her granddads, so I can accept that… at THIS point, I don’t believe Mysta will come into play against the Armsmen, as she is there only to catch and comfort Honey… and if this IS the case, then there was absolutely no reason for them to even be there if they weren’t going to play a major factor in assisting or saving Dick and Thorin… so yes, tomorrow’s installment will finally have the grand reappearance of the much heralded, much vaunted, fallback easy solution known as the Bribery ring… all the easy-to-pleasers out there will finally have a good night’s sleep knowing that logic and common sense in this case went out the window… so disappointing to have to fall back on such a convenient and contrived excuse to use… if it DOES happen in the Sunday installment… thanks for NOTHIN’, Mike…
WilliamVollmer over 1 year ago
Did Diet Smith give Tracy a ooat that insulates him from more than the cold?
jim_pem over 1 year ago
I’ll add my vote of love for the layout and artwork with everyone else. Sheer evil behind Ro-Zan’s Lunarian eyes overseeing the planned carnage.
jrankin1959 over 1 year ago
Tracy wouldn’t happen to have on him that ring of Mr. Bribery’s… would he?
Another Take over 1 year ago
1-THOR-IN: Well, this is another fine mess you’ve gotten me into, Tracy! DT: Huh? What’s happening?
2-BRO-ZAN: ARMSMEN – MAKE LUNCH!
3-ARMSMEN: PULL OUR FINGERS!
4-MYSTA: Don’t worry, Honey…they…uh, missed. DON’T LOOK THOUGH!
HONEY MOONS: THANK GOODNESS! Hey! Is that my boyfriend, SO-NAR? With a shovel? YOOOO HOOOO! SO-NAR!
MYSTA: SHADDAP! YA TRYIN’ TO GET US FINGER BLASTED?!?
avenger09 over 1 year ago
If Mad Mindy sacrificed herself to save the stupid dudes I promise to call her Mysta,,,,,,,
Once!
LOL!
tcayer over 1 year ago
Welp. He had a good run.
tad1 over 1 year ago
OH NO!!!! IS THIS THE END OF DICK TRACY????!!!!
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 1 year ago
Now what surprise will it be?
SGIBeachbum over 1 year ago
They got the Fickle Finger of Fate award
ramonmister28 over 1 year ago
And as six little piles of ash descend to the floor, Ro-Zan thinks,“I made a BIIIIGGGG mistake”
Sisyphos over 1 year ago
Are the girls huddling together in their rock shelter in order to maximize the (somewhat debilitating) strength of their defensive mindcast for Thorin and Tracy? Or are they just unable to face the disintegration of the Pop Pops?
Does Tracy have some defense we are not aware of (and please don’t mention that durned ring again!)? Is some other outside agency going to nullify the deadly discharge from the Armsmen’s fingers?
Sunday’s strip should be full of revelation and revolution!
Finally, add my adulation for today’s art work!
Ray Toler over 1 year ago
I haven’t been on the board much lately. I have designed the scenery for a production of the 1925 Noel Coward comedy HAY FEVER and Previews began last night.
Previews are performances before the show has officially opened. Audience members get the chance to purchase tickets at a greatly reduced rate and the Directors and Designers get the opportunity to view the show for errors, problems, audience reaction, etc. and make corrections and tweaks before facing the press and critics at Opening Night. In a comedy like HAY FEVER it allows the actors to hear audience response and judge where in the show their laughs will come so that they may improve their comedy timing.
Many times in previews, actors and Costume Designers discover that they may not have enough time for a costume change. Scenic Designers (the position I have on this production) get to see if there are problems with any scenery that must change, if doors and windows work, if the scenery shakes when doors get slammed, and other minor things that could go wrong.
We had a relatively smooth first preview last night. One of the walls of the set did not seem as solid as it should and that problem was corrected before tonight’s show. An unforseen problem occurred when the garden door was slammed—the curtain on the window next to the door kept blowing from the air movement of the slamming door and getting caught in the door when it slammed. Problem fixed for tonight’s show.
Meetings tomorrow morning, matinee preview in the afternoon, meeting following matinee. This will be my schedule pretty much for the next week. Official Opening September 4th.
Black76Manta over 1 year ago
I don’t know Tracy’s plan, but I hope it takes that air of superiority off that cretin Ro-zan!
Kr-perry Premium Member over 1 year ago
They gave Tracy the finger!