Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 05, 2008

…”you great evil beast.”

“Made in China” I guess. Better be careful. I hear that some are being recalled because their electronic signals are not adequately shielded. Who makes it? GreatEvilBeasts R Us?

Hard to believe we’re into this story for weeks now and absolutely nothing. Where is Lizz’s left arm? The artwork in the last panel looks like it was done by an amateur. “I Ordered him from Overseas” - This is amazingly stupid. So if they can make these for anybody, what took Diet so long? And what catalog did Magnum order from? Maybe it was on QVC?!?! Ordered Him? So all the crooks “overseas”, they don’t use these stupid robots right? They are still doing it the old fashioned way, with gunpowder and muskets I presume. Oh brother. I have to say I don’t read this for the story but for the entertaining comments. Dick Tracy used to be so good and it’s so BAD now.

I don’t remember Braces ever telling MF to turn on his curcuits. How come Braces had to turn MF off “manually” yesterday if it responds to voice commands? How can it be able to respond to voice command when it is off? This any many other unanswered quetions continue to puzzle me, such as what the difference between a “wanted” and an “unwanted” elctrn sgnl.

Looks like Braces has lost a lot of weight as he’s looking rather gaunt. Plus where is his index finger? Just call him “Stubby”.

The art today is rather poor and looks rushed. The hench woman looks like she has buckteeth in the second panel.

MF can’t “wreak revenge” if he can’t make it up and down stairs.

The kid in the Crimestoppers Textbook looks like he’s wearing pull-ups. “They’re making fun of me because I don’t have a neck! Hey, who chewed the end of the carpet??”

The notorious weekend recap of stuff for the folks who don’t read the comics during the week - and the same stuff that’s been endlessly repeated for, as has been said, “weeks”. Somebody’s gotta supervise the interns who do the drawing and inking from sketches - which should be DL’s job - they keep adding new details and forgetting others, or just changing them willy-nilly -

Hey, is that Tess in the Crimestoppers Textbook?

Three days ago, Braces’ henchman had a full head of blonde hair, and no two working eyes. I don’t know what happened to him, but it seems that would be way more interesting than listening to two weeks of Braces repeating that his is angry at Genesis Co. and has a giant robot. In fact, all of Genesis’ henchmen seem more interesting than him. For example, the beaver-woman in pink looks like she is going to gnaw on the back of Braces’ head. And the pirate goes and changes from a green-yellow shirt to a sunshine yellow shirt in the blink of an eye. With those kinds of moves, I can totally get him some work at Chippendales.

Can’t… resist… urge…. to bully…. small, neckless man with pink shirt tucked into his… pants up to belly button…. making atomic wedgie…. way to easy….. ahhhhhhhhhh.

OK, Ludwig; where’s the rubber duckie today? Seriously. I can’t find it!

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Morrow, my guess is that it’s over the right shoulder of Robo-Tracy in the last panel. Just under the unintelligible dialogue.

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