Dick Tracy, 5/21/11
I’m sorry to say that the current Dick Tracy plot is kind of OK on atmospherics but in general low on overall insanity. Isn’t Dick Tracy supposed to be some high-grade supercop? Doesn’t having him chase after cocaine smugglers seem like a waste of his talents? But maybe fate has conspired to bring him in contact with the Plentys’ monstrous baby, seen here in the background using its inhuman strength to cause its father permanent brain damage. If there’s any character in the comics pages who’d be willing to kill a baby that needs killing, it’s Dick Tracy.
Dennis the Menace, 5/21/11
One of the more jarring and hilarious things about Dennis’s ongoing de-Menacification is that Mr. Wilson’s contempt and loathing for him has been ratcheted back not at all, making him less a put-upon elderly gent and more a hateful sociopath. Today provides a particularly laughable example. “He’s bringing over a neatly wrapped anniversary present for us? HOW DARE HE!!!!”
Marmaduke, 5/21/11
You guys, can you seriously doubt that Marmaduke is the most terrifying kind of demon? He has literally stolen something from God and refuses to give it back! HIS POWERS ARE UNFATHOMABLE! No wonder the other dogs surround him in a worshipful pose.
This entry was posted on Monday, May 23, 2011 at 01:08 am and is filed under Dennis the Menace, Dick Tracy, Marmaduke. | 32 responses to “” PoteetMay 23rd, 2011 at 1:22 am [Reply]
Gravel Gertie had a father? I thought she sort of erupted from a gravel pit spontaneously, decades ago.
PoteetMay 23rd, 2011 at 1:24 am [Reply]
5/23 FW — Les The Tool is merely wondering if he’ll be asked to star as himself in the Hollywood version of his book. And when he announces this, it would be highly gratifying if Kayla punched him really, really hard in his joy department.
Bill ThompsonMay 23rd, 2011 at 1:26 am [Reply]
The Ransom of Red Phantom: Bleed, damn it! This gravely-wounded plotline doesn’t work without it. And quit walking around like nothing has happened.
PoteetMay 23rd, 2011 at 1:30 am [Reply]
A3G — So was Tommie camping out in the studio for seven days and nights without coming home and her roommates didn’t notice? And if someone ever kills Aunt Iris because her uber-hideous hairstyle has driven that someone mad, would any jury convict?
PoteetMay 23rd, 2011 at 1:33 am [Reply]
@Bill Thompson (#3): The Phantom is refusing to bleed because he’s trying to outdo Mark Trail and his bandaid-on-the-bullet-hole-through-my-skull routine. Next we’ll see Dick Tracy walking around with a large gaping hole in his abdomen, just like Fearless Fosdick used to do.
Alan's AddictionMay 23rd, 2011 at 1:37 am [Reply]
I approve of the bold new innovation shown in today’s “Dick Tracy.” The best parts of reading Dick Tracy are mindless violence, ineptly-drawn minor objects, and the main character’s lantern jaw. The strip’s given us the plenty of violence and stupidly-drawn small objects being used to cause that violence, as well as a nice shot of DT’s impressive jawline in the first panel. These are more than enough to make up for the remarkably stupid the dialogue and storyline. So, to the writers, keep showing random characters being brained every day, and we’ll all be happy.
I have to say, I really felt the menace oozing right out of today’s “Dennis the Menace” strip. Of course, that could be the horrific close-up of Mr. Wilson and his octogenarian, bulbous nose.
I can’t think of why the folks in Heaven would let a hell-hound get ahold of a halo, let alone why a metaphysical/spiritual item would have substance and form in our plane of existence. On the other hand, maybe those dogs have just decided to form some new, dark, Lovecraftian cult centered on worshiping Marmaduke, which is why they’ve gathered in a circle around him; to chant and pray together.
May 23rd, 2011 at 1:39 am [Reply]
No baby can cause B.O. Plenty permanent brain damage: that ship sailed ’round about 1936!
Maggie the CatMay 23rd, 2011 at 1:39 am [Reply]
Yeah, it shouldn’t be called “Dennis the Menace”, but rather “Mr. Wilson the Old Fat Bastard Next Door”.
Uncle LumpyMay 23rd, 2011 at 1:40 am [Reply]
Ptui!
Uncle LumpyMay 23rd, 2011 at 1:40 am [Reply]
Oops — no offense, Ms. the Cat!
LisaMay 23rd, 2011 at 1:45 am [Reply]
Oh Iris, I wouldn’t consider bells and whistles all that high tech.
Maggie the CatMay 23rd, 2011 at 1:45 am [Reply]
@Uncle Lumpy (#10): LOL, none taken. I know of what you’re referring… The Jump, to which I second your “ptui!”.
KarMannMay 23rd, 2011 at 1:47 am [Reply]
@Alan’s Addiction (#6) on DT: Huh? What’s the “ineptly-drawn minor object” you see there? Everything looks pretty good to me, even without comparison to the previous artist.
LisaMay 23rd, 2011 at 1:57 am [Reply]
I realized moments ago, that I’d be less embarrassed by a coworker finding porn in my browser history than I would if they found out I read things like Crankshaft everyday. I think I’ll clear my history before I go tend to this brain bleed caused by today’s Beetle Bailey.
RhekaridMay 23rd, 2011 at 2:02 am [Reply]
Judging by Gertie’s eyes, I’m fairly sure she has, like her father, just now died of a cocaine overdose mid-conversation.
Jocelyn KnockersburyMay 23rd, 2011 at 2:17 am [Reply]
Dennis: I hope that it’s a case of an unseen third panel where the gift turns out to be one of those old-style bowling ball shaped bombs with a knife, an uzi, a corkscrew, and a shuriken taped to it.
the big JCMay 23rd, 2011 at 2:26 am [Reply]
So… are you trying to tell me that the rapture DID come, and it took Marmaduke, of all earthly creatures? Well played, unbelievers. Well played.
FaoladhMay 23rd, 2011 at 2:55 am [Reply]
Hahaha! Dick Tracy only enforces the law against people he doesn’t know personally.
Rocky StoneaxeMay 23rd, 2011 at 6:30 am [Reply]
@wholesale cheap clothes (#19):
But…But… But… if we buy all of their cheap clothes, then what will the Chinese wear? (Or do they use our $$$ to buy cheap clothing that’s Made in the USA?)
sporknporkMay 23rd, 2011 at 7:54 am [Reply]
Wait, Marmaduke DIED?? I didn’t know he could die! And after all his horrific crimes against the world he goes to HEAVEN???
Somewhere a theologian just spit his morning coffee all over the funny pages.
nescioMay 23rd, 2011 at 8:22 am [Reply]
DT: I’m pretty sure only someone whacked out on drugs would be ironing with a non-electric iron.
CloudbusterMay 23rd, 2011 at 8:56 am [Reply]
Luann: Nooooooooooooo!!!
MT: *facepalm*
1. No, John Thrasher, you don’t shoot at anyone anymore, you just set out dangerous man-traps, and push innocent strangers into them. You managed to avoid maiming or killing Mark only because of his supremely impervious woodenness.
2. … and riiiight. Blaming it on the crazy mountain man will be emminently plausible, because clearly he’d be interested in cleaning out an electronics store so he could … what? Haul a complete home entertainment system to his cave in the mountains? Maybe use them to build a clever, improvised smoke house?
twgMay 23rd, 2011 at 9:35 am [Reply]
DtM(fa?): Couldn’t Mr. Wilson have gone over and told the Mitchells to keep their little brat of a kid off his property years ago, or maybe had a talk with his wife about letting the kid in the house while he’s there? Then again, maybe they’re just relieved that it isn’t the malformed Joey.
bats :[May 23rd, 2011 at 11:49 am [Reply]
@Poteet (#2): Les The Tool doesn’t have a joy department. He just has woefully underdeveloped nards. Which is where Cayla should punch him.
Little GuyMay 23rd, 2011 at 11:59 am [Reply]
Marmaduke: Wait…. HE got raptured?
DT: Mark Trail would have tried, convicted, and punched B.O. just by the amount of facial hair, never mind the circumstatial evidence. (Gertie too, but he would have provisioned it with some non-womanhood loophole statement.)
un malpasoMay 23rd, 2011 at 1:31 pm [Reply]
Um… is Marmaduke dead? WTF?
Or are we just extending his terrifying power to the blessed realms?
May 23rd, 2011 at 3:56 pm [Reply]
Ah, that explains why there was no Rapture last weekend: Marmaduke murdered and ate God.
AnonymousMay 23rd, 2011 at 6:15 pm [Reply]
In French (and I think Spanish too), toilet paper is called “hygienic paper,” which makes sense, since it’s for personal hygiene. About as personal as you can get.
As for Dick Tracy, that comic just doesn’t look very good shrunk down to current newspaper size, especially for middle-aged guys whose eyes aren’t what they used to be. When I saw the strip in the paper, I missed the baby’s hand in the second panel, so the bottle and the iron just looked like they were being hurled by poltergeists or something, which the Plentys were bravely ignoring to speak with the detectives.
The Not So Great OneMay 23rd, 2011 at 9:07 pm [Reply]
So the Apocalypse did, and evil, in the form of Marmaduke, won; and now we’re all just fodder to the great canine demiurge.
The Not So Great OneMay 23rd, 2011 at 9:09 pm [Reply]
So the Apocalypse did come, and evil, in the form of Marmaduke, won; and now we’re all just fodder for the great canine demiurge.
demoncatMay 23rd, 2011 at 10:52 pm [Reply]
marduke smilling shows that even god knows how evil marmuduke is if he can even steal stuff from heaven. the only gift mr. wilson wants is denis to mysteriously not come over any more but he choose to be stuck with denis when he moved in.
CrankenstankMay 23rd, 2011 at 11:37 pm [Reply]
It’s very nice of Dennis to wrap up the stinking pile of dog poo for Mr. Wilson, but Mr. Wilson is on to his little game, oh yes he is.
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