Ladies like big chins like that, right? The ones that look like butts? That turns them on?
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Dick Tracy, 4/10/25
So the guy in the suit is lead detective in the case of the almost-stolen corpse, and I guess he figured out who the corpse used to be and was looking at his social media accounts and … bingo! Our favorite idiot nephews! I suppose the detective is using clipped, manly noir talk when he just says “nephews” instead of “his nephews,” but, you know, maybe not. Maybe he’s just saying they have the vibe of nephews about them. They seem real nephewy. They’re somebody’s sibling’s sons, if you follow me.
Wizard of Id, 4/10/25
The main thrust of this strip, which is about the Wizard of Id’s wife having a horny hallucination, is fine, even though I’m not sure why she heard the frog talk before she touched its hallucinogenic skin to her mouth …. maybe it’s magical but also induces hallucinations in a normal, scientific way? Whatever. My favorite part is actually the fact that the Wizard is casually enjoying a martini in his armchair. The guy has a tough job, his wife is horny for a frog, he deserves to unwind! And he’s doing it in a sophisticated way.
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Wizard: Do we normally see the Wizard’s knees? I don’t like his robe being hitched so high – I feel like I’m about to see his magic wand, if you get what I’m saying.
So the Wizard is an ancestor of General Halftrack, I guess.
Wrecks Moregone:
One of those people is coloured! Arrrrghhh a coloured man in a lily-blue neighbourhood THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.
Wary Morth:
Bats In The Bellefry’s grandmother’s tea makes people feel very good. As in, they don’t have any more troubles ever again after that tea, if you get my meaning, just like Weelbur and Dusk won’t do.
Wizard of ID-Ladies like big butt chins.
MW-“Where do you keep your gin?”
Can’t beat a Horrocks Family party. NOTHING says rockin’ like a couple of balloons, a plate of sandwiches all to yourself, and hangin’ with the same dude you apparently spend every day of your life with. If you hold that comic up to your ear, you can almost hear “Who Let The Dogs Out.”
DT: the guy in the suit is an insurance claims adjuster – The Itemizer!
MW: Bats will make one of those spicy teas to help mask the taste of bitter taste of strychnine
RMMD: Slow news day, a of this is b-roll stuff; on the news it will just be some back ground shots and a talking head 3 sentence recap “The body of a man was found in a car on xx street. The police are in investigating. Stayed tuned to Action News at 11 for more information as it breaks.”
Good to see Dick Tracy has a sense of humor. I’d have never guessed. “Whore rocks, you say? Whore rocks?!?” Very relatable.
RMMD: Mysterious Stranger has impressive eyebrows.
Frog isn’t magical. But he CAN talk and is very horny himself, concocting lies to get people to make out with him. His hallucinogenic properties to make people believe his lies is just a bonus.
MW: My question from yesterday has been answered. It’s going to be Miss Belfrey, in the kitchen, with poison.
@Handsome Harry Backstayge, Idol of a Million Other Women:
There was a videogame I played back in the day, that took place in a fantasy realm. One town was called “Zere”
Much later on you find a life-sized replica of the town, made entirely of stone, which was some guy’s life’s work before he passed on. This copy of the town made of stone was called “Zere Rocks”
I LOVE PUNS.
Dick squints hard at the photo (presumably taken by a small child) until he realizes that the blurry spots on their faces are just rat ‘staches.
MW: At this moment, Mary is conveniently making a batch of her Antidote Muffins.
WIZARD OF ID: With this kind of carelessness, it’s fortunate that the Wiz’s have no kids. Or, maybe all those weird sentient things in the lab USED to be their kids.
RMMD: Wait is that Rene Belluso? Is this even the strip with Rene Belluso? Am I about to type “I wonder what Buck’s up to”?
FC: Seems like a pretty safe and dull strip today as per usual until you realize Billy is about to punch the cat. It’s these types of subtle changes that makes the comic Jeff’s own.
@The Rambling Otter: …what was this in the original Japanese?
@Guts Dozier: The photo was probably taken by Sam Catchem’s leprechaun cousin.
Pots of gold at the end of the rainbow no longer have American monetary value, so he needs to find other means of income.
Dick Tracy: More tenacious than a U.S. Marshal, squarer than an F.B.I. agent, more bureaucratic than the USPS inspectors, (hopefully) more violent than Dick Tracy’s own squad, Suit Guy is no cop: he’s from the insurance company.
DT: Tracy knows something is up when nephews like stooges typically come in threes. Huey, Dewey, and Louie these two guys are not.
Also Dick Tracy: “Horrocks, you say?” [randomly placed pitcher falls off table and shatters]
MW: CUT! Dammit, Wilbur, stop looking at the camera! Ugh, could I get some *professional* actors, please?
@matt w: The original Japanese name is ??? which I put into a (oh so reliable) online translator
Which came out in English as Ishinomachi
But the translator detected the word as Chinese, not Japanese so… -shrugs-
Googling Ishinomachi came up with Ishinomaki which is a small Japanese fishing town.
Although translating the word for the original Zere ?????? came up as “Elaphita Village” so there doesn’t seem to be any specific pun in the Japanese version that I know of.
DT – Not THE Horrocks – the canapé kings….
WoI – Stick to the joy juice, my dear. Nothing worse than waking up in a frog slimed bed….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
@The Rambling Otter: (This site doesn’t accept Japanese text, just comes out as ???) hmm…
@matt w: @The Rambling Otter:
Okay I got it.
Looking up Ishino is a proper Japanese name that can mean “stone or rock”
Looking up Machi means Town or City.
So it literally comes out as “Rock Town” pretty much.
The Wizard of Id: [Extremely Willy Wonka voice watching Augustus Gloop getting himself hoovered up chute] Stop. No. Blanche do you know where that frog has been? [Swirls martini]
Dick Tracy – “Horrocks, you say? Not the Gold Coast Horrocks who invented the hors d’oeuvres for the Chicago’s World’s Fair 1893?”
Wizard of Id – Frogs are usually the domain of witches, and the last thing Wiz needs while he unwinds after a day of conjuring is to get a visit from the enforcer from the Witch’s Guild wonder why his muggle wife is handling magical frogs against the rules of their guild’s royal charter and monopoly.
@The Rambling Otter: Just use an html encoder, like so:
最?のガレージドア A1 石野市
It’s not perfect, as you can tell by the one missing character, but pretty good.
DT: He meant to say “cousins,” but they’re on tight budget and financing constraints, so they decided not to shoot another take.
WoI: “None of your business, and don’t come into the bedroom for about 30 minutes.”
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: Thanks for the tip! :3
Magic! Murder! Mayhem! Mystery!
This Thursday’s comics are not boring.
MANDRAKE:. With bank president and Alice like cked in the back room, the robbery calls Captain Smash “babe”. Gold bars are moved to waiting truck. Can Mandrske’s hyp otidm unravel this plot?
CS:. Is Lena the undercover super driver who can bring the school glory? Is her driving better than her baking?
BETWEEN FRIENDS:. Maeve looks lumpy compared to Celine. Quick, ask about granddaughter.
JP:. The nerve of ‘rents! Making a one-time visit to their youngest just ad she plans her escape.
MW:. Having found the defaced photo, Wilbie distracts his daughter so Batsfrey can add arsenic to her tea. Dawn wisely pours the drink into fish tank and Daddy Dearest screams, “no, not Willa”. Thus, their nefarious plot unravels, and Dawn keeps the condo while Mary keeps the column.
PHANTOM:. Neither Heloise nor KJ is qualified to be the phantom.
RMMD:. A ghostly figure watches the out-of-towner.
MW: Damn, looks like we’re getting straight to the murderin’, aren’t we?? I like that Brigman and Moy will dilly dally around the worst subplot you can possibly imagine, but MURDER, well, no fluff here, let’s get right to it.
EDIT — The implication, obvs, being Belle’s going to poison the tea and that the name is a BIT of a misnomer…
MW: It wasn’t too long ago that strychnine was used to treat various addictions. Belle makes her ‘special’ tea and accidentally cures Dawn’s Borderline Personality disorder.
“You know, I really should find my own apartment in the city. Why didn’t I ever think of that before?”
MW: “The ‘t’ stands for tetramethylenedisulfotetramine.” {Spooky eyes}
FC: Kittycat is going to rearrange your face if you don’t leave her alone.
Dustin: “And I encourage those delusions, because it’s funny to watch when reality collides with them.”
@Liam: WoI – And they cannot lie!
@Activist:
Should read, “… robber calls Captain Smash “babe”. Gold bars are moved to waiting truck. Can Mandrake and his hypnotism unravel this knotty plot?
Pluggers had finally made me think of an AU containing bald anthro dogs. It is so much more entertaining than whatever laugh this was going for.
MW:
BB: “If you were my boyfriend’s daughter I’d poison your tea.”
Dawn: “If you don’t leave in twenty four hours, I’m going to shoot you.”
WW: “Dawn, can I talk to you?”
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H&L: Somewhere between this, CS, and GT there’s an NIL plus tampering scandal waiting to break out.
Dale knows things are getting serious when Flash whips out his harpoon pistol.
DT: I am absolutely loving that weirdly coquettish raised eyebrow that Tracy is giving in the last panel. “Horrocks, you say..? Are they seeing anyone?”
WoI: What are you doing with that hallucinogenic frog? I mean, for a strip that was launched in 1964, and still mainly lives there, the question answers itself, doesn’t it?
MW: Too bad they didn’t see Belle’s latest TikTok video – “How to make a toxic brew using ingredients you already have in your kitchen cabinet!”
Luann: Luann’s
junior highcommunity college teacher is going to be impressed by her poetic output. Luann might even receive a gold star.CS: Use one of your brownies, Lena. Hyuck hyuck.
9CL: This Hellraiser homage is pretty weird.
@Activist: There was a Crankshaft arc some years back, where Ed had a “It’s a wonderful life” style dream(?) of what life will be like if he had died.
He is shown his co-workers actually enjoying Lena’s brownies, and only said that they hated it because they were just going along with Crankshaft (who hates everything mind)
Although it’s hard to see if this scenario is canon or not. On one hand, it might be just a dream, on the other hand we’ve had literal TIME TRAVEL in this comic, so who’s to say what can happen in Batiuk’s demented mind?
Hagar – Rapunzel is my kind of woman.
MW: Wow. Haven’t checked in on Charterstone doings in a while, but as far as I can see, Dawn is the normal one in this story. Seriously, folks, DAWN??!! What. Is. The. World. COMING. To?????
Ha haaaaa, “nephewy”! Love it, Josh!
Pluggers: Dog-man scritches his back, leg begins kicking uncontrollably; face contorted with pleasure, he falls on the floor.
Curtis: Wait until Barry teaches you about “rot” and “fermentation” – wait, cheese is made from milk? so why can’t I slice what’s in my cup? wait, wine is made from fruit juice? so why don’t I get buzzy eating an apple?
Also, eat really bad rye bread and you just might get an ergot buzz.
“Horrocks, you say? I think we have enough to arrest on the name alone. Either they rock out with whores, and we can get them on pandering, or they killed whores with rocks, and that’s murder. God, I love living in NeoChicago, where your name is your entire personality.”
“Whatever you say, Dick.”
MW: Silly me! I bet the rat poison is under the sink!”
GT: “Let’s go for the gold,” Mimi said as she punched Gil and knocked his gold crowns loose.
Dick Tracy is a manly man, but he’s also hip and with it. While he wouldn’t go anywhere near the internet or , ugh, social media, even for an investigation, he’s not averse to people bringing him printed out screen shots.
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Hallucinogens? Johnny Hart wasn’t still in shock from being reincarnated as a Dachshund, he’d be spinning in his grave!
@Charterstoned: it’s like that old Soup bit, “Stephanie Pratt, Unlikely Voice of Reason.”
@Professor Well Actually:
The guy in the background behind him makes the strip.
“Hey, babe, doesn’t that guy look like a Vulcan? Live long and prosper, right? Where’s your lightsabre, buddy? What?”
Between Friends: “Benoit told me your nose is like Dick Tracy’s chin when he looks at you head on, but turns into this flat pig thing in profile. He says it’s your greatest talent.”
DT: “Horrocks, you say?” will be worked into absolutely every one of my conversations today.
RMMD: Horace J. Stalkerkiller, all the way over on the right, is from the wrong side of the railroad tracks. Not our sort of person at all. Why, he’s not even blue.
@Hibbleton: They might be Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse
DNA obtained from Hair from an old brush helps the FBI son solve a decades old double homicide cold case.
–And a tip o’ the hat to James ”The Limey Liquidator” England of Cheyenne, Wyoming
@Tabby Lavalamp: Kind of makes me want to watch “Fluke” now.
Actually, scratch that, makes me want go to film college, get a film writer’s degree, write a superior remake for Fluke from the ground up, have it be made into a film, then watch that.
@Hibbleton: Well, growing up there was a Rupert Bear cartoon, one episode had Rupert attempting to stop a family of thieves from robbing riverboats. The leader was this old salty sea dog (not literally a dog, he was human) and his two very posh, polite, but idiotic nephews.
All I really remember is that the Nephews were sort of hilarious as they were so over-the-top posh that they were completely incompetent of any sort of criminal acts.
RMMD: Uh oh, it’s the evil Guy From The Next Neighborhood Over Man, here to expand his criminal reach.
MW: “Wilbie Honey, where do you keep your meth?”
JP: “Abbey, I’d love to see you both, but tomorrow I’ve got to wash my hair. Maybe when we get back from Norway. Bye.”
GT: While Gil goes for the hand slap, Emily goes for the chuck on the chin. See? They’re just not compatible, so it was for the best.
Prince is not necessarily the son of a king. It can be a noble title within the feudal hierarchy, in this case the king makes his son a prince just like he could make him a duke. But it can also be a self-governing ruler, like the Prince of Monaco. Indeed, prince can also be a generic term for the ruler of a state with limited or absolute power — this is the way Machiavelli or Luther use the term. It all goes back to Augustus, who instead of claiming the title of king chose the humble term of princeps, from princeps of the senate, to hide his autocracy behind the claim of being just the first among equals. So it’s possible that this talking frog is not using any magic, it is just the ruler of a constituent part of the Holy Roman Empire with immediacy to the Emperor. Sure, the pond is pretty small, but it wouldn’t be the weirdest statelet in pre-Napoleonic Germany!
This family party has balloons, festoons and a buffet instead of just being a big dinner. I assume that this family is 1) very large and 2) regulated as an organisation. This criminal enterprise needs the constant production of nephews, to have criminal workforce whose loyalty is not dependent on the formal rule of the labour market, but beyond a certain size, it ends reproducing the rule of an impersonal organisation with fixed rules. Max Weber was right, you cannot beat bureaucratic rationalism!
9CL: I know it’s all on me for even trying, but I just don’t understand. Edda, who is married to her life long thrall and has two children with him, is available to the next person who has enough cash? And her esteemed medical professor mother is a Thorax groupie and is encouraging him to be her pimp? And just where are they putting on this show – a stage, the sidewalk, a basement…?
DT: It just occurred to me that the nephew’s names are meant to shorten to “Hi” and “Lo.” Tread carefully, Dick Tracy, I hear the Walker-Browne lawyers are itching for a fight.
WoI: Like many people, today’s strip confuses the difference between “frogs” and “toads.” Here are some key indicators: frogs are smooth-skinned and are the favored form of enchanted princes, whereas toads have dry bumpy skin which you lick to get high. Hope that helps!
@Anonymous:
@Anonymous: Gaah, stupid empty cookie jar!
@The Rambling Otter: I guess, the best example I can think of… is if Niles Crane was forced to become a criminal against his will, and did literally everything in his power to keep doing his usual routine regardless.
(And if there were two of him)
The party photgrapher really put in the work. That’s not a boring still shot of the nephews at eye-level. The photographer’s going for candids while crouching below. Kudos to you, photographer! You’ve got a future ahead of you.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic, that Johnny Hart (an extreme Christian Fundamentalist, mind)
His two flagship comics were of Cave People (A topic of which the Church is against) and of a Wizard (Dark Satanic magic…)
Rex Morgan, MILF Diver – News 6 is the go-to station for overdose deaths in cars. With a niche like that, they must be the top-rated station in the country.
Oh, shit!!!! Sorry for bogarting 69. My bad. Now if the station had been News 69 . . .
Wizard of Id – “Looks like the backstroke.” If they had kept it in the pond, they could have repurposed a classic “fly in my soup” punchline!
Don Abundio, translated:
“Imagine! Don Abundio was hanging around the bus station from 6 to 9 this evening!”
“He’s showing an interest in the common man!”
“A little too much interest, I’m afraid”
“He picked up all these hobos for a rough trade orgy”
MW: Dawn sips the tea and wonders out loud about the bitter almond taste. Belle gives a lie about how her grandmother was German so it’s a marzipan tea. “Oh, I love marzipan!” Wilbur exclaims, shoving Dawn aside so he can take a sip.
And that’s how Dawn and Wilbur spent Easter getting their stomachs pumped.
Wizard of Id: It’s been over a year since I got a newspaper delivered, so this blog is the only place I ever see a lot of comics I used to read all the time. The first thing I noticed about this strip is that whoever is doing it these days has switched to a computer-generated font instead of hand lettering, which is an improvement over what I remember it looking like before. The second is that the art actually looks better than it used to, while maintaining the strip’s “house style” to a degree. So I guess I’m saying, “Good job, current JohnHartEnt subcontractor whose name apparently starts with ‘M.'”
“And that’s how Dawn and Wilbur spent Easter getting their stomachs pumped.”
How merciful of you. I would have said “Spent Easter on the autopsy table” then I stopped to rethink my outlook on life, and maybe I need to develop more kindness towards others, regardless of how obnoxious, whiny, stalking, animal abusing incels they are combined.
MW: So how was Belle planning to poison the tea if Wilbur hadn’t asked Dawn to speak in another room? Or is he in on it? He’s in on it, isn’t he? Can’t wait to see Mary explain that filicide is an endearing quirk.
C’shaft: Calling it: Lena is terrible at the bus rodeo because the bus rodeo events center on terrible Crankshaft-esque behavior, while Lena does things like avoiding mailboxes and stopping for children.
Dustin: “You see, as women we are expected to remain thin and beautiful well into our middle years, on top of taking care of the housework while holding down full-time jobs and being supportive and nurturing but not talking about girly things like feelings too much and looking sexy and appealing but not so much that men can’t control themselves around us. Whereas men like your father are validated just for maintaining a mediocre existence.”
Luann: Ah, an In-the-Dark Lady sonnet.
MW: “I want you to be nice to Belle; she’s trying to be helpful! Why, just this morning she was asking where I keep all the cleaning fluids and pesticides…I told her she’s a guest and shouldn’t be cleaning, but she insisted…”
RMMD: Look, if I wanted to listen to someone going on about “suspicious” people they see on the street, I’d just go on Nextdoor.
@The Rambling Otter: Nah, you’re perfectly justified. I’m just saying that Moy would sooner kill off the title character herself before her precious cash cow Wilbur.
No you don’t.
@Lauralot: Wilbur did pretty much brush off Dawn’s whole issue with Dirk so that he could brag about how much sex he had with Belle in graphic detail but acted like a spoiled child when Stellan died and threw a huge pity party for himself. So while he and Dawn might have some nauseating undertones with their relationship, Wilbur will gladly sacrifice Dawn to get himself some action from his trashy vacation ho.
Detective Straightedge printed out the social media posts knowing that Tracy would never look at a computer screen. But he printed them out in newfangled color. Dick’s barely containing his punching rage there. The Horrocks are going to get the beating, but it’s modern technology Dick will be thinking about while he’s doing it.
MW: say, Dawn, if Belle sends you into the woods to collect mushrooms don’t forget to leave a trail of breadcrumbs.
WoI – At least the prince looks a little masculine. The Disney animated Beauty and the Beast came out when I was in my teens, and I remember being distinctly disappointed at the transformation from Beast to Prince. For what it’s worth, that translated into my preference in partners. But let’s be fair – that prince looked a little under-baked and twinkish. Like, I could see him hooking up with the candlestick.
@Old School Allie Cat: Wow, I thought I was the only one who felt that way. “What? He’s a ginger? You should’ve married Gaston when you had the chance — maybe you could have CHANGED him.”
He had money, anyway.
FC – Billy has been rearranged, too. His head is balanced on his shoulders instead of tilting, but his shoulders are still backwards.
Rex Morgan – I hope that the person who is not from the neighborhood is a writer who can inject something interesting into this snoozefest.
Is June Morgan a TV news reporter now? Either that’s June, or some other woman willingly adopted that awful hairdo.
6Chix – They’re recognizable as people, so the drawing is somewhat okay. However, Thursday chick needs to work on her captions, because there’s nothing there that’s recognizable as a joke or humor. She has the incomprehensible part down.
9CL – Brooke really loves detective noir without having any idea of how it works.
@Professor Well Actually: Or, you know, Dawn could just drop a heavy object on Belle’s foot. She literally just went through this.
@Banana Jr. 6000: Aesop Amnesia is pretty rampant in Charterstone in that despite learning a lesson, they’ll immediately forget what they learned. My guess is that Mary uses some “special” ingredients in her food to make everyone dependent on her outdated advice. If they dare to think for themselves, she can’t control them and the old crone will wither up and die if she can’t leech on her regular set of victims.
CS: Oh, no! Rocky switched teams right before the big bus rodeo! Now our heroes will never… wait a minute, why is this a problem exactly? Why does anyone care about this? Do they have to win the prize money to save Dinkle’s band program, or something? And if winning does matter, why haven’t they gotten the incompetent and malicious Ed Crankshaft off their team as fast as possible? What the hell even is a bus rodeo?
@Needless Exposition: Judging from forthcoming strips, I think all the characters in Mary Worth have plain old amnesia.
@I speak Jive: re: 9CL: Brooke really has confused “hard-boiled private investigator” with “pimp.”
I don’t remember Philip Marlowe or the Continental Op being so obsessed with prostitutes.
Hägar, The Horrible Comic Strip: Ha ha, Rapunzel had a big bowel movement which ruined the plumbing, and got banished as a result.
Wizard of the ID-The Ballad of Hunk’s Got Chin by Sr Mix-A-Lot
@Schroduck:
He’s in his house tunic. Duh.
Hagar: I wonder whether Blondie ever clogs the toilet with a turd, and tries to convince Dagwood it was her hair, too.
Whoever posted this picture did not include the name of the Nephews, so they had to find them from other posts. The caption was probably “TFW two other dipshit nephews keep mooching from you!”
Dustin-“Because your father can’t be hard on me anymore. In fact he’s never been hard on me.”
@Banana Jr. 6000: #88: Believe it or not, bus rodeos are a thing. Drivers from different school districts compete in contests involving maneuvers around orange cones and parallel parking.
@Old School Allie Cat: #83:
@Ukulele Ike: #84:
Even the 1946 Jean Cocteau classic “Beauty and the Beast” (La Belle et le Bete) suffered from the same problem, that the handsome prince is always a let down. After seeing the film Marlene Dietrich confronted Cocteau, asking him “What did you do to my magnificent Beast?”
WOI: Just one between-panels kiss gave her Prince Charming, but by the time Blanche arrived home she was smooching the polychromatic lips of the infinite that lay beyond time and consciousness. Your wife is gonna need a beanbag chair and some juice real soon, Wiz.
@Old School Allie Cat: I just looked up the Prince on Google Images, because I remember being underwhelmed by his appearance and wanted to remember why. Some other dissatisfied person gave him a beard and ‘stache on Google images. That did help, but not enough. Meh.
@Guillermo el chiclero: Believe it or not, bus rodeos are a thing.
Out here, often called “roadeos.”
@Guillermo el chiclero: I’m sure they are, but I think the story needed to give a little introduction to the reader, instead of three “transfer portal” non-jokes.
WoI: In previous illustrations of this story, I remember that the princess carried the frog around on a platter and/or on the palm of her hand, which accorded much better with frog anatomical realities. Clutching a frog like Blanche is doing is very unpleasant for both the clutchee and the clutcher. And I don’t even want to speculate on what Blanche has in mind for the prince’s giant chin.
@Ukulele Ike: @Guillermo el chiclero: @Poteet:
We listen, and we don’t judge (much).
@The Rambling Otter (et passim): Thanks so much for the research above and beyond the call of duty! kinda sounds like there was a mild pun in the original with Ishino Machi (Rock Town)/Ishinomaki and then the English localizers went off.
@Ettorre: This always got me in Proust–at one point one characters says “He’s the Prince de Guermantes, so he outranks the Duc de Guermantes, because he’s a prince instead of a duke” and this is treated like the most laughable clueless faux pas, and I was like “Wait why doesn’t a prince outrank a duke?”
@wesccov: 9CL: I think you seriously overestimate Edda’s respect for Amos and their marriage. We’ve already seen that she’ll cheat on him at the drop of a hat, like that time she quite literally begged Seth to sleep with her.
Of course, part of the reason she respects Amos so little is that he has no respect for himself, at least as Edda’s partner. She once made out with Seth right in front of him and he didn’t bat an eye. And when she tried to confess about trying to sleep with Seth, he maintained that nothing she could ever do to him would ever warrant an apology. It’s hard to respect someone who straight-up tells you that you’re free to walk all over them without even needing to feel bad about it.
@White Rabbit:
Where is the Ocho on this? I would watch the Hell out of that
H&L: Okay, just change the name of this depressing, dystopian slog through misery to “Low and Lowest.”
@Anonymous:
Like many people, today’s strip confuses the difference between “frogs” and “toads.” Here are some key indicators: frogs are smooth-skinned and are the favored form of enchanted princes, whereas toads have dry bumpy skin which you lick to get high. Hope that helps!
Hey, thanks! This helps a lot. Here I’ve been licking frogs this whole time and getting squadoosh!
@A Grave Mind: That’s a very good question. Never occurred to me.
@White Rabbit:
I mean, shoot, they show “lightsabre duelling”, a roadeo gotta be half that good. Or am I giving this event too much credit?
@Banana Jr. 6000: Nowadays the writing is pretty much phoned in with a super limited cast and Mary herself barely shows up with anything remotely helpful. Moy seems to be burnt out on ideas and constantly plays the Wilbur Card to get anyone to pay attention. We haven’t had any notable stalkers since Aldo and children under the age of twenty have been phased out completely (good-bye, Madi of the Colorful Gram, and creepy Tummy Brained Fairy Child Olive). It’s all about Wacky Wilbur and Dopey Dawn, featuring cameos from Mary Worth.
Wizard of Id:
Today’s installment is absolutely ribbiting!
@Bob Tice:
We see what you did there. Don’t do it again.
@Old School Allie Cat: That’s a common reaction, the fans have grown to love The Beast so much, and the animators knew that they would, so I don’t think they put much thought into his human form.
Even one reviewer said “He then turns into… whatever the Hell this is”
DT – As do a few have already guessed, this detective works for an insurance company. But as he has been captioned itemizing expenses along the way, it dawned on me that the Tracy writers are borrowing from the old radio serial, called “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar,” which was subtitled “the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account – America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator.” In that serial, Dollar recounted solving his weekly mystery in his expense report.
@McManx:
I was not familiar with the character, but people in comments for the strip noted it immediately.
Dick Tracy: One of the running bits has been that the nephews vary significantly in height, being referred to as Mutt and Jeff at least once. Someone in comments noted that Hiram and Logan could be nicknamed Hi and Lo.
@matt w: Of course, who would think otherwise! Proust is also good at pointing out that you can choose what title you want to be addressed by, not your highest necessarily
I don’t normally comment when I’m in Edinburgh because I find typing on my tablet a pain, but I had to mention that Dick Tracy is currently so convoluted it took me a moment to remember there was a *third* nephew who the MCU don’t know is a nephew but do know is named Horrocks. And I’m actually putting some effort into following the plot, if only so I can point out exactly how little sense it makes. Goodness knows what someone who skims the comics every day makes of it.
Also, while I’m here, I don’t know why Diane thinks Weezie might be disturbed to learn Manju is destined to kill Stripey — it sounds like she’s already planning on killing her first, so what’s one more reason?
H&L: Their parents were such big fans of the Walker & Browne strips that they gave the blond guy the closest name to “Lois” that they could. Really these two were doomed to a life of crime. The world is just lucky that they’re so bad at it.
@Artist formerly known as Ben: Argh. That’s supposed to be for Dick Tracy of course.
Ziggy-Mary Worth leans over Ziggy and puts her finger to her lips meancingly.
Hi and Lois-So what you are saying is that Charlie Brown’s team has a chance of winning?
9CL: Penthouse Forum once received a letter outlining this scenario. The editor burned the letter and entered the priesthood.
Dustin: Being a middle-aged man myself, I can attest that if I stare in the mirror and exclaim, “I’ve still got it,” I’m referring to a fever blister.
Lockhorns: Amateur hour. You’re supposed to just smuggle in a dead bug to put in the salad.
MW: Hell, Belle might as well feed Dawn the bitter almond tea now. It’s not like the girl will trust her more a few weeks from now.
Phantom: Heloise is blessed enough not to know anything about Mozz’s prophecy, and she’s still got a king-sized animus just based on pettiness and racism.
RMMD: Well this Sesame Street setup sounds like it could be leading to something interesting. Obviously it’s not, but I only know that because I’ve been reading this strip for a while.
Just in case we missed you telling us last week you were going you made sure to let us know you’re there. Thanks
@Horace Broon: You’re in Edinburgh! Edina! Scotia’s darling seat! No need to explain why you don’t comment much when there.
LUANN: I wrote a few sonnets in high school. Other students in my school did the same. The results certainly weren’t great, but they had the right rhythms and rhymes and appropriate themes and were recognizable as sonnets. Our English teacher wasn’t astonished that we could do it, either. Luann’s “sonnet” is just another example of how she was dropped on her head as a baby. From the top of a ladder.
@McManx: If you’re going to steal, steal the good stuff.
@Poteet: yesterdays limerick wasn’t so hot either.
MW: Please I’m begging you, turn up the crazy. If Belle could be slipping the fish into the garbage disposal or maybe just holding it by the tail and slowly dipping it head first into a glass of boiling water. BTW I enjoy the fact that Belle is leaving serious clues and Wilbur is completely oblivious to Belle’s murderous intentions.
@Horace Broon: re: DT: The Third Nephew (cue zither theme) could be a child of another sibling. Rather than a Horrocks, he is a Horlicks. Heir to the vast malted milk fortune. Hence his riches.
@brendancalling: I know, right?? Do the Evansii think that a nineteen-year-old college student can’t write even a simple limerick, or is the problem that the Evansii can’t write even a simple limerick? Or maybe both? Anyway, PAH-thetic.
@Stacker: “Wilbur is completely oblivious” expresses one of the great constants of the universe.
LUANN: And is Luann going to mutilate yet another kind of poem tomorrow? A rondel? A triolet? Stop her before she kills again.
this Luann poetry-for-a-month thing is killing me. I’d rather see Toni’s pregnancy test or PhilAnn’s overanalyzing than this.
Mary Worth
“Dawn, can I emotionally blackmail you?”