Mostly cussin’
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Dick Tracy, 8/13/25
“Oh heh heh heh you’re absolutely right, boss. Say, I have a correction of my own: ‘I counted 211 names, dick!'”
Curtis, 8/13/25
OK, you can say “turd” in Curtis but not “toilet.” Noted.
Slylock Fox, 8/13/25
1) Pluto, dammit!
Phantom, 8/13/25
Patrolwoman Dai has her eyes on the prize
With the wool firmly pulled over her colonel’s eyes
She is skilled in all manner of social control
To advance her career in the Jungle Patrol!
So that General Chuma had better watch out
‘Cause there isn’t an ethical code she won’t flout!
He could find himself chained in his mine’s deepest hole
To help Dai make lieutenant at Jungle Patrol!
It’s a cinch that Ms. Dai will now rise through the ranks,
Passing Hawa and Kay and the rest of those skanks
‘Til she stands within reach of her ultimate goal:
The Unknown Commander of Jungle Patrol!
—Uncle Lumpy
28 replies to “Mostly cussin’”
FC-“If we leave them on that island do you think they could get off,” Bil asks Thel.
MW-“Use your gifts, Olive. Let the hate flow through you.”
Dick Tracy-“Two hundred and eleven people I can rough up but first I need to change my pants.”
MW: These are random bullies on the beach, or everyone in the NY Metro region knows Olive? (Or are they talking about Mary?)
DT: Holy cow, they have the Epstein list!
Phantom:
I’m really impressed with this foot soldier Dai
She speaks to the Colonel to show him the way
Intrepid and fearless, she’s pleading her case
While steering away from his personal space
She wants to go out and explore the terrain
Oblivious to the predictable pain
Despite all the peril that she has been shown
She says she prefers to just go it alone
Quite fierce, and combative, will be her approach —
Like world-famous, late Hoosiers’ basketball coach
She’ll gladly embrace each conceivable fight
Thus turning redoubtable Dai into Knight!
Slylock Fox:
This one’s a piece of cake — I’ve got it!
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Oh. They meant our solar system, not exoplanets. Darn it all!
Curtis:
Curtis’ dad is so sleepy that he clearly misspoke. Because if he told Curtis that he had to wait until “tomorrow” for the answer to his question (as opposed to “later in the morning”), Curtis would have to wait another 21 hours, until midnight the next day, to get the answer.
DICK TRACY: Is it me, or is Sam looking a lot beefier all of a sudden? It’s like the “Curse of the Leprechaun” was lifted once Sam threw away his dumb hat and he could finally grow into his true body again.
DT —
Memo to Staff of Neo-Chicago PD
As part of our employee appreciation policy, we have instituted Wednesday as Red Tie day! Feel free to match any kind of red tie with whatever color shirt and accessories you see fit. First prize for Best Dressed Detective gets to spend 10 minutes in the interrogation room with a shackled “person of interest” and cameras off!
Dick Tracy:
“I counted 211 names, Tracy. Of course, for reasons I can’t remotely begin to explain, I counted in base 9. If I had counted in base 10, it would be only 172!”
Dick Tracy: The Graeae from Greek mythology were three sisters who shared an eye between to take turns seeing. And a tooth to take turns eating.
Today’s Dick Tracy harkens back to that, as Dick and Sam are clearly swapping a wig back and forth between panels.
A *Chinese* woman in Phantom? What next, a Colombian giantess beach babe from Bogota?
MARY WORTH: Generic Mean girl #1: “Ugh what a weirdo! Not normal cool girls like us!” (consults “Gawker Stalker” map of where Olive is heading to next so they can totally not hang around her there, as all normal cool girls do.)
MW: The only way those girls would be there is if they knew about this trip ahead of time. Which only confirms my theory that Mary paid a group of college students to heckle Olive into believing that only Mary will understand her and comfort her.
DT: nice to see DT use gloves when handling the evidence. But is that the original bag on his desk and Sam eating nearby? CSI refresher for them both.
RMMD: Yes a stranger barging into a family situation always make things better.
JP: Does no one remember their training??? That guy is the most suspicious of the 3. The two dim girls are what they seem, dumb and dumber. That guy leaves his job, just goes with these strange girls and helps them break into things. Sure let him walk. Sheesh.
MW: This isn’t the community pool. This is premeditated. Olivia incepted the mean girls to go to the beach and got MW along as a witness. Now she can unleash her full fury on the mean girls. Rip tide carries them all out to sea.
The Flash: Is FG charisma rating that high. “Rise up and overthrow you oppressors!” If only it was that simple.
Crankshaft: So red Mounties now do stadium security for the Bombers?
DICK TRACY: Dick: “AKA, 211 people who are ‘suspicious’ enough to shoot on sight! I love living in a police state!”
DtM: Can there be any doubt that Martha provides Dennis with his material?
RMMD: Having found his half-siblings, Cody will not rest until they ALL welcome him. Refusal is not an option.
MW: “Ignore them” is crappy advice. Olive needs to find her inner diva, not her inner Mary Worth.
So Curtis wears his hat to bed? I’m starting to think it’s actually some sort of fungal growth.
MW: The weak sister in this trio of bullies is heading into the ocean by herself. Olive will save her from drowning, the girls will see the light, Mary will approve, Olive’s parents will stop fucking long enough to acknowledge that having a daughter with special GIFTS may be CHALLENGING, but it’s…SPECIAL.
Then back to Charterstone and Wilbur’s new fish and his budding romance with the pet store clerk who sold it to him. Calling Sid, Agent to the Animal Stars!
The water Curtis is wading through in the final panel makes the joke. Good one!
DT i think Tracy enjoys his job a little too much some days “Yes, 211 persons of interested. God, I’ll bet they’re all sinners…”
@Needless Exposition: Mary paid them?
Olive: “Um…sure, let’s go with that. It certainly couldn’t be me who hired these random girls to follow me around and tease me with generic, unspecified taunting as a way to help ‘sell’ my ‘Woe is me, nobody understands me‘ story to an unsuspecting Mary who’ll only want to comfort a grieving girl all the more tightly in her loving embrace. Yeah…er…this must something that Mary did…uh huh….”
Just saying, to slightly misquote (and therefore making it appropriate for Mary Worth) Aretha Franklin, who’s zooomin’ who, here?
@Charterstoned: We only hope it can be that simple but Moy loves to take the dumbest route possible and shoot herself in the foot repeatedly.
@MKay: Re: Mary Worth: Mary: “Pretend those girls are your blue-balled doctor boyfriend.”
@2+2=7: You know, you bring up a good point. Olive does seem like the kind of person whose psychosomatic tendencies will eventually manifest itself into Münchausen syndrome as a desperate bid for attention.
Curtis a normal kid would start with “dad, I need help” or even “there’s water leaking”, but then normal kids don’t wear hats to bed super glued to their hair so it doesn’t come off
MW Note that the bully said “A weirdo”, not “that weirdo” or “the weirdo”, which would imply they’ve never seen Olive before and know from looking at her that she’s “weird”. We know that Olive having Mary as a friend is strange, but to any onlooker they look like grandma taking granddaughter out to the beach. Is she supposed to have some odd mutant look? Maybe she’s been levitating things as she passes by??
@MKay: Because bullies are apparently imaginary… I remember when I had bullies literally beating me up and I was told to “ignore them” yep.
MW: The red headed girl seems to be showing some sympathy towards Olive and doesn’t want to be part of the taunting. Future plot point?
H&L: Lois enjoys a deserted beach knowing most tsunami warnings don’t pan out.