My Worst Dick Tracy Parody Yet

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It's like I'm not even trying.

My Video Tribute to the Horror of Dick Tracy

Floom!

This will only make sense if you've been following the "Virgil Ohso" story arc of the daily Dick Tracy comic strip.

Are You Ready?

(From the 2 December 2009 installment of Dick Tracy.)

Pig On Wheels

Thanks, Marguerite M, for that last pic!

He's Funny! He's Dead! He's the FUNNY DEAD DUCK!!!

Funny Dead Duck is purely for decorative purposes and is not a toy.
Funny Dead Duck should not be loaded into, or fired from, blunderbuss,
arquebus, or Pig On Wheels.

Who You Gonna Call? The Pig On Wheels!!!

I drew this in about five minutes, using a very thick Sharpie. It will only make sense to you if you're currently following the Dick Tracy comic strip.




(For those not discerning enough to be Dick Tracy followers, the Pig on Wheels is a recurring character, of whom the fans keep clamoring for more. Despite this, he receives precious little on-screen time, and remains shrouded in mystery. Kind of like Boba Fett before Lucas let those buffoons feed him to the Sarlacc.)

The Electric Kool Aid Dick Tracy Test

Before:



After:



As always, please click the above thumbnails to enlarge.

More Dick Tracy Shenanigans

Here's a recent, incomprehensible installment of Dick Tracy (kindly click the thumbnail to enlarge):




A commenter on GoComics.com had previously speculated that the strip never makes sense, and has glaring, bizarre continuity errors, because the creator's assistant at some point dropped the pages on the floor, then hurriedly put them back together as best she could, and submitted them in the wrong order.

Based on this theory, a commenter by the name of Cougar Allen suggested the following:

Remember about the secretary dropping the strips and failing at trying to put them in order? Looks like each panel of today’s strip was on a separate page….

For hours of amusement: Print out today’s strip, cut it up into panels, and see if you can reassemble the panels into an order that makes sense.

No fair putting two wide panels next to each other, or two narrow ones – your re-ordered comic must fit into the same space as the original.

-Cougar :{)

P.S. If you don’t have a printer you can do the same thing in Photoshop.

Which I have done. Observe how, with a little re-arranging, the strip suddenly makes sense:

Dick Tracy Parody

I recently began following the daily Dick Tracy comic strip, because its abominable art, inane writing, and complete lack of continuity have lead to the creation of a very lively community of snarky commenters. See for yourself:


http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/

I am so inspired by this that I've created my own Dick Tracy parody (in case you happen to be unfamiliar with the actual Dick Tracy in its current form, please note that the hideously misshapen hands, continuity errors, and copy-pasted, recycled panels in my strip are all intentional):





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