Today’s Saturday Comic is a bit different. Usually the comics I show are stand-alones. But today’s comic (actually, comics), come from a serial: Dick Tracy. Dick Tracy has plot lines that last months. I’m going to pick out a few strips from a 2015 plot line starring Silver Nitrate and his sister Sprocket as movie business scam artists (hence their names).
Sprocket Nitrate is a barefooter.
I’ve written about them before (but not as part of a “Saturday Comic”). Take a look at Dick Tracy . . . and a Sprocket followed by The Return of the Nitrates?.
We’ve seen Sprocket dealing with issues barefooters are familiar with.
People thinking our feet are cold (even inside):
From Dick Tracy, February 9, 2014
Being tossed from public accommodations:
Dick Tracy, February 18, 2014
At the end of that older 2014 plot line, they drove their car into a pond and everybody thought that was the end of them.
Except.
Except that Sprocket is a heck a mechanic and when they dragged the pond the car was missing.
So, for our first hint of the return of the Nitrates, and Sprocket the barefooter, there is this strip from December 8, 2014.
Dick Tracy, December 8, 2014
I’ve gone out picking Christmas trees barefoot. Haven’t you?
Here we see them where they are holed up (an old theater, of course).
Dick Tracy, January 27, 2015
Still barefoot.
This plot line ends with them getting arrested. Do you wonder about what Sprocket thinks about shoes in jail?
From Dick Tracy, March 22, 2015
Of course.
This is one of the best (if not the best) Saturday Comic you’ve ever done. They’re always good for a chuckle, but this one was downright engaging from beginning to end. Great find!
Dear Bob ¡I’m with Sprocket! While in prison camps under the dictature I kept always barefoot, that was my particular dimension of freedom.
From newborn springtime
Machi
Here in the U.S., even jailers think that shoes should be worn all the time.