to his face so intensely that it is pushed inward, making it resemble a prune. Daffy, noticing this, says to the audience, "Hey, look! A Dick Tracy character: Pruneface!" Another Looney Tunes short, 1946's The Great Piggy Bank Robbery by Bob Clampett, has Daffy (as "Duck Twacy") encountering a pack of Dick Tracy-style villains, including an obvious Pruneface parody called "Pickle Puss". Pruneface appears in Jason Yungbluth's 2002 graphic novel Weapon Brown, which re-imagines many syndicated comic strip characters in a post-apocalyptic setting, as a member of the Syndicate, a group of crime lords and scientists ruling over a post-apocalyptic America. The group also consists of "Chairman Horns" (the Pointy-Haired Boss from Dilbert), Mary Worth, Uncle Duke from Doonsbury, and (until Horns brutally kills him) Mr. Dithers from Blondie. Pruneface, alongside the Brow, is one of the antagonists in Dick Tracy Forever. References Comics characters introduced in 1942 Dick Tracy characters Fictional gangsters Fictional Nazis in comics Fictional engineers Comic strip villains Fictional characters with disfigurements Fictional crime bosses Adventure film characters Male characters in comics