Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 28, 2013

Good morning Tracy fans! And good morning to Aunt Marg!

The old Ghote back to his fraudulent ways? Looks like Melies is the Blue Moon.

Liar, liar, pants on fire, Ghote!

Good morning all…

I would never ever trust people that look like those guys… especially “the man in the moon”!

Just when we thought everything was revealed, we get today’s development. I’m crazy in love for this story.

One of the more intricate strips in recent memory.

Once again Ghote wants to pull the wool over Diet’s eyes.

Good Morrow Morrow! A gun in Ghote’s back? Good little sidebar…We aren’t finished with all these figures yet…

Diet is too sharp of a knife to fall for that “privately” routine.

Could it be that there is a lost group of (criminal?) Moon people trapped on earth, and looking for a way “home”? They could have provided a stand-in for MM to the two Doctors, who brainwashed her into her current role. Did MM have a sister or some cousins? That would solve the DNA question…

i honestly believe that ghote is an unwitting dupe in this whole thing and sail took advantage of his desperation to try and redeem himself in the eyes of the public.

from the rumblings i hear in the underground (no, not the mole’s hotel) things are gonna heat up/speed up starting with sunday.

ya know,, there hasnt been a storm in a while in tracyville… the last one they had was the snowstorm when they were chasing blackjack

If there’s not something resembling a rocket planted in Moon Face by the end of this arc, I will be dissapointed.

Cheap shot from Cheapskate! If Doctor Ghote is as good at cloning as he is choosing professional associates, then Mysta survived the car bomb!.I, too, have been thinking Ghote is not getting out of this alive. Which is too bad. Clearly not a thug, very intelligent, has possibilities as a Tracy villain..We know he ain’t no good guy..Still Da Man!: Phones? Phones?.We don’t need no stinkin’ phones!.Everybody I know speaks into FRUIT!

About 8-1/2 hrs ago I sent along best wishes to everyone and didn’t hear back from SDM and was worried about him. I see he’s aroused now and feel better!

Surely Diet won’t fall for this old ploy?! —Well, actually, maybe he will. He tends to be way too trusting.Ghote may be acting under coercion, but unless he has been totally obtuse for at least ten years, he is not without culpability….

When he said “aroused”, my first thought was that you had been reading Li’l Locher’s boy and cat story.

I hope that Melies is not going to be around for awhile. He creeps me out. BUT those kinda bad guys make it exciting. So, what I probably should have said was I’d like to see one of our heroes shoot him or catch him in some sort of crime that put him away for good. lol

I’m really impressed by how Mike and Joe have drawn us all into this story. Even those of us who don’t like Moon Maid are hooked on it, and every day we’re itching for the next installment.Great job, Team Tracy!

I am absolutely LOVING this Moon Maid character and storyline. Haven’t been this hooked on a story since the return of Angeltop in the 1980s.

AHEM! by “aroused”, I meant up and out of bed. Shame on anyone who took it differently! I am a gentleman, and don’t partake of anything ungentlemanly. I haven’t visited S&M in the Sherpa section as of late, so I can’t comment.

" . . . the travelers on the good ship Tracypop still have problems holding their phone in a realistic manner? Maybe they should ask Sulu to give them all communicators! . . ."-——————————————————————————See what you mean ! It looks familiar, like we have had it before in a number of ‘forms’. Like on Police SIGNS and as I recall - Gould gave us Littleface, while a recent artist liked to draw Little Hands !Easy to check them - below . . .

http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2010/04/21 ‘POLICE Headqtrs’ Sign

It’s what helped to make reading the strip more enjoyable ! ;- )

http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2010/04/12 ‘LittleHands’ Tracy

melly mel and sail in the last panel look AWFULLY similar! lol

We are ALL proud of you! You’ve made it through almost all of the steps in your program! I’ve ordered up a chocolate (your favorite!) cake for your graduation. Tim wants to sing for the occasion.

I’m still hoping that Melies turns out to be the actual man behind all of this, and not just some hired thug; he’s the best Tracy Villain (Visually) since Pruneface (1942)

Discussion from a couple days ago..Dick Tracy said Ye Gods on 24 Dec 12..(In addition to the other two dates mentioned)

I’ll give odds that Ghote survives this story. He might end up in a hospital but will survive. And yes it’s very clear that moon head has made Ghote an offer he can’t refuse.

Can anyone remember – when did it become known that Dr. Sail is an international criminal? I got the impression that Diet didn’t know very much about him.

Ken in Ohio: I believe he was referring to Bardoll as the international criminal. Though, now, we can presume that Sail is also an international criminal. And by now, Diet probably knows about them all..Except Moon Head.

I assumed it was Bardoll who was the international criminal, too.