Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 08, 2017

Ms. Bea Thorndike is living large inside her lavish pad.

The butler fetches savories. Won’t her two guests be glad

Honeymoon and Pop-Pop set upon the velvet chairs

Chandelier hangs overhead to light the manor’s stairs.

To see the world through a sleuth’s eyes look past the luxury

Thus everything could be a clue invisible to thee.

Bea she has a tale to tell, rare Lincoln artifact

Centerpiece of her caprice, a rarity she lacked.

Has to buy or she shall die, her hobby an obsession

More, more, more! Best know the score. A staple of life’s lessons.

Cannot take it with you, although many fools have tried

Bought and bought. Never enough. Then on death beds they cried.

Honeymoon and Tracy have arrived to set things straight

Just in time to stop a crime and seal the Nitrates’ fate.

Good morning all!

There’s Honeymoon. :)

There’s Honeymoon, alright- and she pulls a Robin Boy Wonder blunder!

Bea’s ‘good friend’ Public Domain? I wonder how many other fake things he’s sold her over the years that she hasn’t figured out?

So “Mr. Femstock” is the owner of the piece. Public Domain is merely a friend facilitating the connection for the sale. P.D. said that she and he were “casual friends.” He may have sold her other fake things or maybe he was just setting her up for this one. He seems to be part of the wealthy set, with a mansion and several .nice cars.

If only Silver listened to Sprocket, they will be miles away by now and beyond Tracy’s reach.

“Holy fraud, Pop Pop!” is definitely a Batman reference, with Honeymoon in the role of Robin from the 60s TV series. Did he talk like that in the comic books?

Assuming that the Nitrates skipped town, then Public Domain will be at risk of being arrested once he picks up the other half of the agreed price for the recording

(Sigh.) Sometimes Joe’s Sunday depictions of Tracy make him look more like the “Fearless Fosdick” caricature. I’ve seen the examples of the sample art that Joe submitted when he was applying for the Tracy gig, and they were spot-on awesome! I’m well aware that all artists change as time goes by, but I’d sure like to see Tracy look more like those early samples. Just my opinion.

Do Honeymoon’s antennae buzz and crackle? Hope they don’t drown out the conversation.

In the car, after the visit: Honeymoon, no more 1960s “Batman” marathons for you…

Honeymoon looks like she’s picked up on the MCU coffee habit. It would be funny if she and PopPop whipped out their own mugs. And, as everyone has said, Honeymoon’s Robin impression went flat.

Guest artist for today? Honeymoon doesn’t look the same.

KvnKoehler and many others: For a long time, now, it appears that someone else draws the Sunday panels. It’s just that today, the differences in style are more pronounced than usual.

Morrow Cummings, Neil Wick, and others: For a long time, it has also appeared that the current Dick Tracy is a tribute to the 1960s, i.e., criminals of that era and our favorite love/hate object, Moon Maid. And of course, who can forget that no small part of the 1960s universe was the holy caped crusader!

That last panel, besides the TV-Batman reference, has Honeymoon uncharacteristically call Ms. Thorndike by her first name, while Tracy himself is not! Even if she told Honey to call her Bea, it seems out of place, as does the whole panel.

(By the way, was Bea ever referred to as Mrs. Thorndike in the 1940’s comics?)

This came together entirely too quick and easy for Tracy, sorry…..

Holy retro reference, little crimefighter! If Pop Pop can ever-so-slightly lean on Bea Thorndike to help straighten her out, maybe she will offer more cooperation to the po-po in taking down Public Domain (a bugged mansion, a couple of cops on hand disguised as household staff, Tracy and Sam at the ready just outside, etc.). Then, it will become a matter of tracking down the Nitrates, depending on what they will have done since driving off from the Thorndike Mansion just as Tracy and Honeymoon were arriving….