Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 19, 2018

Good morning™, mysterious rogues!

Presumably, that should be “Rogues’ Gallery” if there is more than one rogue.

Eugene Roche was the name of a well-known character actor who played a lot of cops and criminals and is known to some as the “Ajax man” from 1970s commercials.

704 Hauser St.—Archie Bunker’s address.

Okay now I am almost as shocked as Dick Tracy to see a dead man seemingly alive again. Has Dr. Goat done this before his death?

Good morning™, meatheads !

Dick is in for insults the likes of which he has not seen since a certain poster lambasted with upon the entrance of the current team, lobbed by someone with a similar New Yawk address !

I love Rick’s artwork. Can’t wait to see what they got for us.

ZOUNDS….things are off to spectacular start, that’s for sure.

Archie Bunker’s house? Why, “It’s All In The (Tracy) Family”! I can picture Sam and Lizz sitting side-by-side at the piano:

“Boy, the way that Chester drew.

Very few were good as Gould.

Crazy crooks, he inked a few.

Rogues Gall’ry revue…

Yes there’ve been some great villains,

Hoodlums, gangs, and dangerous dames.

Never thought we’d see a strip with Flattop Jones here again.

You could say we always knew,

Every crook would get their due.

Dick Tracy would see it through.

Rogues Gall’ry revuuuuuue!”

I thought Flattop Jones assumed room temperature years ago. Is this a relative?

An exclusive club where people can cosplay as villains, perhaps?

His friend is in costume.

He’s back.

Eugene Roche was an actor who appeared in “All in the Family,” but I don’t know what connection he’d have to Flattop.

I read Dick Tracy as a kid… Now I’m kinda flat topped myself.

Since we have to wait until next Sunday for the conclusion, wouldn’t this be a 10,080 Minit Mystery?

I thought it was through the entire two weeks. My error.

Didn’t he freeze on the moon a long time ago, or was that someone else?

Like i said, a long time ago.

Where’s Pequod today?

Wow. To think this guy draws dreck at Funky Winkerbean.

The Bunker did it. Next Case.

But I can’t wait two weeks to see what happens between Bribery and Austin!

I sense a sit com Easter Egg parade coming up.

Okay, I know who Eugene Roche, the actor, is. And I am duly reminded of the All In the Family address. But Flattop?! In what universe has he not been dead for decades? Is this a super make-up job? A Time Warp at 704 Hauser? (And that reminds me of Wings Hauser, another actor from the not-too-distant past, whom I think of as the “the poor man’s Rutger Hauer”….) Can hardly wait to see where this goes!

This reminds me of the “Midnight Mirror” story line…

I was seriously thinking of sitting these next two weeks out. Other than artwork in the last Minute Mystery, I have not been impressed with them. But the Queens house and the return of Flattop may just reel me in.

Dale (above) – I was thinking the exact same thing, Midnight Mirror!

They do keep trying to bring Flattop back from the dead… don’t they?

I think I will like the 2  Minit egg just fine. Those other ones just had no ‘meat on the bone’. The Geo. Reeves one was fun tho’.

Go Seven-hunnert an’ foowah Howsah street !

(if I got it wrong I’m sure daddy av will promptly ruler the backa me hand !)

Cool! A fortnight of Flattop!