Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 31, 2019

As easy as Duck Soup!

Good morning™, a lower grade of crooked lawyers !

Is pipe tobacco guy his butler ?

So… Mr. Kleen calls a meeting and B.B. Eyes schleps his way to Kleen’s fancy downtown office, but Mr. Jackel jumps and goes to B.B. Eyes as soon as he’s summoned. I think we can all see who the “real” big-shot lawyer is in this equation.

R-Jay looks like a casino dealer

I spy a Fly in this Wheel… Or is it a Shyster?

Good morning™, visitors

Mr. Jackel is rubbing his hands with glee, just thinking about all the money he’s expecting to get.

Remember “The Lion and the Jackal” (a big-shot lawyer and his lackey, who did the real work) from “A Tale of Two Cities”.

I think somebody IS going to be “dumped” here, but it isn’t Mr. Kleen. ( I hope Tim Jackal’s insurance is paid up.)

1- LACKEY: Hey babe. You don’t know me and I don’t have an appointment but I need to see Pince Nez, Esquire immediately. BABE: Not a problem. The last time Mr. Nez had a client his look was still in style. 2- LACKEY: BB wants to hire you Mr. Nez. PINCE NEZ: Ooh. He must have a problem involving that pesky prohibition law or those women who think they should be able to vote! My specialties! LACKEY: Umm, those issues were settled decades ago… 3- PINCE NEZ: Oh ho! Jim Crow laws then! Even better! I have a connection with President Wilson. To work says I! LACKEY: Ai yi yi…

I’m still saying that Diet Smith’s time machine screwed up the timeline and we have characters from the 20s and 30s (Jackel looks like 1910) all mixed together in the modern day. Annie abused by Trixie 20 years ago (which would have been before she was born). Annie dressed in 70s garb like a hippy with a headband. BB Eyes on bail for a crime he committed 20 years ago but not in prison for the shootout at Ace Tower. It has to be Diet Smith’s time machine or logical continuity no longer matters.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Dollface (I’m betting that IS her name) looks like Joan Crawford.

B-B Eyes doesn’t need a lawyer. He needs a fixer.

R-Jay seems to get about without a jacket; thus we cannot fail to see his sleeve-garters, which make him look like a casino dealer, or maybe an accountant, or even a pressman from of old. Jackel/Groucho/Jerry Colonna/Teddy Roosevelt is way too optimistic, and I think his panel 3 remark to Dollface may be of ill portent….

Dollface Dearest

I know who Jackel looks like—The Jumbler!