Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 08, 2019

Good morning™, big tippers!

Someone mentioned tips yesterday and I remember that someone was surprised a few days ago that Trixie wasn’t younger. Gypsy, today, does appear younger to me than when she appeared in the Annie strip in 1932.

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She is the one in the black dress in that strip. I think her appearance in this current story is an improvement because I could hardly tell which one was which in that old strip.

In Trixie’s shopping trip to the opening of the store that Warbucks have financed that prompted her whole separation scam, it almost looked to me as if nearly all the customers and the clerks were identical, so I guess it’s not a big surprise that Gray drew Trixie and Gypsy so similar to each other. Here’s a detail from one of the frames from that shopping trip.

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Good morning™, cagey clerks !

Gypsy Rose Lee or whoever she is now knows for certain that girl is Annie.

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And now we find the conjunction junction in this story.

Well, that’s convenient. ✨

I…don’t…like…how…this…Annie…looks…

So this is Gypsy, an Annie character? Strange, then, that Joe didn’t draw her with the trademark pupil-less blank eyes.

I called it yesterday!

I thought that was Gypsy when I posted yesterday "Who is that woman?

I was right!!! Well a blind squirrel finds a nut in the dark once in a while.

But I’m confused, I thought that she would be older if Trixie’s disappearance happened years ago or am I’m missing something?

Same eyes as with Batman. However, I once saw Batman’s eyes. Maybe it was a screw up by the artist. I should have kept the comic.

Does the plot thickens or does the plot sickens.

Who tips a clerk in a convenience store?

1- BLONDE CLERK: Get over there and help dummy. You might get a nice tip. 2- ANNIE: Hmmm. Maybe the instructions are inside? 3- GYPSY: Like with my serve and volley game? Mr. McEnroe would do that? BLONDE CLERK: What? GYPSY: What?

“Where are the Mr. Am Bobbleheads?” lol

ha! nailed it yesterday

1932?? OMG Gypsy certainly doesn’t look like a nonogenarian. Cosmetic surgery perhaps? I wonder if Little Nemo works at the store?

Life “Am” good !

Second panel: Annie appears to be interested in the non electric brush.

I doubt Annie needs help picking out a toothbrush.

I have yet to even consider tipping for being given directions to anything in the gift shop/grocery store of a five star hotel. Am I being socially improper?

I’m just delighted with this storyline. When Annie was cancelled, I wrote to Jay Maeder and he said that possibly there would be a graphic novel. but alas that never happened. It’s like when I hoped for another Gone With The Wind book and I learned that the author of the two wonderful sequels had died.

Forget this Annie." She is not the little red-headed orphan adopted by Daddy Warbucks. She must be an imposter.

Same for “Gypsy Gay” here. Way to young to be the original Gypsy, maybe she is Gypsy’s daughter (or even granddaughter) with the same name!

Yeah, I am discombobulated by the screwed-up Timeline in this arc. Otherwise, though, the story is okay, if very slow-moving….

Pupils or no pupils, Joe S. renders these different and distinct faces so well.