Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 30, 2019

Hmm …

Good morning™, philosophers of the audience!

I’m starting to like the play more and more, but who is that woman? She looks very familiar to this strip, but I can’t quite place her. I assume she is one of the dead people in the cemetery, but maybe she is just Emily, the character from the play who has just joined the dead at the cemetery.

An extended selection from this part of the play:

Now there are some things we all know, but we don’t take’m out and look at’m very often. We all know that something is eternal.

And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars … everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that somediing has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being.

Does Doc have a soul?

Good morning™, assembled compendium of humanity !

That lady does look like a strip character or maybe just someone modeled on one. I hope tomorrow’s is an actual close to the story otherwise I will have no choice but to agree and Like ALL of Timmy’s basher talk.

She looks a little like Glenn Close.

Zombies!

And still no word on who died backstage.

Wait…is that Detective Frisk!?

Now what on earth is this and who on earth are these people?

A little twist to our saga!

I enjoy Thornton Wilder’s plays Our Town and (even more) The Skin Of Our Teeth, but they really must be seen performed. Quotes in a comic strip don’t do the job.

Actually, this could tie in to the ambiguous climax of this Tracy story if the “camera” pulls back tomorrow and there, sitting with the actors but not seen by them, is Doc.

Who turned the pinpoint spotlight on the audience? That’s not in the script…

Glenn Close checking out the play. Off to Broadway!

Nice diverse cast there Vitamin. How much of a “discussion” did you have with Equity, to get it?

1-SUGAR DADDY IN ROLE AS OFFSTAGE NARRATOR: …but we don’t take’m out and look at’m very often.” CHARLIE: Mine’s out right now. Wanna look? WOO HOOO. 2-MISS PRIMM: Put your hog away Charlie! CHARLIE: Yes Miss Primm. (heh heh)

Curiouser and curiouser, can you say off the rails kids?

it’s been a while since I played in George but isn’t it about time for Emily’s big come back to life scene?

Maybe that’s Grandma, at Little Doc’s funeral?

If that is Detective Frisk, and not an aging Mayor Armstrong, wasn’t she being set up to return as the “phantom of the precinct” or some such in a story line that ended up going nowhere?

Now, I think, this really constitutes Filler. Maybe we are supposed to reflect and think Deep Thoughts. But Thornton Wilder has never inspired me in that way….

Once again Joe & Mike seem to be flirting with copyright infringement

OK, so Mike is a big fan of “Our Town”, apparently. But he could have used these last few days to flesh out the ending of the story he’s supposed to be telling – a Dick Tracy story. Maybe if he’d quit fooling around with all this dialog from a play that has basically nothing to do with our story, we wouldn’t have to be saying “where did that come from?” so much.

This thing has more drag on it then RuPaul’s show

“Like the soulless army that necromancer in the back row is raising.”