Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 06, 2019

Jimmy has a tale to tell: Frisk did survive the hit

Clair, she has a fresh idea. Their gig depends on it.

Reach out to Frisk’s birth mother. She’d love to earn some dough

Set the scam in motion now. Frisk must not guess or know.

She’s never known keen kindness. Mom’s love can be a treasure

Frisk lives solo. Is an island. Solitude the measure.

File cabinets overflow. Her work spans day and night

Should Howell attempt to lay her low there’s sure to be a fight.

Good morning™, devious dive dwellers !

I hope Frisk takes this invite with a heaping helping of caution as well as curiosity.

Good morning™, beaters!

Frisk is looking like a Picasso painting today, especially in the last panel. The first panel in the last room was also a favourite frame composition style of Dick Locher, who first drew Frisk.

Ah so we now know Lily Seven is her real mother… but I’m guessing, judging by the hair that her real father is Dagwood from Blondie.

Good story this one.

I’ll keep that tip in mind for when I use Uber or Lyft again.

Comics Kingdom is running last week’s Sunday strip today.https://www.oregonlive.com/comics-kingdom/?feature_id=Dick_Tracy

So I wonder, is there some sort of a cell phone directory all these people have?

About as cold an introduction as one could expect from their mother. Brrrrr!

December 10 was a sad day for me back in 1966. That was the day my father passed away.

Her file cabinet is a mess.

the plot thickens

Why is art different on Sunday. Is this imitation retro, and if so, why only one day? BTW, with Uber, some women are lucky to make it home.

4-PRIMM Hello, Smoke Connection? I need 3 cartons of menthols. I got shot in the arm and the doc said I’d heal even faster if I switched to menthols for a while.

5-JACKIE: Yeah, well I’m smokin’ my last one now…

6-…my sister has nails in her head and I had to front her all the ones I had left.

7-JACKIE: I could give you her number. Maybe if she’s better, she’d sell you some.

8-PRIMM: I think I’ll just try another store. There’s supposed to be a bad storm later and I don’t wanna be at the door with somebody who has nails stickin’ outa their head.

JACKIE: HA! Afraid you might end up a fried CHICKEN?

PRIMM: Very funny. Well the Smoke Connection has just lost a very good customer. Whadaya say about that?

JACKIE: BUCK BUCK BA-BUUUUCK!

The Sunday artwork is awful.

Yes, the art is awful … but the writing for this storyline hasn’t been very good either. Virtually no suspense or narrative momentum, far too many coincidences , & bush league bad guys (& gals).

Clair Howell and Jimmy will be preparing a little “how ya do?” for Frieda Frisk and Lily Seven [who certainly is not related to Seven of Nine]. Hot coffee and freaky faces! And something lethal on the side….

So far this is not a “fun” story arc.

At first glance I thought it was Junior until I saw the lips.

I just watched an episode of “Law & Order: SVU” – in that last panel, Frisk does sort of resemble the woman who plays Olivia Benson, in a very stylized way.

Going to Wisconsin tomorrow. Net will be when we can get it.

Hmm…I wonder what take off of a phone brand is by the logo?