Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 23, 2020

Good morning™, drop-in visitors!

If she really knew what a bad guest he is, she would double down on the cold shoulder treatment!

I wonder if she has already been paid a visit by the police?

Good morning™, shakers and tremblers !

I just felt an icy blast. Sounds like she’s on some kind of parole.

There seems to be little urgency about Shaky’s bleeding wound. He’s probably lost a lot of blood by now.

The past week has been album filler music.

Should have just bought the 45!

“Is this anyway to treat a guest?” I don’t think he’s actually a guest – it’s more like he’s an unannounced (non-robbery) home invader…

The answer is cocaine!

Hmm… why could she get in trouble just for talking to him?

If the police have questioned her, we could expect they also assigned a team to surveil the house 24/7. Are heavy reinforcements on the way to take down an attempted cop-killer assumed to still be armed & dangerous?

But if there hasn’t been any visit from law enforcement, is there somebody else who would give her grief? Brother Tom? The surviving Mahoney sisters??

No trouble is wanted. BTW Shaky’s wound has already seemed to be healed.

Amazing how Shaky’s skin colour changes from the weekend’s one. Yesterday he looked very sick(grey skin) and today he is very healthy(pink skin). Usual problems with GoComics’ colourist.

I’ll bet these shaky fellows always keep their phones on vibration mode.

It would have been funny if she ended with “…and NO smoking!!!”

Go away Shaky, I am practicing “Social Distancing”. Haven’t you heard?

Shaky has LOTS of friends…Everyone is so GLAD to see him.

Anybody else see the “rehash” here? Almost word for word the same dialogue between Shaky and Quiver as there was between Ghost Pepper and Phishface

so what was the point of the whole last week with crystal? just a display of shakey’s stupidity?

He’s the kind of guest that grows on you, just like fungus.

C’mon Shaky. He’s FAMILY!

She has a phone, right?

Riffin’ brings in a NEW CHARACTER TO SAVE THE PLAY!

1-CUZ (whispering): _Sugar Daddy threw me out here to save this dog so…

2-…_FOLLOW MY LEAD!_ JAY: OK! I’ll go first…

3-… Me and Whatsrname here aren’t married. Nothing? How about – remember that time me and you got busy in the bushes Cuz? Still nothing? Geez. How about…

CUZ: I SAID I’D LEAD OFF THE IMPROVE MORON!

JAY: AND (because, as you know, improve always moves ahead with that simple word) YOU GOT HIT IN THE HEAD BY THE PITCH! LEAD OFF. Get it…?

WHATSRNAME: AND…I think the Set Director is depressed. I mean, what’s with the black walls here? AND your hair for that matter. Is the make-up person depressed too?

CUZ: AND SHADDAP!

“I really don’t mind if you set this one out” Jethro Tull, Thick As A Brick and Mike’s guiding principle in writing the last 2+ weeks of Dick Tracy. (And you thought he only listened to Styx)

Tracy should have no trouble finding him* – that house must be vibrating like a tuning fork. (*When we ever see Tracy.)

you’re not a guest when you just show up unannounced shaky.

Looks like Shakes and Eddie stopped and shopped on the way. New, different colored jacket for him, new different shaped glasses for her. Interesting daily comments. Folks seem to yearn for some consistency here. Funny. BTW, Tess and Dick are on an island “Social Distancing.”

Maybe if Shakey wasn’t puffing on that dog rocket all the time people might like him more.

Well he’s in…

Between Shaky and Quiver, there’s “A Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On.”

Have you noticed the vibration lines around these two? Quiver quivers, while Shaky shakes. They’re not on the same wavelength.

Stand firm, Quiver (well, as “firm” as you are capable of)! Toss the freeloader & trouble-maker out (and his faithful-for-now squeeze, Edison).

—But, of course, she won’t. Part 2 of Shaky on the Lam Finds Sanctuary will play out in short order, I bet….