Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 16, 2020

Okay. Charlie’s getting a little silly here.

So Archie Andrews is playing the role of Sam Catchem now?

Good morning™, crime unit!

Well, our villain finally has a name. The “scar” part is obvious, but “Corybant” seems weird to me. I wonder what it means. So, there were in jail together? That really explains the familiarity.

Go MCU!

Transported over from a dingy third floor room…

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Good morning™, Cracked Magazine parody squad members !

Best rendering I’ve seen of Junior in years. I wonder if this guy will have the Sawdust characters in. They can be tricky to draw.

Finally getting what is going on, thank you, guys!

Tracy always sleepwalks on his job. ;o)

Tracy has greaser hair.

they’ll be riding horses?

That was a cactus plant in Sunday’s strip, in the background. Here it is again today, more prominently featured.

To me Sam looks the most like himself. Tracy, especially in panel two, could be a brand new character!

Well, I was close… those are scars.

P4 — “Oh, and by the way, what do you think of my Jack Palance impersonation? Pretty neat, huh?”

“We’re catching this one the old fashioned way……Broadway Style!”

Sam, you get the lights! Liz, choreography! Pat, you and Junior write the score!

And me? I’m going to siiiiiiiiiiing!

Tracy: We’re catching this one the old-fashioned way!

Sam: Shooting first so we don’t have to ask questions later?

Who did her plastic surgery – Dr Frankenstein? She’ll be easy to catch – she’ll be the one reading a book instead of an iPhone. BTW: That’s not supposed to be Junior. It’s Charlie Wise. That’s why the artist’s sketch of Scarmony was perfect. No other way to explain that as artists’ sketches of perps rarely look much like the real deal (refer to the sunglass-wearing Unibomber sketch).

Y‘Know, minus the scars and lipstick, Liz and Scar could be the same gal!

I think the Gould family Better Call Saul.

Old-fashioned? Gonna break out the magnetic air-cars?

Can we surmise that the “bookstore owner” is the eyewitness? So, does that mean that Scarmony snatched Mysta/Mindy from a bookstore? Or some other place on the avenue, where the bookstore owner just happened to be looking out of the window?

I get the distinct impression that I’ve seen Mr. Wise’s work before…

“Scarmony Corybant,” ehh? The name is fitting, canting, as was Gould’s wont and so also that of most of his successors. And while Junior (more or less), Sam (especially), and Lizz are recognizably themselves, Tracy looks quite different, almost a Son of Chan, Charlie!

Well, saddle up; here comes the cavalry, and similar golden oldies; given the constraints of time allowed for this Minit Mystery, the MCU gang need to rescue our Fair Maiden in Distress pretty quickly, and put Lady Scarface back in the slam….

“Let me grab my yellow sunflower hat and let’s get gardening!” Good lord, is this drawn by a fifth grader?

Everybody looks like they have a case of the mumps

When did Tracy turn into an Asian?