Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 13, 2020

Tracy ain’t buying it.

Nice shorts. ✨

Hmm… Either she doesn’t know he’s married, or she doesn’t seem to care.

Good morning, steel-eyed Dicks !

He gives the most scariest cold stares. Yee-owch !!!

Is this going to be the makings of a mutual admiration society? Right it has not been mentioned how many movies has Ms. Dyer made? Probably between cases, Tracy has been been able to see them on DVD’s or Netflix. As the storyline unfolds “personal nature” will be defined. What treasure is she after? A fling? How can one uh, handle something like that in a strip which probably has distribution in the bible belt?

Good morning™, everyone!

She suggests that she’s not interested in the treasure, but in Tracy personally, but I don’t quite believe her. At least she got back her missing sleeve lines today.

Sexy.

She wants a key that’ll lead to HER treasure…

Before the abrupt end on Friday/Saturday it’ll be revealied that she’s believing that she is the real, one and only Breathless.

Just wait until Tess digs her key into the side of his pretty, little souped-up four wheel drive, carves her name into his leather seats, takes a Louisville Slugger to both headlights, and slashes a hole in all four tires.

And you’re under arrest for laying your hand on a police officer. You have the right to remain silent!

Tracy just arrested Shaky’s nephew—Do you think Edison will show up in this story too?

Never trust anyone who refers to themselves in the third person.

Careful there, Tracy. She’s a widow and your lunch.

TRACY: “I didnt really know her that well”

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ALSO TRACY:* “The real Breathless had an ulterior motive”

Can we please stick to one idea here? Also, didnt Fortuna say in the plane that she didnt know much about Breathless’ history? Which wouldn’t make sense if you’re a “method actress”

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suppose** we could say that (it happened off panel) she did a bit of “googling” (tho not the type she’s hinting at here, obviously) and read up on Breathless after her flight landed and she got situated at the siam… but a “method actress” would have done ALL her research as soon as she got the part

Looks like Ms.Dyer has an ulterior motive too.

1-FORTUNE SEEKER: I suppose you’re wondering why I asked you here…

2-…well, not to be too crass about it, a woman has needs and…

DT: Right now, Miss Seeker, I need to see what you shoplifted from the grocery. What you got in there? Honeydews? Cantaloupes?

3-FORTUNE: I guess you’ll just have to frisk me, hot stuff.

DT: I’ll need a prison matron here first. FORTUNE: Kinky!

However appealing Ms. Dyer may find Tracy, the intriguing element here is that she is a method actress researching her role while “in character” as Breathless. She knows about the key hidden in Shaky’s left shoe, but wishes for Tracy to fill in the gaps, as it were. She is a successful actress, and we have yet to learn of motive or crime. I’m not convinced she will be the criminal in this story, although she may become lost in the role and begin to take actions that are out of character. This developing story reminds me of actors interviewed after the filming of Lincoln had wrapped. They never met Daniel Day-Lewis, but were pleased to have spent time with Abraham Lincoln.

I’m getting flashes of Bogart and Bacall in The Big Sleep. Except Bogie’s Marlowe wasn’t a married man.

Is Tracy giving me the side eye in P3?

And here we have yet another reason why it’s a good idea for cops to wear body cameras.

Just mind that chin…

Tramp. Hussy. —And less flattering terms come to mind for Fortuna Dyer. She really has a super-inflated ego, does she not?

Practically painted-on top. Thrust-out breasts (panel 1). Invading Tracy’s personal space (panel 3). What does she expect to achieve?

Our man Tracy is made of far sterner stuff than she will ever comprehend….

She’d fit easily on “Totally Spies!”

Another ulterior motive. Probably wind up like the original.

Ok she knows about the key but not the battle between Breathless and her mother for the money? Something not right here.