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

Good morning™, friends of the stars!

Shaky has not only been denied his date night, he has become a tea-fetcher “boy” for Fortuna. It looks like he’s getting pretty angry about the situation.

Even without the shakes, he’d be shaking. ✨

Is it even remotely possible that team Tracy thinks this is what we want to read everyday?

If the current strip was a TV show it wouldn’t make it through a whole season before getting cancelled!

“Breathless”, Shaky isn’t a “good boy”

Go back to Edison, Shaky

Shaky might want to check this out to get a handle on what he’s in for if he sticks around:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrwDNsxKY2k

The seques in this strip are very jarring.

Looks like Shaky’s plans have gotten a bit….shaky…..

Good morning™, bossy broads !

Just who does she think she is ?!?!?  The nerve of some people … just because THEY get top billing.

Shaky appears to be getting agitated….

There’s never a bodyguard around when you need one.

I guess old Uncle Shaky could have handled this dame, but Shaky Mk.2, the boy-toy, can only seethe with anger. —At least so far; it is time for him to commit a crime of passion?

I am now constantly troubled with the thought of what censorship has been imposed on Mike’s original story….

Was the original Shaky this stupid?

if she isn’t careful she is going to suffer a reactment of breathless’s death scene soon.

“Don’t make me angry…you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry!”

Looks like Fortu- er, Breathle- er, whatever she’s calling herself today hasn’t done her research thoroughly enough…

On the film set.

“Hey, Breathless, aren’t we going out tonight? ‘Plan Nine From Outer Space’ and ‘Glen or Glenda’ are playing at the Roxbury. I got one ticket so I have to sneak you in the back door. Walk in backwards so it looks like you’re going out. I heard that once in a ‘Who’ song and it works.”

“Shaky? How on earth did you get past security? I mean…..glad to see you!”

“Turns out that the dopey fat guy that that rides around on a two wheeled scooter and works security at the mall also moonlights on security here at the gate. I tied a cheeseburger to a fishing line and he went chasing it as I reeled it in. He didn’t even notice me.”

“Oh. What about your girl posse? Aren’t you doing anything with them tonight?”

“Nah, don’t need them right now. I told Edison that I’m trying out for the French Foreign Legion. But they gave me a new idea for a get rich scheme. Belt buckles!”

“Wha….have you been hanging out with Cosmo Kramer again? I told you that that guy’s a no good bum!”

“Yeah, but I can’t find any good bums anymore. All the bums that I know are goons, thugs and mooks.”

“Sigh. Okay, okay. Just let me finish that nude scene with the B. O. Plenty guy. I hope make up has finished putting all of the prop lice on him.”

“You’re a real artiste, baby!”

And so it goes, by gar, by gar…

1-JAY BOGART: I don’t spend any time combing my hair anymore. This new do is fab!

2-FORTUNE: Yeah, great. Do you know that old country song that goes “I’m through with you too bad you’re blue, I’m Moving On:? JAY: Vaguely. Why?

3-FORTUNE: Let’s try another even more to the point: How about that Ray Charles song that goes “Hit the road Jack and don’t ya come back no more, no more, no more:?

JAY: Yeah, so? WAIT A MINUTE! Do you mean…?FORTUNE: Finally! There’s five bucks on the table. Use it to buy a train ticket on “The last train to Clarksville.”

JAY: Why? What’s there?

“Breathless” appears to be growing tired of the Shakester. Maybe he should stick to the belt buckles.

It looks like the “con man” got “conned”…

@z12332190..I’m afraid the same writers of Glen and Glenda and Plan 9 From outer Space have taken over this strip. Where is Ed Wood when you really need one? . BTW, another insightful observation from Neil

Is it a good idea for Fortuna to ask Shaky to bring her a cup of tea? That teacup will likely be empty by the time he gets it to her. On the other hand, maybe she wants to see him get scalded!

Shaky looks like he’s about to explode!

“You’re either a stud or a houseboy” – Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Regarding the conversation on Sunday about Cops being cancelled, there was a very interesting show on CBC Radio recently about how fake Cops was and how it presented a very distorted view of how violent things are. The police like the public to have this view, because it gets them more funding, according to the interviewee. Listen here:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/longtime-tv-show-cops-gets-cancelled-1.5608973

Start confirming the table for one at the ME’s.

I see murder in shaky future