Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 18, 2020

Dethany sees the other guy!

Good morning™, rescuers!

On weekdays, Guy is tied with ropes. On Sunday, it seemed to be strips of cloth.

Could the treasure be right there behind that false wall that everybody missed all these years?

Dethany sees that Guy’s girlfriend is also tied up. Then she looks back and notices Guy also has lipstick and perfume on his collar and neck.

Good morning™, verklempt unfasteners !

She is so elated she may wet herself and thus Guy. They could slip away while the round up continues tho’ I think Deth-Guy could make one last frame before slinking back to their own strip.

Please tell me Shaggy and/or the 1930s-looking gangster found the money and made off with it.

Is Guy a little too happy to see her?

“FOUND IT!!!!!”

At least he wasn’t turned into butter.

True love! I wonder what the Oh! is about?

Schwinggg !

OH!!!

Just what does she do for a living? It’s not common for police to take civilians on raids…

She doesn’t want to take the gag off because it acts like a mask.

“Why Guy! Is that a roll of quarters in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?”

Dethany is sitting on Guy’s lap.

Guy has been tied up for a day or two. He needs to go to the bathroom.

Awwwwwwe♡. And…. Uuh???

1-GUY PRONOUNCED GEE: MMMF UNTIE ME THEEES IN-STANCE!

2-DETH WARMEDOVER: MY POOR BABY! Tied up for hours! I bet you’re sore and…

3-…STIFF! My, you are happy to see me.

GEE: MMF You are sit-ting on my wood-en leeg, you silly Geisha Girl.

DETH: Hang on. That light bulb…could it be that the hidden cash was converted into solid gold light bulbs and they’ve been right in front of our faces all this time???

GEE: MMMF No

I think I’ve seen this story before. The money is behind a wall, but has been eaten up over the years by silverfish.

Who’s the artist these days???

Last time I saw a scene like this Stormy Daniels and our dear leader were in it. Family newspaper guys

Wait for the honeymoon, kids.

This is an aspect of their relationship I’ve never seen explored in On the Halftrack, and which honestly seems more like a 9 Chickweed Lane thing.

I have the feeling this isn’t the first time Dethany & Guy have enjoyed an intimate moment with restraints.

Why does she remind me so much of Toots Braunstein?

Bondage AND necrophilia? Oh, Guy…

When they kicked in the front door, it shook loose all sorts of stuff.

So Dethany has been used as a hook twice. She sees something in the last panel that the reader doesn’t see and is startled. We just have to come back tomorrow to find out what she saw that was so startling…yawn…

My take on Dethany’s sudden glimmer of recognition (panel 3), abruptly intruding on her cuddle with her dear Guy, is that she has noticed the missing gang member, pseudo-Shaggy, armed and menacing from behind Guy, who has been mmfing in an attempt to alert Dethany to the danger. (I doubt that the Lost Treasure has suddenly become visible.)

Or is it a reference to the end of “Hamilton”?

Hey, has anyone heard from Groovy, Kinda lately? That strip didn’t update on Monday.