Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 14, 2021

Okay, looks like the real deal.

Good Times. ✨

“My dear, what have they been feeding you, your skin is blue!”

“That’s because I’ve been so blue, missing you Abner Honey!”

“Please, you shall make me blush I fear”!

“Oh Abner, you have such a way with words!”

Good morning™, all!

Is the thing in Abner’s left hand a thing for blowing darts?

Good morning™, smoky liberators !

Rikki’s on her way to the good life; if you can call lip-locking with a horribly disfigured face a good life. Since Rikki’s bust the old hideout would not be a place to go back to. Wonder what Ab has come up with for a place to hang and concoct ev-eil schemes from.

I’m ready for the Nitrates to come back to Tracyville.

Everyone else does so why not!

Greetings, fellow escapists! Will these 2 continue to see revenge on Tracy, or do they have other shenanigans in mind? Hmmmm…..

Hopefully this is just a brief bridge item to the next case…..

Rikki: “No rush…”

Wow. Nice strip.

Glad to see Abner again, but I wish they would use the old style font for his speech.

Awwwwww…. Love wins ♡.

Its a grave condition today!!!

What , Great images again today all of them , thanks .

She always has the voice of Gladys Kravitz.

when do we get the artwork back that isn’t all rough edges

With all due respect to the late great (my favorite tracy villain) Measles …. Abner Kadaver is far and away my current ultimate favorite tracy villain ever! The only thing that troubles me is that sooner or later abner wont be able to come back from the dead and we’ll lose this gem of a character forever…but I suspect that as long as Mike is writing the strip there will ALWAYS be a way for abner to return

And just for the record…Abner and Rikki really DO love eachother, so I think it’d be great to see them kidnap Uncle Ray (that’s his name isnt it?) and force him to perform the nuptials

As for the current motivation? I think maybe they’ll focus on PATTON this time since he is responsible for Rikki’s apprehension

EVERYBODY in tracyville knows the best way to get at tracy is to threaten his family..so force uncle ray (after kidnapping him) to perform the wedding and trying to murder pat would be a double dose

What a far out way to start a story! As a side question, what does Mortis see in Abner?

Good thing he knew the difference between his dart pipe and his 9mm.

Sorry to bring current events into our Tracyville world. Very little self control. Give me credit for leaving “blowing Darts” alone though!!!

Abner with a face only a mother could love….provided she didn’t put him up for adoption.

And when he frees her are they going to find a secluded hide-a-way? No he’ll want “payback”. Stay tuned for the next chapter in this story…“Revenge of the Ghouls”.

On second thought he (Abner) could be a very very distant cousin of Herman Munster.

1-GUARD: UGH! MY WORK HERE IS FINISHED! Allow me to drag out my last ever appearance in Tracyville…Parting is such sweet…

2-RIKKI TIKKI TAVI: SLASH? Is that you? ABNER: WELL, IT AIN’T ABE LINCOLN! It ain’t Slash either though…

3-RIKKI TIKKI TAVI: IT’S YOU ABNER! Oh how I’ve pined for you to rise from your pine box! Ummm, you smell like a dead skunk…

ABNER: That’s the English Leather cologne. It hasn’t kept well lo these many years…

RIKKI: I’m glad because “All my men wear English Leather or they wear nothing at all” and I’m not anxious to see you in “nothing at all”.

ABNER: DAM! Just got you outta jail and you’re raggin’ on me already! Why do I even bother coming back to life?!?!?

Is that Abner’s real face or does he wear a mask?

I may have to take a vacation. All my comic strips have jumped the shark this week. Though, it seems Dick Tracy is the worst, by far.

This is right out of a 1960s Batman script, except that the smoke wasn’t green or purple. But who knows? Maybe that was the colorist’s fault!

Puff of smoke! Only the correct people disabled; the baddies are once again free! And while, to my knowledge, the only deaths shown in Batman were that first (pilot?) episode (Riddler’s female assistant who fell into the Batmobile atomic reactor), it was ALWAYS the intent of that week’s „special guest villain“ to kill the Batman – which is where all the super-sized snow cones and other elaborate – and I might add, Abner worthy – death traps came in…

Frankly, what I see here is already AWFUL – and poised to go downhill from here.

I think I will have to sit this one out.

know what. I still like the Dick Lochner artwork better than this. Of course the 1940’s-50’s had them ALL beat. (I know. "HISS-BOO,ETC.)

just in time for halloween… err.. tax season.. a spooky story!

Why do I have the feeling Mortis has probably had more than one romantic moment in handcuffs? I wonder what her safe word is.

oh how sweet

And we see his face, and it’s him.

How come many criticize but only one gets heat for it?

Tracyville justice is corrupt!

LOL!

Ahh, the course of true love is not always smooth. And sometimes it’s murky….