Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 15, 2021

Odd transition … ✨

Good morning™, theatre-goers!

Meanwhile, over at the Patterson Playhouse… You have to wonder what, if anything, Vitamin Flintheart has to do with the sudden appearance of Abner Kadaver. I trust we will find out eventually, but for now, I’m perplexed.

I do not like the choices of the new GoComics colorist. I swear it wasn’t like this before.

So not the drama…

Good morning™, hambone announcers !

Abner: Forget revenging against Tracy I’ll go after his friends. Yeah, that’s the ticket. He will go into a crying jag every time he finds a dead friend with the “I killed him/her in your name” sign pinned on their clothing. Bwa-ha-haaaaaaaah !!!

Dear Vitamin!

Hmmm, The purple vitamin eater?

Looks like this is going to be a very engaging story with some familiar characters. ;-]

“To suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” or something like that! Stay tuned!!

! WOW ! , What a terrific image in the third frame . Also as usual great colors .

Kill him off. Please!

Vitamin is best dealt with in small doses…for all his grandeur, pomp, and circumstance he is a rather bland and boring character…but he is a solid and stable character….now if we could just murder the groupie……

SCARY!!!!!!

Kandikane Lane Flintheart was familiar with Vitamin Flintheart’s stage and film work when she chose him to be the subject of a documentary film. She is a successful documentary filmmaker. She drives a motorcycle. She saved Vitamin’s life when he was shot by Silver Nitrate, pulling him to safety and risking her life. They fell in love and married. They now have a son, Kane Flintheart. Despite their difference in age, Kandikane knows Vitamin needs no vitamins. She referred to Margot Lane as “Sis.” Lois Lane appears to be another sister of Kandi’s. She first appeared on October 18, 2014.

https://dicktracy.fandom.com/wiki/Kandikane_Lane_Flintheart

I sense this will be another weird story!

Vitamin Flintheart, he never met a stage that did not love him.

Abner Cadaver as Caliban.

B.O. and Gertie Plenty could use tickets to this play…a reward from a grateful from a grateful city for their assistance in nabbing a bad guy from the just concluded story. Honey Moon and Crystal might want also want to hang out. Quite natural Tracy and Tess along with Junior and Sparkle will get tickets. Liz and Lee are going to bring their dates plus Sam and his wife will be there. Since they know the star, they’ll get front row seats.

1-GUY PASSING BY: Look Hon, The Patterson is putting Shakespeare on stage. And as if that wasn’t enough to keep the crowds down to nothing, it’s starring that fossil, Sugar Daddy Flintheart!

2-GUY’S WIFE: EEE-YUCK! I think we need to find a new way to walk to Starbux. Just the thought of how bad that will stink makes me nauseous.

3-“DING-DONG, HARK! NOW I HEAR THEM! DING-DONG, BELL!” Wait, cut!

SPOTLIGHT GUY: waking up Huh? What? CUT?!?! This ain’t no movie ya old fool.

SUGAR: Oh, yes of course. Anyway, I had a brilliant idea. Please ring a bell when I say that line.

SPOTLIGHT GUY: Totally unnecessary. Having a Ding-Dong on stage wearing a beret playing to an empty house will be enough.

SUGAR: Yes. Excellent. Keep up the good thinking, young man!

SPOTLIGHT: snore SUGAR: WHAT LIGHT THROUGH YON WIN…wait. That doesn’t sound right… CUT!

Bring on Kandi Kane!

I have a feeling that Abner will get into the play somehow as Caliban and if Mysta is cast, “The Tempest”"will become an “electrifying” one ! 8-D

Joe doing his own inks this week seems more rough and sketchy than in the past— Vitamin looks scarier than Abner!

oh gosh not that guy again!

I guess the theaters are open again in Tracytown (if they ever really closed, the strip has mostly avoided the pandemic). I just wonder if maybe this strip should have appeared on Monday, as a scene-setter & curtain raiser for the new storyline, before beginning the actual action. Joe & Mike are great storytellers, overall, but they do have a habit of getting momentum going & then bringing it to a sudden halt.

cue the dark ambient music with discordant overtones

I imagine there are going to be some anti-Shakespearians among us, thinking as they gaze upon the Old Thespian, Vitamin Flintheart, “now is the season of our discontent”, but the Pit will grow even more agitated when Kandikane Lane makes her inevitable appearance. After all, sweet Kandikane is the evident antagonist to the mordant Rikki Mortis….