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

Good morning™, everybody!

Who was saying before that Rikki might eventually have to carry it out for Abner? It may not ever come to that, though.

It’s wonderful to see that true love can blossom over something as trivial as murder!

Rikki really needs to reassess her priorities. Just sayin’.

Good morning™, fawning acolytes !

I bet that girl would kiss the dirt encrusted ground he walks on. She’s getting all maudlin; that suggests to me that a little Kadaver is in “development”.

I think Chet would kill her off just for shock value. It’s already expected that Abner should die whether in battle with police or from his whatever, so nothing out of the normal there.

Once again amazing art!

Facepalm… But it’s sweet to see mutual love.

Abner: “Would you bring me back from the dead? Asking for a friend.”

Abner prepares to pass on the baton to Rikki!!! But will she???

…..and if he says: “Cluck like a chicken”? (O.K., so I’m remembering an old “The Nanny” episode where Niles tricks C.C. into doing just that….)

These to deserve a happy ending. Cottage in the woods, children, Disney wildlife. Ohhh, I really need to sleep more…

Love is a many splendored thing……..even in a Dick Tracy ‘toon!

Well Rikki, you could stop tugging on my cape.

“Rikki, I need you to cancel this awful story”

Pretty much Panel 3 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pogdbpWh3mE

Clearly, this is a case of misplaced Hero Worship. Rikki may be venturing to place herself in Harm’s Way for the sake of nasty old failed hitman Kadaver.

Would Sam or Tracy shoot an armed Cute Young Thing? In the line of duty, yes….

I thought that they already had….