Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 01, 2021

10 done waked the Beast.

“You brute you brute you BRUTE! WAAAAH!”

Good morning™, action fans!

“Blinded by the light!” Well, the walking stick does come in handy, at least.

Did we miss a strip? When did Abner toss a smoke bomb?

I know, Neil’s favorite explanation;

“Off camera!”

Yeah, sort of figured Abner wouldn’t appreciate that. ✨

Say Goodbye to Abner and Rikki will becthe new gun for hire.

Good morning™, smokey bombers !

The crooks may wind up doing each other and months later … at county or state, we look in while a cuffed to the bed villainess is grimacing with pain as a new life poots forth into the world.

Now the actors rehearsing had to have seen and heard this!

Now an opportunity to find out if this theater has adequate smoke detectors. I trust the emergency exits are strategically located.

I appreciate someone making me aware about the character who wears a card on him. Ten of Spades, not the Ace. Yet all those card wearers look alike to me.

Instead of having that assassin trail AK to make sure he does the job right, why not just have the assassin do the job himself?

A whole of good Tracy is going to be…. blinded by smoke and flash bangs. Then he still has the arrow stuck in him.

He (Abner) turned to look; Ten of Spades will get the drop on him. Are they up in the balcony? Next panel please…both are shown going over the rail.

Where’s Sam? He is securing Charlie 21. Where is the theater staff? Oh, I already spoke to that. The lunch break..are martinis included?

“Rikki!! Run! Oh wait a minute, she can’t…Ten of Spades rang her bell…her lights are out.

All that smoke…. somebody, turn on an exhaust fan!

Pushing and poking with the cane? Nah, Abner you need to whip that card-wearing character with it until he rope like okra.

Abner can do some major damage if he jettisons the quiver.

Abner probably can do some major damage if he jettisons the quiver.

Ten of Spades weapon will discharge…. dang he hit the sprinklers. Oh terrific, appropriate moment for a song. "They asked me if I knew, would my pursuit be all true, ay, my, now I’m to realize…. smoke gets in your eyes. Normally the band would play but they went away for lunch…chorus please…smoke gets in your eyes…. smoke gets in …y-o-u-r e-y-es.

Exciting, isn’t it?!

GO ABNER!!!

“Ninja Smoke Bomb!”

I love this comic because of the images and wondering what will happen next , and in saying that what ever happened the sexy Blond ? I forgot what that was even about . And I suppose that ( the YETI and , Daisy ) are gone also . WHEW ! It is hard to keep track of it all . It is great to see the images though . Todays frames are just fantastic , BIG TIME .

Kadaver has a barrel of tricks. Run Rikki run, those words may come to hurt Abner?

What is the tube over Abners shoulder in panel 2? His smoke grenade launcher?

It can’t be a quiver for that bow of his, he could put the bolts for that in a cigarette case.

Where does Abs get all those wonderful toys?

Abner is a hitman who rarely completes a contract. Pretty inept for a guy who dresses so flamboyantly and has a landline phone.

Ten of Spades is an inept henchman who doesn’t understand what’s happening or what his boss ordered. He has made a mistake about Abner’s motivation and is causing a scene in a theatre full of people.

Actually, if you think about it, Tracy has been as inept as Abner or 10 during this whole story. He let Charlie 21 trick him and get away in the lobby of the hotel, he took him to the rehearsal without checking out the building or posting additional uniformed cops, he gets himself shot with an arrow, he goes running over to fight the crooks while wounded, and now he allows himself to be blinded by Abner’s flash-bangs (I guess he didn’t know Abner used flash bangs and smoke bombs…or it never entered his mind…huh, the world’s greatest detective?). Now, will Tracy be too stunned to catch the pistol whipped Rikki (apparently less stunned by a gun to the side of the head) as she runs by him?

This whole story and especially the way this ending is shaping up seems to be an Assembly of Ineptitude.

Another “To The Death” struggle!!……like Aquarius and Oscar in the last rip-roarin’ adventure!!

*1-As the poison on the arrow takes effect, our hero does his best to avoid walking toward the light. Meanwhile…

2-A.B.: ALLOW ME TO PUNCH YOUR CARD! TEN: The old phrase you tried to reference there is “PUNCH YOUR TICKET”. Your criminal banter is so WEAK!

3-A.B.: RIKKI – MAKE LIKE A STOCKING AND RUN! MAKE LIKE A NATURE LOVER AND TAKE A HIKE! MAKE LIKE A SAILOR AND GO anchors AWEIGH!

TEN: UGH! The Apparatus will make me a Jack of Spades when I get rid of you and your terrible catch phrases!

Er, wouldn’t it have been smarter for Kadaver to toss the smoke bomb & pull his disappearance act with Rickie back in Sunday’s strip, when he was first confronted with Number 10? I know, I know, there has been a real lack of characters acting logically, even for a comic strip, during this entire story.

That dart was supposed to be able to puncture Charlie 21’s skull, but it doesn’t seem to be bothering Tracy in the least. Is he wearing an armored suit, or is he just used to having things stuck into him?

Rikki assaulted in a most ungentlemanly way! KADAVER EXPLODES into action with his trusty flash- and smoke-grenades! Uttering the strong expletive, “Brute!” he thrusts his cane at Ten’s heart and urges Rikki to run!

Kadaver has not got the strength and endurance to overcome the younger and more healthy Ten, but he can obstruct and delay him while Rikki Mortis makes her way to safety—if she heeds his words (and that might be a big if).

Wounded, blinded, Tracy helplessly stands by, not even a spectator at the villain-on-villain action….

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