Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 23, 2021

So is that Briar’s former business?

Good morning™, all!

So, we didn’t learn a lot today, except that the Apparatus is still in business despite the raid, they’ve recruited Patty Cure against her will, and she wants to help stop them.

Lizz will have a new job in the coming days… working for Patty Cure

I think every adult here knows what an “escort service” is. I used one once. She was nice.

Good morning™, tanned and terrified !

Time to apply some “cure” for this apparati virus. Calling Lizz. Calling Dr. Lizz.

Her expression last panel, great!

I don’t think she’s being 100% truthful

Why is Lizz that astonished? Or am I misreading the art? Surely a police detective knows that organized crime runs brothels?

Gotta love Patty’s 1970’s mood color changing earrings!(see yesterday’s installment).

It is smart that she switched to different eyeglasses that would stay on her face!(also see yesterday’s installment).

Sloppy, sloppy sloppy!

They want her to head an escort service for all the right reasons. Set up shop at the top of Four Seasons.

Shades of a certain woman’s federal trial that has just gone to jury.

My Preacher Grandfather heard a story from one of his fellow preachers from across town, Where a guy stole his wife’s butter’n’egg money and went on a debauch on Saturday night. Sunday Morning the preacher was giving the congregants heck and encouraging them all to “tell your Sins to the Lord, Tell it to tha Lord!” The Guy was confessing all his Saturday Night activities to the Congregation while the preacher continued to encourage “Tell it to the Lord.”His finale was to confess what he did in the barnyard when, Blind Drunk, he stumbled across the family Goat. The preacher went from a high pitched “TITTL” to a basso “Oh, budder, I don’t know if I’d a Told That!”

there’s the risk with that sort of plan. if you push the subject too much they might decide they will risk the other side.

Would “regular” management experience work for an “escort service”?

Now I remember where patty cure was from….wasnt she thunderchild’s agent?

What kind of packages were dropped off? Why an escort device? Where is this story going?

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

“I managed a small accounting firm! I don’t have any background in sex work. This is a mismatch to my skills and I resent it!”

“Mommy, what’s an escort service?”

“Ehhh…that’s like when grandpa needs help with the groceries or a ride home. Yeahhh….”

Off for Christmas trip this afternoon; a Very Merry to all, and see you when I get back!

1-PATTY CAKES: Lastly, you need a pair of glasses like these to hide those hideous bug-eyes of yours!

DOLL: What are you hiding with your glasses?

2-PATTY CAKES: I BEG YOUR PARDON!!! MY EYES ARE PERFECT! I wear these glasses as an accessory! I don’t even need corrective lenses…

*3-…mister…uh…say. What is your name?

DOLL: Detective Doll.

*PATTY CAKES: I bet you get a lot of ribbing for that, buddy! Well, that’s something else we can change in addition to your wardrobe. Something more befitting the man that you…

DOLL: I’M NOT A MAN!

*PATTY CAKES: Seriously? With that haircut? Wait. Are you confessing something here? Did you cower in the face of danger thereby making you feel “unmanly”?

DOLL: ALL RIGHT! I’LL CONFESS! Wait…

so she’s Curing herself?

My Dad’s uncle was on a destroyer escort.

Being the agent for a pro wrestler might not have been the most prestigious of occupations for Patty Cure, but, if we are to believe her protests, she has her limits and does not care to be a madam running a string of escorts.

Lizz is probably astonished at the vehemence of Patty’s plaint. But will we see her going undercover as either a manager or as an escort? How much of the Apparatus remains active?

Lizz and Tracy need to have a brainstorming session (with Sam and the rest of the MCU present, as well as I think Chief Patton)….

In panel 1 Cure looks like Gilbert Roland in drag.

This is what the Apparatus did with their fortune from the time drone? Why didn’t they just get in on the Bit Com thing?

Sounds like this lady is saying she was a victim of circumstances.

It’s a new…something…that Patty’s lips are such that they throw an under shadow on her face…even though there’s no under lighting…