Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 02, 2022

“Boil him in coffee!”

Good morning™, everyone!

The law is the law. The governor has no choice, but he did finally get the council to agree not to execute Hy Jacky, back on the Moon, so there’s always a possibility of an exception.

I for one, hope to see more of the Lunarian characters. My favorite childhood characters. I am 63 years old now. I grew up in the Moon Maid era. Glad to see them back.

Tracy Speaks Truth. ✨

Have to execute him; too much of a threat with too many connections there…..or else Tracy can take him back and stick him in the Supermax….

I knew it… the lava falls for Ro it is…

Good morning™, disagreeable philosophies !

Heh-vveey. I am with the Gov on this one. The whole thing is clear and Ro-Zan’s prime suspect rating insures they will not condemn an innocent man. Tracy is who he is and Thorin is who he is. Hard to put Tracy’s position down but sometimes you just can’t take chances.

“Not an executioner”? From 88 Keyes to Mr Intro, there are reasons to disagree.

and I see Dick is back to addressing Thorin as ‘Governor’…

Does the space coupe charge for luggage?

“…and thank you for your assistance, Tracy. We are forever indebted to you.”

Grandma Moonie is saying goodbye to Honeymoon.

Rozan was a killer with no conscience and Tracy has a conscience. But I think that Rozan should face the judgement of that jurisdiction and Tracy should not think of himself as an executioner.

So what part of “You have no jurisdiction and less power here” do you not understand, Dick?

You enforce the law. Others do the trial and consequences part.

Ro-Zan’s genesis towards evil seems to stem from being exposed to an unhealthy amount of The Honeymooners re-runs, from his early childhood. He should have been watching I Love Lucy, instead.

I wonder who’s gonna fly the space coupe home.

Whoa! Who was it yesterday mentioned the Hy Jacky story, full props to you.

A bit of clairvoyant of you I dare say?

“You ought to put him in jail for a while, let him write a book about his struggle, and then let him get back into politics. What could go wrong?”

Despite my feelings on the matter, The New Moon Valley authorities have the right and responsibility to deal with Ro-Zan according to their law. While it may seem barbarous to me, and tor Tracy, he’s a guest in their world. I feel he’s done a good job expressing his opinion, and probably still is wary of Thorin; but he’s also about law and order.

Tracy’s breath is missing in panel 1.

Inconsistency to the end!

I wonder how Mike and Shelley are going to get out of this " gracefully " ?

Why is Tracy shoving his luggage into a dumpster?

Maybe exile him to a far away planet ?!

I love the Honeymoon and Mysta silhouette in the first panel !

Seems Ro-Zan and the Governor are equally harsh in a different way.

Whatever’s coming up next, at least we get to move on from such vexing questions as whose breath is showing, whose horns are sparking, and whether or not it all happened on the Moon….

Guess tracy has had his fill of calling him Thorin OR Ambassador

THANK YOU Mike Curtis for this exciting Lunarian story. I feel as if I have waited a lifetime for it. And thank you Shelley for the great artwork.

So, the old Endless Loop of Carrot Top. Emo Phillips and PeeWee videos? (brrrr)

A Duck Tracy commentary…He who wins writes the history! We shall see?

“I’m a cop, not an executioner.” The Dick Tracy Wiki lists over 100 people as confirmed kills by Tracy, and calls that a “partial list.” Not judging, just sayin’…

Maybe this is a case for Law And Order : Lunarian Intent !!!

It is what you are supposed to do with lowlifes like them, we fought, and won a whole world war over it and gave them what they deserved for their crimes.If they didn’t learn their lesson the last time, it’s time to school them accordingly!

1-LISKA: Give ol’ Granny a hug goodbye. HONEY MOONS: Get off me ya old hag!

DT: I’ve never had to be my own luggage handler on a flight before. THOR-IN: Welcome to LUNAR AIRLINES – a subsidiary of Spirit!

2-DT: Do I have to fly the freakin’ plane too?

3-THOR-IN: Don’t be ridiculous. You can’t fly from your seat in the wheel well!

DT: Whew! That’s a relief.

….put him in the Phantom Zone: that’ll larn him a thing or two!!!……..

Mike and Shelley have had time to come up with some Bonafide earth villains, I hope they will be able to deliver.

MOVIE QUOTE

I’m Halliday

I’m Taraday

I’m Labor Day.

“And with us now,every day is Labor Day!”

Moe,Larry&Shemp—BLUNDER BOYS 1955

Honeymoon found out school starts next week,and she doesn’t want to go home.

Like so many Earth crooks,Roz-an thought he’d never get caught;so why worry?Start worrying,buddy.

I think that whole “Victor Buono lookalike” thing was just so we could see if the new artist could draw B.O. andGertie right(she did).

With winter coming up,it’s time for the real test—a ChesterGouldian blizzard.

I hope my latest order of Sea Monkeys arrives soon.

Over at the Dick Tracy Fan Club, Mike Curtis has posted, expressing disappointment that no one seemed to notice that Ro-Zan was named after the pompous Kryptonian official who pooh-poohed Jor-El’s warnings that Krypton was doomed in the first tv episode of The Adventures of Superman from the 1950s. I actually did notice that, but didn’t comment. I wish to rectify that, and as my civic duty, to show that I did notice, point out that Ro-Zan goes back even further to the first episode of the 1940 Superman radio show. You can listen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADGWJjIvM4E

Ro-Zan starts talking at 2:27.

Since this is late in the day, I’ll repost this when tomorrow’s strip comes on, so more people will notice.

Putting aside the fact that Tracy has fatally shot numerous criminals throughout his carrier, he wouldn’t be the executioner here. He’s a cop who captured a criminal. It’s up to the court system to issue sentencing. Tracy can voice his opinion of what that should be, but the final decision is not up to him. Given the fact that Ro-Zan committed murder and was planning genocide a death sentence is to be expected.

For everyone’s information, Mike Curtis posted something very interesting on the Dick Tracy Facebook group. He pointed out that Ro-Zan (the name of Jor-El’s adversary in the original Superman TV series) was not Mysta’s first sexual encounter in the strip. She also had relations with Denny Colt (the Spirit).

Mike also made a post on this board yesterday on a different subject.

Not Tracy’s call… Not his jurisdiction. He did his “Consulting” job. Time to step on board the ride home and let the laws of the Lunatics…er…Lunatarians…take over.

Not always, Dick. Japanese children learn a substantially different history of WWll than the one our kids learn. Textbooks around the world tell history that we and other nations would consider incorrect. As Henry Ford famously said, “History is bunk.”

….so did several generations of children living in states that were part of the Confederacy…..they were issued a “catechism” in the schools that glorified the “Lost Cause”……just sayin’…………

Interesting because Tracy has executed many of his foes, no?

Ro-Zan is a traitor. Ro-Zan is a murderer. Ro-Zan is unrepentant. The laws of New Moon Valley apply here.

Execute the scum! Whether by Zapping Squad or by Lava Bath, execute him. It is the law and it is the right thing to do, regardless of Tracy’s misgivings. Tracy has been associating with the soft-on-crime-and-criminals gang for too long a time.

Let Tracy and his kith and kin return to Tracyville, courtesy of Thorin’s Space Coupe shuttle, and be done with NMV for now at least….

After all, Tracy operates in a jurisdiction (the US, we don’t know about Tracyville specifically) that uses the death penalty, after most “civilized” countries have abandoned it.

“We learned that murderers die for there crimes / Even if we make a mistake sometimes.” —Tom Paxton, a few lines from the song “What Did You Learn in School Today”