Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 16, 2022

Good morning™, everyone!

I’m not surprised that Blaze is an admirer of a female character who is not at all feminine.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/avatar/images/4/46/Toph_Beifong.png

It seems that pizza was on the menu anyway, just not with Lizz.

and here is how everything ties in and be connected…

Uh oh. Blaze got scammed. Now it will be personal for Lee.

Good morning™, to those about to dine !

Lee looking good as always. I like the “everyday” 2nd panel scene with Blaze taking the pie and tendering currency while keeping up talk with Lee. A good kind of “talking heads” action.

“And the funny thing is the mustached lady was the most normal person there.”

Blaze sure knows how to dress for a hot date! LOL!

Pizza delivery dude looks like he’s got the hots for Blaze.

Either that or for the weird monopoly money she’s holding up!

He’s got a much better chance with the money!

Is this an ad for Blaze Pizza down here in Florida ?

Shouldn’t a fan like Blaze know ATLA was computer-animated (read: Ain’t no animation cels to be had)?

Animated pizza slices! What will they think of next?!

I’ve been too busy to read comments for a week or so, and I apologize if this was mentioned already, but does anyone else think Blaze is here to be a not-traditionally-feminine person of female gender, to avoid Sue Reel seeming like a slam on people in that category?

Blaze and Lee are splitting a pizza? Lee could’ve done that with Liz. (But that wouldn’t have moved the plot along.) I thought they were going to some restaurant.

Betcha its anchovy pizza

Sue sells T cels at the C store….

Snow and cold in Chicago today. If Chicago is the model for Tracytown, I hope the freezing weather doesn’t make the paint crack on Dekko’s fake cels.

PANEL 4 (or Off Panel if you prefer)

BLAZE: Holding slice of pizza by the crust end just below her beltline: HEY LEE! LOOK! I GOTTA MERKIN!

(Google it – it’s clean)

AT LAST we have a link between the threads of this arc

1-LEE: Your sister sure was funny looking!

2-BLAZE: That’s not my sister, silly! That’s my “dream” girlfriend! PIZZA DUDE: Hmmm. I might’ve stumbled into something interesting here.

BLAZE: Keep the change pig-with-useless-appendages! PIZZA DUDE: Maybe not

3-LEE: I don’t look anything like your “dream” girlfriend.

BLAZE: I’ll say. But everybody likes a big ol’ mug of hot chocolate once in a while! Say – have you ever seen somebody do the pizza slice / merkin gag? IT’S HILARIOUS! Wait. It’s better when I’m not dressed…

LEE: Uh, that’ll be YOUR slice then…

Dick Tracy is following the wokeness of Gil Thorp

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“Maybe if a man looks ugly,he does ugly things”

Boris Karloff—THE RAVEN—1935

Looks like a darned small pizza.

Lee is here as the “impartial judge”.The Dekko/Reel story was the last one before she was introduced.

Everybody else in t he MCUknows what Dekko is and they’re already knitting hangman’s nooses

Assuming that cel is valuable, or even if it’s just meaningful to Blaze, they’d better put it up out of the way before they dig into that pizza.

I know it is just Lee and Blaze shown today but the pizza looks like it is medium size. Couldn’t Blaze have bought a large size? Maybe both of them are trying to watch their figures.

Is this the romantic dinner date?

Alas,I am taking off from work for the holidays and shall not return until Tuesday December 27th—-and by that time the pizza will be cold.But may everybody have a warm and happy Christmas

One more suggestion—-Chester Gould spent over 40 years saying that villains were headed for the electric chair.Maybe you should come up with a short list of t hose who actually DID,so he won’t look like a liar all those years.

I nominate 3D Magee

Sue Reel is larger than life.

Linking: Toph to Sue Reel to Blaze Rise to Lee Ebony.

If Lee’s thinking isn’t too clouded by romantic what-ifs, this info should be relayed back to Tracy. Then, the connections could also be made to Art Dekko and maybe Mumbles (though he seems for now to be peripheral).

Locher Auditorium once again with Fur Fan Con turns out to be a locus for Underworld activity….

That “cel” seems to be an 8×10″ Or perhaps it’s the original artwork from which the cel was made?