Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 22, 2022

yeah, this confirms it… Blaze IS undercover…

Good morning™, everyone!

Good job, “detective” Blaze! Now that she has photographed Paul’s last name, it should make it much easier to find out who he is.

Good morning™, note “takers” !

Blaze is one slick operator, just hope there are no cameras that Art can review tapes on.

Some actual important movement in the story today.

What went wrong???

So, Art Dekko doesn’t have a smartphone & Sue Reel evidently doesn’t have an office wastebasket. However, she does seem to have a calculator that looks like vintage Texas Instrument, circa 1976. Dekko’s office is the biggest back-in-time machine since Diet Smith’s time travel. drone.

Looking at panel 3 a 2nd time it looks more like Blaze is holding a small open plastic frame instead of a cell phone.

Poorly drawn by Shelley. (Please put down your pitchforks all you Shelley Groupies!)

Did they forgot to put in a strip, or did someone or Mike once again saw the time and have to rush to the end?

The problem with today’s strip is that YESTERDAY sue CLEARLY handed the note to Art, so HOW did the post it note end up on the side of the register/calculator?

“I said be careful her bow tie is really a camera…” Simon and Garfunkel

I find the art a little weird. It took me a bit to figure out what was going on.

Mmph! Another shot ‘o "Surreal’s" stern, AND a plot that thickens…….not a bad day’s work!……

Checking out now for Christmas stuff; have a really great one, everybody! See you next week….

Deck us all with Boston Charlie,

Walla Walla, Wash. an’ Kalamazoo! ♪♪

Fantastic strip today. Excellent use of the “empty space” between the panels. Beautiful sequential art.

1-BUTCH SASSY DEE: ♪♪ Ooh I do respect her but(t), I just love to watch her strut… ♪♪

2-… hmmm, what’s this now? A coded message!

3-reldnahc luap llac Whoa! I better get this to Diet Smith’s super computer lab to crack it!

Cue “Mission : Impossible” theme!

IMO, the art today is great. So is the undercover work by Blaze, who as it turns out (panel 2) actually does have boobs.

The pace quickens as we approach the Feast of Christmas….

Hmm, maybe Sue had to go to the restroom. Blaze does not come across as a shoplifter. There must be a we trust our customers policy in effect.

Crime in the city

It’s really such a pity

We shake our heads in such deep despair

Too many are abused

And feelings are misused

It always feels like no one really cares

Tracy and the team

Despite how grim it seems

Will always work to solve every case

They’re always on the look

To lock up every crook

Determination written on each face

Yet on this Christmas day

It’s neglectful not to say

There’s only one who saves us all within

Baby Jesus on this day

Came down to show the way

To love us and forgive us of our sin

The greatest gift this day

Is the love that comes our way

When we let Him in our hearts and in our life

Christmas cheers to you all

Be filled with joy and not with woe

On this day that honors baby Jesus Christ