Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 29, 2023

6 straight days where the chicken is a la King!

Any suspense in this strip has flown the coop.

Mike HAS to be pulling our leg(or wing) with this story, right???

Ah, the plan is to hypmotize them into buying the DEE-lites!

Good morning™, everyone!

Well, the ad campaign seems to be working, so far. It seems that sex sells, as it always has. I’m guessing that these random bar patrons are not important to the story except as examples of consumers of the new ad campaign.

Chick Tracy 2 seems very arrogant, a perfect companion for KandiKane!

Good morning™, “steamy” chicks !

Gimme the combo pack; fair maiden and sellout chicken.

I just hope no chickens were actually harmed in the making of that commercial.

Looks as though this Chick’n De-Lites product can be purchased at sports bars as well as restaurants. Someone just went b-kaw all the way to the bank.

Chick Fila can move over. Ditto Popeye’s and Checkers especially in Tracy land, they ain’t got a prayer. With the ad which was shown, their clocks got cleaned.

Just go to Buffalo Wild Wings, and you’ll be set for life.

They will make a lot of “scratch” from that commercial!

I guess Gameboy is now hanging out with Ollie Deadeyes, the old man in the garage, and Abner’s college aged kid

Is that a before and after picture with after being BO’s chicken on the plate ?

Is there a chicken-themed game we can use to tie this back in to the crime plot?

She looks like Florence Colgate. From a few years ago, scientifically the most beautiful woman in the world…

The new ad campaign for Chick’n De-Lites has already rolled out! And in the sports bar, it’s featured on the big screen, with Klinique full-face behind the plater of steaming hot and delicious De-Lites (kinda like big chicken “tenders” beaten flat) and Chick Tracy II to viewer’s right b-kawing her approval.

Could one of these seemingly random viewing patrons be in fact Gameboy and stirred to an idea for a new crime (as suggested above by LawrenceS)?

Well, with the first commercial now shot and onscreen, maybe at least we can move on from this week’s endlessly repetitive discussion of same and return to important stuff like Pawn Star walk-ons and off-panel crime sprees. On the plus side, we do get Shelley’s best pic yet of Klinique; today she truly earns Tracy’s ‘strikingly beautiful’ compliment.

Maybe this will lead to Gameboy kidnapping BO by mistake and dropping him into a bathtub as torture to BO !

Very disturbing, they get a chicken to help sell chickens corpse parts for consumption

Eat mor chickin, cause chickin will set you free!!

Local bars spur a lot of guy’s who like “smokin’” girls!

The patrons sing for Buffalo Wings, so here’s a variation

Variety the spice of life, so few voice consternation.

Drumettes are the way to go. Three pounds will get us started

Baked on a bed of fingerlings, from appetite soon parted.

Rosemary, garlic, and olive oil. Embrace taste buds immersion

One cup dry white will set things right, a tantalizing version

Of the sports bar staple, washed down with ice-cold brew

Half-Moon lemon slices add a tang. Klinique knows what to do.

I guess between yesterday’s strip and today’s at least 2-3 months have passed? To set up, film, edit, and buy airtime for the new commercial? Gameboy must have committed at least a dozen more crimes that we missed.

The guy with the cap isn’t too bright. No, she’s not smoking. The “smoke” is coming off of the chicken on the plate!

Is Newsboy Cap Guy [libidinous] after Klinique… or the chicken?

not going to say what that plate looks like it’s holding, but there is an emoji for it

The stuff on the plate made me think of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trQW-1TnjSY

1-PONY TAIL: Oh man. I just ate some of those things and I think I’m gonna hurl…

2- …I hope I make it to the terlit…

SPACE CHICKEN at the time of the commercial shoot: First we’ll poison anyone who dares to eat our earth kin and then we can easily defeat the overweight, artery clogged remainder who only eat beef. BWA HA KAWWWWWW!

Meanwhile, Dick Tracy and the entire MCU are MIA from this story. ☹️

This boreyline just keeps going.

This may be totally off the wall, but who’s smokin’, the girl or the chicken?

Obviously the poor chicken in ad is petrified in sheer terror.

Sunday preview: (scene: oversized panel showing a large dinner table at the Plenty residence. A group is there eating piles of Chick’n De-Lites to celebrate the successful ad campaign. Seated are Tracy, Tess, Sam, Lizz, BO, Gertie, Junior, Sparkle, Honey Moon, Daddy Warbucks, Annie, and Klinique. Jimmie Olsen sits on Lee’s lap. “Pawn Stars” plays on a nearby TV)

Sam- “Well, Tracy, that sure was a close one!”

Lizz- "yeah, I’m not sure how you got out of that one… but I’m sure glad Gameboy is safely behind bars now!

BO- "Tarnation! Would you all hesh up!! Here comes the chicken commercial!

Sam- "Big deal, just tell me if the Pawn Stars buy those Woody Woodpecker cels… "

Tracy- "Well, I do have to admit that manhunt was probably the most exciting thing to ever happen in my career… Ye Gods, Lee!! Can’t you two ever give it a break?? There are kids here,you know!

Lee- "Sorry, Tracy… but you know we’re just so much in love! See, I’m so gaga I even put my pants on backwards today! Isn’t that adorable?!?

Annie- "Gee whiz, Mr. Plenty… where did your pet chicken disappear to?

(Cut to BO turning to the reader to wink and smile)

Does Tracy wake up now?

Ahhh, the pouty, come-hither lips! The captivatin’ eyes! The perfectly coiffed blond tresses! We believe! WE BELIEVE!!!

I think this is the slowest story DT story line I’ve ever seen!

It always seems weird to me when advertisers put images of happy animals for products that the animal would not enjoy being part of. Reminds me a little too much of the “Dish of the Day” from the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

On to Buffalo,NY and The ANchor Bar;originators of Chicken wings