Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 07, 2023

“You’ve already scammed us!”

Good morning™, everyone!

“Susan Keats”? Interesting. I wonder where she came up with that. It seems that she has done a good sales job on having bare feet at the call centre.

Sprocket looks like a homeless person. No reason for the torn clothes. No way you can keep those dirty feet clean.

Neil, did Mike tell you when Hi Ho Silver will get sprung???

Susan has partially pulled the wool over Sabrina’s eyes, but regardless, Sabs seems to take a have taken a liking to Susan…

Someone has pulled the emergency brake and the train is coming to a screeching halt!

Good morning™, new old chums !

These ladies are off to a good start. If this place is crooked, as suggested by a strong majority, then I can see the ladies tag teaming for the fall…

I just noticed the left-handed shake in Panel 1.

I can’t believe this sweet sociable thing is the same person who killed an arch villain with blunt force trauma. (the film can)

Sabrina recognizes a first-class baloney-server when she meets one.

Why do I have this feeling that the Plenty household will get a call from Ms. Keats. Then on second thought stranger things have probably happened in Tracy land.

The plus side to this job, Susan won’t have to bring work home from the office.

Property around the call center is kept in tip top condition. So with her bare feet, Susan will never step on any broken glass.

Hippy Chick. I can dig it man…..

Yet she wore flip flops on the train

I don’t think it’s possible to keep your feet “very clean” if you walk around barefoot all the time. And that floor isn’t “Mother Earth.”

I find it strange that people say that bare feet are dirty. I wash mine daily. What year did you last wash the soles of the shoes your wearing?

Gonna be a slow day around here if the best we can come up with so far is a spirited forum on workplace hygiene….

I’m reading this barefooted at work. :)

Same clothes as Sunday, but now those jeans are shredded, and she only has 4 toes?? And it’s a bit confusing on who is who.

Keats ? As in a pair of ?

bare feet in respect to “mother earth” in an urban setting? “Ms. Keats” must spend a lot of time “fixing” her feet. Hot sidewalks, plenty of “debris.”

I keep wondering if SuSprocket is gonna recognize that this is a scam, and if she does if she’ll feel conflicted about having gotten out of the scams game!

Now, my understanding is that the (first-only) name that any phone service staff provides the client is a pseudonym (in part for the employee’s protection). Let’s see if “Silver” is the name assigned to Susan/Sprocket :)

And Sprocket is an Earth Mother type too. Bare feet and , dare I hope , hairy legs and pits ?

…is it just me, or does this resemble a typical Bazooka Joe type comic?

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

I guess I buy that if you hold “I worship Mother Earth and keep in touch with her” as a belief system, you might think you should go around barefoot, but I’m not sure why, if you think that Mother Earth can feel you through the depressing industrial carpet and the several layers of subflooring and foundation underneath this call center, throwing a comfy pair of Keds into the mix would really make all that much difference.

But there is a disgust code. And insurance liability code. Sorry, we can’t hire you!

How does she “keep in contact with Mother Earth” while she’s INSIDE a building?

I will probably regret getting involved in the sidebet discussions about goats that have nothing to do with the strip.

But an AP article says that California uses herds of goats to munch vegetation short so it will be tougher for wildfires to use it as fuel.One company has over 4,000 goats “for hire”

Some of the smaller goat hirers are worried because the State Labor Board is thinking of raising the salary of the average Goat Herder from $3,730.00 to $14,000.00;which the smaller outfits claim they can’t afford to pay.

As soon as he saw $14,000.00, this Gweedo character is probably halfway to California already

Sprocket hasn’t met “the Boss” yet——looking forward to theRick Fletcher double-take expression when she does.

MOVIE QUOTE

SHEMP: “Do you have any bad debts?”

MOE: “I owe Uncle Bertram$800.00”.

SHEMP: “So deduct it from your income tax”

MOE: “How can I? I owe HIM!”

SHEMP: “Do you expect to pay it?”

MOE: “No”

SHEMP: “Then it’s a bad debt!”

INCOME TAX SAPPY—-1954

1-CHAINRING: Sorry about the “lefty shake” but I like to keep my right free for a knockout punch to the chin if needed. SABRA: Same!

2- …And I see you’re ready to deliver kicks ala that Kung Fu TV dude. CHAINRING: Huh? Oh yeah. I didn’t just forget to wear shoes like some people might’ve thought. Nope. That’s not it. At all.

3- …Anyway, I read your newspaper ad so I figure I’m way ahead of everyone else looking for a job given that everybody gets jobs online now.

SABRA: OH! So that’s why no one else has applied. Well, you’d have the job but we don’t hire the disabled. You’re blind, right?

CHAINRING: First off, I’m cool – not blind. Secondly, you have to make up another reason for not hiring disabled or even old people or you’ll get sued. SABRA: Wow. Who knew? Maybe that’s how the boss got hired. Anyway – YOU’RE HIRED! Now gimme a fake name. Don’t worry about the Social Security Number. I’ve got lots I can give you!

I like Ms. Keats already.

ka-flip flops

while Susan is working at the call center, she’ll be listening to this…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZakvxRD44

Sprocket Susan Nitrate Austin Keats is both good and glib, an impromptu speaker well suited to a phone scam (though those are usually scripted), as Sabrina (no known last name), subbing for absent Audie, sees. The vibe is good, and Mother Nature even gets worshipful respect from the intriguing interviewee. The wheels are churning; keep on turning….

Respect: https://tinyurl.com/y8u9fn95