Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 25, 2023

well, that was fast… back with Adam washing the tunnel stink off her and conniving to stay indoors and unseen…

“So, how was your little side job?”

“The usual, making a few phone calls. And a fire and a shootout.”

“Ha, ha, you’re quite the kidder.”

“Yeah, kidder.”

Good morning™, everyone!

So, “Susan” is just relaxing back the the hotel or apartment, as if nothing interesting ever happened. Well, she does know that being seen around town might not be in her best interests.

@ jim_pem

Your sewer survey sounds fascinating. Sounds like your company cares and I trust not at the end of a hot poker but that there is a prevailing attitude of doing right by our natural surroundings.

@ Ray Toler

I did get around to the song at the saloon. If my current self was doing stage work I might need to go in with certain “enhancement” not to overcome shyness but to immerse myself in the silliness of it all. LOL !

Good morning™, bathing beauties !

Sprocky looks most alluring. The essence of pure Americana, who lived a wholesome pollyanna existence. If Adam only knew……..

Is this the first time we’ve seen Susan/Sprocket without her shades?

I always take off my glasses [and watch] before showering.

Wash away the grime and all evidence of crime. “Susan” escapes foul fate. Stay in and celebrate!

A great idea, I like how the lady thinks!

Those are both really nice portraits. Good work Shelley.

oh i like her

She won’t be unseen by Adam

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“Stop the music! I just had a fight with my conscience!”

:And what happened?"

“I WON !”

Fred Clark&Maxie Rosenbloom—-ABBOTT&COSTELLO MEET THE KEYSTONE KOPS—1955

Okaay,add this to the strip’s history of “great bathtub scenes”

Debbie Thorndike in January 1942

Lizz trapping The Chameleon—-Late 1970 or early 1971

We;ll skip Gravel Gertie bathing in a bucket to get ready for her wedding.

You know,Sprocket really IS in love with this guy! Willtheyname their baby “Widgit”?

This is the former 198.23.5.11 signing off.And remember to use Root Cream WIg Oil, the favorite of well dressed murderers all over the USA

After interviewing all of the scam phone callers detained after fleeing the building before, each one mentioned nothing unusual lately – except a new girl that wore sunglasses indoors, and was always barefoot.

Did I miss something here?

New series? How about the Backwards Boiler Room where police chief, Auditory, with his cousin, Samantha, team up with Sprocket, a PI, and Madison, an undercover cop with zucchini hair, investigate Tracy and Sam…

I just wonder whether he would really write Susan/Sprocket as a good guy or a bad guy.

1-ADAM: MARCO! ”SUSAN”: POLO!

2-ADAM: There you are! I wouldn’t have thought to look for you in the tub! What’s the occasion? ”SUSAN”: It’s the last Friday of the month, silly!

3-ADAM: So it is! I’d better go get some coins to tip the Housekeeper tomorrow. She’ll be scrubbing that tub for hours. ”SUSAN”: Care to join me wink wink ? ADAM: I’d sooner bathe in a pig trough!

”SUSAN”: OINK OINK, BABY! ADAM: Oh, what the hell – CANNONBALL! SPLASH!

I’m quite surprised, and shocked, by Firey’s subdued comments about Sprocket in P2. Are you O.K. Firey? ;P

Sprocket has found happiness—-but her brother’s chance of meeting a nice girl are rather slim under his circumstances.

Who will Sprock be loyal to once all 3 eventually get together in the same room?Be with us on Sunday for the return of Meriwether J>Ogden,poet Laureate of the con men

Get in the tub with her you fool!

In the bathtub? Great idea! I like Susan’s way of think.

Susan is indeed a delight to see. Pity she’s not shown more often in a beautiful light.

I will be a little disappointed if she gets arrested in this arc.

Susan (Sprocket) cleans up very well indeed! (She has managed to get home and into her bath quite rapidly, or so it appears; we really don’t know how much time has passed since the exodus.)

And she has, by her suggestive alternative plan for the evening, put a real smile on Adam’s face!

Luckily (?), tomorrow is Saturday and probably the end of this arc (or, at least, sub-arc), so we will perforce leave Adam and Susan alone later to enjoy their privacy…

What Susan wants; Susan gets. I don’t think he can say no to her.

Ok, I think we’ve all had enough of Dick Tracy. I say we start a new strip!! The “SUSAN” strip.