Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 04, 2024

I do believe I’m getting the hang of this! Enjoy.

https://youtu.Be/FhvAFuwbBN8?si=8pY0KioqOj3VkJNt

did we REALLY expect that things were gonna go awry?…

“It’s okay if I can’t feel my legs, right?”

Good morning™, everybody!

Patrick seems happy with the result, so I guess the illusion went well.

The people living in Tracyville are very easy to please. That trick’s been explained many, many moon maids ago!

Me saw what you dids there.

OK … we’re heading for a crossover with Mandrake

Good morning™, pretenders !

My blood lust has Not been sated. STEP IT UP, MIKE !!!

Nice shocked looks in P. 2.

Can she put him back together? Guess I’ll find out tomorrow.

I’ll be honest: If more people getting sawed in half with a chainsaw or some other savage method was used in magic tricks, more people would attend, I think.

Oh, it’s the old hypnotise gem trick isn’t it? That’s what she’s got in her isn’t it?

Over 120 years ago one of my foremothers saw this performed in a carnival show. She was about eight years old at the time… and worried about it for years until as a young girl she figured it out….

Where is the blood tripping out of the box ?

Patrick says “Just call me Stubby”!

Visuals in panels two and three are awesome! Like!

The Kool Aid man ought to be making an appearance soon!

MOVIE QUOTE

“She looks as healthy as any woman I’ve ever met!”

“You don’t look as though you EVER met a healthy woman!”

Sig Rumann&Groucho Marx

A DAY AT THE RACES—1937

Pretty tame stuff today but Vengey brought the goods .

Don’t applaud him!! I’m not cut in half!! STOP APPLAUDING,IT’S A FAKE!!(Bounce,Bounce).

P1 – We definitely see some action going on with that borg eye. No idea what that’s about.

She has the clap in the third panel.

*1-♪♫ I’M A LUMBER JACK AND I’M OK. I SLEEPS ALL NIGHT AND I WORKS ALL DAY! ♪♫

2-RED: OH MY! SHE’S STEALING THAT MONTY PYTHON ROUTINE!

3-MR. THROCKMORTON: Psssst! I want a 50% raise or I reveal that I’m a dwarf who walked up here on stilts! FATS: Oh yeah? NOW WATCH AS I REPEAT THIS TRICK ON THE TOP HALF OF THE BOX!

MR. THROCKMORTON: HUH? HANG ON! 25%? 10? 5? I’LL TAKE A CUT! Oooh. Bad choice of words.

She can really work a crowd! :D

They are probably supposed to be stars, but her cape looks like a spider web complete with spiders and flies.

Looks like another fine mess she’s gotten into….?

Okay, her bona fides have been established, let’s get on with the story

Maxine Viller,Stooge Viller’s sister.Sailed to Europe in 1933 and was never seen or heard from again.She was a famous jewel thief.

Next to Ribs Mocco,the strip’s most prominent “missing person”.

His last words?

An even better trick would be if she can put him back together again, better than he was.

“Someone sliced in half? Only Xaveria Libris could be behind this!”

I just noticed the flash daggers coming out of Fata’s eyepiece in panel 1.

Loads of noise and lights and, lo, the box has been divided. Fortunately, Patrick reacts “oh yeah” along with the rest of us. Fata has played her audience (including us beyond the Fourth Wall) perfectly.

Love the art, too. Panel 1, the saw descending towards us and chips flying. The panicky pair in panel 2. And the illusion played out in panel 3 as Morgana strikes a pose….