Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 08, 2024

Good morning™, everyone!

She was relieved to hear that the hit wasn’t on Dick Tracy, but we haven’t seen her reaction yet about it being Tess and I don’t think she’ll be too happy about that either.

do we get Tess and Johnny Adonis involved in this now?…

Anyone miss me?

Rikki might pull a Blaze and turn into a good guy(gal).

“Hope she likes magic shows!”

Fata and Rikki matched up against Lee and Blaze, could be very interesting!

Why are there always flurries in Tracyville???

I give Mike credit, I’m still interested in this story.

Of course, that’s pretty easy following EC’s snorefest!

If the silhouette is correct, then Rikki has had the baby, or retconned out.

The MC did a bad job on Fata’s face, the eye contraption looks awkward and clumsily over sized on her because of the colouring.

We’ve gone 693 days in NYC without recording at least 1 inch of snow on the ground.

I love it!

Good morning™, surprised contract killers !

I wonder if Morgana cares that it is particularly close to Tracy or that she will charge substantially more for it. Rikki should just catch the next UBER back to the joint rather than try pulling this one off.

“It’s for his wife!” So that’s OK then…

A contract for Tracy’s wife? Huge mistake to accept it.

Fata Morgana has more the body of Seven of Nine than the body of Morgana the Kissing Bandit who almost suffocated Nolan Ryan with her chest!!!

Contract on Tess? Oh! Oh!

Gee. Let’s see which conveniently contrived trick she plan for this one. Not tell me it be the old wait until intended victim appear at magic show trick again. Even shoving intended victim into a big plot hole would makes more sense than that.

Tess, Oh No!

What would be the reason for a “Hit” on Tess anyway?!

Yeah, the basic rule is "Don’t mess with the Tracys.

Do contract killers in Tracyville do all of their business out loud over the phone lines? Do they run ads in the paper so that their phone number is publicized? Do they hand out business cards? How do people find out their phone number?

These are the same unanswered questions we had when Abner Kadaver was taking contracts over the phone while living in his haunted house mansion. I suppose if you got it flaunt it.

Contract on Tess Is as and as a contract on DT

One orders a hit by phone like he orders a pizza? Not likely

What has Tess done lately that could lead to a hit on her? Nothing springs to mind, unless this is an attempt to undermine or distract Tracy himself in some way.

Rikki Is relieved momentarily as she hears Is not for Dick Tracy. I bet her relief will be short lived

Why they have both that operating table green shade on their dresses?

Fata Morgana – your doom is certain .

and that’s not gonna end good either…

MOVIE QUOTE—-“There’s got to be more to your job than handing out tickets like they were confetti!’

Donald Crisp to Pat O’Brien

THE GREAT O’MALLEY—1937

“And it’s Tracy calling. He wants to make her birthday party special with a magic show! hehhehheh”

cue the dark ambient music with discordant overtones which, although broadly tonal, is inflected with chromatic and polytonal passages representing the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style without being interpreted as an overly heavy-handed metaphor within the context of the thematic material a bit on the frenetic and frantic side with interesting rhythmic devices which seem to counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor utilizing a novel imaging technique known as positron emission tomography and the spontaneous nondenominational conceptions

Rikki’s gonna go soft in the end. Tess is a Mother,too.

@avenger9 – I agree! Plus Tracy’s wife!

“… It’s for his wife.”

“WHAAAAAAAT?!!"

Poor, poor Sam. Next month, he discovers the deli is a secret THRUSH satrap HQ, and that pastrami he’s been eating is made from recycled sneakers.

1-FATS: Hey – you’re right – it IS snowing! Thanks for the info, stranger.

2-RIKKI CAN’T FAIL: Sssssnow!!! White death?!?! I HATE IT! It’s pure and lovely like the baby I either abandoned or haven’t had yet!!!

3-FATS: It’s predicted to melt by tomorrow. RIKKI: THANK GOODNESS! FATS: Only to be followed by a blizzard! RIKKI: AIIIIIEEEEEE!

FATS: JK! Say – I think you’re overdoing it with the breast pump – you’re down to double A’s.

RIKKI: Yeah – they only had electric cow milkers in the joint. Fast though which is good when you’re last in line. It wouldn’t be an issue if they stopped hiring male guards!!!

Whoa, this arc has possibilities. Can’t recall anything in the strip’s history directly involving a hit on Tess. Let’s see (hopefullY) if there’s some real movement now and not a week of talk.

Oh geeze! This is gonna get real messy!!

Like trying to fulfill a contract hit on Tess will end up any better for Fata. And, usual rates? It may not be Dick she’s trying to kill, but it’s still a Tracy!

Why do I suspect Fata has been selected to try on either a nice red shirt or an lovely orange jumpsuit with a cell next door to Rikki’s?

Time to leave and come back just to go say goodbye to her in prison, or at her funeral.

And now the saga of Fata Morgana, hit-woman and stage magician, takes a new twist, as someone hires her to take out Tess Trueheart Tracy!

Rikki is relieved that it’s not a contract on Dick Tracy, though Tess is mighty close to being the same Big Mistake, as Dick will certainly do what he can to protect his wife! Rikki should then not be too relieved at this.

It’s a strange world in the big-time hit business. Who wants to have Tess offed, and why? Someone she’s hassled and/or arrested in her PI work?