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

“You could tell they were bad guys because of the black hats.”

Dick is beginning to look the way he should… Chuck is getting there…

at least Dick isn’t looking elongated as he was a few days ago…

Good morning™, everyone!

I wonder if Tracy was driving out of town. That guy in the front in the third panel looks like the guy I suspected was Sirob, but I wasn’t sure.

“Well, we’re full of dinner”, sounds weird. Who talks like that?

Good morning™, Rogue Ramblers !

Dick’s lookin’ a little villainy in P.2.  Refreshing to see smoking in the comics again. (Huff huff wheeeeze)

I think the drawing looks fantastic….

Forcing poor child to becomes a secondhand smoker? What a fiend!

Could have sworn that Boris and his henchmen were turned into monkeys by Mr. Am.

We’ve reverted Annie to her original 10 years old. The Tracy story is set in the present (2024) therefore the flashback has to be set in 2014. Can you imagine a city in America with the street scene shown in panel 3 in 2014?

Unless they were planning to kidnap Warbucks on the set of a movie about the 1920s.

Interesting, if you want to know who Annie’s parents are, google it.

Trailer is Reliart spelled backwards!

TRACY: "The story? Well, okay. (ahem) Once upon a time, there were thee smarmy, wicked little pigs known as the Rasher Gang. They were sinister lot who would stop at nothing and, with ruthless cunning (Ruth planned the caper but was on holiday the week it went down) just cornered the gumball and gummy leech markets for the entire state.

Nothing seemed to stand in their way, and no criminal scheme was beneath them. But even they lived in fear of an even more dastardly Crime Lord only known by the enigmatic name ‘Sam’.

Well, one bight and perky morning, I was merrily skipping down to HQ, reveling in my innate, heroic goodness, strewing flowers t passers-by, signing autographs, and petting stray puppies.

When…IT happened…’

ANNIE: Not THAT story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE NO!!!!!!

OT: Oh, God no. A NAKED GUN remake with Liam Neeson as Frank Drebbin? Nononoononoonoonononnooooooono.

Panel 3, to me, is a “throwback scene” to the earlier era where tracy confronts whatshisname…reading this story is like riding a gigantic rollercoaster, theres too many loops, twists, and turns and they’re all at the beginning…maybe when I go to the urgentcare in a little bit I’ll tell them that I’ve been reading the dick tracy strip…that might explain my dizziness

So where’s Bob G.G. Smith right now? Did he share their bountiful repast and is now seated comfortably off panel leisurely puffing his own cigar, or did Daddy just snatch the Important Photo and detail Punjab to send the pesky old coot on a one-way carpet ride?

Since we’re about to have a foundling orphan (Annie) in the flashback, this might be of interest to you: if you google “safe haven Baby Box Missouri” and you can quickly find a story about the first such baby surrendered last month under a recently-enacted law there.

Did Bob Smith stay for dinner? The timing of his insertion into the story is very weird. Has Annie now seen the photo? Otherwise the sequence is: Bob Smith arrives without Annie knowing, is hidden away in a room of the spacious Hotel Siam suite, Tracy arrives, Annie enters the room connected to the entrance, Bob Smith is brought in and his reason for being there explained, and then…leaves before dinner, the explanation and picture reveal?

…those guys sort of stick out on a crowded street, eh?:Meenie, Miney, Moe…….Sneak, Snoop, Snitch…….Moe, Larry, Curly-Shemp-Joe-Curly-Joe, etc etc etc……….

Who cares ?

That even dress like bad guys

Boris Badenov?

1-DADDY-O: If you let my cigar go out, I’ll sell you to the Plenty family. LOA: I’m surprised you’d let me use matches again after I “accidentally” torched your hair. Who knew hairspray could be so flammable??? I guess you’re grateful I saved you from that expense you cheap-ass, penny pinching, tightwad, skinflint.

2-DT: Hairspray is flammable??? How about Wildroot Hair Oil? Never mind – just stay away from me with those matches!!!

3-MEANWHILE… Sgt Fury and two former members of The Howling Commandoes respond to “IT’S HOWLING TIME!” by clutching fists and leaning menacingly into their aggressive daily stroll.

KID: Do you think they hurt their backs in the war, Mama? MAMA: Just shutup and keep walking!

So far, comments are more interesting than the “story.”

Boris is no criminal! He’s a nice guy! He just wants to say Hi. He’s an old friend of Warbucks.

I can just about hear the obligatory “bad guy” music playing in panel 3.

Just got back from the e.r. a few minutes ago…its a benign vertigo, so I can get over the counter meds to take care of it…and since I work at Walgreens I can pick them up tomorrow when I get in, I called out today obviously lol…they didn’t have them at the OTHER Walgreens closer to my house, so I had my job pick up the prescription for me and fill it there instead…I’ll be fine, just need to take them as needed but I DO have to make an appointment with a primary care doctor for the high blood pressure issue

Really a Good looking evil trio.

So, this episode is going to begin with a flashback, then shift to the present. Boris Sirob wants to kidnap Warbucks for (a) his money (b) his brillant mind © the prestige, media coverage and opportunity to market I kidnapped Daddy Warbucks tee shirts, hoodies and jogging suits.

I am confused as usual. Panel 3, why does Boris and his team of bad guys walk in a menacing stance and “telegraph” his possible intentions? Is it to say “get out of our way” ?What is wrong with a leisurely stroll and not attract attention to yourself and gang.

♫ We’re mean! ♫

♫ We’re evil! ♫

♫ We’re criminals! ♫