Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 06, 2024

and we’ll never know what it is…

it’s Mike’s revenge towards us by NOT revealing it…

Panel One: We can only hope!

Now can we have a Dick Tracy story?

Uh, what “work” would that be Tracy?

Good morning™, Jubilant Juveniles !

I’m the haaa-pee-est girl in the whoolllle USA ! ♫♪♫ :-D

P.1. Wull golly gosh gee, little girl. Guess I’ll be on my way. Love the ‘rays’ in P.2.

I was prepared to share on Sunday that my son and daughter in law were expecting their 2nd child, but we found out yesterday that they lost him / her. I can’t say I understand why this has happened, but it’s in difficult times like these that we need to trust the Lord even more than in the good times. Please pray for us during this time of great sadness.

Good morning™, everyone!

Well, I guess that pretty much wraps up Annie. There actually wasn’t much to it, but I think we should be back to crooks that Tracy can pursue by tomorrow.

Interesting, Annie’s right thumb has turned into a dog in panel 2.

Chucky, I dig the imagination!

I thought it had been establishe’s chronically (in the original strip) that her birthday was February 29. Thereby "explaining " why she hadn’t aged at the normal rate.

February 29 is the only way she can be so old and look so young…

Now it can be told…Annie finds out she was born rather than being delivered via “the Stork” who is “an independent contractor”. No association with: Amazon, UPS, Fed Ex, and the post office.

Tracy, there is a cup of coffee with your name on it at MCU. Chief Patton, Liz, Lee and Sam will say who is this stranger? He looks familar.

“The sun will come out…tomorrow!Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow,There’ll be sun!….”

SUPER!

In the movie Annie took place in New York. I always thought Dick Tracy took place in Chicago.

What did Dick even do?

I love reading so many highly on target comments about this very artful strip that lacks any kind of story telling, as we all know for many reasons Mike just “phones it in” with these appalling tales. I grew up with this strip in the 70’s, and as an adult bought the beautiful collection starting at the beginning by Gould. Sheer genius until the end in the 70’s. I know he battled the forces at the time along with the 50’s versions of the soccer moms that put an end to Weird Tales and other comics, they even thought the Three Stooges were harmful to young kids.

But this twaddle that passes as Dick Tracy these days rarely hits a home run. It’s a shame. we get pretty pictures from Shelly and now Charles, but of what? How can they draw with a straight face with these these boring, pointless, rambling anti climatic stories?

Something needs to give. Would love to see Shelley or Charles sign on to do a non-strip graphic novel with a well written story of Dick Tracy, like the old days. Whether in a contemporary or vintage time period, there are stories out there waiting to become Dick Tracy graphic novels that tell a story, pack a whallop and keep our favorite characters engaged. Energy, action, true plot with curves and twists, diabolical enemies, etc.

I’ve said my piece, just an opinion.

“It’s a hard knock tale for us……”

“On the down side, it was originally in 1732, and Ive subsisted on the blood of he innocent all these years. Given things today, I’m gonna have to try a NEW source, huh?”

It was Tracy’s brilliant deductions that solved this case—NOT!

One of our children doesn’t have a known birthday. He was abandoned; and found on Day X. A doc said “He looks like he’s about a month old.” So his official birthday is a month before he was found.

Didn’t Annie usually celebrate the day Warbucks adopted her, as a birthday?

Note how radically different Annie looks when she’s got those eerie blank eyeballs shuttered….

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We all take so much for granted. It is nice to remember how important knowing something as simple as what day you were born on can be.

I like it better when Annie refers to DT as just “Tracy”, as she did when first seeing him again on February 28) and as she has since first appearing in this strip in 2014).

Now, Daddy… about that pony…

The way I see it, since Annie’s strip was cancelled, Tracy has adopted her as a second “Daddy”. He just gave her an expanded origin story and, perhaps most importantly, helped keep her trademark active. And perhaps laid the groundwork for Annie’s next visit which hopefully will include some more time for girl stuff with Honeymoon like fighting criminals and international terrorists and stuff.

1-DT: It’s been real. Don’t take any wooden nickels. Don’t dirty your drawers like those dirty hoors. Don’t…

2-ANNIE: I HAD PARENTS!!! WHO DIDN’T CARE ABOUT ME! LEAVING ME TO A CRUSTY OLD CARPET BAGGER AND HIS BI*CH OF A WIFE AND ONLY LETTING THAT BE KNOWN THROUGH A HURRIED-NOTE TO THE WORLD’S WORST LAWYER! I SHOULD GO SEE IF THIS “GREAT LUCK” CONTINUES BY SEEING IF I CAN WALK THROUGH A MINE FIELD UNSCATCHED! maniacal laughter

DT: Uh…sure. Have fun. Night all! I wonder where she’s going to find a mine field in Tracyville…

Coming in 2005, an EPIC! BOLDER the BOND! More TERRIFYING than FRANKENSTEIN! Naggier than OSCAR THE GROUCH on a sugar high! It’s…(wait for it)…DICK TRACY VS KAREN!

She got a parking ticket but she’s SPECIAL. Let the nagging begin!

Leapin’ lizards! That’s it?!!!? This arc isn’t even near the day the strip began: Aug 5, 1924! What a waste of time! This is getting almost as bad as Alley Oop is now!

Great sorrow. Jesus said….My father’s house has many rooms.

“Before you leave, could you un-blunk my eyes? Pogo and Albert keep telling me it looks goofy.”

Annie: I have a birthday! [looks at paper again] Wait… I’m a hundred years old?

DW: And Annie, here’s your present! Matched Sharpies Treat yourself to pupils! it’s tax deductable

Dick Tracy in “The Sovereign Citizen Traffic Stop”.

“I wasn’t driving, I was traveling. I don’t need a license. Besides, I’m a citizen of America Republic, so I don’t have to follow your laws!!”

“Ah, a dirty foreigner.” BANG BANG

“Sam, send a cleanup crew, then meet me at the deli.”

Time for Annie to launch into a stirring rendition of “Tomorrow.”

Starting tomorrow in this space: Annie, Girl of the 21st Century!!! With an episode 1 cameo by Dick Tracy!

Something tells me the next arc with Annie will be her first birthday party. I like the idea.

Shouldn’t she be throwing it in the air?-Oh, wrong character.

I think today’s artwork is just stunningly good.

I wont be on at turnover as the power has been shut off in this area due to high wind. A precaution in case a line goes down somewhere, like it did last time. I don’t expect to be back on until morning or later.

Do you mean to tell me this whole thing was a set-up so you have an in-universe reason for wishing Annie a happy birthday in August?