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

yet ANOTHER close relative of Flathead… his sister, yet…

Good morning™, everyone!

Well, it looks like a gang of three it will be for the bank robbery. No sign of a revenge plot yet, and it’s confirmed that Croptop is a sister of Flattop, every though there were doubters yesterday. She has a really big head, but I suppose that’s partly a Flattop family trait.

Which Flattop?

A Flattop’s sister we knew was going straight, onevof the rare white sheeps of the Jones family

these numbskulls are approached by a complete stranger they’ve never seen before who tells them she’s related to a known felon and for all they know, she could be an undercover cop or Fed and yet they take her on good faith…

pretty trusting and they must be pretty hard up for cash and / or a job that they’ll go along with everything of a criminal nature being offered to them on complete blind faith that a stranger puts to them…

another example of the high intellect indicative of the criminal element in Tracyville…

CropTop wants to rob a bank? Talk about small-minded, outdated thinking. She should rob a grocery store, instead. That’s where all the money is these days.

Given the original Flattop, she would be about 60 years or so younger.

What? No references?

I’m waiting for the appearance of Blacktop. Real man of the streets. Likes to hit the pavement.

when will Flip Top, the relation who deals in contraband cigarettes, come around?…

She looks more like Stuffedtop !!!

Go into a bar. Ask, “Anyone want to help me rob a bank?” Hire anyone who says yes.

Nice she has a well thought out plan firmly in place.

I believe this may be termed a less than auspicious inception to the new story arc.

Do people really still rob banks in the US? Do banks even hold cash anymore? Or is this another flashback story?

So who is Poppa Top?

What? No references? No Credit Checks? Just two Joes in a bar? I hope she’s getting quality goods and not scab workers. The United Brotherhood of Rogues, Scoundrels and Ne’er-do-Wells shall hear of this breaching of their well defined regulations!

That was waaay too straightforward. Is this a two-week story?

Looks like the Little Orphan Annie story is put on hold for a while!

Full marks to Charles for his excellent rendition of Crop as a hard-bitten brassy badgirl who looks like she could give Tracy some serious tsuris in the days to come….

This is starting to look like a BDSM movie.

“TOP” of the morning to all you fine Tracy fans!

First time in a long time that I’ve been able to hit the “LIKE” button for Dick Tracy . This is starting out good .

A future Daily newspaper headline: SHOCKING REVEAL ABOUT SPERM DONATIONS IN FLATTOP’S FAMILY

I’ll let some of you contribute to the article’s contents…

“Naah, You geeks heard me wrong. I CLEARLY said my bro’ was RATTOP. He’s little weird. Wears a stuffed rodent as a hat. Kinda’ rocks it, though…”

Disclaimer: This in no way refers to the fabled giant rat of Sumatra, and indemnifies the poster from legal action by the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Besides, in the followup tale, ’Nononono. Not AGAIN, Watson , You Clueless Boob,Holmes clearly identified the pint-sized terror as a severely irate hamster that someone had dyed green and stuck a pair of deelie-boppers on.

In no way, shape, or form was the Earth facing a small if vicious invasion. That was more of serial alarmist loonie Watson’s insane blathering.

Why not just put an ad in the paper? Or maybe flyers on telephone poles??

Why not just use her brothers, Rag and Tank? Or her dad, Pop?

Taking up where your brother, and, etc., left off, Croptop?

Well, let’s just be frank about it, sister!

I’m sorry… was there dialog in today’s comic? I was a bit… distracted.

I presume that she’s his baby sister!!

1-OBVI UNDERCOVER: You’re kind of trim but your face is so bloated. I hear that happens to bulimic people.

2-POP TOP: I’m doing a course of steroids.

3-HARRY ARMS: You gonna be a dude, then? POP TOP: NOT THAT KIND OF STEROIDS, DOLT. The kind President Kennedy took for his chronic illness. I got me one a those too. OBVI UNDERCOVER: Pop Top – “you’re no President Kennedy.”

POP TOP: IF I WANTED ONE LINERS FROM THE DAN QUAYLE – LLOYD BENTSEN DEBATE, I’D GO ON YOUTUBE AND WATCH IT! Hey Harry – that hair transplant from your arms to your head is starting to work! HARRY: I KNOW, RIGHT?

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“We were going to celebrate something that was a mistake in the first place. Your birthday!”

Marlene Dietrich to John Wayne

PITTSBURGH—1942

To quote Bette davis—:What a dump!"

And how did that handsome guy get in here?

I’m betting our new villainess gets around on a motorcycle and expects these two guys to do the same….

Flattop, Poptop (the father), Angeltop (Flattop’s daughter), now Croptop. What’s next? Swingtop?

So…she’s his sister huh? Sorry, aint buying it, she’d have to be in her late 90’s by now…great granddaughter maybe

Is it true, that there was a Really good man in the Flattop family, one of the few, who joined the Navy and was assigned to an aircraft carrier, some refer to them as “flat tops”! +Not much is said about him!

I predict these three idiots will soon wind up in jail.

Maybe I missed it. Did it ever say what happened to Annie’s parents?

Let’s hope that the name of the bank in question isn’t another example of Mike’s “name-dropping”…for example, he might try calling it the Sumetra Bank (high marks to anyone who gets the reference).

She must be the sister of Flattop Jr. Wouldn’t her and Blow top be the only surviving family members? Tracy has sent to the next world the others. If memory serves me correct, Liz popped Jr. in 1956. I don’t have access to back issues of my hometown newspaper to verify this.

Willie Sutton must have influenced her.

Are these guys being facetious? Sat all day on bar stools hoping for an opportunity to get pocket money? Fellows, you all would be better off painting houses. Robbing a bank is “old school”. How about a smash and grab from jewelry cases at the shopping mall?