Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 11, 2024

“Unless I can ride in the hatmobile.”

Careful Macy, you don’t want to become a cropper, copper…..

Good morning™, Defiant Ones !

Aawww, da widdow goil wantsta be tough. Will Tracy have co-ho-nees enough to correct her assertion ?  I like the shocked and apprehensive looks respectively, in P.2. and a fine closeup in P.3.

Good morning™, all!

She’s a “person of interest” in the bank robbery, but like most of Tracy’s suspects, she’s not inclined to cooperate in any way.

Love the mix and attention to the facial expressions in today’s strip, Croptop’s partial face especially!

Oh-Oh!!

Today’s a good balance of suspense and anticipation, with great illustrations.

Nothing is wrong.

Amazing!

Better call for backup, Tracy!

She’s going to try and steal the ‘Hatmobile’ but will hit the fireworks button instead of the ignition. This will be followed by climbing a tree – thinking if she climbs high enough she’ll get away.

I said it before and I’ll say it again, that woman has a very terrifying look!

I think she’s going downtown regardless if it’s convenient or not.

I think the Hat-Mobile™️ fireworks will be in play again soon.

Sorry Croptop, you should have quit while you were ahead. P.S. DO NOT SHOOT IT OUT WITH TRACY!!!

Foolish mortal! You will feel the wrath of Tracy!

greetings, salutations and a hello again to my fellow inmates here at the Fruitcake Factory… as most of you know, I have been missing in action now for almost a week now… no, I have not been apprehended for trespassing on Gweedo’s goat farm, I still maintain my innocence… I have been going through a bit of traumatic mental stress, as I have hopefully and temporarily lost the data on my hard drive due to laziness on my part to back it all up… my hard drive went bad and my tech guy is unable to retrieve the data even with his equipment, as he says it is degraded and dead and it is not even being read by his recovery equipment, so now I am waiting for quotes from several data recovery services who specializes in situations like this… all my files, passwords, licences, apps, downloads, bookmark favorites are all unavailable to me at this time… so this has been occupying my frantic mind until I get this resolved one way or another… if not, I will have lost many years of pertinent stuffs and will have to start over again… so, I won’t be by on a regular basis here til I get this all sorted… much thanks to my good comrade in arms and partner in crime, Gweedo in speaking for me in my absence and for his help… just wanted to update you all and not have you think or worry that I am in dire physical straits… I shall and will return in due course to plague you all with my shenanigans hopefully soon… to the ones who truly miss me, thanks for your concern and support, for those that are glad I’m gone, FLICK YOU, LMAO… see you soon and I’ll update when I can… don’t miss me too much… LOL .. wish me luck …

Did Tracy go there alone??!

TRACY: “Ahh, come on! I just want to know how you managed so many piercings in your ears. It’s not for ME, you understand. Sam’s been considering little bow tie earrings to ‘dude up’ his look! Plus, he thinks it might get him on the revival of THE GONG SHOW ff he can whip his head around and have the passing wind whistle ‘Dixie’ through the piercings. Maybe with the Eroica as an encore for the long hairs.”

1-DT: WE need you to smell my fingers – my butt itches. AND TO GO DOWNTOWN.

2-CLEANCUT: Oooh – he nasty! I won’t smell your fingers but I’LL GO “DOWNTOWN”, Big Boy!

3-CROPPY: “WE” you say? You and this hillbilly? DT: No. Me and… BUCK BUCK CHICK TRACY!!! BOWLING LEAGUE: RUN! FORGET THE MONEY!!!

CLEANCUT: Don’t you mean “photos”? CROPPIE: I changed it to “clothes” when we got here – made more sense. NOW GET OUTTA MY WAY!

Headline suggestion: “Top Cop nabs Croptop”!

“That’s fine with me,” says Tracy. “We need to stretch this scene out for a couple of weeks—at least.”

I see a 3 on 1 fight coming unless B.O. jumps in and help his friend, Macy. I’ve never known B.O. to be afraid of a good scrap.

Too bad, Croptop. Right now Tracy is asking politely. Refuse his request to answer some questions at the station, and, all of the sudden questions about your leaving prision with out leave, will come up.

love the hate face in panel three

I’m gonna guess the “Hatmobile” will be coming into play shortly. Probably with a well-placed burst of fireworks.

Could it be that Blowtop’s last living criminal relative is about to be gunned down by Dick Tracy…..?

Tracy say: “You’ll come down NOW, Mister!!”…….

“Is there gonna be a fight?”—-Stan Laurel—BLOCKHEADS—1938