Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 24, 2024

Good morning™, everyone!

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”, Essays: First Series, 1841

“The wheels on the bus go round and round”

Hobgoblins? OK, lol….

Good morning™, Tight Operations !

Yep !  That’s how a Real boss operates and the ladies like it that way. Sarah’s P.2. face looks like one of scheming doubt, like she needs to be wary that programs like this can go south very quickly and so needs a “plan B” ready to go. Does she have a kit bag packed for a sudden departure ?

Looks like this blackmail/extortion operation is going to be a tough nut to crack….

“The boss likes things nice & clean. No traces. & you’re a trace.” Get a clue.

Didn’t cover his traces enough though.

Everybody – don’t worry, the case will be solved shortly. B.O. Plenty will stubble onto the scene, while holding his chicken “Henrietta” in the Batmobile creating havoc, thus accidently solving this case. B.O. Plenty appears when you least expect it.

So where is Bordenll cave? Is that where Ma Zooma lives?

So far this summer’s stand-in storyline has settled into a stupendously snoozy siesta….

Ma Zooma or Zoo-Wee Mama??

Hobgoblins?!? Is the Green Goblin and Spiderman going to show up in this story?

And cash is traceable?

The rhetoric continues as just plain blather and the story slowly fades away…….

1- CHERRY BABY: The boss can touch his fingertips together but I can intertwine some of mine! Take that, boss!

2- SARAH SMILE: Yeah…uh, great. Let’s call it a day.

3- CHERRY BABY: Can’t. Boss wants me to take dicktation later. SARAH: Tonight? But I haven’t set-up the William Randolph Hearst bobble head yet! I can’t wait another six months ‘til he’s ready again for dicktation! I have to implement my plan!

CHERRY: What? SARAH: What?

So… anyone read any good books lately?

How about any dreams with some action while you’ve been napping?

Are we sure that XL didn’t fake her death?

Crypto is bad for secrecy, especially in a criminal setting. Once one member of the criminal network is Identified, the rest of the network gets much easier to identify because all transactions are viewable, and transaction analysis will help identify and convict partners in crime. Dollar bills are much more anonymous.

Please. What is this, the Mary Worth action hour? Is there no bloodthirsty villains left in Tracyville? No one to shred and chop quivering flesh? Where’s Shakey? Is Flat top up for parole? Let’s get some baddies in here!

Tell that to the “hyphen guy” who’ll be breaking rocks for the next few decades