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

Silver is finding himself in a spot now…

Could have just thanked him for the suggestion.

Cross-eyed B.B.

Good morning™, everyone!

As far as I can see Agee didn’t review any movies after 1948 and he died in 1955, but Silver Nitrate is a huge fan of very old movies.

All the recycled villains may be stale, but the artwork is fresh.

stone walls may not make a prison, or iron bars a cage, or incarcerated bad guys engaged in literary society debate a comic strip.

Say what on earth going on here?

Good morning™, Threatening Thugs !

We got one no name generic guy and two bonafide Tracy foes. Silver looks a mite uncomf’terble. BB should not be so confident .. if Nitrate gets a hold of some piano wire…

BB Eyes drowned after falling handcuffed in the river from a bridge way back in 1942 and widow Kitty helped Itchy in starving Dick Tracy. Mike retconned him saying he survived using an aqualung. Yeah sure. BB never was my favorite DT villain hope Silver does him in

I prefer “Lucasta, Going to the Warres”. It’s shorter.

I could not love thee (Dear) so much,. Lov’d I not Honour more.

As a frequent user of my local small-town library, I have my doubts that the Agee book just happened to be in the prison library. Perhaps Silver requested it through the online Inter-prison library loan webpage, and it just came in?

“And may I heartily suggest 1,004 1/2 WITTY INSULTS TO SPRING ON THE SCREWS (WHILE AVOIDING SOLITARY).

Either this is meaningless dialog or there’s some kind of code talk that has something to do with the potential jailbreak that’s been hinted at over the past few days.

1- LARRY THE LIBRARY (ian): Here’s the book you wanted – the one that can most effectively hide shivs made from license plates in the spine.

2- BB GUNN: Oldest trick in the book. HA! See what I did there? SILVER EAGLE: I don’t get it.

3- BB GUNN: Like our encounter today, it doesn’t really make any sense and nobody really cares. Maybe I just said that to make you wonder if you were missing something truly clever and erudite!

Going way back to the story that started out showing Silver in prison and then Sprocket and male pattern baldness guy going to the book show and Sprocket working for Audie in the call center I don’t remember Silver coming off as a wuss like he is here . A guy like that usually winds up being somebody’s bitzch .

Mr Lovelace’s literary agent really is aggressively promoting his client, isn’t he!

SILVER: Why are there all these underlined words?

Nitrate may regret turning down his suggestion.

MOVIE QUOTE—

“Hey,Warden,you better lock this!”

John Garfield,—-CASTLE ON THE HUDSON—1940

Silver is apparently being pressured to take part in a prison break,but he wants no part of it.

What galls me is that after 82 years BB-Eyes still hasn’t smartened up.Where he’s concerned,I hope the tower guards have good aim