Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 15, 2024

that he had a horrific stench emanating from him?…

Can this story progress any slower and with any less intrigue??

“As I cleaned the floor, I saw little boxes with the names of writers & illustrators inside them, & an existentialist dread filled me as I realized I was nothing more than a stereotypical secondary character spouting tired, cliched dialogue in a comic strip, & I would shortly be returning to a pitch black void for the rest of eternity.”

Good morning™, all!

More reflections today, this time in the newly waxed portion of the floor.

“I’d missed a spot.”

Good morning™, Waxy Yellow Buildups !

What 2nd hand store of old outdated equipment did the company get that poor excuse of a floor buffer from ?  Did the “T” handle break that she is holding it this way ?  And it doesn’t look comfortable and can even be dangerous if she tilts it just right where it can spin around quick like, into her leg.

Hey Ray, does that look like a stage set to you, with the power cord trailing off the set?

This looks like a case for Lieutenant Columbo and the maid poisoned him with a mixture of cleaning chemicals that produced a poisonous vapor to cause his heart to stop beating and the motive was that he took advantage of her granddaughter!

I like the cleaning lady!

Chekhov’s Reflections

Well, someone yesterday did say it looked like he was taking a dump

Looks like Milongo is floating on an asteroid. And with him sitting on that hard chair, one must wonder if he simply died of asteroid-related problems (the worst type of hemorrhoid.

WHY does that word have an “H” in the “rhoid” part? The person who coined “asteroid” didn’t feel it needed to be _asterhoid" I always have to google the spelling of HEMORRHOID and it pizzes me off to find that 2nd H in there!

1- MARY JUANA: Then the realization that I had keeled my only son heet so hard that I stopped to pray for heavenly relief! My head – she is like to explode!

2- DT: Are you going to say that… MARY JUANA: Si Senor. Both me and the floor needed a BUFFERIN DT: I should shoot you where you stand…

MARY JUANA: Wait. I have more! Like the moon, I waxed while the light in Milongo’s eyes waned. BANG BANG PIT-WHEEEEE!

BIZZARO

What alarmed her?

My theory: she realized that she had polished the floor so well that Leo had to enhance the shadows so we didn’t have to look at an up skirt in the floor.

Hey Vengey , where’s your cartoon today ?

The artwork here reminds me of the drawings in the early 1960’s Dick Tracy Show cartoons.

The chemicals from the cleaning products were making him dizzy?

Let’s get back to the main story.

Booooooring

I’m feeling a need to bash this story, mainly because it came when another was in progress.

Well, the art of Pleger and Ettinger was the saving grace for this sinking ship. This group of doodles deteriorates it further. The Gould family should sue.

It looks like she’s erasing the floor and the guy is defying gravity by sitting in midair.