Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 21, 2024

panel two looks good actually, as well as Dick in panel three…

Oh my God!!! the first panel is horribly drawn! There’s no excusing it!!!

Is she “dumping a leg” in panel two???

Tracy looks like a “Paint by numbers” picture in panel three!

“Dance of death.”

Good morning ™, Terpsichorean Teasers !

Coulda been the start of a beautiful relationship but he spurned her because he is looking for ‘man meat’ and she just couldn’t take That. Tracy looks pretty spiffy in P.3. even if he doesn’t fit the ideal image that Tracy purists foster and carry.

Can’t blame the MC for P1 because the black ink is done by the artist.

Good morning™, all!

I’m here if anyone was wondering. I had other priorities when the strip dropped. So, with any luck we’ll get the question of the day tomorrow.

Tracy is channeling Colombo.

Well, No one can say she does not have ’dancer’s legs’….

To be, or not to be, is that the question?!

My theory, the guy (passionate, dramatic, depressed) got up from the chair and left the room, then returned and shot himself, hence the footprints. We know he had the gun on him already, so perhaps he needed to go and fetch some ammunition?

“Can I take you out for dinner this evening. My wife is back in the States and I get lonely.”

Coming up Sunday: Felipe’s Canadian half-brother Dudley (also in town for the ‘conference’) does right and cracks the case, sending Tracy home in bitter ignominy….

Why has Celestine donned sunglasses in Panel 1? To hide her tears of grief?

1- CELESTINE _It’s pronounced CELE- STEIN!: Yes. Turn off the lights please. Even with sunglasses I am finding it too bright in here…

2-: …I believe my eyes became sensitive to light from all the popping flashbulbs of photographers trying to get a shot that would answer the question on everyone’s lips: Is she wearing any underwear?

3- DT: I have one question, ma’am (sneer) Were you? And did the fact that you weren’t reveal that you’re a dude? And did that revelation surprise Milonga so much that he could no longer make love to you? And did he kill himself knowing that he’d never again find a “dance” partner so perfect? Oh. And did you kill him?

CELESTINE: Yes. DT: Uh…to which question?

Dick Tracy apping Columbo!?

Where did the shades come from? And why?

“I do have just one question, Ma’am…(Music swells in the background) Shall we dance?”

“Cause they don’t dance like Carmen no more.

She and ol’ Cougie, my what a pair

Jus’ doin’ the Rhumba as no one else dared

Slidin’ and glidin’ ’cross Hollywood floors

But they don’t dance like Carmen no more" They Don’t Dance Like Carmen No More Jimmy Buffett

(Cougie was Xavier Cougat)

MOVIE QUOTE

“No Mutant Komodo Dragons Were Harmed In The Making Of This Film”

Closing Credits—-CURSE OF THE KOMODO—2004

One question: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

Panel 2—-some sex implied.

Panel 3—No solution implied.

I’m actually homesick for Silver Nitrate.

“WHAT is your favorite color. Nonono, TWO questions. What is the air speed…”

“Does this trenchcoat make me look fat?”

Proof that the classic shading Gould developed for DT isn’t easy to get right. It just ends up looking like harsh lighting if done wrong.

Dunh dunh daaaaaa…

The cleaning lady did it. She wanted to be Felipe’s new dance partner and killed him when he laughed at the absurdity.

“Do any of you guys know how to Madison?”

Tomorrow,Tonsils 2 sings “The Lord’s Prayer”,after which global athiesm will spike 25%.

“…who’s your dance teacher?”

…I have one too! Are you wearing drawers under that skimpy skirt, mam-zelle???

Now the music to “Fernando’s Hideaway” is stuck in my head

" I know a dark secluded place, a place where no-one knows your face…"

It’s “Hernando’s Hideaway”—-and see if you can find Homer&Jethro’s spoof song of it