Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 07, 2024

“Shot through the head. Could be natural causes.”

Death never really takes a “holiday”.

Good morning™, everyone!

“The Scar Brothers” — sounds like bad news just by the name.

Did the “Calling Dick Tracy! Calling Dick Tracy!” ever happen in the strip before that cartoon series? I can’t remember ever seeing it in old strips.

Guess the “Dick Tracy Signal” isn’t working tonite. They shine a silhouette of a hat into the sky.

nope, today’s installment isn’t doin’ it for me, especially today’s art… the sleeve looks really bad and pudgy hands seems to be Howie’s thing…

~ Good morning™, Good Minit Mysteries !

You can’t deny the quality of the art and I think the story will do well too despite the always inevitable “pickers” work which I think will be much gentler than in “Mini Miseries” of the past.

Mike continues to disappoint, in his own stories, but he picked some winners this time. :-)

(I’m on the Charlie cheat sheet mail list. LOL !)

Twosize Twobig Twacy.

Time seems to be scewed here. A cellphone with a camera on yesterdays, and now a 2 way /wrist radio?/

Love the 2-way wrist radio arrow, just like the old days!

The first panel sets the mood, well done!

We are left in suspense on how this version of Tracy will look. I agree the “Calling Dick Tracy” is artificial — unless the city only has one officer does it matter what detective is sent out on a call? I do find the use of closeups and framing visually interesting.

Aaand he is back in action!

The Scarborough Law partners are known as the ‘Scar Brothers’? Makes them sound more like defendants than attorneys….

Love that first panel .

Loving the art this week. Noir and cartoon-y, with nods to Gould and the Beatty film. I’m hoping for some big uppercuts from Tracy later in the mystery.

Oh that’s right. Two-Minute Mystery.

Has Matthew K. Manning ever been a guest writer before ?

I do like the old- school notation pointing out the 2- way wrist radio

I’m liking the pacing so far, and the “mood” as well….not sure if it’s the dead of night (no pun intended) or daylight savings has set in and it gets dark early in tracyville. What I DO like, however, is that the city itself is playing a part in this story what with the overhead train trestle in yesterday’s offering and the skyscrapers in today’s…very “artistic”…so far so good

This year’s Presidential Election is Kamala Harris vs. Shirtsleeve Kelton

MOVIE QUOTE—-“I’ll feed you to the villagers, like they fed Christians to the Lions!”

Lionel Atwill to Basil Rathbone—-SON OF FRANKENSTEIN—1939

Lyle Lattell, where are you?

Who else noticed how the round yellow moon in Panel 1 was alluded to in Panel 3 with the big round circle and Tracy’s yellow hat? No one? Well – I guess I HAVE trained myself to notice important details and symbolism and stuff that looks like ladies private parts even if it’s not meant that way… (self important expression on face and dismissive sniff here).

For the curious,DICK TRACY TOMMY GUNS AND HARD TIMES has all the “unrelated” comic relief Sunday strips before they merged in mid-1932.

Ever wanted to see Big Boy in drag?

Bellbottom sleeves! Tracy might be a flatfooted trendsetter!!!

Even the “electrical static” zig-zags coming from Tracy’s radio are drawn the way Gould used to draw them! Nice.

I’m pretty sure this is referencing the early 60s cartoon except that instead of Tracy sending Joe Jitsu or Hemlock Holmes & The Retouchables to answer the call, he’s going himself.