Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 19, 2013

Watch your fumbling mouth, Mumbles! Stiletta perfectly understood what you said, and she’s not pleased!Good morning everyone!

Watch it, Mumbles, you do NOT want Flattop’s widow angry at you.

BEWARE a woman scorned! Did Mumbles just sign his own death warrant?

Stiletta is quite peeved…Good morning, Ashmael.

That third panel is great!

I’m not too worried for Mumbles. If Mrs. Ftattop kills him, it can always be revealed that Mumbles used his magic yoga to fake his death. When Max Allen Collins brought back Mumbles, he pretty much made him immortal. It’s how Mumbles survived the death Mike Kilean wrote for him.

They need to conserve their energy so they can avoid another Tracy buttwhuppin……hey, not bring back Flattop himself….it’s a comic, not real life after all. And Pruneface too….let’s have some REAL fun…..yeaaaaa!!!!!

“why not”

“Flattop was CLASS all the way”.

Yeah, if by class you mean a trigger-happy psycho killer.

Oh, my, if looks could kill, that last panel would be the death of Mr. Mumbles.

Something tells me that Mumbles has made a very dangerous enemy, here.

Good morning everyone…

Hey Double Up! Stiletta has a ponytail, a Ponytail!Think he should make a pass at her, like he did with Blaze? (grin)

Now watch, Stiletta is gonna have mumbles attempt to break kadaver out of jail. “if they survive, fine.. if either one dies, it’s an acceptable loss, if they BOTH die, well then… more the better for us.” yeh, i can TOTALLY see stiletta saying that! lol! you think mumbles doesnt think flattop was all that great because he had a better outing against tracy than mumbles did? ;)

I think Mumbles will not live long and prosper. Angering a woman named "Stiletta—— not a good plan.

Good morning VB, Margueritem and all. As noted by Mark, 60’s, Dennis and others the last two days have been true artistry!

If Flattop left her, then HE was the one that “scorned” her originally. You’d almost think she would agree with Mumbles.

It is good to see the criminals gathered together. True artistry, indeed. While I prefer Stiletta with green eyes, as seen in the Comics Kingdom version, I’m loving her fierce face. Double Up is wise to keep quiet! Keep quiet! It would be a fun feature in volume II of Calling Dick Tracy! if we were able to toggle between color and black and white for the dailies.

If Stiletta was a teenager when she had Flattop Jr and Angelica, and Angeltop was in her late 20s when she died, and let’s suppose that was five years ago in comic time. That would make Stiletta 18+28+5=51. She’s in good shape for her age.________________________________

You are correct. Flattop and Stiletta married in their teens and had two children as Frizzletop explains in the strip on July 30, 2012. She may have even been younger than 18 when they married.

Although she seeks revenge for the deaths of every member of her family, notice that Stiletta mentions her children first.

She doesn’t like Mumbles saying that her husband was nothing, huh?

Uhgoddanifinmufored. (I’ve got a knife in my forehead.) Howdhpn? (How’d that happen?)

Stiletta is also a grandmother. Angeltop had a son, Harold “Hi-Top” Jones, out of wedlock with a jazz musician whom she later killed. Hi-Top was a teen-aged rapper who became involved in a drug ring along with Little Boy, a young ex-con who falsely claimed to be the grandson of Big Boy (who put out the contract on Tracy that accidentally got Moon Maid killed). Little Boy was killed in a building collapse but Hi-Top was apprehended. He was 18 and so he waS tried as an adult and should currently be serving time.

Flattop comes from a large family, many of whom have appeared in the strip and are still alive.

Actually, I am assuming that Stiletta was 16 when she had Flattop Jr. and 18 when she had Angelica.__________________________________

You are probably pretty accurate. Stiletta told Tracy that in her youth she had been a hill girl. Some of the more rural states have very young ages of consent. So your theory seems accurate.

BB Eyes should know, he teamed up with Flattop in the Dick Tracy Show. Mumbles, it’s bad enough you said something nasty about Flattop that made Stiletta’s blood boil.You better not say anything nasty about her children, or you definitely will be pushing up daisies.

“What’d he say?”

Mumblespeak Translator: He said, “Aaaaw, Flattop wasn’t that great.”