Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 06, 2013

Mr. Pressure, meet Mrs. Tracy. The former one, anyway.

Good morning all…

MM/Mysta isn’t going to use full voltage on Hy Pressure!

I hope this works. She sounds regretful over what she did to Sparkle.

Good morning, VB!

this is all a little unbelievable, but fun just the same! Of course, common sense tells us that getting rid of Hy just means they send someone else to do the job….

SOMETHING is going to go wrong…..just not sure what.

DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT!!!!! (And congrats on the Harvey Award nomination, Team Tracy!)

Here’s the windup… and the pitch….

I really want Mysta to let ’er rip, but I know something is going to go very, very, wrong. (I mean, it has to – nothing can be that easy in this story!)-————————————- And I love the “LLP” on his business – limited liability, indeed!

Team Tracy nominated for a Harvey? Man, have I been out of the loop!

I’m thinking that this is going to backfire on her somehow

Clone-Moon Maid, the so-called selenite, the lunar loose cannon, is about to electrify Hy Pressure. On his turf. At low power. What could possibly go wrong?

I could use some of that power…

margueritem: Love the Halloween bumper and taillights. Took me a bit to recall – ‘57 Cadillac, aren’t they?

Time for Tracy and crew to arrive to check out the earlier complaint.

Will get there about the time Pressure is zapped.

Possibilities are endless.

People that love Moon Maid love her intensely – perhaps almost as intensely as those who appear to hate Moon Maid. But we’ve killed that dead horse to death how many times already?

But it is tiring, to me at least, to keep seeing things like “clone moon maid” and “bogus moon chick”…

Sail and Ghote seemed to have dropped off the radar of late. All we know is that Bardoll is to be replaced. By whom, we don’t exactly know, but there is this group called the Apparatus who have already tipped their hands in the Wheaton mess.

Remembering that both Sail and Ghote are criminals and have perpetrated frauds, both in the past as well as the present, in my mind, at least, the only “phony” is the clone theory!

Mysta seems to be “coming around” now that she’s out in the “real world,” so to speak. I’m now considering that the “Sparkle Zap” was pure impetuousness; with no one to hear her speaking, her conversation strongly indicates that she had had no intention of the damage she did.

So, I’m finally letting her off the hook for that one.

But another possible explanation for everything may be this:

When the not-really-dead Moon Maid was stolen from the city morgue, while Sail and Ghote certainly saw to Moon Maid’s recovery, Mysta was, in fact, treated as a prisoner for all of the years since her alleged death!

She was fortunate in that her immediate care givers were Retik and Stellaluna; if all of her care were by Sail and Ghote, Mysta may well have turned into a real monster by now!

While I won’t be totally satisfied until I see Mike and Joe explore the next part of the equation – how to deal with a wife that was declared “legally” dead – but clearly was never dead at all!

But that is a soap opera element that I’m not at all sure even Mike and Joe would want to get into…

Congratulations Mike, Joe, et al for the 2013 Harvey Award Nomination!

SDM, you got me on that one! I sure did. It never worked until I replaced the battery and junked that Chinese battery. The scam didn’t last long, though. At the Comics Show, you run into some weird folks, and it didn’t take long to bump into a guy wearing a red human hair sweater selling autographs for a nickel and passing the plate for M&S. I unloaded that watch on him for a promised drawing, which never came. From what I understand, you have to keep shaking the watch to keep it going; I told him to switch it to his other wrist and it’ll do fine.

Food for thought, Still Da Man!:

Mysta was injured in the car bomb in Aug 1978. Zy Ghote and the Mumbles clone appeared just the next year, 1979. It’s also good to remember that Tracy time is incredibly compressed.

It is all too likely that the now known fraud, Dr. Zy Ghote, already had his hands on Mysta at the time of Mumbles. Perhaps it was his desire to pass off Moon Maid as his first “clone,” but the damage from the bomb was so severe that he couldn’t have her ready in time.

Ghote gave us that clue when he told Sail that “I’ve already done the grunt work.”

Mysta was not ready yet, so he unleashed the Mumbles clone.

Now, Ghote’s back. And guess what? He’s got another alleged clone. But Mysta is about as much a clone as Mumbles was an all-around nice guy.

What we don’t know:

How she survived the bomb

How her body was stolen (which it had to have been – implying yet another arc as we go looking for a crooked cop in the morgue)

Who is buried in Mysta’s grave

Other tidbits:

This is the second time Zy Ghote has targeted Diet Smith. While Sail (and the apparatus) may want a space coupe, Ghote’s motives are far more mysterious.

But yes, I have the faith that, indeed, Dr. Zy Ghote is still a fraud and, as with Mumbles, is once again trying to pass of the real deal as an alleged “clone”!

Greetings fellow Dick Tracy Fans! I have a question for you all, who is the greatest Dick Tracy Villian of all time? For my money, I have to say Flattop. I wish he wasn’t killed off. He was my favorite one. What say you? : )

Yes.

In my opinion it would be the one who gave Tracy the best battles and the one who is most popular with the fans.

tsul2121: Empty casket, indeed? That would seem to be the precise amount of liberty needed to sustain this entire story arc!

Moving on: Is it just me, or is that a new banner on the Dick Tracy page? When did it appear?

(Usually, I view DT at work, at or shortly after midnight, on my iPhone, with no banner) (It’s also why I don’t comment all that much anymore)

Because DNA does not carry memory information. I can easily think of a way to make humans and moon people genetically compatible, but there is no way to make that DNA carry memory. Can YOU think of a way?

I see Pouch, Willie the Fifth, Doubleup, Cueball, BB Eyes, Abner Kadaver, Flaky Biscuits (or is it Paula Dean?), Flyface, & one of the Rize sisters.

And, most definitely, congratulations to our team on being nominated.

I read somewhere one time that when the Flattop character was killed off people sent flowers at the door of Chester Gould.

CONGRATS TEAM TRACY ON THE NOMINATION!!!