Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 11, 2017

Steeee-riiike !!!

She wins – he loses.

Crime does NOT pay.

Guys, a few hours ago I stumbled across some info nobody yesterday seemed to know about.

Hanna Star is a real life teenaged pop singer.

http://hannastar.squarespace.com/

I’ve been slowly rereading past DT stores on GoComics. Yesterday I was on the Broadway Bates story from 5 years ago. The 11/30/12 strip is set in Honeymoon’s room and features a Hanna Star poster. I might not even have noticed except I read the comments and Hanna’s dad was there, revealing who she is. You could’ve knocked me over with a feather. The same day Hanna Star is explicitly mentioned in the DT strip, and I happen to read a past strip that reveals she’s not just a name Mike Curtis made up.

I found this out Sunday night, 10 PM EST. I waited to reveal this now when the next strip came up because I wanted more people to see this.

How does the “Chicago way” work here? “They pull a knife, you shoot … lightning?(!)”(Would love to hear that in a Sean Connery voice)

Ugly Crystal bent down, picked up the knife and aimed for the trying-to-stand-up mugger’s throat and shouted “No, I’m the winner”

UC forgot to throw the knife. 8D

Good morning all! ™

Hoo boy! Honeymoon has gotten a lot more comfortable slinging finger zaps! I hope she doesn’t get too cocky and cause problems for herself.

Honeymoon really knows how to take “charge” of a situation! Okay now that I said that, I guess the rest of you will follow me.

Very poor continuation from yesterday, which saw UC almost directly behind Honeymoon. Today she’s she’s slightly in front and to the right.

Sorry kids but that’s just sloppy work.

Having said that, today’s strip is excellent, with a lot of action and suspense.

Also, it’s highly unlikely the government would allow anyone to walk around with the ability to zap people at will. It’s only a matter of time before Honeymoon hurts an innocent person, which would actually make for a very interesting, thought inducing storyline. If only the team had the nerve to put this well liked character under the spotlight.

Crystal would have gotten the same results if she had shown her face.

I assume this dark alley in the mall (???) is behind a hardware store, since he’s threatening them with a gardening trowel.

Funny how that knife looks more like a brick workers’ trowel…

Shocking development!!!

Blunebottle raises a good point. Self-defense is a very tricky, and narrow definition in the law, as told to me by my own sensi. Now add the concept of a girl who can generate electricity strong enough to disable a man — possibly kill. It’s going to be a slippery slope for Honey.

Never bring a knife to a “ZAP!” fight

“Zap-a-dee-doo-dah, zap-a-dee-ay,

That thug’s not having a wonderful day…"

I’ll lay 10-1 odds that Honeymoon get’s charged with “over reacting” and given 5 years probation. The guy with the knife? He will be hired by the mall to “protect” other shoppers from other over-reactive shoppers.

The would-be thief wields a double-edged dagger. He may well be adept at grappling. Honeymoon was wise not to wait until she or Ugly Crystal had been stabbed to unleash a Zap. Having learned from Mysta, Honeymoon would not use lethal force (if, in fact, lethal force is even an option). Strong cinematic elements in the two-panel format, as we move from behind and between the ladies to their right-hand side, just in front. Kudos to Honeymoon and to Team Tracy. Adapting Gould’s Ugly Christine to the new character of her niece is a visual winner. While Crystal may have been able to protect herself with skills she gained at finishing school, best that she was not tested with knife-work close in. She may consider herself in Honeymoon’s debt. A fact that could pay off down the line when Uncle Bribery’s nefarious ways put her loyalty to the test.

Dang it, Honeymoon is too quick. I was hoping to see Crystal get all ugly at him.

Welcome back Charles Ettinger as Guest Inker.

Unusual fixed-blade stick-knife that thug (probably a druggie) is carrying. Maybe Honeymoon’s Emergency Electro-Shock Therapy will help him turn around his excuse for a life.

Fortunately, being in one of the dark and obscure backways of the mall, only the Thug, Honeymoon, and Ugly Crystal were present to see what happened. Under the circumstances, the Thug is unlikely to sing a song of woe that anyone, even a professional Do-Gooder Defense Attorney, would take seriously (especially if he does indeed have a history of substance abuse). Honeymoon and Ugly Crystal will move on. Only Uncle Bribery will hear the story, once his niece calls on T-Bolt and is brought home….

Give Joe & Mike credit for being so prescient, & running this sequence the exact same time the empowerment of women is the biggest story around.

This may have been a set up just to find Honeymoon, too!