Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 27, 2019

Good morning™, hoodlums!

Law books can be dangerous! I does seem that Doc is not so innocent anymore. Here are a couple of snippets from Pulp Fiction :

Jules: You remember Antoine Roccamora, half black, half Samoan, used to call him Tony Rocky Horror?

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Mia : Marcellus throwing Tony out of a four story window for massaging my feet seem reasonable?

Vincent : No, it seemed excessive, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. I mean, I understand Marcellus is very, very protective of you.

Nice glasses. ✨

Sounds like it’ll be a blast to read.

And those instructions don’t make Sally suspicious?!

thank God we can keep the excitement level down by, as usual, switching off to another storyline in the middle of the climax of the first…..maybe we can start throwing a few ads in, too….go all out?

There have been letter bombs and package bombs. I’ll bet ten to one he’s sending a book bomb.

I’ll bet Tony is going to feel time-warped when he opens it!

This is a BOMB!!!

uh annie? Gypsy? my goodness. there’s more momentum in “Inspector Danger’s crime quiz”

1- BUGSY: Get in here Busty! 2- Yes? BUGSY: What’s the other button on this gadget do? 3- BUGSY: Oh never mind. Get upstairs and close the roof. Flies are getting in and this rain gear is getting hot. BUSTY: It closes the roof. BUGSY: What? BUSTY: That button. It closes the roof. BUGSY: Oh…

Another dumb blonde joke.

Fit and trim

Yet not too slim

Sally has some skills.

In the lab

She is so fab

Doc’s new tome sure kills.

Take the book

Doc’s off the hook

Sally’s pace is brisk.

Off she goes

A lovely rose

Blind to the grave risk.

Dear Stanton and Curtis: There’s a difference between “foreshadowing” and “telegraphing” plot points; this, sirs, is telegraphing.

“Tony Rocky Horror”

Is the book titled “Great Picture Shows”?

Boy these guys sure test the limits of how much BS the reading public can take. And poems ain’t gonna save it. Seems like the last two seasons of Lost. Everyone gets jerked around

It’s likely not a bomb in the book; it’s probably poison gas or toxic fumes. “Uncle” Flyface used a similarly booby-trapped MacBook to spring himself and Willie the Fifth from jail.

Must be a dangerous place to work. Sally already wears safety goggles.

Rocky will have a blast reading the book…

Ah, the classic bimbo.

Doc? Sally? Tony Rocky Horror?!

A book-bomb?

What a waste! I mean of a book, of course, right?

And why the implicit assumption that “everyone knows” an obscure reference from Pulp Fiction?

Tony Rocky Horror? I shiver with Antici……………………..

Sorry I’ve been a bit behind, but ohhh my. She’s a fine addition to the strip. Now I hope to see more of her.