Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 16, 2019

Hmm, backstage where smoking is prohibited and visitors not allowed. Red flags are going up!!!

If nobody’s allowed backstage during a performance, what was Frisk doing back there at the end of the last arc?

I guess confronting for loitering trumps a challenge for smoking in a no smoking area – neither seems to phase our two piñatas – I suspect they’re up to worse conduct before the evening’s done…

Not wise to smoke at a place with so many inflammable materials.

Good morning™, unkempt slovenly trespassers !

How stupid and ignorant are you to be so obvious ?  Are they a distraction to Coffee for the impending conk on the ‘bean’ by an unseen accomplice ?

Is there a reason why everyday I see characters smoking in this comic strip?

Don’t know what’s worse;

That these two bumbling bottom feeders have avoided capture all these years

Or

I still hold out hope for a start to finish competent DT story.

Umm… a real playhouse (especially one big enough to have a star like Vitamin Flintheart) would have an armed guard blocking the door…

At least they didn’t respond like Franz Liebkind: “Hey – what can I do for ya?” “You vill please be unconscious!” (blow to the head)

shift is from 2pm til 8pm today.. then my regular 2 to 11 kicks in starting tomorrow… good thing i have off fridays and saturdays! lol

panel 3 looks like he stole his hat from Agarn

It is my business, literally so you will now leave.

Smoking in the no smoking zone. Very bad people.

SO…. i was told by one of my Yahoo Groups members that the groups section of Yahoo is going to be SERIOUSLY GUTTED shortly. Which is bad news for those of you following the current Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend story im writing… now i know some of you mentioned previously that there is someplace HERE i can post it?

Here’s the info from Yahoo.

Yahoo has made the decision to no longer allow users to upload content to the Yahoo Groups site. Beginning October 21, you won’t be able to upload any more content to the site, and as of December 14 all previously posted content on the site will be permanently removed. You’ll have until that date to save anything you’ve uploaded.

SURPRISE CROSSOVER ALERT!

Look—It’s Dennis Weaver. Arrest ‘em Sheriff McCloud!

1- SHERIFF JACK: Who are those buckaroos…

2- …I don’t remember you being in the play. State your business strangers.

3- ROSIE: Umm…we got signed to do the new sex scenes they’re puttin’ in to try to drum up some business for this turkey.

DAN: Yeah. And we’re rehearsin’ the after-sex smokes part of the scene now so beat it! ROSIE: Nice one Dan.

Looks like they are smoking the correct end of the cigarettes for a change. Probably will be different tomorrow though. This arc seems to be a kind of anti-smoke or vape PSA.

The sheer audacity of these puffin’ thugs is a thing of wonder. But what Coffee can actually do if they get physical and rough is limited. Are they planning (if that is the word) something so straightforward as a shooting into the audience (at Frisk and maybe Lily) from the stage wings?! Or will they aim to infiltrate the audience and then commit mayhem?

Just noticed that the colorist missed some mustache in panel 3.

Dang, I must be slipping!

Well, except that his hat brim is a lot bigger than on the shadow we saw last Monday, it could have been the stage manager after all.