Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 21, 2020

Good morning™, all!

He can’t smoke and she’s contagious! At least now that he’s leaving, she’ll be able to report him to the cops.

Pink eye?How could anyone tell?

Is Shaky blowing the joint because of the no smoking rule or because of Crystal’s pink eye?

Good morning™, cloud generators !

I know they haven’t a gun because Crystal would be looking up the business end long before this. I like how this girl puts her foot down, and she doesn’t have the power of zapping or a zapper person there to back her up.

Rules, rules, rules.

Never pi$$ off a woman,no matter her age1 :D

So… This whole Shakey thing was comic relief?

Considering Crystal’s lineage. I’m not surprised that she doesn’t take any crap from Shaky!

Shaky just realised that the weird greenish haired girl might’ve been forced to home quarantine herself in this Coronavirus flu season! He’s taking no chances!

Man, Shaky is a total jerk even for a criminal, isn’t he?

How many days have been wasted so far? This is absolutely ridiculous

Lets hope Crystal smells a rat in this whole business, and, call her BFF grandfather. Of course calls to Dick’s cell are being forwarded to his “wrist wizard” (or, what ever term the squad is using, I’m sure Diet Smith lawyers have already updated the patent on the original wrist radio so many times, the patent office probably has a special desk just to deal with that. Getting back to Dick, in the emergency surgery waiting room, he hears from Crystal, who describes Shaky v2 (and, his nice sounding companion,) and, has the squad go hunt them down while telling Pat to have all the uniforms to be on the lookout for them.

At last! We’ve spent more time at Crystal’s “safe house” than we did on the actual incident at Tess’ agency.

I was wondering when this was going to happen…

So Shaky went out for some stronger pain medicine and came back with a cigar. Who’s his doctor – Dr. Fidel Castro? Dr. Winston Churchill? Dr. Freud? Oh wait. ..

Pink eye? How could they tell?

how did they know?

Riffin, In Memoriam Edition

1- JAY BOGART: I first heard Kenny Rogers when my college aged uncle bought First Edition record. I really liked that record. Surprisingly given the mainstream turn he made shortly after, it even had something of a Viet Nam protest song on it with Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town. Then he went country. And even that was good until he turned to pop country. He might’ve …

2- CRYSTAL BETH: POP COUNTRY SUCKS!

3- JAY: GEEZ! I KNOW! Now find me some Confederate Railroad on the radio and SHADDUP!

Well, pink eye is better than her friend Annie who has No Eye.

Good to see Tess up and about…oh wait

Oh she got sent home from school alright, but not for pink eye. It was for driving every one around her nuts.

Hats off to Joe for that amazing first panel. Shaky has a very difficult face to get right, and he managed to make him look pretty handsome.

If Shaky was clear minded, he would have been on a interstate highway out of town.

I’ve never had pink eye, but I have had eye irritation at times, and I’m betting that in real life, the fumes from silver polish would be making her condition worse. I wonder if this thing with the buckles is important to the plot, or just incidental.

She’s applying the “Red Chief” method of ridding herself of unwanted houseguests. Look up “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry for further details.

And Crystal scoooooores! She has, deliberately or not, managed to break Shaky. And rather than fight, he choses flight!

Bon voyage, Edison and Shaky!

Now what, Crystal Pink-Eye? (Do you really even have pink eye, or did you just make that up on the spur of the moment?)

Goodbye, Kenny !

https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2020/mar/21/kenny-rogers-a-life-in-pictures