Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 28, 2020

My girl Crystal waited until she could safely drop the dime on Shaky & Edison! YOU ROCK GIRL!!

Shaky’s in the Berwyn area? So’s Svengoolie.

Good morning™, informants!

So, now the detectives know about his girlfriend and they are off like a shot to Berwyn.

Good morning™, on the ball tipsters !

I love the chain of events in this one.

And now we know for sure that Crystal was wise and played it off real cool and here she is, alive and healthy and on the horn to someone who can take action.

Lizz is on a handset and Crystal is on a computer (Skype or Facetime) so where is the camera that is broadcasting the image of Lizz?

The police now know that Shaky is travelling with a girlfriend and I’m sure Crystal will give a description of Edison when she makes her statement. Time for Edison to bail on this adventure. She lives life on the edge enough in her own strip.

Berwyn, PA or Berwyn, IL?

Berwyn, IL is one of several places around the U.S. that has place-names from the Philadelphia suburbs. Ardmore, OK is another.

Rally the troops !

Pardon me for saying this, but that is one stupid criminal!

A triple header – three head shots of Lizz – it doesn’t get any better…

Super great art today!

But, How will they connect him to Quiver? Should be interesting!

BERYNNN!?Shout out to Sven Fans

Tone down the mascara darlin’.

(Deep voice) Berwyn?

Berwyn? tracytown is Chicago?

Rif…

1-CRYSTAL BETH: I’m calling to report the theft of my well-polished magic amulets that double as belt buckles. Say. Isn’t that Tracy’s wife’s necklace?

2-DOLL: Yeah. Sugar Daddy doesn’t have much in the way of wardrobe and she wasn’t using them so…

3-DT AS HIMSELF: It’s time we go full on Doobie Brothers and be Takin’ It To The Streets! I just got word that Jay is in China Grove.

SAM: Let me finish my cup of Black Water first.

DOLL: You mean coffee, right? I think you pushed this Doobie Brothers thing one reference too far.

SAM: Almost you Dark Eyed Cajun Woman. There it is.

DT: Knock it off. Come on. We gotta be Rockin’ Down The Highway to China Grove.

DOLL: Oh my sweet JESUS!!! (Is Just Alright…)

No doubt my friend Mitch will quote Svengoolie on the subject of “Berwyn?!”

Liz is also on a computer in the second panel.

I see the shiny belt buckles in the background (nice touch by Joe, keeping continuity flowing visually) but I wonder what those two tube-like things with holes are. They almost look like flutes or something.

Very good art. Dick got his Texas stink eye face still going. Shakes is gonna have a can of whupass opened on him in a couple more days it appears.

BERWYN very important to Svenghooly.

Berwyn!

BER-wynnn?! —Just saw Joe Staton on Svengoolie (where tonight’s movie is “Village of the Damned”), as Sven expressed his appreciation for appearing in the DT strip a while ago….

So, we learn it was Crystal who dropped a dime, New Style (Skyped it). Tracy may be showing necessary self-restraint by getting the MCU team to go with him; alone, he would have left Shaky dead fish dead for sure; now, maybe Shaky will survive to do time….