Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 08, 2020

Good morning™, everyone!

It’s always a bad sign when someone behind you stops every time you stop and continues every time you continue. It seems like someone wants to stop her from setting up a new office, but why?

Dethany still looks like a panda

Good morning™, forward scouts !

Seems a rival firm doesn’t want competition bad enough to kill or at least give a good scare over. Speaking of pandas and crossovers will we get a mashup with DT and Shanda ? (A “certain” author may be champing at the bit for this. :-)

Well, if Fastrack is opening an office here, then I guess Dethany may be on the way to becoming an irregular regular, like Annie!

Holy high-tech industrial espionage, Batman!! Maybe the villain has hacked into a high profile Tracyville company‘s IT network for insider info, or is using denial-of-service malware for extortion? Fastrack coming into the marketplace might threaten to uncover the scheme. What do you think, old chums?

Orrr… I know folks want a new villain, but what if Blaze Rize managed to stop the self-destruct virus from wiping out Davey Mylar’s computer and instead has slowly used it to set herself up as the new “Ms. Crime?“

Wtf!?!

So why was Dethany in her detective garb then? She usually only wears it on the Internet (her 1/15/16 appearance in those clothes were because she was at the detectives’ convention).

Okay……..

Fastrack.Inc has many enemies. It will be difficult to find the right one behind the attempted attack on Dethany.

Silicon Valley it ain’t… or is it?

What kind of business needs a detective to set up a new office? Whatever it, is the competition is murder.

Tracy’s chin has cancer or something. It’s huge! And you could cut yourself on the corners.

It’s always a bad sign when someone falls into a pattern of using old tired and routine “plots” like someone was behind me following and stopped when i stopped, then i ducked into an alley

Because OF COURSE if you were being followed you’d run into an alley which offers you SO MANY DIFFERENT OPTIONS TO ESCAPE then only head towards the Police Station AFTER you got shot at.

This sounds more like a 6th graders essay offering than anything else

“Plus, I came here to retrieve the black bird before the Fat Man and Miss Wonderly showed up. A-henh . . . a-henh . . .”

1-DETH WARMEDOVER: I’m lookin’ for work. DT: That’s too bad. The circus just left town.

2-DT: And Halloween is months away so the haunted houses aren’t hiring.

3-DETH: I was hoping you needed an undercover operative. DT: My wife bit you the last time we went under the covers, remember?

DETH: Not that kind! The kind that can blend into the local populace and get the goods on evil doers without ever being noticed.

DT: The only place you could possibly blend in would be Prince’s old purple house in Minnesota and that’s out of our jurisdiction. Oh. And he’s dead.

DETH: EXACTLY! I could be the one to crack that case!

DT: Yeah. Right. Or, I hear Deep Purple is back on tour. Go see what you can find out there. I think the tour starts in Belgrade.

DETH: I’m on it. I’ll need some front money though. DT: Ai yi yi…

in an interesting twist… fast rack inc’s first recruit to the new branch office will be….

FRIEDA FRISK!!!!!!

Another crossover episode.

Wowie, kids! A Fastrack Inc. branch means a big up-tick in the Tracyville tech sector economy! Who could possibly want to keep out tech competition?

Or is the shooting a strictly personal vendetta against Dethany Dendrobia?

Time for some detective work, Tracy!

Is this going to be as pointless as the last story arc. All that hoopla about the Breathless movie then really nothing. Shaky gets arrested for stealing a stupid belt buckle. Whoopee.

More deep thinking from Neil.

Is that Tracy’s chin, or did he just cram a cardboard box into his mouth?