Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 17, 2021

Good morning™, everyone!

Nice castle/dungeon/warehouse(?)! So, Abner has tailoring skills? I’m rather impressed.

Re: “our ablution”: Do they actually shower together? I’m not sure I’m looking forward to seeing that.

Good morning™, homecoming presents !

The river was Not good to Abner. His face as well as his speech balloons have suffered from a horrible and hideous ordeal.

Rikki sounds like she’s having what Meg Ryan had to eat!

After a 6 year story revolving around a Woolworths blue balloon that really fizzled out we now are bouncing between 2 dudes who should be dead and their much younger squeezes!

Now I’m really sure that’s a blowgun.

Full tilt costumed villains. This is driving me Batty!

Back to vacation.

Rikki was a real favourite of some here. I wonder if the artwork will come back to the softer, more rounded look of the past?

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Svengoolie called. He wants his set and costume back.

Rikki: “I’m really bowlered over!”

Abner and Rikki, Vitamin and Candy Kane – character the complainers among us live for.

It’s nice to see such a cute couple of lovebirds ♡.

Had to look up the meaning of “ablution.” I suspect parts of this strip will be blacked out.

Hard to imagine Abner, hunched over the sewing machine, still in hat and cape, blowgun/cane propped on the table next to him, worrying about making pleats in the fabric.

Makes me think of Buffalo Bill, only not(?) as twisted. “It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again!”

I believe he means “cleansing or purification” in the Biblical sense, which with this freaky dude, could be very interesting.

1-ABBY: Even though I just crawled out of the river a few weeks ago, I’ve managed to cobble together a nice little flat for us, all decked out in Early Dungeon.

2-RIKKI TIKKI TAVI: OH ABBY! FOR MEEEEE?!?!?!?

3-ABBY: Yeah. Sure. You know, until somebody with better pallor comes along. You get dressed now. I’ll be at the pipe playing Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.

RIKKI: I LOVE THAT PIECE! My celly used to play it on her harmonica all the time. Wait. Maybe it was Oh Suzanna Did Bach write that one too?

ABBY: OH FOR… Instead of getting dressed, how about a nice nap. PPFFFFT! (dart gun)

Shades of fifty gray here, things are libel to get rather kinky!

I don’t remember Rikki being a shade of blue?

I’m not sure what this is suggesting is consistent with a “family-friendly” comic strip, but I’m interested.

Who are these people?

Skeletor really knows some cool words! I think I’ll go take an ablution.

Ah yes, let’s see that “ablution” tomorrow. Neil will be shocked, shocked I say. One must think nothing like that takes place in Canada. It’s got my interest.

Am I seeing a pattern take place? In their golden years, Vitamin and Abner are refining their lives with the presence of young women. Flip side of this coin, Rikki and Kandi see their mates as “sugar daddies”.

Imagine when Abner and Rikki get out of the limo to attend the play, all eyes will be on them. How will Vitamin react to being upstaged by understudies?

Now we know what Abner’s been doing with all the time on his hands since Survival and Recovery—plotting escape for Rikki and tailoring her some new outfits in her traditional style. What a kindly old killer! And, of course, Ms. Mortis is duly appreciative….

I guess Abner has magical powers … he made half a scene (the half where we see how he & Mortis made it out of the prison yard) disappear.