Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 23, 2022

Good morning™, everyone!

Alright, now we have a plot going. I guess Tonsils wants out of the drug business to pursue singing full time, but we already know how angry Coffyhead gets when things don’t go his way.

Getting out while the getting is good. ✨

Good morning™, dead men walking !

Not a good way to break it off but what other way is there to escape having to deal with the likes of Coffyhead ?  You wont like him when he’s angry. That’s a pretty sizable satchel “apeman” is carrying.

Coffy better watch his temper unless he wants a beatdown like this-

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“Do you know how much money I can make impersonating a dead obscure lounge singer/criminal? Seriously, how much? There’s money in that, right?”

Careful Coffy, you don’t want “Tonsils” to sing on you…

Who turned up the heat?

Why else would their winter breath disappear in panel three?

Can’t be an illustration mistake, That’s impossible!

The question now is, who will Flintheart get to take this guy’s place?

If Coffyhead doesn’t threaten to rip out his tonsils in the next couple of days or so I will be highly disappointed.

Tonsillitis singing career is over.

I get the feeling Harry Chronic, Jr. may be headed for The Great Gig in the Sky.

He’s done, all right, but not the way he expected.

Mr. Coffee Nerves needs to cameo in this storyline: https://lileks.com/institute/comicsins/comics/coffeenerves/1.html

I’m pretty sure the trademark is abandoned, and the copyright expired.

Well… His big mouth is about to get him killed, all well and good! His six arms and one huge eye really was creepy!

And nothing will persuade your dealer to keep selling to you like killing him.

Neo-Tonsils being ambivalent about career choices is a bit of an echo of the original Tonsils’ story-line. But Tonsils wanted to stop singing and go back to parking cars, while neo-Tonsils wants out of crime in order to sing.

Coffyhead told us what fake Tonsils real name is. Little Jerk.

Am I the only one thinking, “What’s with the eye??”

I got my cast taken off my broken leg yesterday and a new walking cast put on. I am no longer relegated to just sitting all day in a chair with my leg elevated or moving around in a wheelchair. I have now graduated to using a walker (ta da). The Doctor says if everything goes right, I should only be using the walker for 3 weeks before this new cast comes off and I move up to a walking boot/brace. A month of the boot and then 6 weeks of physical therapy three times a week. Then hopefully this entire ordeal will be over. It will have lasted 8 months, included 2 operations, and involved a complete reconstruction of my right fibula and meleous bones, so moving up to the walking cast yesterday was a big milestone. I want to thank all of my friends on this board for their concern and moral support.

Now that Tonsils 2.0 has Vitamin backing him, he doesn’t need the back alley, warehouse gig anymore. He’d better hope his wavy arms can help him swim out of the drinky depths.

Time for a tonsillectomy…courtesy of that drip, coffyhead

He’s quitting already? We were only just introduced to him. In fact, he and Coffyhead were only just introduced. That said, it sounds like he has a history of crime. The original Tonsils had a more legit beginning.

Is THIS good customer service? Er…well. It IS a little familiar from my years in a call center.

CoffyHead looks mad enough to choke this guy….next discovery of him…. dead man found on construction site with his tongue and contact lens out.

The guy wants to go straight. A career on stage?

“Suck it up! I gave you all you paid for. We’re done”. Translation….don’t sell it all in one place? Singer must be from out of town…dang…if he is getting out of the “pharmacy” business…could have at least referred his customer/client to another source.

I hope Vitamin did not have any tickets printed for an advanced performance. General public in Tracy land will have to settle for instrumentals by the band.

I hope the band repertoire includes material beyond golden oldies.

If push comes to shove…do the six arms motion and jab the thug in his eyes. His accomplice will take the drug and drive out like a bat out of h double hockey sticks.

1-MR. COFFEE: HEY! MY MA LIKED THAT SONG! MAYBE SHE WANT’S A ROLL IN THE HAY WITH A LOOK-ALIKE OF HER IDOL TOO!

2-ASTRO: Well, she’ll just have to wait. The Uber Driver just booked me for his mom for this month.

MR. COFFEE: Wow. You’re booked every day of this month? What a man!

ASTRO: No. I only take one appointment per month. Any more action with old ladies than that and I’d have to poke out my good eye.

3-MR. COFFEE: WHY YOU PUNK! Wait a second…which one of those is your good eye?

ASTRO: The one I close when I’m having sex with old ladies. Now – BEAT IT!

In “tonsils” first appearance, I thought he might be Johnny Ray from the early 50’s…….anybody else see resemblance?

No question it was a Ray reference. And hooray..once again comments more interesting than the arc, Titled ..3 Dead Men Walking

MOVIE QUOTE

“Why must you steal?”

“Because I like to steal”.

Audie Murphy—a.k.a. “THE SILVER KID”

NIGHT PASSAGE 1957

We haven’t looked in that suitcase yet.Might be something from Wolfgang Puck.

The original Tonsils seemed to have a Witch Doctor Curseon him.TWICE the police missed rescuing him from the Mob by only a few minutes—-at the tire yard and at the Greenhouse.Gould was having great fun playing with us.

Coffyhead should remember that there are no Kona trees in the Big House.

But who is “Tonsil’s” supplier?

It rarely bodes well for some low-level dealer to try to leave The Business. Upper management doesn’t like live quitters running loose who might spill the [ ahem! Coffy]beans!

Looks like Time is running out for the Tonsils impersonator, whether he realizes it or not. Coffyhead is big, dangerous, and impetuous. Countdown to dead fish dead: 1, 2, 3….