Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 30, 2022

All right everybody, get ready to “thumb” along!

Good morning™, everyone!

Well, I figured he would be able to talk he into it, and it wasn’t even that difficult.

I don’t think I like how this is going; I sense trouble ahead here—of this history repeating itself type perhaps?

Ugh.

Matt’s persistent if nothing else.

I’m really enjoying the visual aspect of the strip(the truth, the whole truth so help me God)

The plot not so much. It’s been pretty lame so far.

Good morning™, foxy pick up artists !

They schmooze do the song and then depart in a cab to the waiting hands of Luigi where fake Tonsils is whisked away to meet his ex business partner while Dot gets to relive the worst moments of her life all over again while sitting bruised on the side of the road.

I can’t decide if his hair is held in place at the front by Shellac or gel.

Classic art in the strips, in the last days. I love that.

They’ll get Kermit the Frog to join them.

I like this story so far. If one is not familiar with all 91 years of Dick Tracy’s history, these characters are new to you…Dot and Tonsils, l mean. So, Mike’s story is a fresh one for me.

By the way, it’s clear today that she isn’t wearing a pantsuit, in case there was any doubt before.

“Let’s show the audience what entertainment used to be like.”

Uh, are we in chronological flux again? Dot isn’t drawn as being terribly old. Not like a real singer from 1952 would look today. Which means in the revised chronology the original Tonsils was just a few years ago, well within the lifetimes of everyone in the studio audience. The real Tonsils, in the revised version, would be sometime in the 2010s… Matt should vow, “Let’s show the audience what entertainment was like after Michael Jackson.”

cue the ominous music

Is it too much to hope for a sniper hidden in the audience somewhere

I wonder what song? “I’ve got an eye for you!”

Z-Z-z-z-z-z-z

Maybe he really is Tonsils and wasn’t killed by the Barracudas? In the Tracy universe, stranger things have happened.

I must have missed something… why are Tonsils’ eyes like that?

Does the band (if there is one,) have the music? If not, since then “Tonsils” would’ve been lip syncing, does he expect Dot to sing acapella with him?

Variety was singularly unimpressed by their subsequent spirited game of Klingon Charades accompanied by that terribly song.

And so she remembered the words and was never the same again.

1-ASTRO: I’m glad you cooled off during the commercial break.

DOT: Don’t be ridiculous – we can’t get advertisers on this lame program. I’m just mellow because I took a handful of Diazepam.

ASTRO: GOOD! Now I can enjoy the view of your ample bosom! Guess which eye is staring at it? DOT: OH YOU KID!

2-ASTRO: Care to dance? I promise I won’t take any liberties as I hold those ba-zooms tight against my willing body (_heh heh, fingers crossed…wait. I can’t see. Are my fingers crossed?)

3-DOT: This is lovely! The cardboard cutout audience makes it feel like we’re on stage at Vitamin’s theater!

ASTRO: Well, he doesn’t get this many “people” but the ones who do come are just as loud and appreciative as these folks. At least these “people” don’t bring their old tomatoes…

….suddenly I’m remembering that “Spider To The Fly” song from early Rolling Stones………..

Oh terrific after the Rainbow Song, to close out his set Tonsils and Dot will perform " I Got You Babe". Audience will go bonkers. Her show’s ratings shoot up through the atmosphere.

Would the studio orchestra even have sheet music to the Rainbow Song? Yes, they would…some of their members were in the Boy Scouts…whose motto is " Be Prepared".

Coffeyhead is watching the show on television, he says to himself would you get a look a this. The little twerp does have “tweet”. (meaning he can sing) I am going to see what he’ll be singing when I give him a beatdown for drawing that knife out on me and leaving me hanging by saying he quit the side hustle. (dealing drugs) Matt dissed (disrespected) me.

MOVIE QUOTE

“I love good music”

“So do I.Let’s get out of here!”

Groucho Marx—HORSE FEATHERS—1932

Closed fist in Panel 2 doesn’t look so good.

But pANEL 3 has him looking at her with what seems like genuine affection.

Poor Dot.She wonders if she’s dreaming most of this.How would YOU feel if you saw this kind of a g host?

As the old poem goes—-"The saddest words are….‘what might have been’….

The Gould family should storm the office

Leaving the mad,mad world of show business for a moment….

One aspect of police work that the strip hasn’t had,even under Gould,is the MOUNTED police.A city as big as Tracy’smust have mounted cops and police horses.And stables.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

One thing’s for sure. After this show is over, a Dot Vision booker is going to be looking for a job.

Good grief! Is there no limit to the things Dot View is willing to do “for the audience” on her show? Even when she hates it (and probably him, too)? And, most of all, though the song from the real Tonsils may have had a brief popularity as a novelty, now as a retread bit of trash this must not be a strong segment for the show! Matt McCullar is giving himself and his “Tonsils” act way too much credit!

But what would you expect from a sometime-drug dealer who is in danger of being whacked by Coffyhead at any moment? Live for the, ahh, ahem, moment….

I finally figured out why Dot looks familiar. There’s a woman from Sweden named Gunhild Carling who fronts a family jazz band and plays just about every instrument you can name. Dot is almost a dead ringer for her. Want proof? https://youtu.be/xuBkm8wdf9E