Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 15, 2022

“Jes doin’ a little neighborly burglaring and that durn owl got all feisty!”

Trying to build a nest no doubt. ✨

Good morning™, all!

Alright, sneak preview done. Now, back to our story and back to the Plenty’s. Little Attitude is definitely getting bigger. Is it pork chops he’s waiting for?

Gertie should be happy she hasn’t met the persnickety owl. B.O. looks a little worse for wear.

Good morning™, growing boys !

I’d send the youngun over t’ pluck that bird iffen I was B.O. I think he tried gettin’ chummy with Walter. L’il Attitude aint quite so little now and I bet he packs a parful eppetite. I sure hope garage cleaner guy shows back up ….. in this story.

I wonder if the Plentys still have the TV/stove Vera Alldid bought for them back in the day. & Little Attitude must be sitting on the last phone book in existence.

This story stopped being about bank robberies a loooong time ago!

Kind of looks like the banned words problem is being worked on- my comments have been going through without a hitch tonight.

Panel 3 verifies that many of the hairs of B.O.’s beard actually come out of his nostrils.

Realism: owls will actually harass people like that. Naturalist Bernd Heinrich wrote about it in (if I recall) his book One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives.

Trouble are coming for Mr. Memory.

Maybe the little owl smelled a rat.

“He may be feisty, but my beard is rodent free for the first time in years!”

Wait a minute…does B.O.’s hat look the worse for wear and is that a band-aid on his nose? Apparently he and Walter have gotten acquainted.

Walter with an attitude. Hopefully Walter doesn’t meet the real Attitude. The owl is cute but I’d hate to see what that kid might do to him.

At least Gertie said a pet, imagine what would happen if she tried to hook up Mr. Memory with one of her lady friends. He’d change neighborhoods…real fast.

“Durned thing near ate my snickety! Gonna leave some big scar, I tell yuh!”

MOVIE QUOTE—

“Income tax evasion?That’s the funniest thing I ever heard!”

Edward G.Robinson—-THE LAST GANGSTER—1937

That’s nothing compared to 1958’s runaway gamecock that made itself at home in the Plenty House.Enter Miss Egghead,whoturned to murder,kidnapping,and child abuse to avoid paying a heavy fine for promoting cockfighting,.

1-B.O: Was kochst du da?

2-GERTIE:Wurst, naturlich.

3-B.O:Ach! Du bist die WORST WURST Kochin die Ich kenne!

HA HA. Ein Deutches Witz! Wahrsheinlich mit vielen grammatiken Fehler…

If Attitude grows up to be an Airline Pilot and the Co-Pilot said to him “WATCH YOUR ATTITUDE, DAMMIT”, would Attitude think he meant it personally or as a reference to the plane’s attitude or would he maybe hear “ALTITUDE” instead of “ATTITUDE”?

And would anyone survive the crash?

Excellent portrait of B.O. in panel 3.

“Don’t yew worry none Honey Pot. I’ll pluck thet lil’ turkey-wannabe. Th’ Clampett clan moved in next door, n’ I’ll make ‘em a welcome dish. Owl adenoids on toast, with mebbe a side o’ buzzard giblets!”

Yummy! A big ol’ mess o’ po’k chops! Just what a growin’ country-boy needs for dinner!

I don’t know what B.O. did to arouse the wrath of Walter, but maybe he has learned a lesson in neighborliness.

Meanwhile, there was this bank-looting story….

The owl worked over B.O.?

the owl would be a piece of cake for ol’ B.O. to withstand compared to being manhandled by that little runt, Attitude…