Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 12, 2022

The proverbial “other shoe”?

“Zonar?” “Yes, meet my cousin Ratar”

Zonar would be Honeymoon’s second cousin, as he’s her late mother’s cousin.

Sounds serious. ✨

Good morning™, all!

So, it seems that Honeymoon is even discovering a distant cousin that she never knew. He says, “You’re back,” but I’m not quite sure what he means by that. Did she go somewhere? Maybe he remembers her from when she was born. Moon people don’t age like Earth people do.

It should be interesting to learn what the Ambassador has to say to Tracy privately.

uhoh, SOMETHING’S up with The Ambassador… for today, it’s a wait-and-see… other than that, now we have Honey’s family expanding with the intro of little Zonar… and if they’re going to intro new family members by name, let’s get the names of the Ambassador and wife at long last…

Is Mysta hanging back? Was she included in the invitation to Honeymoon?

At least Mike is giving Lunar people names

Lunarites wouldn’t settle for an underground base in Antartica indefinitely . They’d want to expand. And then…

Key in the serious music. Dum Dum!!

Seems like Tracy & the Ambassador have already been talking a lot, without actually saying anything to, like, actually let us know what is actually happening in this story, such as it is.

The ‘other shoe’ is about to drop like the sword of Damocles.

Good morning™, re united families !

The housing in P. 1 reminds me of Anasazi structures built into depressions in cliff side walls. I like to do a little zonering myself now and then. (Shelve the perv. interpretations, AT. LOL !)

Mysta (?) is standing there, completely ignored.

Grandmother wears glow-in-the-dark pearl necklace

New Moon Valley probably has a nuclear reactor for their energy needs. Solar is out of the question and geothermal will give away their location.

Betty Moonrubble seems like a very nice lady!

I like the depiction in the first panel of the vehicle with all antennae visible save for the non moon people!

Let’s talk now. Nothing else is happening.

cue the ominous music

Architecture by the Flintstones!

See we’re continuing the Betty Rubble vibe.

“You’re back!”

“Why? What’s wrong with it?”

Old joke.

Why does Mysta’s suitcase have an antenna?

And Mysta’s left holding the bag.

We need to talk after you’ve settled in. Gee, ya think?

The Lunarians build space coupes – what do they need land vehicles with wheels for?

Where’s Buck Rogers when you need him?

1-DT: You all got something against curves here? With all this boxy architecture, I’m surprised the tires on this dune buggy are round! HA HA!

GOVADOR: Funny. The curves on our moon babes are all the curves we need. DT: Ouch. Touche~.

2-MOON GRANNY: Honey – this is your first cousin, Bone-Air. You and he are to be married while you’re here.

BONE-AIR: HUBBA HUBBA!

3-MOON GRANNY: Get the bags, Frankenstein. Come children.

GOVADOR: Why are you the only one wearing a heavy coat in our temperature controlled cavern?

DT: Well, the moon chicks are hot and well…

GOVADOR: No worries, Tracy. You have nothing to hide – and I mean that in a very insulting way. DT: Thank you!

I wonder if this reacquaintance with the maternal side of Honey Moon’s family is just a pretense for Tracy’s assistance.

In the third panel…is Mysta starting to get that left out feeling?

grandma looks good from either direction

Honey Moon meets her first cousin…moment now being filmed for 11’O clock news.

The Ambassador’s home must be a condo when compared to the others.

Don’t the moon people need sunlight to stay “charged”?

“Tracy, we need to talk after…..” Oh, yathink? Brings them all the way “out here” (wherever “here” is…) to have “the talk” instead of explaining things better when they were still at D.T.’s house……..

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“NOW will you give me some fightin’ room!!??!!

Larry Storch—THE GREAT RACE—1965. R.I.P.

Tune in tomorrow for another episode of Hornheads have a reunion.

First mention I know of that Moon Governor’s wife had a sister.

I think Gov was HOPING Tracy would come along;he was just afraid he’d refuse a direct request.(order).

Now,what about that “temperate zone” Diet Smith was always talking about on the Moon where the temps were 70 farenheit andthey rushed double time to get work done?

looks like a bit of a rejection ?

Shouldn’t it be written “Zo-Nar” not “Zonar”?

Could that car in the first panel be called a “Moon buggy”?

How do they grow crops in below zero temperatures?

Ah, the old “Welcome home! —But first we need to talk” ploy!

While Moon Granny and Zonar* lead Honeymoon and, I think, Mysta off to their rooms (just because Mysta trails a bit behind, there is no reason to believe she is being ignored), Ambassador prepares to drop the heavy words on Tracy!

*In Athens, Greece, a city I have visited, Zonar’s was a noted patisserie/sweets restaurant….

“We need to talk” is never a prelude to something good.