Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 13, 2022

Has to be uncomfortable for both. ✨

“That’s good, because it would be slightly awkward what with the not letting you leave and all that. Anyway, plenty of time to learn sculpture now!”

Good morning™, everyone!

I guess that Mysta didn’t inherit all of Moon Maid’s talents, but thankfully, Grandma is happy to adopt her.

Glad that Mysta Chimera is accepted in the family. Mysta’s sculpting skills can be seen in 1973 when she made 3-D images of suspect criminals. But prior to that none.

Good morning™, sweethearts !

This is a real aawwww tear yank moment, fortunately I am made of sterner stuff. Nice to see the “Moonies” getting on so well. Now onto this heavy business that has Ambassaguv all tensed up.

“Consider yourself well in. Consider yourself part of the furniture…”

Aha! The name is Mysta!

Sculpture by zapping the metal to form

Considering Mysta lost her own real family, I am sure this acceptance is a wonderful feeling for her.

Touching. But I can’t help seeing Mom as Betty Rubble, now I’m hearing the voice as well….

Awww!

I’m sensing an abduction forming…

Can someone outline the connection between Grandma’s family and Betty Rubble?

If you wanted to dump the whole moon plot it would be easy enough to have Mysta choose to stay where she feels at home (and where one hunk has already been eyeing her with appreciation). Not as easy to leave Honeymoon behind, too many connections with the outside world – she’d leave a hole if she chose cousins over best friends.

Those are sculptures? They look more like awards.

cue the ominous music

“There will be time to bend you to my will and keep you in the attic later.”

I KNEW that Mrs. Ambassador would be good about Mysta and DO good by her by accepting her into the family… well done on Mrs Ambassador’s part as well as Mike’s for taking it in this direction… I’m happy for Mysta… she’s getting that acceptance that she needs from her immediate Lunarian family… now hopefully, the same will be said for the ENTIRE Lunarian community at New Moon Valley in accepting her… today’s strip is a very good start… let’s hope Ro-Seanne won’t be the one to spoil it all…

I’m not familiar with this, what happened to her daughter?

So the story plods along with fluff…

Maybe they will tell Tracy that they need Honeymoon for a ceremony and try to keep her and Mysta also.

For those of us who haven’t read Dick Tracy since Before Chester Gould died, who exactly are these characters?

1-MOON GRANNY: Ya know – you remind me of somebody…

2- …Maybe a moon dog I used to have. Get down on all fours and bark.

MYSTA: Can’t you see that I’m the spitting image of your daughter???

3-MOON GRANNY: Really? What a coincidence! Let’s slow dance!

MYSTA: These people are weird. I’m glad we’re only here for a week…

MOON GRANNY: I gotta say, you even dance like my dog!

MYSTA: I’M NOT YOUR DAMDOG!

The Moonies weren’t as congenial when Mysta2 destroyed Mysta1’s tombstone.

So…little bit of a job update, I called the Walmart ethics hotline and reported my being let go as a “revenge termination” because the one who actually told me I was fired was the woman in asset protection, who I reported to the store manager and personnel director for not filling out my incident report from hurting my back on June 29th…I wrote a letter saying that I informed her the night it happened and that I told my coach the following day, but as of July 5th nothing was done…then SUDDENLY last Thursday the report was written up by the coach in charge of the grocery department instead…the personnel director, when she read the letter, said “I’ll talk to the two of them about this”…so I’m thinking they BOTH got reprimanded about it. Ethics said within 3 to 7 days I should have a response to the claim

After filing the claim, I went to the unemployment office and they told me I have to file the claim online because it’s not done in the offices anymore….so now we wait and see

Getting to know you…getting to know all about you…

RODGERS&HAMMERSTEIN

MOVIE QUOTE

CLAUDE RAINS:“Have you taken leave of your senses?”

BOGART:“Yes,I have!”

CASABLANCA 1942

One thing that always made me think The “Perfect Moon World” was a little bit sterile was that they had no Animal Kingdom.

No dogs,no cats,no horses,no insects,no nothing!!

Can you REALLY get along without those things??

Get a room

looks like Betty Rubble

Genetics makes her related, but she has been accepted into the family.

Well, that issue is resolved. Moon Granny and Mysta have bonded as family, and it’s all very emotional. The Lunarians do not exhibit Vulcan repression of emotions.

Meanwhile, nothing else is happening in today’s installment….

It looks like everybody is getting something out of this trip. Honeymoon reconnects with her maternal grandmother. Mysta gained herself a family. Meanwhile out of sight and off strip, the Ambassador also gets something like Tracy’s expertise on setting up a lunar law enforcement agency. This is a theory on my part.

I did not look over Mike’s and Shelley’s shoulders. I am not privy to how this story develops. I am starting to wonder why I am putting out a disclaimer.

How I miss a bullet shot through a villain’s head… those were the days!WOKE TRACY sucks!