Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 20, 2022

ok, just a recap installment… and they are making it look like a scene from the Bride of Frankenstein…

See Rocks-Anne, don’t you feel sorry for her now?

Good morning™, everyone!

This recap should probably finally establish whether the Moon people knew about Sail and Ghote.

Good morning™, fantastic beginnings ! Romance, and beautiful settings in P.2.

Mad Mindy is in denial!

She’s a danger to everyone and everything!

Let the Moonies keep her!

OK, I’m done. I feel better! Lol!

NITPICK ALERT!!! NITPICK ALERT!!!

Pinky’s clothing studs were red yesterday.

THIS ENDS THE NITPICK ALERT!

Ro-zan: “Monster! Burn the monster! I mean, sorry, wait. Please tell me more of your [fascinating] backstory. [Note to self, buy shares in Acme Torch and Pitchfork.]”

Glenna?

Good backstory explanation, great art today!

huh… interesting.

“Then I went on a rampage and destroyed the lab, knitted a full-size pink replica of the Eiffel Tower, replaced Nick Adams on a Toho flick (by the way, Godzilla is a SUPER sweetie), and, well, here I am! Just another average All American Girl!”

No, not that story. Tell me the interesting one.

1-BRO-ZAN: Ya know Mysta – you’re hot even by Moon Chick standards which are of course very high. How do you explain that?

2-MYSTA: I let the plastic surgeons who worked on all the Kardashians experiment on me. To get the procedure for free, I had to let them do whatever they wanted so they stuck horns on my head for fun. I was allowed to make one request so I told them to NOT triple the size of my butt. Obviously, they were very fond of giant booties… BRO-ZAN: Good call.

DR. SVEN: MORE POWER TO THE SVOOBS ENLARGER! SHE NEEDS BIGGER SVOOBS!

Flash Gordon’s evil twin here is treating Mysta so kindly… just as kindly as he was treating Tezla. The moral of the story is never trust anyone who would lie for you because you don’t know whether they would lie to you.

Hold on a minute – as I recall, with Mysta’s first appearance, she had the lower part of her face covered. Is there an explanation for it being uncovered here, or do we have a continuity problem?

Is this a sneaky way of getting Ghote and whats-his-name back into the story line somehow?

I trust that this getting to know you phase won’t be one-sided.

MOVIE QUOTE—

“The Tipton Slasher has been found guilty of killing two Chinamen.Both seriously”.

DO DETECTIVES THINK?—1927

Okay,one matter finally cleared up.We never knew if Mindy was kidnapped or volunteered for this little“operation”.

Just think what kind of torture this would have been if she hadn’t been unconscious for most of it.That panel is SCARY.And out of it came a girl whose soul had been purified(she inherited the original’s honesty).

I know it’s not exactly the same, but I feel like I want to play “Weird Science” over a montage of Sail and Ghote at work!

For those who think Sail&Ghote might come back,I repeat the 1967 line—“Chin Chillars,you have no FOOD on your ship!”

Brian PREMIUM MEMBER about 2 hours agoWhat is she in denial about? Seemed like a pretty accurate recounting of her origin. I realize you aren’t rational about the topic, but still.

Mad Mindy is in denial that SHE’S GLENNA ERMINE!!!

(◔_◔) “Which way did he go George, which way did he go?”

Ro-Zan, whatever devious reason he might have, opens Mysta to telling her Origin Story, and we see it visualized chillingly in panel 2. Mad scientists Sail and Ghote are re-introduced, also. I wonder if we are going to find that they somehow survived that seemingly ill-fated space coupe cruise? Maybe they regained control, miraculously, at the last minute? Maybe a nearby Lunarian space coupe rescued them? Maybe they are holed up in New Moon Valley and are supporting the xenophobic cabal? The possibilities are…fascinating (as Mr. Spock might have said)….