Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 03, 2022

Looks like Tracyville is turning woke.

Lee is pretty aggressive.

Must be the coffee.

Good morning™, everybody!

Well, she did promise to be back in the office soon, so she can’t spend all afternoon in the coffee shop, but now they have a “dinner date.” It will be interesting to see if this is more than meets the eye.

I hear those Blackhearts had a bad reputation. Blaze must have hated herself for loving them.

Acquaintances do meet again

Smiles soon grow wider

Notta lost her grip on Blaze

Who soon could not abide her.

Blaze offers up her gratitude

For what T-Bolt did do

Helped her find a better path

Law-breaking days are through.

Hot mug o’ joe. What do you know?

Coffee leads to dinner

Grasping that crime does not pay

Has made Blaze Rize a winner.

where DO we go from here?…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwVcgUSFQls

Is there a trip to the Lochner Museum in the future for Blaze? She’d turn heads like those three people dressed as animals a few days ago?

Lee, you tell her how you got to be T-Bolt, what will you have to put in your memoirs?

“I’ve got to get back to work. Why don’t we talk over dinner? Terrific! Who’s going to pick up the check?

Later on in the day, an application is submitted for Blaze to be a “criminal informant”. Nice part time work…if you can get it. However, the fringe benefits are nothing to write home about.

A nice touch by Shelley with the clutch purse in Lee’s hand.

Good morning™, dinner companions !

Will there be new sheets on the bed ?  I hope beans aren’t on the menu. “Little Jimmy” in P.1. looks so sad and dejected but that’s all over now !

Love is in the air :D

It’s becoming Dinner With a D*ke !!!

Might we be seeing the start of a relationship here?

3 days of Pleger’s drawings are quite superb.

Wait, though……didn’t Blaze flat out MURDER someone in retaliation for her sisters death? Don’t think that’s a perk for testifying…..

So … we’re going to go from Lee & Blaze talking over coffee at lunch to Lee & Blaze talking over coffee at dinner. Who says there isn’t variety in Dick Tracy?

I see someone in need of a friend. And she’s likely needing the MCU to help again.

Not to turn a cold shower on all the spicy imaginings this morning, but let’s keep in mind that nine times out of ten when we think big, provocative stuff is gonna happen, it just don’t….

Shelleys images are just super , I’m still not able to get into this series though . ?

This is so nice to see.

Dinner? Is that supposed to be a “date,” or, is Lee just continuing to be a sounding board for an ex-victim?

Lee’s eyes are….downright twinkling in P2…..hmmmm, a ’lil ’ol dinner date pending……..WELL!!…….

1-BLAZE: Thanks for being such a great role model when I was an impressionable child. You taught me how to dress, wear my hair and…other stuff. Say! I read that your twin is in a Russian prison for smuggling in Pot Vapes!

2-LEE: True. She got them from some bearded guy with a strange name in Colorado. Then she went to the airport to catch a flight to Minnesota, took a couple hits to calm her flying nerves and…

3-…next thing she knows, she’s cuffed and booked and imprisoned in Russia! BLAZE: Strong stuff!

LEE: We’ve heard through diplomatic backchannels that Putin will trade her for some mass murdering Russian the USA is holding. Oh. And for the rights to Ukraine.

BLAZE: Wow…that sounds… LEE: Fair? I KNOW, RIGHT!

Blaze gets her hair done at the Crewy Lou Hair Salon.

Well, Mike said on the Facebook group that Mysta has had sex with both The Spirit and Ro-Zan (off panel, of course). Bonnie Braids seemed even more anxious to be with The Spirit, too if you read the story. The Spirit is not one to turn down a beautiful woman. Blaze and Notta were in a relationship that turned abusive for Blaze. George Takei and his partner made guest appearances (given different names but you knew who they were). Pregnant Rikki Mortis was getting it on with Abner Kadaver. Sprocket Nitrate was likely having her fun with Adam Austin. And, what about Tonsils II and Dot View on those wild party nights? (off panel). And, what about (shudder the thought) that kiss between Honeymoon and Astro? She was also (gasp) pretty enfatuated with her second-cousin, Zonar.

In the classic days, Notta was held in bondage as the sex slave of Piggy Butcher, who was often drawn laying in bed either with her on top of him or alone reading magazines labeled Porn (all on panel). Notta had to strip naked and use her dress as a flag when she tried to signal Tracy, who was flying over in a Space coupe (in silhouette but on panel). And, speaking of Notta, she and her husband George had some pretty hot kissing and petting (on panel). Notta also liked to float around in a weightless Space Coupe with her legs fully spread (also on panel). Who knows what happened with Painted Lady (Miss Nava Intro) when the nightclub closed but we saw her in her shower and wrapped in a towel several times? When she sent her thugs to steal women’s hair, was that all they stole? We can only speculate.

In Collins days, Lizz and Groovy did their thing we assume and even Sparkle was head over heels in an affair with The Iceman.

Straight sex, gay sex, perverted sex, or any kind of sex has been portrayed, implied or confirmed throughout the strip since Chester Gould days.

They seem to be warming up to each other.

Why do I smell a “revenge set-up” in the near future?

Hmmmm, more food to come!

True Confessions, leading to a dinner date! Hotsy-totsy stuff here. We know about Blaze, but is Lee le​zzie, too? Or bi-sexual? Or must we grudgingly admit that this is all just totally guileless and innocent friendly reminiscing?

Either way, whither go we? Still trying to figure out how this Blaze and Lee thread ties in to the/a crime story….