Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 09, 2023

Good morning™, everyone!

Today, “Kriptonite” has become “Kyptonite.” At least we got the “y” back but had to give up an “r.” Anyway, I guess the guy with the inside jokes is hired!

DAMMS!… what a thuggish-looking butt-ugly dude…

I hope Art Decco’s not behiind this. I just can’t believe he would do anything illegal.

Good morning™, high school coach candidates !

He’s got the look of a guy who’d like to make you do 50 pushups, 60 windsprints laps around the track and 150 situps, on an inclined plane .. on your first day of practice for the new season.

He looks a little energetic to be a coach McGurk* but has the same sleazy attitude.

Home Movies, on Adult Swim*

Around 18 years ago DC went to court over a company with Kryptonite in its name that made locks & accessories for bikes & the judge ruled “Kryptonite” was a valid trademark that could be protected against “infringement & dilution.” I don’t know about infringement but this “Kryptonite” character certainly looks diluted to me.

To the one who wont quit Joshing me. I provided some easy answers to your question of the phone and dogs to goats dilemma.

Guess we won’t see Superman any time soon!

Is “Kyptonite” his name, and Kryptonite is what he will use?

He looks likes a Kip to me.

Stop! You’re killing me!

What is this guy having for refreshments to watch the game with…potato chips and an energy drink?

I suppose if push comes to shove, Kryptonite can always put the “squeeze” on Paul. (No pun intended) Guy does have the physique for it.

Hmm…if poison is used…then no gun play required. Is this the future of the strip? Alternative ways to eliminate “threats” without any shooting. Chances are Tracy’s gallery of hats with bullet holes was running out of space.

Did they give him muscles to look like Superman but an idiotic face like henchman Otis ?

Sigh… The problems of finding a good hit-man. You can’t find them on Thumbtack® or Angie’s List® so too many would-be employers visit bars, offering some seedy looking stranger money to kill a spouse or co-worker only to find they’ve been tricked by an undercover cop. Such trickery is despicable. Here we have a job broker, willing to set up business relationships between those individuals needed to hire someone, and those looking for a job.

Of course one wonders how find Kyptonite, since he can’t exactly advertise on Thumbtack® or Angie’s List® either.

Note to criminals: do you really plan your hits in plain English on an easily-intercepted cellular phone? Tracy and the MCU already know Art is committing a felony. They should have this whole thing recorded. (In the real world Art would be using a burner phone, at the least.)

ka-hilarious

the only way he’s going to poison anyone is if he cooks for them.

he looks thuggish enough but does he have enough on the ball to not leave a trail?

Looking forward to finding out how he got his name.

When I look at this guy my first thought was “broken nose”.

Maybe he fills a crypt a night?

Maybe he’s a creep tonight?

He could be the Crypto Knight.

KYPTONITE? Is he making fun of “Kwippke” on Big Bang?

1-KWIPKEE NIGHT: Hello, Best Buy?

2-…That TV you sold me don’t have a color pitcher. It’s just black and blue.

3-…Yeah – I got a box of crayons with it. OH! I guess that’s why it was so cheap. OK. I’ll get started. Say. Do you know what color the Cleveland Browns helmets are? Oh. That makes sense…

MOVIE QUOTE—

“I’m Honest Moe.he’s Honest Shemp.And that’s Larry”.

MUMMY’S DUMMIES—1948

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Looks like our assassin “Kyptonite,” previously identified as “Kriptonite,” is in fact Just Some Guy, not even weird in the Dick Tracy sense. It’s particularly wearisome that he makes a little joke about his name in the final panel here. You’re the one who picked this nickname, man! Sorry if it results in confusion that you feel like you have to deflect in advance, before you agree to just shoot some guy with a gun, for money.

Poisoning with a radioactive material? Does Putin know this guy has gone freelance?

Has the MCU already tapped the little so-and-so’s phone,judging from past experience?

And if Paul turns up dead,Sue reel will run for the shelter of the nearest police precinct.

@firestrike1 – You think?

I think this guy looks like he might be a bit mean!

That kisser could stop birdshit in mid~air!!!

Kyptonite, Kriptonite, Kryptonite! Who knows? Whatever.

The big, muscular thug is watching football on the big screen as he talks on the phone, to Art Dekko presumably, who is okayed essentially because “he knows a guy who knows a guy,” a time-honored Tracyville/Chicago convention. And our hitter may prefer poison to a piece (quieter, less likely to attract unwanted attention). He probably at one time aspired to play pro football himself (big bucks!), but couldn’t muster the mastery of a playbook (that requires smarts as well as muscles). Maybe in tryouts he got his jaw broken, which would account for his twisted facial features….