Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 16, 2024

Good morning™, all!

That sound like the real Annie that we knew in her strip.

So …. a little time has passed since yesterday’s strip, & Annie has been born. I guess. This strip lately has us guessing a lot, & not in a good way.

and they’ve already chosen a name for Fetus Annie…

Good morning™, Sweet Predictions !

They’re gushing over a kid they wont see, who after all that adventuring with Sandy, spiced with Daddy Bigbux encounters, becomes an esteemed member of The Toenail Trio, now playing at a suburban bedroom near you.

and why the heavy emphasis on ‘OUR’?…

OF course, it’s theirs… it’s not like he said “MY Annie”…

This one hour film from 1945 may interest some of you.

https://archive.Org/details/dick_tracy_detctive/dick_tracy_detective.mp4

Seems like it was the other way around…paths chose Annie.

Kind of a sweet-hearted strip today!

After reading today’s installment of; The Boring Adventures of Annie" I need a double caffeine coffee to wake me up!

I assume Annie has now been born, since they wouldn’t know the gender until she was born.

Dead Parents Walking??

This is turning into an interesting origin story.

They’re saying that their unborn child is a girl. But it has to be a feeling, back then there were no scientific tests available to tell parents what the gender would be. Of course, WE KNOW, because were beyond the fourth wall, and, in their future.

So, I’m guessing that her ultimately becoming Lady Gaga came as a bit of a disappointment?

Jokes on them. Annie never grows up.

Just a minor point: Is “Annie” (usually a nickname) going to be the name on the birth certificate, or something like “Ann” or “Anne”?

Why am I getting a Lil Orphan Annie origin story in Dick Tracy?

SO is today’s strip an irony set up or did Winnie condemn Annie to a HARD KNOCK LIFE BY SAYING THAT? Also… who cares? LET’S HAVE SOME SQUIRT GUN ACTION!

SQUISH SQUISH! YA GOT ME, WET WILLIE!

1-WINNIE: What a perfect life we have. HAROLD: Yeah – why’d you mess it up by screwing up the fool proof Rhythm Method ???

2-WINNIE: Oh Harold. You knew I had two left feet when we first met at the dance hall! You can’t expect me to make something work that was invented by an infallible Pope! I wonder how he came up with it? No matter! A quick trip to the orphanage down the street and everything will be back to normal. I GUARANTEE! dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnn!

Eh how’d they knows it a girl before child even born?

I would like to see, Ms. President Annie, Annie CEO, Annie Mayor of a Major City, the possibilities are endless, let’s start a new strip, Orphan Annie, The Later Years!. I am all for it! Shelley? Mike!?

Folks, it’s “sliding timeline” not “Linear Timeline” (although Mike like’s to say EVERYTHING happened!) So this is 13 years ago (Mike has established Annie and Honeymoon are the same age.) So this is 2011…

…or what path, littered with what she will later describe as “a skunk’s answer to a prayer” , will be chosen for her……..

I really like Annie’s parents.

Firestrike will join the LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE strip as “Dan Drift”