Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 18, 2024

and what exactly DOES his head hold?… LOL…

Good morning™, everyone!

So, today, we are back to the hotel room where Warbucks is telling the story. The surprise to me is that it sounds like Boris Sirob is still a kidnapping threat to Warbucks in the present day. That may be the reason that Tracy is there listening to these stories and may be a current case coming up.

Jeez, can this story be any more boring?

It’s totally devoid of any action/excitement!

The only thing that might save it is Mike tossing in a goat or two!

Good morning™, Present Days !

Tracy’s lookin’ Damm Good ! :-)   This Boris character may pose a formidable challenge.

Wait, last week Tracy broke up a kidnapping attempt he knew Sirob was behind, & now he’s asking questions like he has no idea who Sirob is? Does Mike think we’ be so blown away by the concept of a retconned Annie origin story that featured Tracy we wouldn’t care about minor details like a coherent story?

Is Tracy working solo on this caper? No Sam? No Lizz? No Lee? No scenes of MCU drinking their favorite beverage at headquarters?

Who is paying Boris? Some hostile country or a criminal organization? Truth be told this is above the Apparatus’s pay grade. That rules them out.

If Warbucks says Boris does not know who he works for, somebody either looked him up in the yellow pages or he was a referral.

How does Warbucks know Boris is after him, without knowing anything else? Well, the FBI could have told him. How does the FBI know Boris (along with his two, now one henchmen) is after Warbucks — without knowing anything of where the plot originated? If this is a national threat that required two agents assigned to protect Warbucks why is the FBI assigning a city cop to protect Warbucks after pulling an agent off for maternity leave? Why assign an agent who is nine months pregnant to what you believe is a dangerous assignment?

If the Grays are off the case, how are they going to both by killed by Boris?

A: They will be killed deliberately by Boris in revenge for the arrest of henchman #1.

B: They will be run down as Boris flees from Tracy.

C: They will be trampled by an escaped rhinoceros on a trip to the zoo (which has nothing to do with the Boris plot).

And, will we get a rational explanation for how Annie ends up in the orphanage and becomes a ward of Oliver?

I like the fact that Warbucks is smoking a cigar. He’s immortal, so the health dangers don’t worry him. (I mean, he has to be 150 years old by now.)

“You mean Mr. Mind, the Big Red Cheese’s small and wriggly foe?Well, THAT explains a lot of what you do, ya’ big war profiteer you!”

Guys, give Mike a pass on this. This is possibly his ultimate dream concept.

Is Warlocks left eye supposed to be " square "?

Talking head city.

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“Horses you know! But about human beings, you know nothing!”

Irene Papas to James Cagney—-TRIBUTE TO A BAD MAN—1956

I held my head this morning .

I need to start communicating with the colorist more. That first panel has Tracy wearing a yellow suit instead of black. I wish Shane would do the dailies as well.

We’re still in “the past”,apparently THE SIAM is one of those golden oldie hotels like Blackstone and Palmer House that has stood the test of time.

Meanwhile,Warbucks brings out the heavy guns and sics Flophouse Bill on Sirob…..

1-DT: I think you need Around The Clock Protection in case someone else tries to park illegally in front of the Siam. Or, you know, if you have another bout of The Kallikaks …

2-DADDY-O: So you want to assign a squad of cops to guard me? Excellent! Let’s use Lee and Liz and I’ll create French Maid outfits as disguises but there won’t be enough material to hide a gun – OH!!! Maybe their garters could hold a small one! drools with the thought

3-DT: No. I was thinking more about you hooking me up with an apartment here – so I’d be close. But, ya know, not too close. Top floor maybe. DADDY-O: THE PENTHOUSE?!?! DT: Oh. Is that what they call it? Yeah. That could work. Tracy smiles at his “clever plan”

DADDY-O: Why are you still here?

The first panel drawing of Dick Tracy is great. He looks like a dude for a change. CharlesEttinger, I was a doubter but….the wise General said…give the guy a chance. He was right!Hand salute Sir!

OT FROTHING AT THE MOUTH: I was just on the telephone with Mike and our ‘wonderful’ phone system went down. I know this as someone ELSE carries my cel service. and yet our phone rates keep going up. We also lost the grandfathered free long distance some time ago (I was an employee for 10 years).

ETTINGER—-practice your “Shaky”.

The second one was a t wo-bit chiseler compared to t he 1944 original—-but Staton drew him so well that nobody cared.

I think this Boris Sirob is going to turn out to be something or some to do with Boris Johnson aka Nosnhoj Sirob.

OT: THINGS YOU DON’T WANT TO HEAR AT THE DIVE-THRU WINDOW.

Terrie planned on baked potatoes tonight, so off I went to the place with the little red-headed girl logo. No, NOT Annie or Ronald McDonald in a dress!

Place # 1: "We sold the last 4 just now. Can you wait 20 minutes?

No. (Drives to the next nearest)

Place #2 (in best DELIVERANCE accent): “Uhhh, we got (pause while he counts his toes)…we go…um…three.”

Okay, I’ll short myself, as she really wanted two, and theyr’e small. However when I got tot he window, I got…

“Uhhhhh. One was rotten. We only got two. you don’t want that one, maybe?”

No, Sport. What I really want is to drag you though the window and give you a whompin’.

Terri had potatoes, I had sleazy QT egg rolls.