Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 06, 2024

why does the inmate next to Silver look familiar?…

refresh my memory…

Good morning™, everybody!

I feel like I should know that guy, but I don’t remember who he is. Is is Aquarius?

Our beloved Dick Tracy comic strip is becoming mundane.

And that’s the truth.

Silver forgot the Golden Rule of prison lunch, EAT FAST.

Chucky, why is every inmate in panel one a fat walrus?

Prison food is that good???

So is this Eric’s “name dropping” arc?

Hiding a piece of cutlery. There’s gonna be spooning in the cell.

Good morning™, Band of Bad Brothers !

Another member for the Kill Tracy contingent. Carlo’s take does these badasses justice.

I just hope Jake & Elwood Blues are the mealtime entertainment.

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“Steal my food, will ya?”

Big guy is wants more foods eh.

What are they going to “dish” out?

I like the yellow (orange) contrast to the drabness of the facility!

This is starting to feel like Eric is writing from Mike’s notes…I mean that in a good way…

its Steven Segal, working undercover for the MCU

The excitement! The thrills! The suspense! — will not be seen in today’s strip. “The Story” has also called in sick. So, today, we offer…spoons.

“You don’t think I’m tough? You think I can’t take it?? Watch me tattoo a heapin’ pan of lasagna WITH EXTRA MEAT SAUCE and a cute little Garfield on the side on my chest with this here dull SPOON!!”

Barbara Bush? (ducking and running)

“Got me a job in th’ prison laundry. I starch my shirts with vanilla pudding. Gonna have me some saWEEEEEEET late night snacks for a WEEK! Wanna’ bite?”

“That’d be a solid ‘no.’ I’m a chocolate man myself. Though my sicks squish when I walk…”

“Bob! NO! I know you’re a do-it-yourelf kinda’ guy, But A) your appendix is a LOT lower down, an’ B) according to the AMA, Spoon Surgery is still in the testing stages!!!!!”

Uncle Duke must be on an undercover assignment with fake hair .

“Alka-Seltzer! Alka-Seltzer!”

1- PRISON GUARD: Doh dee doh. Just polishing my club, my wand, my swein stücker… OH WOWZER!!!

2- SILVER: He looks nice. I wonder if he’s gonna finish that…

3- DAWN EENOFTHEAGEOF AQUARIUS: This will make 40 plastic spoons in my collection! Now I’ll begin to throw one away each year and when they’re all gone, that will mean I have only 20 more years on my sentence left! GENIUS! Beats scratching days on the wall of my cell!

Hear ye ! Hear ye ! I found a political comment among the many posts here on the hallowed pages of Dick Tracy . There is absolutely NO POLITICS on Dick Tracy . None whatsoever . This is a politics free zone and we like it that way .

I do believe that is Aquarius.

Sorry to nit-pick. In the Spirit adventure I thought Double-Tap had gone straight and was working as a bodyguard, and didn’t we recently see Mumbles at the furry convention in the “chick tracy” arc? What are they doing in prison?

Oh, boy! A prison riot!

SUSPICIOUS INMATE—-he actually cleaned his plate of prison food.

And don’t look now, but Cagney’s Mom just died

OT GROAN: Got a request do do a story for a proposed anthology, using someone else’s characters. This isn’t exactly new for me. I’ve done stories using several OTR series for anthology proposals, and developed EARTHSHAKE for Tommy Hancock over at Pro Se, but I usually work from either a radio recording or a bible.

However, what do I get here? A name and a crime. LOADS of room to develop, but as these are characters Ive not been able to find a thing about, I’m a bit uneasy.

Here’s what I have to work with: Dan Morgan-bad man-arson

Wowzers! He just FLOWS into my frontal lobes from that treasure trove of information!

Subtle Publisher Plug: By the way, I also have stories in Pro Se’s anthologies STANDOFF! (tough cop with a hard decision to male)and ALL THAT WEIRD JAZZ (on-the-cheap sleuth/clarinet player has an unwanted run-in with the supernatural). I later did several stories on the second, which I’ll have to assemble into a collection of my own.