Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 27, 2024

Moon kids stole a Space Coupe and went joyriding again!

The "watch"words are seek & destroy.

Diet looks younger and slimmer. He must be a graduate of the Ettinger weight lost institute!

who is the nuisance representative?…

Diet Smith has security now? It took him long enough! Even multiple thefts of the Space Coupe didn’t convince him he needed it. Perhaps being kidnapped out of his own facility by a lone bad guy was the last straw!

Good morning™, everyone!

Incoming aircraft! I wonder who “the representative” might be. Representative of what? Maybe a politician?

looks like Diet has BEEN on a diet, hard to really tell at this point…

Good morning™, Hostile Threats !

Wont respond ?  That is never good. If Diet is in an office at or near the top of that structure he will be an easy target.

Diet looks much different today! Jenny Craig?!

Looks like the representative is making a personal appearance!

Been a long time since I’ve seen the wrist TV.

Could it be the “LONG LOST SPACE COUPE” WITH DR’S SAIL, GHOTE, AND SPUTNIK ON BOARD?!?!?

Shoot it down, we’ll let my paid police force sort it out.

UFO ? Call Ed Straker.

Diet shouldn’t call his representative a nuisance. I’m sure the congressperson is very busy!

Aircraft refusing to respond ? DUCK ! ! !

Is that the upgraded Apple Tracy watch?

…..MEANWHILE… kid (who SHOULD be back in school today, but………) flying his drone over Smith Empire……..don’t y’all get your boxers up in a bunch…….

1- DOIT SMITH! PAPER! GIVE ME MORE PAPER! SECRETARIAT: Here you go, sir.

2- DOIT: Sir. Ahhhh – they always call me “Sir”… SECRETARIAT: Yes, Sir! It’s short for Simpering Idiotic Reprobate

3- DOIT: My alarm! Dam this screen is tiny…Oh. It’s just time to change my Depends

SECRETARIAT: GOTTA GO! You’d think the old fart would “feel” when they’re loaded and not need a special sensor-equipped pair…

It’s the time drone when it was in R&D.

Reps running for office (all of them) spend most of their campaign time on the phone calling up rich people begging for high dollar donations.

The two-way wrist tv has made a comeback.

Space Coupe?

Now this is an entertaining daily comic strip! (& no, I’m not being sarcastic)

TRACY SIGHTING: One of the clues in my morning crossword (I go through a book in about two weeks) was ‘Song from DICK TRACY.’

I’m going to assume they mean the MOVIE…

WHOOPS! Warm op the ack-ack guns! Emperor Ming has finally given up on wholesale conquest in FLASH GORDON, and is branching out. I understand LUANN is now ruled by a pupped government, and GET FUZZY is next!

This is starting out to be a great story.

That Minit Mystery “artist” madeTracy look like Fearless Fosdick. Now they are emaciating Smith (If that’s him??) to look like he’s been stranded on an island somewhere. If these guys are attempting to FUBAR this once great strip into oblivion, they are well on their way.

Who would wear a green suit with a yellow check shirt?

Wow! A watch with a video screen! Those things are so cool! I remember when Penny from Inspector Gadget had one of those.

Quick! Divert the plane to Bangalla so The Phantom has some help since the country doesn’t have an airforce or a drone force for some inexplicable reason. Faux Elon Musk’s space robot is running amok since it was supposed to be on the moon.

Apparently I’m the only one to realize there’s only one man ARROGANT enough not to respond to warning communications—-Mr. Pain In the Neck Moon Governor.

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