Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 04, 2024

Diet better not make an "as*"teroid out of himself on this trip.

Good morning™, everyone!

Diet is finally going to get to see New Moon Valley! He’s been wanting to do that for a while.

Good morning™, Unexplained Escape Artists !

The part about Ro having to be confined prompted today’s header. He wasn’t confined the first time ?! :-O  Diet will finally learn where New Moon Valley (NMV) is. P.3. is definitely a different look for Smitty and in P.2. he a little bit resembles Vitamin Flintheart.

Why does Diet look like Sam Elliot? (Especially the 3rd pannel of yesterday’s strip)

Could it be a trap? – Nah we already know we’re getting an MM in a couple of days.

and once again, this arc leaves us with that pointed proctological finger that has made several appearances as of late in the strip…

didn’t a proctologist’s mother ever tell him not to point?…

or clean under his nails afterwards?…

One hopes that colo-rectal surgeons wash their hands.

In the immortal words of Liz: “Is all this moon stuff worth it?”

The term “Moon Valley” cracks me up ! sorry!

P3 is the most “Sam Elliot” that Charles has done.

Wait… An early panel with an Egyptian mummy case (from the South Pole) that isn’t mentioned again for weeks. It is mentioned yesterday. And ignored again today.

Was it a Chekov’s mummy case, a red herring mummy case, a random synapse lapse from the writer? Now I’m going with a shaggy dog mummy case.

Tomorrow: the Coupe de grâce….

Diet will disappear, and we’ll have the Howard Hughes fiasco all over again

I just want to wish Dick Tracy a happy 93rd birthday 10/4/31!!

Happy to the world’s greatest detective. 93 is the new 50.

Today is Dick Tracy’s 1st Appearance as “Plainclothes Tracy” October 4, 1931… #DickTracy

So the Public panic, Lunarian scaremongering will be a forgotten loose end? Which could be Mike’s egregious one yet.

…..and DON’T let any of the fine young fillies down there….y’know…..throw themselves all over you, like what happened when Tracy visited….some of ’em MUST be into "older (and VERY rich!) Terran gentlemen……..

Cue the kidnapping and rebellion arc!

Okay then , back to Fata Morgana / The Amazing Baxter , Rikki and Silver Nitrate huh ? No ? Well what then ?

1- DT: Watch your head. ROX-ANN: What??? DT: Oh. Sorry – just a habit from putting criminals in the back of a squad car.

2- THOR-AX: I’ve an idea. Why don’t you throw a hand in the air like you just don’t care? DOIT: OK!

3- DT: I think Thor-Ax is playing you for a fool, Doit. DOIT: He thinks so but wait’ll he finds out I cut the brake line on his Space Coupe! Who’ll have the last laugh then!?!

DT: Space Coupes don’t have brakes or brake lines. I bet you cut the water line to the Snail Coffee maker. DOIT: DOH!!!

And look out for Chinese rockets!

Shouldn’t Diet stop and file a flight plan with the FAA? Bad enough that RoZan, and, the (ex) New Moon Valley governor didn’t. Don’t want to ruffle the bureaucrats tail feathers anymore than needed.