Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 30, 2014

I get it!

Christopher LEE + PETER Cushing!

Good call Rod!

I’m having a hard time now! Why did Team Tracy (who’s Tracy?) throw us that bone about Rikki and the mask? Everyone was all juiced up waiting to see Abner again, and “poof!”; it fades away.

So does Gruesome.

Mornin’ all! Mornin’ VistaBIll! (Hope you didn’t eat too much birthday cake – those frosting hangovers can last for days!)--I’m beginning to enjoy this story.I love “Arsenic and Old Lace,” and Vitamin and Boris Karloff, but that week-long tease with the Blackhearts, Rikki Mortis, the absent Abner, and B-B Eyes and Blaze had me really looking forward to that story, and the jump to this one was something of a let down.(Especially as Blaze, Rikki, Abner and the Blackhearts are my favorites of Mike’s new bad guys.)

In the beginning of “Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome,” Gruesome wanders into a bar looking for the piano player, an old friend named Melody.

He needed a Jonathan to get the show up and running. No Jonathan – no show – no money. We’ve all been on that track.

Really! It wouldn’t bother me if Gruesome took him out, and I DON’T mean on a date!

Morning, Tracyville!Concerning today’s strip, don’t y’all think the artwork is just fabulous? The Karloff face in panel two, with its eerie shading just can’t be beat!

avenger09 said, about 11 hours ago (yesterday)@rvldejung The nay-sayers, no-goodniks, moaners, groaners, nitty nit-pickers… Isn’t that what you’re doing with this post? LOL! You have caught me red-handed in the act and I am hoisted me with mine own petard, avenger09! I beg your forgiveness for (A) venting some superheated steam at having to wade through the endless diatribes of digital detritus masquerading as Comments at the time and (B) having at least waited for the joint to cool down before adding my own meagre sixpence-worth into that particular little pudding!

Good morning all. Excellent comments all. My fridge went down last night. Got to call apartment manager to fix it.

By “original stories” I meant stuff by Chet Gould.><br

Pyjamas, indeed! But 80 years with several story arcs per year… and it was you, dear Gweedo, that put the idea into my head in the first place!

Lee and Cushing, two of the finest actors in the Star Wars franchise :-).

Good morning fellow DT fans!

What a salesman that director is! He had Gruesome in the palm of his hands!

Oh, we’re having some SERIOUS fun here…

Even looks a bit like Peter Cushing.

Christopher Gruesome Cushing has a rigidly one-course mind, seeking debtor Dee, the Patterson producer (if such he is), who has seemingly flown the coup. But Director Moore is fascinated by the face and sees that “Christopher” can read lines, too, and so dragoons him into the cast. How the Fates dispose of our feeble plans!

Is that actually a smile on Frankenberries face in panel 2?

Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing? Clever!

gweedo, not even when that triple belly buster hotdog with all the trimmings finally kicked in? Oh wait, you said JONATHAN… nevermind ;)

Maybe it’s just me, but in Panel 3, he looks like he has “bottlecap eyebrows”. Probably a coincidence.

I’ve seen the movie many times and the line is, more precisely, “I’m Woodrow Wilson. Go to bed,” Sorry, I’m a movie buff and had to quibble.