Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 24, 2015

I’ve honestly missed Mumbles, BB-Eyes, and even Blaze Rize! And since TBolt seems to be known to Blaze, this storyline has a lot of promise! (Oh yeah, and She’s a She!)

Gender confirmed.

Looks as if the now sandy-haired Mumbles is balancing that lamp on his palm in panel two.

There’s Mumbles! I kew he’d be hanging around with B-B Eyes (or BB-Eyes as it is today).

For those who struggle with “Mumble-speak”:Hey, BB-Eyes! There’s a Fight in the alley.Some limo driver beating up a guy. He looks like a cop!

So, apparently, Blaze knows TBolt, who is just making a clear entrance for the return of the big boss. How did Blaze get to know so much? I have to go back and read the story where she was introduced. I missed that one when I was working hard on my degree.

Good morning fellow DT fans!

I don’t envy Shelley’s job typing the words Mumbles says! How will we know if she makes a mistake?

TBolt backstory tomorrow?

And how fares Johnny Adonis?

As a child I loved to readAll about Dick Tracy’s deedsHow he fought those in the wrongSending them where they belongedFighting evil was his dealHe was honest and always realThrough each battle and every jamHe never quit and never ranI have learned a lot from himAnd I always try to winBut alas I must confessSomethings finally got my bestThe strip today does really stinkSo my mind went on the blink

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We’ll try again tomorrow!

Whtrutlknabt, Vstabl? :)

Well, so much for my theory that Tbolt was Flattop’s grandson, Hi-Top. Unless it’s a transgender thing, and I doubt the censors would allow that.I suspect Blaze knows Tbolt in the Biblical sense. ;)

Good morning, DT fans! So Blaze knows T-Bolt? Maybe they’re related?Stiletta’s goneAnother sceneAdonis snoopsOoops!T-Bolt, a joltMumbles’ sees allFearing the cops

T-Bolt doesn’t look anything like a cop, though! Maybe he needs glasses, at his age!

Unless Mumbles was talking of Johnny Adonis…who does not look like a cop, either

A Blackhearts confab, as we seeMiddle management office of Eyes: BB

Report comes in, it’s “Mumbled,” trueBut Blaze Rize knows what not to do

A friend – or more – could TBolt beTo young Miss Rize? Please: Backstory.

And whither Johnny? Handsome dickOn short end of tough TBolt’s stick.

In limo, somewhere, someone waits.By “Jove” – will he decide their fates?____________________

Stuff writes itself.

Once Mike has written it first.

BB was never kind with snoopy cops! Remember O’Malley from the Gould’s original BB story? Hope Adonis won’t meet a similar fate!

Good morning Gweedo. Is Rikki fading away? I saw her turn into a vapor once.

Tbolt and Blaze must share the same hair stylists. I’m a little surprised that BB Eyes isn’t familiar with his parimeter sweepers.

And for those who like to keep track of who’s left the stage permanently on the bad guy scene- Blaze’s sister, Hot Rise.

Mumbles= pogka=-w9ir1297vn38=a34nn9b=3=IV=[ 0rj3VM3V0[BN 803UVN0V-QN =3B52B= 03U

Thought “Billion Dollar Limited” was up next.

Have the past few days just been a tease?

Will Mike & Joe leave us hanging on the fate of Johnny Adonis for MONTHS?

Good morning everyone. More bad guys! Yes! A new storyline! Y’all have an adventurous day my friends.

MumbleSpeak is such a challenge for me.I’m lovin’ it.

I’m not positive, but I think Mumbles may have seen Johnny a few years back, maybe during the Vincent Vinyl story…

BB-Eyes has the line of the day in panel 3! Amazed that “she” is clearing the perimeter, and immediately putting it to Blaze whether she knows her…. In the hands (and words) of a good actor, that would be memorably telling! So many layers of meaning and implication…. MumbleSpeak is fun, too.

Johnny Adonis and Tess Tracy were both at the shootout on Mr. Crime, in fact Tess was the one who killed him (via ricochet)

Its a whole new era!!!

If only he looked like the wino they gave the dollar to…-—————-Exactly my point. If you don’t want to be noticed, look like you belong there. You’ll still risk a beating (like that wino), but you’ll have a better chance of being left alone.

Hey timmy, I don’t know what I said that was so wrong, It’s gotta smell nasty in that room with that stogie stinking up the joint!

LOL

Ummmm….couldn’t the limo driver be Ponytail as well? I mean, how would Johnny A. be spotted so easily from a limo?

Be fun if the Mole made it into this story, too……

If only he looked like the wino they gave the dollar to…

He should have taken lessons from Tracy. Tracy managed to successfully pose as a homeless man just a few years ago, if I remember right.

Push this button and everything goes back to normal…

yeah what you think.

Intro (skip if you’ve already read any of the previous intros):

Hello, greetings, casual readers of past Tracy stories. I’m here because I’m on 2 missions. The first is something I’ve never done before, read each Tracy story by Mike Curtis (or his occasional guest writer) in one sitting each. I feel his stories are worth it. IMHO, Curtis is by far the best post-Gould writer this strip has ever had, and we’re all lucky to have him.

My second mission is to provide an immediately useful Featured Comment whenever needed. My 3 friends below will reply to me. You can read their replies if you like, but their only real purpose is to bump up this comment to the Featured Comment.

There are 2 basic types of immediately useful Featured Comments: anytime that day’s strip quotes a real song. I will provide an html to a recording to that song so you’ll know the tune even if you’ve never heard it before. The other type (this type) is to provide you with a Mumblespeak translator when needed.

End Intro

“What’d he say?”

Mumblespeak Translator: He said, “Hey, B-B Eyes! There’s a fight in the alley.”

“What’d he say?”

Mumblespeak Translator: He said, “Some limo driver beating up a guy. He looks like a cop!”