Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 21, 2016

So. I, and I bet most of you, had a far more grisly assumption about all the garbage. I guess we don’t expect anything to have an innocent explanation in Dick Tracy.

.Good morning guys!

Good morning, Bill….don’t have a comment yet on today’s developments?

And Specs and Spicy will now go on tour with John L. Springstein. I guess John will be more than willing to go on tour after he hears what is in store for him over at Cuba.When Tracy and The Apparatus hears about their work work there, who will reach the scheming duo first?

I’m thinking Spicy might have a talent of her own …

Naw, didn’t think they’d wind up compacted……they’re too interesting to knock off early. Kind of like a nicer version of a previous, hyena-owning duo, lol

Crooks like us, baby we were born to run…

I think he sings “Bored in the USA”..

Morning, Tracy Fans!

Specs and Spicy aren’t very good at planning ahead. They make a partial escape and check their little black book for a contact to help them escape to Cuba. They’re kind of flying by the seat of their pants.

They may not have a good escape plan, but apparently Specs and Spicy were born to run. :)

Our John L. Springstein looks like a cross between John Denver and Bruce Springsteen. Maybe that was the intention.

Leaving a trail with their old clothes may not be a good idea.-I’m surprised anyone thought they might be dead. If they were, wouldn’t the story be over? Maybe it would have been clearer if Ralph and Norton were shown wrestling a single, big, very heavy bag into the truck, with another inside? Those small bags did suggest body parts.

Springstein looks like Jimmy Thudpucker from Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury.

Hmm. Spicy and Specs haven’t done much advance planning, it seems. I’m not sure just how John L. Springstein wlii help with their escape to Cuba, unless he has a gig there scheduled for the immediate future….

@ Sydney Phillips:

there goes Spicy again, with her attractive, long lashes and dressed in what I call the ‘Lizz Top’ – the “turtle neck” style that Dicky Locher usedActually, it was pointed out here several days ago, when Spicy made her first appearances, that the reason for this particular turtle-neck sweater, especially with the ribbed pattern of the neck, is because it resembles one of those plastic ketchup bottles with the twist off top that has exactly the same ribbed pattern. (Her full name is Spicy Condiment.) I forget now who caught that, but they posted photos for comparison.

Apparently today is Joe Staton’s birthday. Here’s one fan’s salute:

http://13thdimension.com/13-covers-a-joe-staton-birthday-celebration/

Specs and Spicy are what we call a “string” and we’ve gone “single-o” to break off from the Outfit [apparatus}….we just make it up as we go along…isn’t that how Chet did it???

Sure doesn’t look like the Boss. More like Roy Clark.

I think that Mike has to fit his stories in with all the existing strips. He can’t just forget certain eras of the strip as if they never existed. I don’t think he has violated this rule, though he has stretched things a bit at times.

He looks a bit Hoyt Axton-ish!

“Leave them in the trash,” eh? You don’t think the first jobs of a new guy at The Apparatus might include dumpster diving?

Gweedo said,Lingering low level snow and cold here in western NY.-—————————————————————————————-.You can handle a lot of snow, Gweedo! BTW, the cemetery gates will be locked at 6 pm Friday and remain locked until Monday morning in the event you have plans to visit.

Sydney Phillips, where are you?