Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 03, 2016

.Good morning guys!.I wanna see what’s in the box!.What I do in my spare time. Vista Bill’s absolute final computer setup… Comet, Shadow, and Happybird. There’s 14tb of disk space setting on that table..

Gweedo – It’s legal here !!! -

✯✯ Vista Bill Raley and Comet ✯✯

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Hmmm, hey guys, when you’re done slobbering over each other perhaps you can comment on the strip? Just a thought! LOL! LOL! LOL!

Gweedo starkly greeted,Mornin’ Mr. rootin’ shootin’ computin’ two fisted keyboards a smokin’ blue screen o’ death to bad guys, Bill !-———————————————————————-.Gads, Gweedo, is this what you think about me! Good morning!

Rikki and Abner speak so casually about murder, which gives me the creeps. I suppose that is the intent, so mission accomplished. :)

It’s a matter of pride for Abner to kill Dick Tracy personally, but many have tried and nobody has yet succeeded. I don’t know why he thinks he will succeed, except for pride once again.

So Abner is letting Rikki carry out some of the contracts?Does that make her a sub-contract killer?

What is in that box, Rikki’s present – The Vampire Mechanique – is actually Vista Bil. :)

I’m a little confused by something Rikki said. The way she speaks in the second panel, she thought Abner would have her kill Tracy. Gosh, is he retiring, and going to turn the business over to her?

They’re never willing to let it drop.

“Vampire Mechanique” …

Some sort of ‘Iron Maiden’-esque automated blood-draining device?

Or maybe a robot?

Rikki is delight, even as a “sub-contract killer” (as Jim in CT said). But Abner has the power to impress, when he has the will. Maybe he’s thinking ahead to retirement and grooming Rikki to carry on the business. Together they have such flair, such panache; they are like Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera in their underground lair…Meanwhile, I too am eager to see the Vampire Mechanique; the name would support AnyFace’s guess, that it is some sort of updated “Iron Maiden” device (literally, mechanical bloodsucker), but we don’t yet really know.

A certain cowboy was spotted in Fort Smith, Arkansas on National Train Day…

My first was a Timex Sinclair at $100.00 and a 64Kb RAM Expansion that cost me over $900.00(and almost a divorce when my wife found the bill)

I somehow picture Abner with John Carradine’s voice.

Abner: “It is a matter of honor, now!”Oh yes, Abner you are such an honorable man, murdering people for a living! Gee, the world would be so disappointed if you were to stop killing, because then your*honor* would be called into question!

they better not kill abner.. that’s all im sayin’

Good Mornin’ All..

A murderer has honor?

Regarding yesterday’s discussion of Abner’s real face:

When the MCU was investigating Abner during his first appearance, Lee Ebony called Abner’s fellow Horror-Show Host who made the following statement about Abner’s face…

I pointed this out on July 22, 2015 when a discussion of Abner’s mask was brought up.

Going in for a biopsy this afternoon. Wish me luck, Tracy fans!-————————————Thoughts and prayers are with you, JPuzz.

I think that Abner is becoming to Dick Tracy what the Joker is to Batman.

I kind of worry about that. I don’t know that I want this strip to consist of regularly recurring villains. The idea that certain criminals can never be defeated doesn’t sit well with me.

Good luck on your biopsy.

Night-Gaunt49 complimented,Thank you for showing us your electronic shoot’n irons as a cyber cowboy.-—————————————————————-.I’m proud of what I have done and wanted to share my efforts with my fellow DT commentor friends, Night-Gaunt49!

M. Mitchell Marmel said,A certain cowboy was spotted in Fort Smith, Arkansas on National Train Day…-———————————————————————————————.Is that Vista Bill and Comet?

For about $1200, you can get the biggest and baddest computer known to man custom built and hooked up to 250 Mb/sec, be the envy of every speed junkie in Best Buy!

They can tell by the little points at the bottom of his word balloon. :D

JPuzzleWhiz confessed,So does mine, when something goes wrong with it…but I don’t think I can reveal that name here! ;o)-————————————————————————-.After a several hour unsuccessful bout with Happybird (my newest machine), I’m tempted to rename it!

Gweedo apologitically stated,*I’m sure he meant to say shoot’n arns, Bill ! You have to pardon the lad for improper use of old westicisms.*-—————————————————————————.Gweedo, I learnt mine yars ago.