Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 20, 2016

.Good morning guys! Welcome to summer!

Good morning, VB. To be exact, summer starts at 6:34 pm EDT today (3:34 pm PDT, etc.), but we’ve had a heat wave heat for several days. The cold front is due in here about the same time as summer starts.

Great art today. I notice Shelley is back on the inks, and they look great. Just like Joe’s looked great last week — though with a different style. Meanwhile, Notta’s angry as ever, sigh. Thought she might have softened up a tad yesterday, but I guess that will take time.

So, Notta was Purdy’s only defense? I wonder what Blaze thinks of that claim.

Gweedo – It’s legal here !!! – MurrayI wouldn’t be surprised if Lizz would like to slap her, but of course, she can’t do that, even if she wanted to.

Notta only had a momentary lapse yesterday, from the criminal mindset of playing the blame game. She is still no where near taking responsibility for her own actions.

I notice that Blaze is also in cuffs. Why?

Something tells me this isn’t the last we’ll see of Purdy Fallar.

It is perfectly obvious now why Sam did not ride along with Tracy on this gig, while Lizz (with two Z’s) did. With two female offenders to be taken into custody, a female detective is necessary [the police force and its civil rights concerns have not yet given way to gender-identity politics]. Notta’s moment of human softness has passed as she reverts to the tough talk and attempted domination of her situation. Unfortunately for her, Lizz and Tracy aren’t buying it. The EMTs will get Purdy into professional care (not the experimentation that Notta fears). Blaze will be taken in as a formality, but her lawyer (once she gets one) should have her out on modest bail PDQ. (Note that Notta has her hands cuffed behind her back, Blaze in front as typical for non-violent perps.)

This story got to third base but the runner was left strandedThe silliness the past few days left it rounded up and brandedUnfortunate to get hopes up the Eagle’s finally landedInstead to circle around the moon I hope I’m not too candid.

Great story. I enjoyed it. I’m particularly fond of Blaze and hope she gets a chance to grow.

Love Lizz’s comeback!

To Ray and Av from Sunday……… Yeah, that’s it! Sweatbox ending! Thanks! Sometimes (more often than not), this old goat has a memory freeze.

Only 6 days to the Fearless Fosdick mini-arc!

Thanks to everyone for all the compliments on the ending yesterday to the Notta Fallar story. However, I can’t take credit for it. It was Shelley’s idea and a good one at that.

A few weeks ago, it was revealed that FB died of natural causes.It was revealed that FB died of a heart attack, after being shot at by someone who missed! If it could ever be proved that Blaze did the shooting, there is something in the law about causing death by one’s actions. An actual charge of murder would not stick, but if a wrongful action scares someone to death, the person taking the wrongful action is at least partly responsible.Some years ago, Judge Wapner on one of those TV Courtroom shows explained it this way:If your dog bites a normal person, you might be responsible for the doctor bill. But, if your dog bites a person who happens to have a pre-existing phobia of dogs, and the person winds up needing psychiatric help as well as medical help, you would be responsible for those bills as well, because it was still your dog.Therefor, I wonder just how “off the hook” Blaze really is.

Lizz’s crack to Notta made me laugh out loud when I first read it this morning.

Happy Full Moon Solstice to All in Dickville..

He’s still mad I didn’t get over his way !   One of these days….

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Not at all, I just don’t want to be the third cog between you and VB!LOL!

Condolences to the family, friends and fans of Anton Yelchin who played Chekov in the new Star Trek movies. What a tragedy.

Doesn’t the Miranda Rights reading have to be “word-for-word”? Seems like Liz(z) is abbreviating it a little, doncha think? I don’t remember it being read to me like that! (I’m not going to take a poll as to how it was read to others). That might get Notta off!

To @Willy007—Thanks for the reply. Being an artist, I’m familiar with the tools and what you said… but it sill doesn’t tell me who is who is doing what. Joe Stanton and Mike Curtis are the credited artists—- so where are the names “Shelley” and “Joe” coming from??

“You have the right to remain silent . . .Give my Ears a Break and Do So ! "

Some ‘timely’ LIP there from Lizz !

Perhaps the old ‘memory’ is fading.(/) . . .But can’t recall her ‘saying/doing’ anything of much greater note or consequence in recent times ? ?What comes to mind - was her gracious ‘Stepping Down’; as Chief to allow a Patton return

But, I guess … she’s had to take a “back seat” during T – Bolt’s front page “Filibusters”(?) when the latter (Lee Ebony) disguised, ‘sucked up’ all the oxygen in the strip for several months (. . . including Top of the Team “Martial Arts” recognition*!* :-)

But to give Mike and Joe their “JACKETS” - T – Bolt’s a truly ‘memorable’, their Best “Character Creation” . . . one, that only takes a 2nd Place to the inlmitable - Doubleup !!

Pity she’s just a Disguise and not an “Original” in her own right !

Mike Curtis is the writer of the strip, although I believe he sometimes pencils sketches of his ideas on how a panel should look. Joe Staton is the artist. If you look at the credit box on Sunday strips, you will see Shelley Pleger and Shane Fisher they do inking and coloring (Colors only on Sunday) These are things we have learned from reading these comments, and links to other Dick Tracy articles, over several years.

OOps – that comment was meant to be a reply to Doug Anderson.

Liz would get in trouble for doing that. But, I like the idea.

All in all, this was a good story. The characters didn’t always act as I would’ve logically expected but real life isn’t always logical either. A writer can do the story whatever way he wants and we can react whatever way we want to it. I hope we see these characters again and there are plenty of threads out there for a few stories at least. Looking forward to this year’s summer spectacular.

I rather like Blaze. Here’s hoping she can fully reform like she seems to want to do.

They really have nothing on Blaze, just theories that she took a shot long ago. No witnesses and the victim died of a heart attack.