Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 17, 2016

Looks bad.

Chief should wear his vest.

Chief should wear his vest.

Doesn’t sound promising.

But will the vest protect against The Jaws of Death !?!?!.Good morning the ‘lucky to be far from Rikki’, Wild Bill !

Will Pat Survive …?

Meet someone at the park at midnight eh? As a police chief with his background he oughta know better than that.

Good luck with THIS, Rikki…..you really think a police chief is going into this without eyes wide open?

“I’ll be back soon, dear.” Famous last words?

Meeting someone at the park at midnight?! Without back-up?! Really, Pat? Where are your cop instincts tonight?I foresee a Vampire Car looming in the dark….

Never saw Mrs. Patton before. But if they kill him, I’ll never read this strip again.

.Good morning guys!.

.Tomorrow… the park….

I certainly hope that Pat called Tracy, off panel, to be his back up for this little mission.

Ominous art, as Patton goes from shadow, to hidden eyes, to bathed in darkness. Pat has had Tracy’s back over the years. Let’s hope he reached out to Tracy. It will take more than a hand gun to stop the Vampire Car.

Oh I KNOW it won’t go down this way, but what if Patton manages to bring in Rikki all by his Lonesome? I mean he WAS Tracy’s partner, he DOES have the skills and he’s not an incompetent doddering idiot!

Just something to think about

Yeah, Pat. At midnight. Meet somebody in the park. Alone. After a call from a con about extortion.And whatever you do, don’t bring a gun. Or your wrist wradio. Or your BRAIN! Yeesh.

AM I the only one who’s reminded of those ‘teen-aged girl alone at home with the mad killer loose’ horror movies?You know the scene I mean, the one where the girl says, “Hey, I hear a noise in the basement. I better go see what it is…”- And the entire audience goes, “NO! NO! Don’t look!!”That’s how I feel about this.

Sorry about that, Chief.

.Rikki’s new machine?.

Could we possibly see Matty Squared involved this early? If Matty was assigned to monitor Rikki, he would see the money she transferred to Pack’s account and get some protection to Pat.

Nothing’s going to happen to Pat in the park. Toby’s tonight’s target.

Sunday at the Park ???

Why is Pat shown putting on a blue shirt in the second panel when in the first panel he already is wearing it? Maybe the first panel’s shirt is leisure wear and the second panel’s shirt is his uniform shirt?Also, he states that “it’s against the rules,” so he probably does not want any other police person to know about this.

.The BMBG Team (Gweedo, Neil Wick, JPuzzleWhiz, and Vista Bill) are standing by in the park to cover the Patton/Mortis story as it unfolds. Stay tuned!.

Joe & Mike are really starting to re-cycle their material, and that can’t be a good sign.