Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 11, 2016

The return of Mysta. Woot!

By the way, major belated kudos to Ray Toler for his award-winning design work. Well done, Ray!

Good morning, Bill and "Moonies "!

Looks like the dark side of the Moon facing us today !

Confrontation~!!

Sounds like Selfy’s dipping his hand in the till. Shame shame!

What are we congratulating Ray for again …?

Good morning to all.

The sparks are about to fly.

I’m hoping Mysta straightens out Rep. Blowhard’s curls.

Remember, Mysta – Frying her only helps her cause!

With a good jolt. :)

Mysta will not tolerate being addressed as “Moon Maid,” and I’m sure she was already angry even before her real name was not used by Ms. Bellowthon. It’s insulting to be objectified as “a lunarian woman” or a “moon maid” rather than addressed by name as an individual.

Wanta bet?

Knowing Mysta’s short fuse, this doesn’t look good. I wonder what she thinks she can accomplish confronting Miss P.- oops, sorry- Ms. B.

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I concur with those who think that Bribery is at the bottom of this.

Go Mysta! Give her what for!

The poor Congressthing is beset on all sides today! She can’t trust her crooked employee, Selfy (imagine that!), and now she is being stared down by Mysta Chimera (who is not “Moon Maid,” thank you). Sometimes a racketeer just can’t catch a break!

I’m afraid that Mysta will be the last person of record to see the Representative alive after Selfie is confronted for his “dipping.”

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Good morning guys!

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G’morning Gweedo, 22ph, et al. Thanks for the faces avenger09!

The long wait is over. With hands on hips, she’ll brook no quips, nor stand for any nonsense that threatens Honeymoon. What a fabulous character.

Wow!!

I wonder if Mike has been watching the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode “First Contact” lately.

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Not “First Contact” the movie with the Borg. Shudders

and frankenmindy is in full battlegear today as well.. unless she makes it a habit of walking around in evening gloves

I’m sure that Tracy has talked to Coffee by now and when he connects the dots with Miss Piggy, Selfie has had it.

I hope Bellowthorn is wearing a grounding wire…

Miss P.. seems to wear a judge’s wig.

Yeah, well, you’re in a cartoon, mister.

Anyone else hearing John Barry’s James Bond score in panel #3?

Something a little like this …?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FraTE3FImo4

Or maybe some Barry Gray ….?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxOYqoPkdc8

Too bad this isn’t a two-panel cartoon.

Obviously he doesn’t remember SCTV or David Letterman’s earlier shows.

The opening of that Bond medley, and every Bond movie, was written by Monte Norman, not John Barry.

Sorry for the double post!

B flat

And because it’s a cartoon, cartoon physics prevails. After he’s squashed flat and someone rolls the piano off, he’ll be peeled up and pop back to his normal 2 dimensional self…

32 feet per second per second

Mysta’s come to face off her racist persecutor, and it looks like she’s wearing her moon clothes. A bold move! She’s not backing down an inch from the hater, or her new lunar identity. Meanwhile, the racist slob and her minion refuse to acknowledge her new identity and demonstrate their hate by referring to her in other terms, seeking to diminish her. Contemptible creatures showing their true colors.

Bellowthon’s hair is like a judges wig…good to see Mysta back..

For those of you who have expressed a desire to see Mysta “zap” Rep, Bellowthon, remember – that would be playing right in to her hands. If Mysta did anything like that, and if Bellowthon survived, it would be all over the media – “See. I told you all how dangerous these people are” Mysta (and Honeymoon) need to avoid anything like that. It was probably unwise for Mysta to go see Bellowthon alone like this.

By the way, where is this? Did Mysta travel to D.C. or does the Congresswoman maintain an office in Tracy’s city?

Direct confrontation is a bad idea. if something should befall Rep. Bellowthon by others would be placed on Chimera’s head.

This isn’t reality, mister.

It is SAFE to say that one would be worse than a piano.

If memory serves, I remember that at the end of one of the stories there were several other Lunarian’s on Earth.

Why did it show up twice???

John Barry is certainly a favorite of mine, and a major influence on Michael Giacchino’s score for The Incredibles – nearly every track has an analogue among Barry’s Bond pieces.

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I suspect director Brad Bird leaned heavily on John Barry while assembling the temp track.

There are a few modern-era composers whose work I enjoy, one of whom is Alexandre Desplat, who first came to my attention when he composed the score for the film adaptation of the Belgian graphic novel series Largo Winch …

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apSWXrYSx2o

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… as well as the score for Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s *The Fantastic Mr. Fox."

From Duck Soup (1933):

I WILL NOT STAND FOR ANYTHING THAT’S CROOKED OR UNFAIR

I’M STRICTLY ON THE UP AND UP SO EVERYONE BEWARE

IF ANYONE’S CAUGHT TAKING GRAFT – AND I DON’T GET MY SHARE

WE STAND ’EM UP AGAINST THE WALL, AND “POP” GOES THE WEASEL

Still lament having heard – after the fact – that Ennio Morricone had conducted some of his works live in New York a few years back.

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Would’ve gone, if I could.

Another thing about Bond films …

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Typically, John Barry would rework the title song into one or more instrumental pieces and insert it – at various tempos – into the body of the film.

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However, in the case of Skyfall …

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… singer Adele built the title song around the first four notes of the Monty Norman theme.

Dang, meant to include this link to the Skyfall title sequence along with the piece I wrote about Adele …

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4gdhsVKTcs

I hope Mysta won’t do something she will regret.

Mysta might become the best fundraiser for Belowthon

And here comes Bribery….

Is it just me, or does Bellowthon resemble a certain candidate in Panel 1?