Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 09, 2017

Good morning fellow DT fans!

♫♫ Wear your hair just for him ♫♫

There’s Joe.

Tess seems nonplussed.

Sammy has clearly seen this all before.

Bonnie is wise :)

Strike while the competition is away :)

Will Mysta take this sitting down (or in this case, standing up) ? :)

Bonnie doesn’t look a day over 65!

Bonnie makes her move! Sammy certainly doesn’t seem impressed.

Bonnie does clarify for us that the Spirit’s mission is somewhat top secret.

…..if everything goes smoothly? Yeah, riiiight…..this is Dick Tracy, so it never does…

How does that mask stay on?

How does that mask stay on? With Spirit gum, of course!

I like Sammy’s eye roll in panel two.

Tess seems bored with all of this.

Hooray! Joe’s given Bonny a nose! (And who invited Lucille Ball to dinner? Oh! That’s Tess! Sorry.)

New Candles, $5.00… Ingredients for dinner (including homemade sourdough read), $56.00… the look on everybody’s faces (especially Tess and Sammy) as Bonnie goes into hyper-crush mode… priceless.

Is this Dick Tracy or Mary Worth???? I have never seen the Sprit before and this whole arc is boring as heck to me. We need to get back to action and mystery not high school romance.

Off-topic, but – alas – more entertainment industry deaths to report …

Professor Irwin Corey, ‘The World’s Foremost Authority,’ at 102.

People pf a certain age might recall the Professor’s appearances on ‘The Mike Douglas Show,’ among others. He was sort of ‘Andy Kaufman’ before Andy Kaufman was Andy Kaufman.

Richard Hatch, at 71.

This was a bit of a surprise, as Hatch had maintained a presence at media conventions for years, certainly didn’t see it coming.

“Call me Bonnie’s” braids and jumper give her a school-girl look and at least a competitive chance versus the younger, more spirited, less dressed, Mysta Chimera. The Spirit clearly enjoys the attention of the attractive ladies (as always).

It’s nice to see Joe again, still young enough to be mostly bemused at Bonnie’s flirtatiousness, while Tess holds her tongue though her eyes speak volumes. Sammy has heard it all before, more than once, and knows that in the long run this is going nowhere. Mysta has heard enough while bringing in the next dish (dessert?) to feel the challenge to her crush on the handsome masked guest.

This could get really interesting, but I suspect that something will cut short this quasi-romantic interlude….

I thought that Sammy was looking quite natural (for him).