Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 07, 2018

MEANWHILE….in another part of town a little weaponry practice is underway…..

Target practice at the range

Uncle’s crew is somewhat strange.

Tracy target perforated

Eagle eye is demonstrated.

Sawtooth’s aim is dead-on-center

T-Bolt secret crime preventer.

Crystal possesses deadly skills

Has had much practice. No blood spills.

Sawtooth must chuckle to observe

Keen eye of kid with steely nerve.

She’d rather be at shopping mall

Now Bribery has seen it all.

Youth is wasted on the young

Odd what they consider fun.

No denying truth is that

Still he misses smoking cat.

Sister so incinerated

Life is just too complicated.

Tell it to the little rose

Sorrow, loss and many woes.

Will Lee/T-Bolt be the one to discover the friendship between Honeymoon and Ugly Crystal?

So much for the idea that Ugly Crystal is unaware of Joey Packet ‘s plans! ”Peace out” is another good tease, making us question to whom she will be loyal…

First time Tracy ever got rescued in his life! In the past, he always managed to save himself just before outside help arrived. To name just a few—“Heels” Beals had set up an electric fan with sharpened blades to fall on his jugular as he was tied to the bed, but he escaped. Mrs. Pruneface had a block of ice set over him with a spike aimed for his heart as the ice melted, but he twisted away so the spike missed him by inches. Wait! I take it back! Itchy Oliver had him captive and starving, tied to a chair, and Junior crawled in through the transom, released him, and gave him his gun back, and he shot Itchy Oliver! Well, usually Dick Tracy can get out of narrow scrapes by himself!

First time Tracy ever got rescued in his life! In the past, he always managed to save himself just before outside help arrived. To name just a few—“Heels” Beals had set up an electric fan with sharpened blades to fall on his jugular as he was tied to the bed, but he escaped. Mrs. Pruneface had a block of ice set over him with a spike aimed for his heart as the ice melted, but he twisted away so the spike missed him by inches. Wait! I take it back! Itchy Oliver had him captive and starving, tied to a chair, and Junior crawled in through the transom, released him, and gave him his gun back, and he shot Itchy Oliver! Well, usually Dick Tracy can get out of narrow scrapes by himself!

Does this feel a little out-of-sequence to anyone else?

Good morning, everyone!™

Back at Bribery headquarters, all is well on the shooting range. I guess they haven’t found out yet that the hit didn’t go as planned, and it looks like we’re headed back to the mall next, while Tracy recovers.

I believe Sawtooth`s days are numbered…

Crystal clearly has her own plans here. I can’t wait to see what she’s up to.

Good morning all y’all.

I guess Lee doesn’t have much contact with her office. I suspect she will learn about Sawtooth in short time.

Crystal would probably be an even better shot if she moved her hair out of her eyes.

I predict Crystal and her slingshot will save the day somewhere down the road.

Sawtooth works out at the pistol range: just a professional keeping in practice. But Crystal (most people call her Ugly Crystal) uses a slingshot at the same range, and with results similar to Sawtooth’s. I guess she must fire steel ball bearings, or something comparable, with her powerful sling.

Getting her together with T-Bolt (undercover Lee Ebony), and likely with Honeymoon Tracy, too, while away from Mr. Bribery and Sawtooth, provides an opportunity for a wide range of possible trends and directions for Crystal. I am now prepared to think that in the moment of crisis that will come sooner or later, she may choose crucially to stand with the Good Guys and against her doting uncle!

This isn’t the first time that a crime boss in Tracy’s city has used his profile as a target in a shooting range. Crime King Etah, whom we never saw, because he was dead before there was a story about him, was discovered to have maintained such a target at his mansion on the edge of town. (Early 60s, about a year before the moon stories started.)

Peace Out!