Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 20, 2018

Good morning™, Topper stopper coppers!

Oh, no! What has Topper done with Kato?

So, it appears Green Hornet is on a mission to rescue Kato!

Weird knuckles.

Say what? They don’t have any FIVE STAR restaurants in that town???

Sounds as if Kato will be playing a reduced role here. :(

Are they dining at Peppers???

Brit is supposed to be in Tracy’s City investigating Topper, while the Hornet finds out where Topper is keeping Kato. Casey is along to help Brit keep up with his Sentinal publisher duties. And, while I know they have got to eat, why did they bring their formal wear?

Cutting with his left hand in a ☆☆☆ restaurant? Barbarous!

Today’s strip is one of the finest examples of comic strip art I have seen in a long time. The attention to detail in the flower arrangement and the food is outstanding. Pencils, inks and colours came together perfectly.

Bravo, Team Tracy. ☆☆☆ out of ☆☆☆.

You know a steak is well drawn and colored when it looks delicious.

Great Barsoomian banths! Now we learn! What an unexpected early twist! Topper has somehow captured Kato (and maybe the Black Beauty, too), and Britt (the Green Hornet) and Lenore (his trusty secretary) have to find a way to free him, suppress Topper, and avoid too much scrutiny from Tracy and the other Tracyville LEOs. —That’s quite an agenda!

Once again, the artwork is great, but I don’t like the implication — what, Dick Tracy usually doesn’t try to stop gang wars in his city?

I’m gonna clobber him!