Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 18, 2018

Well, the material has been called out as of today. ✨

Uh oh! Sam’s caught naked, no gun. And Sawtooth is seeing red and cut his own lip in his anger. Poor Sam.

Good morning™, Grimm reapers !

Lights out, Sam !!!

Sawtooth is a little overconfident telling Sam to warn Tracy he’s coming for him next!

And Sam might be a little bruised the next time we see him. At least Sawtooth didn’t kill him.

Not if Tracy finds him first……

Dontcha hate it when that happens?

“If I get Tracy in my sights, boom, boom, boom! Out go the lights!” BTW, whatever happened to Pat Travers?

Kick him i the nuts, Sam!

No! Not Tracy!

Bad move by Sawtooth. If he were really such a good hit man he wouldn’t be announcing himself. Why would he wear makeup and disguises only to reveal to his hit victim who he is??

One thing I know for certain is that Sawtooth could challenge Tracy in the Knotty Knuckles Contest.

Sawtooth wouldn’t be getting paid to kill Sam, and apparently doesn’t do freebies, lol.

New DT comic series announced from IDW, who publish, among other series, Ghostbusters, Star Trek, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, X-Files, GI Joe and Transformers. They’ve also been publishing DT reprints for 12 years. https://www.newsarama.com/40418-all-new-dick-tracy-series-coming-to-idw.html

So Sawtooth murders some guy, in front of a cop, assaults the cop, and then tells him to warn his arch nemesis? Okay then.

Sawtooth…the Frank N. Furter to Sam’s Eddie.

Catching up on the strip for a couple of days … never saw a Rocky Horror Picture Show scene coming. Not sure if this is Joe & Mike’s sneaky way of saluting Pride Month, but I’m fine with it.

Maybe Tracy is coming up from behind and will save the day!(I hope)!

Sawtooth!

Sam Catchem!

And it’s Lights Out for Sam, with that big, meaty fist drilling towards him in panel 3.

I assume the trickle of blood from Sawtooth’s sawteeth in panel 1 was Ygor Glitch’s, ‘cause I think Sawtooth offed him in his trademark way (like a werewolf, ripping out the victim’s throat). Definitely “off-screen only” stuff for a newspaper adventure strip.

When Sam wakes up, Sawtooth and his back-up muscle, Grimm, will be gone, but Ygor’s remains will remain (there can be no doubt Ygor has bought it, as Sawtooth speaks of Tracy as “next”). And Sam will, indeed, tell Tracy about Sawtooth’s warning/threat.

What will Tracy do?