Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 25, 2019

Good morning™, aspiring detectives!

So, apparently, Annie is now legally a non-orphan. I expect that some people here will complain that today’s strip has disrupted the Annie continuity, but I really think it’s past time that she was formally adopted.

It is good to see the 3 girls having fun and becoming closer as friends.

Nice to have a little harmless fun before it gets ugly again.

Good morning™, newly branded heiresses !

Always nice to see the calm before the inevitable storm. Their futures are so bright I need Ray Charles™ strength shades.

All this chatter the past week will turn out to be nothing but filler fluff.

A bit late in the day, Daddy, don’t you think? I presumed Daddy DID formally adopt Annie sometime in the decades- long run of the strip.

It took THAT long? Seriously?

My only regret is that my own comic strip wasn’t around long enough for me to really enjoy it…

The art seems exceptionally well done today! I am glad Annie finally has a last name!

Did the colorist goof when it came to Annie’s hair? Unless they’re saying it changed as she allegedly aged, I recall it being more reddish.

So… wait a second… you’re trying to tell me that for the last almost 100 years Ollie has never ever had a ‘permanent address’? Do you REALLY believe us to be this ignorant?

a multi-millionaire DOESNT have a permanent address huh? I guess he also doesnt file taxes, or have a driver’s license, or have insurance… because ALL of these require you have a permanent address. And before someone pipes up and offers his business address as a permanent one, or that he has several houses.. I call poppycock. A business cant be used as a permanent address and ONE of the houses has to be listed as permanent if he wanted to get anything mentioned above.

maybe rich ol’ mr moneybags ISNT as rich as he pretends to be, otherwise staying at the Siam wouldn’t be a concern and having a permanent address wouldnt have been a century long obstacle

but it DOES, however, beg the question…. with Ollie’s history and Annie’s penchant for always getting into dangerous situations while under Ollie’s care… what court in their right mind would grant the adoption WITHOUT ensuring the safety of the child? Did they hand down an edict where “as long as the child isnt in danger of being blown up, kidnapped, held for ransom, transported to an island that ignores reality, or attempted to be murdered for a period of 6 consecutive months, you can legally adopt her”

HONEYMOON: So now you’re officially Annie Warbucks!

ANNIE: Yes! So you know what THAT means! When Daddy goes to jail for the disappearance and possibly murder of his wife Trixie, ALL of his money is mine for the taking! I’ll fire that creepy Asp, send Punjab packing, have Ezra Eon committed to a sanitarium, and finally get rid of those nasty cigars that Pops is always puffing on!

HONEYMOON: Yeah, cigars are nasty… my Pop-Pop had those filthy things banned from police Headquarters and now Sam has to chew toothpicks instead. I heard that he goes to the dentist every other day to get splinters removed from his gums

1- ANNIE: Hey Blondie. Does anyone make fun of you because you have weird alien horns coming out your head? BLONDIE: No. Not to my face anyway. 2- ANNIE: Cool! So anything I say about them will be new material so far as you’re concerned. Let’s try this one; my band is looking for a new horn player – you interested? Or this one; the devil called – he wants his horns back. Wait. Where ya going? I got more… 3- BLONDIE: That kid’s mean. I didn’t ask to be born with horns. GREENIE: She is SO mean. BLONDIE: Hey! What’s up with the green hair kid? You lose a bet? You in training to be the starter flag at the Indy 500? Is your mom a traffic light…hey, where you going? I got more!

Now, if Trixie Tinkle is alive, and since apparently Warbucks never had her declared legally dead (since if he did, the affidavit would have already been thrown out of court) does that make Trixie the adoptive mother of Annie? (Probably not in reality, but you never know in the Tracyverse.)

Do these three kids just have full run of a ritzy hotel swimming pool?

Honeymoon will no doubt make an excellent detective, but I seriously doubt that she’ll ever be going undercover, not with those horns.

Looking at Honeymoon’s swimsuit and antennas makes me wonder if she is the queen bee of the trio.

If you want to see a different hair color on Annie, look up “Annie and the Balkan Butcher”…. She has a totally different look and hairstyle and she’s a teen…

Upon leaving the employ of Jack Benny, Ed got a job in the Tracytown department of records, in the section which had not yet been converted to digital format… Hey, Ed! Mmm- hm? (wheeze) Whaddya want? We need the records on a kid named Annie – Warbucks is FINALLY gonna make it legal! The… the little redhead? Curly hair? No pupils in her eyes? That’s her! Y’still got her papers? Mm… hold on a second (papers shuffle) they’re here somewhere… Oh, yeah! Here they are! The edges are a little brown but you can still read the typing… That’s great, Ed – thanks! Hey, before y’go, what’s the latest on the war? Oh – it’s over. Who won? We did, of course! Hey, that’s great (wheeze)… whaddya think they’ll do with the Kaiser?

Congratulations, Annie Warbucks!

The Young Detectives are getting their act together, following Honeymoon’s ambitious lead….