Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 19, 2019

OH NO!! This is shocking!!

Good morning™, unsuspecting victims!

With a mother like her, you don’t need enemies!

Good morning™, surprise murder victims !

Frisky, we hardly knew ye.

Such callous treachery by her (birth) mother – unimaginable, but Tracy knows about their meeting if (or when) Frisk’s body turns up…

Can’t trust anyone these days. Not even your very own biological mother!

Everyone thinks she’s gonna die? I don’t…..they are at that play so she can be saved…..

Seems a little poor planning, to be performing the attack just as the lights are coming up in the theatre.

Many questions here! If she knocks her out, she has to carry her, we will see tomorrow, I guess!

A performance to die for.

I don’t think they are killing her, yet!!! Thats why the cough, cough smokers are there to take her away. Probably to find out how she got her info???

The performance is nearing the end, and the theater is already empty? Never mind Frisk would have more than enough time to scream and whatever after that. More irrational BS from Mike… this plot pushes me closer and closer to unsubscribing.

Not going to end well for Mommy dearest

Cross my heart and hope to die…Stick a needle in my … neck?

OK so the rhyme is a little off…

And there’s nothing like a Mother’s love—and this is nothing like a Mother’s love!

Frisk had begun to hope that Lily was on the level. That hope is dead. Will Frisk follow?

And for tonight’s little something extra, ladies and gentlemen of the audience – a simple drugging and kidnapping, no doubt leading to attempted murder at least.

1- PRIMM: Bummer. I told you people came to this stinker for the possibility of seeing a death but the only interesting thing was that girl throwing up on the old dude’s shoes. Nobody died.

2- JACKIE: I’ll fix that! PRIMM: HEY NOW! Not…what…I………..meant…

This is some Gould-like gruesomeness and that is good. But…

Vitamin’s saying the last lines of the play (The actual last line is “Goodnight.”) as Frisk is talking out loud in the audience. Usually now, there would be a curtain call for bows. And nearly everybody has already rudely left by the second panel? Yet, nobody saw Lily do this in a crowded theatre—especially flashing a syringe? More illogical events in another stretched out two-panel day that I have been complaining about all week. I think the story was stretched into a week of 2-panels so that the dailies would match with the Sunday’s

My summary: “When the story starts to run out of gas, that’s when logic takes a pass.”

I betting she’s just drugged, but why not have poisoned her right there? Then that other couple would have been unnecessary.

I don’t care if Frisk kicks the bucket (I doubt it) but having the master plan be injecting her in a public space with people and most likely cameras is just stupid and insulting to us readers.

Run out of gas? It’s been on fumes for 3 weeks.

Could the old lady actually be trying to save her? After a last-minute change of heart? Maybe create a medical emergency to bring in help?

What are the odds of Mama Frisk putting US out of our misery too? Its GOTTA be less painful and more efficient than reading this garbage

So much for maternal instinct.

Maybe the plan is to knock her out and keep her on ice for a while. Another theory.!

One of my old journalism professors always said: “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.”--Meanwhile, in an alternate universe, Lily falls unconscious trying to stick the plunger handle into Frisk’s neck while gripping the syringe by the needle tip.

Uh-oh. There goes Friskie. Thanks, “Mom”!

Is it Death or just a Knockout? We’ll know soon enough….