Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 31, 2019

Good morning™, audience!

Tracy is now involved. Yes, we already knew that he calls himself Mr. Roboto, but we now know that this wasn’t the first payroll robbery he has done.

Good morning™, en route responders !

Let those coppers roll, ten-four !

“Mr Roboto” is clearly a nickname, though, wonder what is his true identity.

Good morning™, New Year Eve-ers!

Well for the last day of 2019, they’re not wasting time with this arc! They’re cutting right to the chase!

Why is Chief Patton’s wrist radio gray? I guess it otherwise looks like a wrist radio.

I like the action in the first panel, well done!

Happy New Year

Dick’s all decked out in matching color coat hat and wrist radio! What a snazzy dresser indeed!

LOL!

Wishing everyone in Tracyville a happy, safe, healthy, prosperous and blessed New Year!

Doesn’t Pat know that Tracy and Sam checked out a marked car, one, I’d presume, with a radio, and, a mobile VDT?

Holidays don’t slow up cops on duty!!! Hit it Sam!!! And a Happy New Year!!!" Tracy gang!!!

Another one? This means payroll offices have been being knocked over while Tracy and Sam hang out at the zoo with their buddies.

a week for an aligator to climb a fence, now a Styx character what do we get in the new year? Blue Meanies?

“Great, all we need to do is check the phone book! Case solved!”

…and you’re not gonna believe this one…

“Domo arigato, Chief!”

Thermopolis Payroll must specialize in some pretty low end clients. ADP & Paychex would never have piles of cash.

1-CHIEF: Tracy. Some crazy is Trick-R-Treating. City ordinance limits that activity to one day in October. Snatch him up. And Tracy…no questions will be asked about the shape he’s in when you bring him in.

2-DT: Right Chief. I appreciate that but no one could expect me to be responsible for the physical status of someone who eats candy all the time. He probably can’t do one pushup but that’s not my fault.

3-CHIEF: Darn it Tracy! I meant that you should feel free to use ‘extreme prejudice’!

DT: Chief. It’s that kind of attitude that’s got police forces all over the country in trouble. I’m not that…

CHIEF: NOT THAT KIND OF PREJUDICE YOU IDIOT! JUST BRING HIM IN! SERGEANT! GET ME SOME ASPIRIN AND A BROMO!

Hoping for a safe and sane newbie, and also that our narrators made a resolution to tell some interesting stories. Have a good one folks.

I’m liking this story already! Looking forward to learning more about Mr. Roboto, and how his crimes will intersect with Vitamin’s play. Happy New Year, all!

Happy New Year, everyone !

His/her real name is Raberto Cybe…maybe. (I just made it up.)

For those who may never have heard the song before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6f_2nPSX8

CHIEF: “This time we’ve got a name to go with the crime….His name is Mr, Roboto.”

TRACY: “Sam, which station is the Styx Channel on our Wrist Radios?”

SAM: “I dunno. Do we have a first name for Mr. Roboto? Maybe he’s listed in the phone book.”

Happy New Year to all my DT chat friends.

—Not that the name by itself will help much, Chief Patton! “Mr. Roboto” is fake name, after all. We have no idea even what the guy looks like, much less what his real name is.

But “calling Dick Tracy” is a classic starter-line (which I seem to recall from radio days, if vaguely). And we do now know that the site of the robbery falls within the Tracyville policing jurisdiction….

Whatever happened to the two way wrist tv’s? Were they recalled by Diet Smith Industries? I supposed the same thing happened with the Wrist Geenies. In the 21st Century but having to rely on technology from the previous century.

“Bank” Robbery by any chance was the name that fit the crime Chief?

Not that I mind in timeless Dick Tracy’s world, but surely payroll deliveries are a thing of a distant past now? Does anyone really pay staff in cash anymore? Even low wage staff get cheques/checks that they can take to a cashing service if they don’t have a bank account. As I understand, the main movements of cash these days are daily collections from cash-heavy retailers such as supermarkets and bars, and the ongoing card revolution is reducing that a lot. Some bars in London no longer accept cash at all, partly for security and partly so their staff don’t have to balance the till at the end of the evening.