Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 26, 2020

No interview. No Vue to-do. A lie it was maintained

A limo ride to danger. Fiction could not be sustained.

Mysta trusting, never guessed that she would be detained

Helmet on, yet mask has slipped. Intentions ascertained.

Roboto feels he holds all cards. Advantage he has gained

The thieving fiend a criminal. His goodness was all feigned.

Chimera, not Futura, is the woman he’s restrained

Thus acting on illusions and to that which they pertained.

A hostage, not a hot date. This reality remained

There is no turning back the clock. For Mysta is now chained.

Come one, come all

To our special magic show

Presented for you today

By the Fabulous Mr. Roboto

Be amazed, be thrilled

By the quickness of his hands

But blink and you’ll definitely miss

All the awe that he commands

Try your best to guess

How Futura’s arms can be

Both outside the chair

Then inside for all to see

It makes so little sense

One answer’s loud and clear

Tell them all their blunders

Are more than I can bear

Bold move by Mr. Roboto. But what will he do now that he has a tigress by the tail?!

Good morning™, good talkers!

I doubt that introducing himself as Mr. Roboto is going to make her calm down at all. In fact, calling her Futura is likely to produce the opposite effect, but she can’t do much about it physically, restrained as she is.

Apparently Mr. Roboto, you do not know who you’re dealing with!

I never thought she would be restrained in that fashion, a nice twist to the story!

So Mysta’s arms are on the arms of the chair. The bad guy has to quickly grab them, pull her wrists directly behind her, and then hold them still long enough to put the cuffs on with both hands. Of course she doesn’t resist.

Guy with a (I’m guessing here) metal, conductive helmet locks up a woman with electric powers. It’s clobbering time.

Oh look. Mr. Roboto is a fool too!

Looks like Mr. Roboto has a rival: https://www.gocomics.com/life-on-earth/2020/01/26?ct=v&cti=45055

Mr. Tattoo is a new character as is the guy who led Mysta into the waiting room.

If Mysta starts zapping everyone in that room/house, the Roboto adventure will end very soon. So I say that Mysta forgot that she has zapping powers to extend the story. :)

Dave, huh?

Roboto is definitely not playing with a full deck, and he’s lost a few cards in the process. I can’t wait to see what Mysta does to this nut-job; hopefully something painful. I don’t like creeps, and he’s making my skin crawl.

To be fair, Roboto doesn’t know who she is or her powers.

But it does seem a bit of a short circuit that she hasn’t zapped anybody just yet.

Looks like we picked up exactly where we left off last Sunday. Roboto about to go down as he tries to hit up on Moon Maid.

Must have been one hell of a surprise (I was going to say shock, but no) to catch Mysta like that. Why is Mr. Serpent Tattoo not twitching on the floor?

Mr Roboto has a “Capellan Power Cat” by the tail here.

“In a house on the outskirts of town” Mr. Roboto has Charlie Johnson (with the slouch hat), plus the unctious toady who’s soft-talking Mysta, plus the New Muscle with the fin-backed serpent tattoo who snaps the ’cuffs on Mysta.

Roboto is fixated on Futura. Mysta may not be able to make use of her directional powers while handcuffed to the chair. But she probably can flash a telepathic call for help to Honeymoon, who in turn would then be calling Dick Tracy!

I suspect a rescue but with Roboto and his new crew (at least some of them) escaping, to be confronted subsequently by an Avenging Angel….