Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 29, 2020

I suppose at this point, the point of this strip is to demonstrate how well they can draw Gould villains.

Good morning™, audience!

Yup, Fortuna is definitely into method acting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting

The subject of Breathless being a journalism student (at least, she said she was) is interesting. Annie is also a would-be journalism student. I wonder if she might get involved in this story somewhere.

That’s exactly what I was thinking.

Breathless lied (?) about her professional in order to gain access to her step-father Shaky’s left shoe contained a bank storage key. Sam Catchem discovered her journalist notepad she left behind was blank. Breathless was one of first Dick Tracy stories I read after the 1990 film introduced me to the squared jaw detective when I was a kid.

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There’s a reason that Gil doesn’t allow soap on a rope in the shower room.

That darn rope takes away all the joy of bending over to pick up the soap.

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Is that some kinda secret code invented by Dr. Johnny Fever?

Might as well be !  The vaunted venerated BMBG hasn’t been fully active since its last big assignment to cover the Tracy-Kadaver fight at Reichenbach Falls episode.

So, if without Tracy Breathless would have only been another journalism student, I guess Fortuna needs to meet Tracy or be considered only an aspiring actress and not a true thespian…

Good morning™, snooty actors !

Panel 1 she is all haughty and by panel 3 sweet as a pussycat. This lady may be on the up and up and whomever the criminal(s) is/are has yet to make an appearance.

This is alarming. It’s a Trap!!

Perhaps apropos of nothing, Madonna’s soundtrack album for the 1990 Dick Tracy movie was titled “I’m Breathless”.

It just hit me, 1990 was 30 years ago!

Oh no. She’s right.

her fashion sense seems to have stalled around 1988

Is Fortuna is related to Breathless? (Place your bets, mesdames et messieurs…)

1-FORTUNE: Geez, Spirt Airlines (spelling intentionally changed to suggest something unseemly) doesn’t even have a gate! What is this, the 1950’s???

2-SENIOR SLICK: Don’t be that way cara mia. Enjoy the walk and be happy that thees Hootersville has an airport. FORTUNE: I’ll try but I’m really regretting that fourth call brand martini…

3-FORTUNE: OH. FANS! Yeah baby, (wink), your dream has come true. It’s me, Fort…

FANS: Move it lady. We’re just waiting to get on the plane. Spirt let’s eat and drink whatever’s left in there. We get snacks and a buzz and they get a clean airplane at no cost – win, win.

SPIRT AIRLINES MOTTO – IF YOUR MOTHER OWNED THIS AIRLINE, YOU’D WANT IT TO BE PROFITABLE – RIGHT?

What major city airport still requires passengers to climb down stairs and walk across the tarmac in the open air? Another anachronism in the time warped world of Dick Tracy.

Talk about getting into one’s role. Not only does Fortuna appear as a dead-ringer for Breathless Mahoney, but she insists on being called “Breathless” during the shoot. Shades of Jim Carrey when he portrayed Andy Kaufman in his film “Man on the Moon”.

So now we have to put up with this haughty Hag every day? The role of Breathless Mahoney should have gone to Edison Lighthouse, although she might need a pardon for a few harmless shenanigans.

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So which famous real world actress did they base her on?

Fortuna: typically arrogant Method actress, or something more malevolent?

Since I first saw today’s I keep seeing Fortuna’s panel 3 shot as having a man face. Does she have “man hands” too ?

iT WAS MENTIONED IN 1945 THAT THE FIRST “SHAKY” HAD FOUR WIVES.WE HAVE YET TO HEAR HIDE NOR HAIR ABOUT THE FIRST THREE;SO THERE MAY BE MORE SHAKY RELATIVES OUT THERE ASIDE FROM THE MAHONEY FAMILY.