Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 17, 2020

Howdy got thrown under the ice-cream truck.

It looks like Howdy is cutting all the strings! LOL

The story ended just like that?

…and now Fritz Ann is back, just in time to put the cuffs on Howdy.

Good morning™, all!

Coney is merely being safe (yeah, right!) by not turning Howdy in sooner. I’ve been saying that he’s not a fighter. Fighting back is not in his nature. I see that the GoComics colorist still didn’t take yesterday’s hint to make Coney’s hair the right colour. It’s back to brown, although it has sometimes been both brown and white on weekdays.

Tracy says, “You’re all under arrest,” which suggests that there is more than just the two of them. I assume the pseudo-Shaggy guy is also there.

’Tis a shame

Who’s to blame

The title they claim

A story so lame

I tried to warn

But faced intense scorn

Called a toll faced Gorn

My reputation was torn

But the facts remain

We’re fed more of the same

Stories that never can claim

That intrigue is it’s name

(Presented in the spirit of loving sadness)

Didn’t Polar Vortex temporarily stay out of jail by throwing his henchman under the bus?

Well, the timing is right for an upcoming Halloween themed story like some good ones we’ve had before….

Dear gentle reader, the following ditty reads best if one imagines it as a Bob Marley tune, with the I-Threes singing backup:

In all the wrapping up… now that

Coney gang’s no longer lapping up. ice cream!

I cannot find closure… bummed that

We’ve no knowledge of Stooge Villar’s treasure. pipe dream?

Was it a plot device… MacGuffin

Just to spur Howdy’s avarice? that ruffian!

Maybe Guy didn’t just need to pee, bulged eyes

In isolation he’s found the key. surprise!

Maybe we’ll find out now. find out now…

I’m hoping we’ll find out now. find out now…

If we don’t, I might have a cow. find out now…

Maybe we’ll find out now. find out now…

Maybe we’ll find out now. find out now…

(Repeat w/ad libs and fade out…)

Someone called it yesterday, Howdy was the stooge, and I don’t mean Villar!

Is that it? Is that how it ends?

Corporate loyalty in the criminal world… or is it criminal loyalty in the corporate world?

Done in by the Cone Licker…

Coney had vanilla hair yesterday, Chocolate today, Caramel back in July… at least he’s not wearing sprinkles/jimmies on his head

No use crying over spilled ice cream, Coney.

Howdy rats Coney out to save his own skin, though Fritz Ann (there she is!) treats him with due reserve. And it seems as though Dethany has found Guy! Oh, bliss, oh, joy!

This whole takedown went amazingly easy. Where is pseudo-Shaggy, though? Will he offer any resistance ( Resistance is futile. The feds and the Tracyville MCU have got this in hand, and this time with uniformed backup). Smooth raid….

Who get’s first crack at Coney, and, associates? Will Insp. Fitz Ann have them taken to the Tracyville Federal building, and, question them in the FBI’s offices there, then transfer them to the Tracyville equivalent of the Metropolitan Detention Center? Or, will Tracy get them in his interrogation rooms, and, then to the Tracy County Jail? Will the Tracy County SA office, and, the Tracy District US Attorney’s office play nicely together?Join us next time as we play “button,,button, who gets the crooks first?”

1-FAT ARCHIE: Oh. Hello boys. I was just telling Howdy about a fish I caught that was THIS BIG! HOWDY DOOGIE: BIG DEAL! Mine was THIS BIG!

2-MARLAYNA HOOVER: I don’t think you were comparing fish at all – if you know what I mean. YOU’RE COMING WITH ME, BIG BOY.

DETH: GEE! I thought you skipped out on our date but here you are all dressed up and ready for it. I love a man in ropes.

GUY PRONOUNCED GEE: MMMPFFFTTT If I everrr get out of thees, I am going right away back to Quebec! Mon dieu!

Oh man, Coney treated Howdy like a puppet

Good morning™, arrested-reunions !

This takedown could have only been easier had they all come to the station and turned themselves in, with the hostage in tow.

What a waste of a good cone, upside down on the desk.

They missed a great opportunity here to have Coney’s hair be a “swirl” of Van-Choc in color. That would have been great.

Where is the third guy? The one who reminded me of Shaggy from Scooby Doo. Hmm…maybe he was sent to the store for ice cream.

Boss turns snitch…film at 11. Only dialogue missing was Howdy’s “I quit”!

Lizz and Lee outside in charge of the thumb=twiddler’s squad.

But they didn’t get the Real Estate guy that is also involved

Seriously; a boring story wound up this quickly? Well it seems they got Coney’s eyes right today anyway. PLEEEZE..hire a writer.

Coney may have been the “boss”, but Howdy was the “brains and brawn”… And he will face more serious charges and consequences…

No shootout? No punches thrown? Not even a kick to the belly? What is this? What’s goin’ on?

I guess you could say Howdy’s in deep Doody now.

so my take on this is: stooge had all his loot melted down and made into a party hat, which coney found and has been using to hold his ice cream! the whole searching for the loot scheme was coney’s plot to avenge himself on howdy who got mint ice cream one day by mistake!

I guess Coney’s going to the cooler now.

Lucky for the good guys the bad guys didn’t have an innocent hostage the bad guys could have used as a human shield to hold the good guys at bay.

Howdy’s in deep doody! :-P