Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 31, 2020

Good morning™, Faith healers !

She is terribly missed.

Happy Halloween™, everyone and stay safe!

Well, a final appearance by the late Faith Brown and I guess that’s a wrap. Apparently, Annie used to drive by in the back of a limousine every day, passing where Faith was helping people. I didn’t know that Annie lived in Tracy’s city all that time. Oh, well. It was a nice conclusion.

Don’t forget to change your clocks tomorrow night and we’ll see whether GoComics remembers to change theirs.

More summaries from me will come throughout the day if I can manage it.

Only the good die young…

It’s a shame that someone who made other people smile died with a look of terror on her face.

A nice footnote to the story, and it’s something I wouldn’t have expected.

What a lovely coda! And there’s something in the hooded woman’s expression that makes me think of the Mole.

Just in case this story wasn’t downer enough, now we learn that, of the three sisters, it was the GOOD one that got OFFED.

Nice strip, today. The last panel is really touching.

Thank you for the great strip today! Faith will be missed……

Very nice touch for an ending. May we all be so inclined to do such good deeds.

I’m glad they showed that Faith was more than just the victim of a crazy, money-hungry “vampire”.

A cleverly executed story arc. Keeping the dialogue down during actions scenes was awesome. I liked the inclusion of Brenda and the girls. The villains “motive” was kinda klunky, but hey, dude thought he was a vampire, so he’s not right in the head. I was surprised by the last minute character development…it left me wanting more. Is there some yet to be revealed connection between Stokes and Faith? Did she sacrifice herself to save the street people she cared about?

Have a Happy and Safe Halloween My Friends. Don’t forget to set your clocks back 1 hour before going to bed tonight.

From what I remember from many of the Little Orphan Annie stories, there were more than a few times that a Warbucks company limo didn’t take Annie to school, and, she was on the streets.

Annie is so much better here than the old reruns of her strip. Wish she was a regular character.

Ahhh….. the so-called “white privilege” at its finest…. former orphan turned heiress Annie cruises around in the back of her chauffeur driven limousine watching people hand out gifts to poor children but not getting out of the car to help

“I used to see her every day, feeding the homeless, as I rode by in my stretch limo!”

An allegory for the times in which we live

1-ANNIE: OK, I guess I’ll see you later then.

2-ANNIE: UGH! UNFORTUNATES! If we see so much as one person dressed in ‘off-the-rack’ on the rest of the way home, Driver – YOU’RE FIRED!

DRIVER: Yes Miss Annie. bit*h

3-ANNIE: Hold up, Driver! That woman in the Ferragamos appears to be taking the Teddy Bear from that poor child. YOU GO SISTER! TEACH ‘EM THEY GOTTA EARN EVERYTHING IN THIS WORLD!

DRIVER: As you did miss.

ANNIE: That’s right…hey – SPEAK ONLY WHEN YOU’RE SPOKEN TOO, DRIVER!

DRIVER: bit*h

For all who complimented Mike on having dropped a hint about Faith – well said.

But it was still aggravating to the nth degree that we hear about her after the story, not before.

Farewell to Sean Connery, aka 007. You will be missed.

I’ll be up all night waiting for that summary Neil, so I’ll be changing the clocks at 2 AM. I expect your usual deep analysis.

It was never mentioned why Stoker used such an elaborate, attention-attracting means of killing. Did he just want to play vampire?

Poor Faith…

Aww, sheesh, Annie! Now we all feel much worse, knowing that poor Faith was such a saint!

Now we can say Stokes’s death was karma….

New story Sunday, surely.

Here Aus, we’ve gone to Daylight Saving Time, so the GC change over time went from 3pm to 4pm.

“It made me feel mildly guilty about gettin’ Asp to drive my personal limousine through the poor neighborhoods every day so I could laugh at all the people, and, willikers, I never felt like that before!”