Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 21, 2020

Good morning™, replacement dealers!

Apparently, Cheesecake has more good ideas than you might give her credit for. I thought she was only good for lying on the couch, reading magazines. He have confirmation finally that Aquarius has a number of other dealers.

I was puzzled at first as to what Aquarius had in his hand, but then I realized that it’s a ruffled potato chip (one of Cheesecake’s snacks, I guess). He has the bag of chips in his other hand.

Good morning™, intimate planners !

So, it looks like Aquarius has a stable of vendors moving product. And Miss Cheesy has more bright ideas. As long as D.B.‘s death doesn’t trace back their way they just might succeed. They’re gonna make it after all.

You now have a vacancy, so you distribute the departed guy’s work among the remaining employees. I don’t see why Aquarius is apparently impressed with Cheescake’s idea. It seems rather obvious. If it didn’t occur to him, he’s pretty dim.

“How about a general strike?”

Well there’s a hook for you: “Tune in again tomorrow, same Bat-Time, same Bat-Station!”

They would be Two Bits, Dime and the Nickle??

Who is Aquarius tailor? Bozo?

I can deal with a chump having a chips fetish. Just glad I don’t have to see porky licking his ice cream cone again!

And why does team Tracy need props for their bad guys? Not strong enough characters on their own???

Coke freaks don’t need to use the same dealer, they look for any one when the need comes!!!

Ooohhh…. A thinking man’s cheesecake.

Is she planning to take over from Auntie?

Uh oh.

Gotta wonder how someone with “no enthusiasm” like dollar bill, still manages to have “some big accounts”

Whoa! Cheesecake may prove to be a Jennifer Marlowe.

Other dealers might want to reconsider their career choices if they don’t want to end up like Dollar Bill.

I’ve a bad feeling about this.

Cheesecake would never make it to the “Last Kiss” ‘toon.

1-NARKY MARK: How do you live on nothing but tea and potato chips?

2-POWDER NOSE: Well, the body only uses food for energy and I get my energy from Mother Nature’s coca plant. NARKY MARK: That makes sense.

3-POWDER: And there’s no downside like the rotten teeth meth smokers have.

NARKY: Well, there is the fact that you’d drown if you ever went swimming because you’ve burn out your septum…

POWDER: And as a result, I have this pert, little nose and didn’t have to pay for a nose job to get it. I’d call that a point for Mother Nature! Come to think of it, you should market your product to people with big noses.

NARKY: GENIUS! Is Karl Malden still alive?

Editor’s Note: Bringing it home with a timeless “Karl Malden” reference! I bet the kids out there are peeing their pants laughing at that one.

There’s more than one way to make change for a Dollar Bill.

Cheesecake is showing a lot less skin than yesterday, pulling down her sleeves and hemline, or changing her dress.

This is not going to be so pretty. When the mid-level distributer, Aquarius, starts taking business advice from his super-coked-up cookie, Cheesecake, either she has hyper-stimulated plans for an in-house takeover, or he is going to be getting some bad advice soon. Either way, this scheming of changes in the local drug network is likely to come to attention of the MCU, since Chief Patton tasked it with dealing with the Tracyville drug situation….

“Not a bad idea” Cheese, says Aquarius. I wonder if the other dealers will “audition” to work the park or if Aquarius will be taking applications. Hmm.. he might want to include “hazardous duty pay” to sweeten the deal.