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

Not ‘Seeing’ …

Good morning™, partners!

Tracy is also surprised at the seeming “blast from the past”! Sam may not see the pusher he was chasing, but Cheesecake sees the cops and doesn’t look like she likes what she sees.

Here is a fascinating blog post written by current (as of 2011) inhabitant of the real house this is based on, officially known as “Daheim”:

https://bigoldhouses.blogspot.com/2011/10/aches-and-pains.html

Gweedo: You asked yesterday about the actual (sort of) Wayne Manor from 1966. From one of those posts yesterday, it’s 380 San Rafael in Pasadena. Enjoy!

Soundtrack for this sequence if it were in a Tarantino flick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCDAfa-NI-M

Good morning™, Lookouts !

Cheesy will sound the alarm and they will all escape, down the batpoles and out the cave entrance.

Happy new year to everyone. Hope in a better year!

13, 12, 11, 10, 9……

she’s thinking: “His coat matches my hair.”

Next panel: “Wow, I’m tripping man… the colors… yellow and green… it’s like… COPS!”

“Ye Gods! Did I go through a time warp?”

It’s just a jump to the left

And then a step to the right

With your hands on your hips

You bring your knees in tight

But it’s the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane…

I love Cheesecake’s depiction panel 3!

when i live there is a small arcade of shops. turn over is pretty high except for a vegan bean sprout emporium. A couple of years asgo there was one place that looked interesting but it was never open. I stopped in and asked it’s neighbors-the bean spouters getting ready to do lines of kale, if they knew when they were in, they knew nothing. when i commented on it to my wife she said “You look like a cop, they probably thought they were protecting the other shop.”

“See your pusher?”

“No.”

“But you got evidence he was a pusher, right?”

“Well, no. I didn’t get any evidence. But I saw him selling something to someone in a place with a lot of drug sales.”

“That’s not evidence that will hold up in court, Sam. Why are we here?”

“Well, I described him to an organic farmer who said it sounded like a guy named Ty, and he thought Ty stayed here.”

“As solid as your evidence, Sam. But since we cops know all hippies are drug peddling scum we’ll knock on the door and bust a few heads.”

Cheesecake shouldn’t panic. Cops have nothing. She might panic however because she doesn’t know that. They can ask to see Ty, but legally that’s the only thing Tracy and Sam can do at the moment.

Wow, excellent research Neil! Fascinating to see and read about the actual house.

I’m no expert but aren’t communes places where people go to live a healthier, simpler lifestyle? One where drugs, both legal and illegal, are discouraged?

More like a crime warp. Chasing a suspected pusher back to a mansion is Joe Friday stuff, vintage 1960s.

Day two (consecutive days at least) of exceptionally boring, slow paced, go nowhere, waste of time and panel filler…the last 2 days could easily have been condensed

Sigh…. reading this pathetic thing really makes me want to write ANOTHER story that’s actually worth reading instead of this crapola

What say you?

Good job. Showing up in plain clothes in a marked car…

Ye Gods!

I’m glad they are so inconspicuous in their surveillance.

-1-DT:* Well, I’m here. Better see why Sam has his panties in a wad…

2-SAM: See Tracy! The last place in America where they still follow the tenants of FREE LOVE! I told you it’d be worth the drive. AND it looks like that chick is checking you out.

DT: Well tie-dye my undies and call me Groovy, let’s go in!

3-POWDER NOSE: Aww man, a couple a straights. Probably religious types lookin’ to have us join their version of a cult. Crap! Panama Red is inviting them in. Guess I better go make sure they don’t manage to convince anybody to join them. One mention of “heavenly bliss” will have half our people following them out the door!

Tsull 2121..If you interview for a job with this strip, I’ll provide a reference.

It’s okay, Dick! 1312 is the address, not the date.

If not for the Pouch/Tiger subplot I’d be fully expecting them to walk in, arrest everybody, the end, new story starting Sunday….

I don’t see the pusher either but I do see that “granny dresses” have made a comeback.

Hopefully Cheesecake turned down the burners on the stove before deciding to gaze through the window. Lunch crowd is not going to happy with burnt food.

So, it looks like Aquarius, Cheesecake, and the unseen aunt all live here…

How convenient !

Time warp, it is, Tracy. We are suddenly immersed in the late ’60s, when hippies, mary jane, and communes were commonplace. And, as others have observed, Mr. Yellow and Mr. Green and the marked squad car identify themselves as “the pigs” (as might have been said in those days). —Too straight for 1312 Bedwell and all the various denizens, some of the women in “granny” dresses.

And, as Cheesecake gazes at the coppers from a window, we realize that Aquarius, Auntie Bellum (if she is real), and Cheesecake (aptly named!) reside at the former mansion, too….

“A time warp”? Funny comment coming from a man who hasn’t changed his outfit since 1957.

“Did I go through a time warp?” says the guy who’s had the same look since the early 1930’s.