Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 10, 2021

Dollar Bill is silent, as dead men tell no tales

Pouch perturbed to be disturbed, suspends his balloon sales.

Aquarius oblivious. Tries to gather facts

Makes a fuss. Wants to discuss. Pouch angrily reacts.

Cops step in to quell the din. Declare the park now closed

Aquarius incredulous. Feels he has been hosed.

Buys up all of the balloons. Pouch is not appeased

The blue one never was for sale. Pouch, he is not pleased.

Tiger Lilly on the case. His job: Balloon Retrieval

Get it back by hook or crook. By means peaceful or evil.

Ugh. Yet another day of blue balloon mystery. SPOILER ALERT: I suspect it is filled with…

LIGHTER THAN AIR WATER! This will revolutionize water balloon weaponry for whatever kid controls it! We must not let it fall into the wrong hands. Like that rotten kid down the street who always walks through my yard.

“GET OUTTA MY YARD, PUNK! Oh, you gonna hit me with a helium filled balloon? BF…AHHHHHHHH! I’M SOAKED! WHAT HAPPENED???”

LAST PANEL: Slouch proving that he is not a vampire because his index finger is not longer than the rest of his fingers.

(I’ve got 2 of the only 3 posts today! I’m giddy with power. Or something)

Whatever is special about the blue balloon appears to be tied to the bottom of it in plain sight.

Where’s Dick Tracy. He and Sam must have been tied up in the cellar of that mansion. Or, more likely, Joe and Mike, always willing to sidetrack things, forgot where they were in the story. Pathetic.

Pouch looks like he’s melting today; just the usual stylistic difference on Sundays, or is Putty Puss subbing for him?

Sigh… I’ve complained about plots being rushed. So perhaps I deserve the fact I appear to have brought down the evil eye upon myself. Is Auntie Bellum behind the new influx of drugs? Did Aquarius know anything about the blue balloon, or are we being hit with another massive coincidence? He offered Pouch $500 for information, are we going to return to that or is it a dead end? What does Tiger Lilly have to do with this? Will he be creating accidents to tape them as he did in 1942? (Oh! Today he can post them to YouTube™!) Why did Pouch complete a sale he didn’t legally need to make and didn’t want to make? (Oh, I can answer that last one – to add another level of complication to a plot that probably has too many already.)

Good afternoon™, everybody!

They finally found the missing Tribune strips! Under the watchful eyes of the patrol cops, Pouch felt he had little choice but to sell. I feel this is the opening salvo of a sort of war that the MCU people were speculating about. The head spy is being dispatched.

I think gangrene has started to set in Tiger Lily’s face

The balloon that is blue

Wasn’t meant for you

You weren’t very cool

Now what should we do

When we’re done and through

Unlike Winnie the Poo

Your name is gonna be fool

Your life will be a zoo

Where are Molene & Johnny Scorn when you need them?

On a more serious note, I hope they’re planning to do a roll of honor for the Capitol Hill officer killed in nthe line of duty this week.

Well, here they are now, long after I read Tracy via the augmented ComicsKingdom in the Seattle P.I.

So, now Tiger Lilly has his new mandate. Let us hope he can accomplish his task this time without killing Aquarius. —Or will Aquarius turn out to be armed, and kill him? Or maybe Cheesecake will off the great speckled enforcer!

Maybe the blue balloon was intended for Sam? Containing some info about Aquirius?

Why isn’t anyone wearing Covid masks?

whaaa? Sunday strip 2 panels, Monday strip 6 panels, and appears to be the Sunday strip. pointing fingers and passing the blame starts now.