Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 20, 2021

GOTCHA!

Good morning™, ambushers!

There’s Ty! Tiger Lilly never saw this coming. Another partial expletive! Such language!

. . . IT

You know, I’m really liking this week!

Black and White!

And an honest to goodness SURPRISE!

Aren’t hippies supposed to be sweet, peace-loving flower children?

Well, he did find Ty there, which would please Dick and Sam if they ever get to question him.

I dunno about the blue balloon, but someone’s about to be black-and-blue…

Good morning™, Ambushed !!!

Somebody’s liable to end up in the compost pile. Tiger will be massaged … by ‘rolled up hands’ at high velocity.

Tiger Lilly: Sh…

Aquarius: …aving cream!

All four: Be nice and clean. Shave everyday and you’ll always look keen. (oom pah pah, oom pah pah…)

Ty: It’s not a TikTok sea shanty, but that didn’t sound half bad!

Stubby McMugg: We could be a SnapChat barber shop quartet.

Tiger: Yeah! We could call ourselves “The Bedwell Balloons”.

Aquarius: Say… thanks for reminding us. (SOCK!) (POW!) (ZOK!)

Ok, why have the past three days been in black and white? Have the artists gone cheap and didnt want to pay for color?

“Get him”…..of course, assuming someone who has no problem breaking into your house wouldn’t also be armed isn’t very bright….

Btw……who are we supposed to be rooting for here?

Hol a second. What was TL about to say????

Like I said yesterday, “Surprise”!!

The rage of Aquarius.

Sh…..! You’ll wake Auntie Bellum.

They got unbelievably close to Tiger without being noticed. Super ninja level skills there. Of course, Aquarius getting within eleven inches without being noticed means Tiger can swat Aquarius’s flashlight aside, breaking it. In the dark Tiger just needs to get the heck out of there – leaving the other three punching each other since they are unable to tell who is whom.

Superbly atmospheric art today, even better in b & w! Aquarius actually looks menacing….

Oops.

“Where in the heck is that blue balloon? I don’t see any arrows here!” LOL

Someone’s in trouble

Tiger is not exactly the best in his work

1-FRENCHY: I’m getting a contact high from all that devil’s weed those filthy hippies were injecting last night. There but for the grace of Mrs. Reagan’s “Just Say No” program, go I…

2-NARKY MARK: Our next contestant for tonight’s “YOU’RE IN THE SPOTLIGHT!” talent show is…hey, who are you?

FRENCHY: must think fast Ummm, I forgot to collect for all those pizzas I delivered earlier?

NARKY: Really? I must’ve injected too much devil’s weed. I thought I paid. Oh well. FIRST YOU GOTTA PERFORM! HIT IT!

FRENCHY: UHHH…The funny thing about dope is that only dopes do it! Damn Frenchy! Read the room! Umm, my girl, Mary Jane, left me when she thought I was trying to sell her an ounce at a time?

NARKY: HAAA! GOOD ONE! FRENCHY: Whewf…

Tiger Lilly must be referring to the quality of this strip over the last few years

They are inches a part….”Get him.”

As always , just great images and it is getting scary . But , Now what ?

It is dawn….Tiger Lily is laying in a landfill….victim of a beat down. The “pot” must have been the equivalent of “Spinach”. Aquarius’s henchmen went “Popeye” on this guy.

Even the most experienced vice squad hookers know it is unwise to keep a man in an undercover position for more than 4 years, since by then his enemies know enough to stop doing illegal business with a good advice lord .

Tiger Lily might have a chance…if he punches Aquarius and kicks Ty in his ankle. Meanwhile Pouch is waiting and waiting and waiting. Pouch " I might as well go ahead and exhale". Wait till I see that Tiger Lily for having me in pins and needles like this….so “insensitive” of him.

Now I am curious about two things, what does Auntie Bellum look like (hopefully not like the mother of Norman Bates) and what the blank, blank is special about the blue balloon?

Great “nourish” art. But if you want to see Tracy in color, he and Sam are appearing in today’s Gasoline Alley.

Another possible scenario when Pouch learns about Tiger Lily, " oh well…good help is so hard to get these days".

The last thing Tiger Lily will remember " to think I got my butt beaten over some lousy blue balloon".

Tracy’s last appearance in “Tracy”…Jan. 2, well at least it was this year, barely.

“…it!”

It shocked them so hard it blew everything back to the black and white days!

Sh……..! happens

could be trouble for TL.

At night, all balloons are grey.

Suddenly, Tiger Lilly is not looking so tough (or smart), when confronted by an ominous Aquarius, Ty, and anonymous Thug #2. No Blue Balloon for you, buddy!