Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 22, 2021

That policeman appears to be checking her out.

As was said yesterday, how does Rikki get in to a private showing? How does Rikki know her victims are supposed to be here?

This may be the worst Abner story yet!

Good morning™, everyone!

Well, it looks like Rikki got some choice seats, but Charlie 21 won’t be there on opening night.

Good morning™, fooled gold !

She is so wrapped up in the idea of Charlie being there; what a crushing disappointment it will be when she realizes she wasted money on those tickets. I doubt lowbrows like her and Abner would enjoy the play even if they weren’t on a mission.

Unfortunately, Charlie 21 won’t be there

Ha! I called it in yesterday’s strip. I knew that was really Rikki.

I’m still thinking they might have just planned something for the real show DURING the walk through earlier.To go to all this trouble and panels just to have it be the wrong show kind of making this all a comedy. Bad enough the girl talk earlier……Abner episodes are supposed to be grim….

In case there was any doubt note the little box pointing to Rikki and identifying her s such! (I like that throwback)!

This may have been inspired by a true story of a woman who disguised herself as a blonde police officer just to kill a guy’s wife(she was having an affair with the guy). And yes, the blonde hair was a wig.

I wonder what innocent she will accidentally hit.

Rikki cleans up well. Love the contacts.

We know Charlie is not scheduled to be there. But if he were he could wear Sam’s hat for protection – since Abner’s darts can’t penetrate it. Will Abner try to smuggle his large air rifle into the theater, or use a spit wad in a soda straw (which would probably be as effective)? Honeymoon and her class are scheduled to see the play. It would be very odd (read expensive) if a class were to be there on opening night – but the creators of the strip have never feared plots that go off into the deep end of odd.

Rikki, don’t lose that number….

Even if Charlie was there, how would having the seats with the best view of the stage help in killing him? He’s not on the stage.

I also want to know how she changed her skin color. And if she can look like this, why does she look like that?

Huh. And here I was thinking that was Sparkle Jr.

…the guys put a ’lil sign w/arrow, just in case there was still any doubt……..

Rikki, don’t lose that ticket, You don’t want to go nowhere else…

1-T.B. BETTY: You’re not even the first person who wanted tickets that afforded a good shot at the stage. I’ll put you here…

2-RIKKI: Yeah, I need some good…photos…for the Tracyville Times.

BETTY: Oh. I was hoping you were going to give us an exciting finish – TO SUGAR DADDY – THAT OLD GASBAG!

3-RIKKI: Little does she know that this play is going to “bomb” more than any ever performed here before CACKLE CACKLE CACKLE!!!

GUARD: Step over behind this curtain please miss. You fit MY profile for someone who needs to be thoroughly frisked – HOTTER THAN A TWO DOLLAR PISTOL! WHOO HOOO!

Rikki must have really put on heavy make up to make her WHITE skin look normal?

Rikki looks good as a blonde.

…..looks like a Collegeville Costume of Moon Maid Tracy is out there amongst the more obscure Halloween Costume outlets, eh? Geeze, she forgot to put on the clip-in antennae……..

Soo… onopening night, you can walk up at showtime and buy a booth? Not great for the reviews!

Wow, sure glad they put that arrow letting us know who this was. I think there might have been maybe someone under a rock who didn’t know this yesterday. Keep up the great work guys. Art is good though

I miss Rikki’s big orange eyes and grey/green skin. This just isn’t right.

Opening night vs. Dressed Rehearsal. If the story writers get this mix up, it’s on them.

The makeover worked to Rikki’s advantage. As for Abner, it’s gonna take a miracle.

Real live old time action

Sneer got ‘done’ yesterday.

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cue the dark ambient music with discordant overtones

Her face should be familiar.

“All the better to dart you with, Charlie,” said the Big Blonde Accomplice!

Rikki is looking quite HOT, I must say, in her Blondie-disguise. Too bad her fundamental premise is wrong: the best box in the house won’t get Abner Kadaver a clear shot at Charlie 21, because Charle won’t be there on Opening Night!

Since this is all so obvious, I’d like to toss out a speculative guess. Suppose while pulling off this box office ploy, Rikki happens to see and overhear Charlie, Tracy, et al., heading into the Patterson for the dress rehearsal?! A sudden change of plan and she could assume the Hit(s) as her duty—or, she could phone Abner and tell him to hurry over (with some alternate scheme for getting into the closed rehearsal)….

Until she showed up looking like this I was thinking blue was Rikki’s natural skin color as that is what the colorers gave her when she was in prison and I doubt they would have had her wash off that makeup.

I’m BAAAAAAACK… My computer went all bonkers on me and I was without it for over a week. Now I have to play catch up.

This is shaping up to have a Godfather 3 climax.

Yeah like we didn’t know that was Rikki.

Strange. I thought Tracy & Co. were attending a pre show rehearsal so that this kind of thing wouldn’t happen.