Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 05, 2021

Good morning™, all!

Abner looks about the same as he did in the shower. I guess we are never going to find out what she wanted to tell him. The deathbed pose in the last frame looks extremely familiar, but I can’t place it. Have we seen a similar frame in Dick Tracy before?

Good morning™, lovelorn killers !

Is that a face or a piece of lava rock ?  I hope we get a full frontal shot. This is one ‘accident’ I can’t look away from !  Rikki is so sad and pitiful that I am certain Erben will need to go have a good cry. LOL !! :-D

Probably Rikki told him “I’m pregnant with our son”

Is that smoke wafting by her thumb ?

“lovelorn” is the wrong word but the best I could come up with johnny-on-the-spot. I’m sure Abbie loved his Rikki and in another bunch of months we may find out, if a reveal doesn’t come sooner.

Bravo team Tracy, a very emotional, tear producing strip today.

We just have to ignore that the road to today was filled with illogical, headscratching, fart inducing potholes and unexplained space fillers!

More questions than answers, like click bait….

He looks like a Horta!

“You smell!”

“Abner darling, we’re having pebbles!”

The police officer’s facial expression in panel 1 says a lot as to what Abner’s real face looks like…

She’s pregnant?

I like the look on the cop’s face, it’s a lot more realistic than Tracy’s stoney “seen it all before – twice” expression.

Abner look alike Swarm, the marvel villain.

“Where did you put your wallet”?!

Actually strip well done today, curious what tomorrow brings!

Abner was presumed dead twice before, he was even on the “Dead Fish Dead” list in 2016. This has been a rather lame return for a premiere assassin. I imagine Rikki is going to have her child behind bars (since she’s a fugitive.)

And the 10 is actually Svengoolie—who REALLY hates competition for his syndicated horror program.

Hopefully she isn’t asking him who his dermatologist is….

Man, if Abner wanted a visage that would strike fear and awe into the public why did he cover that lovely thing up?

…..everyone’s eyes in panels P1-2 say it all….so this guy presently looks like that astronaut who got space-dust-coated in that B-film FIRST MAN INTO SPACE?…….

“I’m also dating the Joker.”

“Roll over, you’re laying on my purse.”

Subtitles, please?

Shades of Luke and Anakin.

I must admit the story takes a touching turn. Poor Rikki!

1-CHECKER CAB GUY: Somebody call a cab…WHAT THE… DT: Beat it buddy. This is a sad moment.

CHECKER CAB GUY: But I ain’t never seen a survivor from Sodom and Gomorrah before. Or a woman crossed with an Australian Tarsier before. Look at those eyes!

2-RIKKI TIKKI TAVI: Good times, bad times, I guess I’ve had my share (1) This is the saddest day of my life (2) Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you (3) sniff

3-All the dreams we held so close, seemed to all go up in smoke (4) bombs… whisper Poor A.B. You never learned if I was a boy or a girl (5)

I’d like to thank the following for contributing to today’s Alt Take: (1)Led Zeppelin (2) The Manhattans (3) Beatles (4) Rolling Stones (5) David Bowie

This is why i love this strip. Sometimes you can fall in love even with the evil character and feel sorry for them.

1) “I got our money back for the box seat tickets.”

2) “Charlie 21 got bored, wandered outside, and got killed by a bus. Contract fulfilled.”

3) “I just saved a ton of money on our car insurance.”

Anyone with even the tiniest shred of compassion knows what she’s saying.

What the eff is that supposed to be in the last panel? Fog?

I’m not very familiar with “The Tempest” But I wonder if Vitamin’s play will so ehow further contribute to the story, beyond providing merely the setting.

She just said..“You need a mint.”

Evil indeed is the man who does not have one woman to weep for him.

Who was this guy? Somebody with bad acne?

As Abner makes his exit, the smoke finally is clearing.

He would have gotten away with it, too.

Yes, Rikki? After the third time, “hey Rikki, does this feel like rigor mortis to you?” got old.

She takes off Darth Vadar’s helmet, and we all get to see what happened when he got all lava’d years ago. I think she whispered, “I’m not leaving you here, father.”

Obviously COMPREHENSION isn’t a standard requirement here, otherwise we wouldn’t have had almost a week of “the arrow is poisoned, how is tracy still alive?” comments, or the “why didnt Abner just use a gun?” comments

Vitamin will hate the fact that he’s been upstaged.

And Abner will not be dead. Either he will get buried in a Lazarus Pit, or the Superboy of Earth Prime will start punching reality again, and Abner will rise from the grave.

aw

What I wanna know is why Rikki’s sometimes colored blue and the rest of the time colored pink (white).

I’m not sure what lovely but deadly Rikki may be telling the expiring Abner. That she loves him? —But surely he already knows that? That she will wait for him while he is in the hospital and rehabilitation from his not-quite-mortal wound? Something more esoteric?

As I surmised, Joe is not showing us Abner’s full true visage; just hints in profile, obscured by lovely Rikki and wafting smoke in panel 4….

Will we get some tying of loose ends tomorrow (denouement, as Ray has put it), or will we be plunged into a new story without the satisfaction?

It’s a “Lost in Translation” ending.

Good morning GoComics friends especially Gweedo.