Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 09, 2021

Good morning™, officemates!

What I’m wondering is whether that’s Mysta’s office or her apartment. It’s pretty nice, in any case. I told you that Alldid had a receptionist! I guess this is her. I don’t remember what she looked like when we saw her at his office.

Wow, Mad Mindy definitely has a slamming pad with a spectacular view! What does she do for a living to pay for rent, food, clothes, etc?

When she’s in the story we really are watching an afternoon “Creature Feature”

LOL!

Mad Mindy is definitely rocking a Judy Jetson vibe today!

Where’s Rosie?

From yesterday…

Happy adversary, Tolers ! :-)

Hello FrankenMindy!

Good morning™, office girls !

For avenger:

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With a special guest just for Erben’s rumpling and fetishing fantasy :-) :

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/7c/b5/e7/7cb5e710eb600a055fe5770f2b16cd34.jpg

At least it’s Mysta, about as close to a Moon Maid as we’re going to get.

Much better than constantly dragging in Honeymoon and Crystal.

(I’d have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids!)™

The “hit” comic strip? Well, I guess there’s no accounting for public taste…

Mysta does look very well today, wonder what Vera has planned for her?

We recently discussed the unrealistic prison escapes in this strip. Here is a real story:

FLEEING INMATES USED DUMMIES TO FOOL JAILERS

Ottawa Citizen — 8 June 2021 — SARAH N. LYNCH

Security at a federal prison camp in the Texas city of Beaumont was so lax that four inmates managed to escape by placing dummies in their beds or having other prisoners pose as them, the U.S. Justice Department’s internal watchdog said on Monday.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz said his office uncovered a wide range of security failures at the Bureau of Prison’s prison camps and satellite campuses, from leaving doors unlocked or using locks that were susceptible to tampering, to having limited fencing or not enough video surveillance.

Such facilities typically house inmates deemed low-risk such as those convicted of minor drug crimes or white-collar offences.

Some inmates have managed to escape these facilities or bring in contraband, Horowitz said.

In a memo on security at federal prisons, Horowitz described the escape of four inmates from the Beaumont site. It said the inmates managed to escape for more than 12 hours by placing dummies in their beds to make it look like they were in their cells or by having fellow inmates pose as them. The subterfuge succeeded despite guards making three overnight inmate counts.

. . .

The disappearance of the four men was later discovered during a morning count of inmates, the memo said. Two of the four apparently left the prison to obtain some form of contraband, it added.

“We found that the outer doors of separate buildings within the satellite prison camp at FCC (Federal Correctional Complex) Beaumont were unsecured in that they were unlocked, were unmanned, were not equipped with surveillance cameras, and had either nonfunctioning alarms or alarms that could be manipulated by inmates,” Horowitz said.

I recall the famous escape from Alcatraz involved a similar method, creating dummies, plus making a rubber boat out of raincoats. It’s not known for sure if they succeeded or drowned or were swept out to sea in the fierce current.

Or plagiarist, to be accurate…..

Mysta!

I guess it will be a while before we find out for sure whether Rikki is pregnant or not.

For those who don’t know Vera Alldid.

https://dicktracy.fandom.com/wiki/Vera_Alldid

Well thank you, Team Tracy for finally getting Mysta away from the Moon Maid outfit she wore for so very long. She looks more ‘realistic’ in clothing than she did before. Still remarkably lovely, and boy. It must be nice to work with Smith Industries :). That apartment is incredible. (although still not me. I’d want a view of a forest, and mountains myself, but then I’m an old hillbilly with modern sensibilities.)

Hang up.

Alldid the cartoonist? No, Mysta, Alldid the pig farmer.

As I recall the introduction of photo phones… The death of which followed soon thereafter, since you could only use them with visuals if you called someone else with the same overpriced phone (all on landlines, of course). Technology has evolved, so we can’t tell if Smith’s phone is compatible with FaceTime, or if Alldid has a Smith industries phone in his fancy office.

1-HORNY: This condo has a crappy view. Why’d I spend all the money I made from Metropolis on this dump??? BUZZZZZ BUZZZZZ

2-CONCIERGE: We have heard your complaint and will act on it immediately. HORNY: You heard me?

3-CONCIERGE: Yes. We monitor all of our owners’ units to insure that your every need is fulfilled. A crew is now on route to paint a moonscape over your windows to both blot out the industrial building and to fill you with pleasant feelings of home. And speaking of_ pleasant feelings_, we noticed that your Personal Pleasure Device stopped working last night –apparently from over use. A new heavy -duty model will be delivered later this morning.

HORNY: GULP…ummm,thanks? CONCIERGE: Happy to be of service. Please know also that we’ll be keeping our eye on that small mole we noticed high up on your left inner thigh while you showered this morning. Have a lovely day!

All verbal contact with owners ends with an electronically speeded up: Management reserves the right to sell images of owners so that Service Fees can be kept low and to improve our profit margins. You’re welcome.

Mysta must like apples a great deal.

Holy crap…..Here we go again.

Meh.

Say Neil; Nice space taker-upper. That story was in all the news last week. You are not the only one that reads. BTW, keep in mind…This happened in TEXAS, the new Wild Wild West.

Many years ago Moon Maid was married to Dick Tracy’s son. Whatever happened with that?

Thanks for sharing, Neil. I try to read the news every day but somehow missed that escape story. Ironically, Texas invented it’s own put-down for the clown show they keep electing into office: ”All hat but no cattle.”

Mysta looks more alien today than she usually does. I think it’s mostly the doing of the colorist (platinum blonde hair, paler complexion), but her face seems somewhat narrower to me as well. I also first thought that she was wearing a body glove, but have to concede that it’s probably just a short dress with a tight skirt. None of this is a complaint, mind you; just an observation.

Yeah, Mysta isn’t wearing her Playboy Bunny outfit today. By a remarkable coincidence, I’ve been reading the 2014 strips where Vera and Mysta first met. Hey, you think Diet Smith is one of those billionaires who pay nothing in income tax?

She isn’t wearing gloves, either.

Remember when there used to be things like “hit comic strips”?

Joe and Mike can bring back the minor character of Vera Alldid, but dear BO and his Gertie are rarely mentioned. DARN, DARN, DARN, as Herman Munster would say!!!

Mysta is looking good. Alldid’s assistant/receptionist is looking and sounding snooty (perhaps by his instructions).

You do realize, Mysta, that you could shut down this whole arc just by hanging up, now?!

Rosie? Where’s Elroy? and, BTW, I haven’t seen Astro.

I just realized…shes looking an AWFUL LOT like dr strange’s wife Clea

I am getting a “George Jetson” type vibe. Especially via the technology. I remember going to the World’s Fair in 1965. What made it memorable, Bell South Telephone exhibit and using their picture phone.