Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 17, 2021

Good morning™, everyone!

Batster was right yesterday. Archival has written a release claiming that Mysta and Vera eloped! Honeymoon knows from her conversation with Mysta at poolside (which many here thought had little to do with the story) what Mysta really thinks of Vera and Honeymoon will know that Mysta would never marry Vera.

Now Vera doesn’t want to leave. Clever, Archie.

Love the differing expressions on Mysta’s face! They really draw you into her character. Meanwhile, the delight on Vera’s face in panel three tells us he might be willing to rethink this captivity thing if it means pretending to be married to Mysta. Blech! Once again, beautiful work by Joe Staton and Shelley Pleger, even though the coloring is still off. Bravo!

Archival’s artist should consider going solo. I am sure that there will be many who would avail of his services with the kind of talent that he has.

I really like the facial expressions Joe has been giving Mysta the last few days. Rather than looking like a porcelain doll she is reacting like a real person.

I made a similar comment to Charlie Wise during his Mysta Minit Mystery. (I think that last phrase might be a tongue-twister.)

You all do realize that, were this a 40s-style Hollywood rom-com, Vera and Mysta would indeed end up in love, and legitimately married. (After a variety of zany occurrences.) There are those here who have pushed the idea, and I have to say that I would find it interesting.

There’s something else: Is Vera a one-man team, like Charles Schulz was? Does Vera ink, letter, and color the Sundays all by himself? I suppose it’s possible, what with the hardware and software available today, but I haven’t heard of anyone doing it. If he isn’t a loner, won’t his teammates get suspicious?

I should’ve written, “…write, ink, letter the weeklies and also color the Sundays?”

Enjoying this story… perhaps Honeymoon will pick up a weak signal and come to her rescue?

Good morning™, shocked informed !

If I was Lizz, Honeymoon or Tess; I would be put out from not getting a call from the happy couple. They will smell a fish out of water as they know Mysta would not Moonlight them.

Nice storyline, until now.

That ring has to come of the finger at some point……

Very good!

Vera’s face in the last panel made me laugh out loud.

That’s some quality photoshop there.

Won’t this just raise Tracy’s suspicions, since he would be almost certain that didn’t happen?

MYSTA , is depicted just fantastic today . Frame one the probes are not showing the energy and in the least frame ?? I don’t blame her for not wanting him , his hair is just not something to love . Sorry but I still do not get what is going on here .

And, of course, the media is not interested in getting pictures of the honeymoon, finding out details of the wedding (witnesses, officiant, location, etc.), or anything else once an elopement is announced? Sorry, being asked to believe the media goes, “Ho-hum, we never need to cover those celebrities again, they eloped,” requires more imagination that finding people with telepathic and electric powers living on the moon.

In p3, Vera’s smile makes him look like he really believes it.

I’m wondering if Vera’s ex, Sparkle, will see the article and smell a rat.

So apparently the chapel where they eloped also has wedding cakes :)

….or any other planet floating out in space, including any & all galaxies far, far, away, or stealthily hidden in black holes, etc. etc. & so on!………….

Who knew, Archival was a master of Photoshopping, or, his assistants are.

All Mysta needed was a little more incentive to bring the whole edifice crashing to the ground.

I am in a state of Holy Crap? Chester Gould…rip!

1-VERA: WE’RE MARRIED!

STAN LEE: I told you not to look so soon after you’d eaten.

2-VERA: WOW! We had a really nice wedding! A Disco Ball and everything! Look how happy we are!

3-HORNY: WE’RE NOT REALLY MARRIED, YOU IDIOT!

VERA: Of course not. Not until we consummate the wedding. Then it’s official. HUBBA HUBBA! Say…should we use protection or do we want kids right away? No matter. My boys won’t be held back by a little thing like a…

SMACK! Thud

“One of these days, Vera… one of these days… bang! zap! STRAIGHT TO THE MOON!!”

I hope so that Honeymoon contacts Mr. Tracy and his fellow detectives soon!!

You folks realize you are enabling this tripe don’t you? Gould family weeps

Interesting scenes today…..a story that looks like it belongs in The National Enquirer. Pictures that have to be photo shopped. And Vera is having a “fantasy”. The look is in his eyes.

When Honeymoon and Crystal sees this, they’ll say we thought we were cool with her. How come she did not invite us?

And the men at the place where Vera works said, doggone, he got married and we did not get to throw a bachelor party for him.

VERA! STOP BEING SO HAPPY!!!!!

Oh God that’s funny!

No pun intended….but this really takes the cake.

Well, at least our hostage-taker has done his research… divide and conquer?

Interesting, in the photo (I’m assuming it’s a photoshopped photo) in panel 2, the waves from Mysta’s antennae are visible. Do those things show up in photographs, even fake ones? Were they just a mistake, on Joe’s part when he drew the panel? Or is this maybe the small mistake by Archival that gives everything away….

Vera must have a sweet deal with the content agency syndicating J. Straightedge Trustworthy – he can turn in strips at the last moment, and just leave on vacation at a moment’s notice by having his assistant send in reruns :)

TRACY: All right, Archival, you’re under arrest for kidnapping and false imprisonment. Sam, put the cuffs on Mr. Archival. Lizz, help Mysta.

ALLDID: Hey, what about me?

TRACY: We’re leaving without you. You’re too much of a jerk to rescue.

ALLDID: How do I get home? He destroyed my smartphone. It’s 4 miles back!

TRACY: It’s good exercise. See ya! Wouldn’t wanna be ya!

There is no way any sane person who knows Mysta and Vile would believe that fake news story! The only question I can see is, who will spot it and call it out first? Honeymoon? Junior Tracy? Sam Catchem? Tracy himself?

Surely, someone will recognize that the story is a fake and soon enough suspicion will fall on Brock Archival, the last verifiable appointment of Alldone and Chimera….