Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 30, 2021

Stellaluna’s look towards Tracy in panel two screams; “Please arrest fat boy for giving me lung cancer with all this blasted second hand smoke he keeps blowing in my face!”

Good morning™, everyone!

So, now that a missing persons report is officially filed, Tracy can get down to investigating. It looks like Stellaluna and her brother do video calls with Mysta (Facetime or Zoom or something?). Stellaluna was hired to help Mysta adapt to society. I guess she doesn’t need such close help anymore.

Good morning™, concerned friends !

How many more people need to bring the missing Mysty to Tracy’s attention before real police work begins ?

Is it only me or is Stellaluna unnaturally dark complected ?

If I may toot my own horn (and we all know how much fun that can be), I said 2 days ago that it had been a week to 10 days since Mysta and Vera went to Archival’s home. :-D

Retik, ruler of the sinister lunarians? He’s BACK?!?!?! (reference to the Republic cliffhanger RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON).

Eight years ago: “I wonder if [he] is a knock off of Retik?” (Radar Men from the Moon), said jmcx4. PaStark chimed in to note that, “Retik is a moonman. Roy Barcroft played him in the 1952 serial, Radar Men from the Moon.

These comments shot down my notion that the link was to Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. We first saw Retik and Stellaluna at the Apollo.

https://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2013/04/26

The “Tyson” Observatory is a nod to Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist. Astronomer David Levy, working at the Palomar Observatory in California, United States, discovered the asteroid that was subsequently named for Neil deGrasse Tyson.

I’m glad they’re having a summer in Tracyville that is cool enough to wear overcoats. We are not so lucky in Chicago.

1-DT: You’d think I’d be hot in this coat and all but I learned a trick from a flasher I busted once – these aren’t real pants! It’s just the legs of pants with elastic at the knees to keep them up! DOIT: That’s brilliant! Lemme see!

2-DT: Keeps me and the boys nice and cool!

DOIT: I thought you’d be wearing undies…ugh.

SVETLANA: Whoa. If my former boyfriend hadn’t been enough to make me change teams, that sight would a done it…

3-…Lemme tell you more about ReeDic… He used to get us into virtual 3 ways with Horny online. That’s when I knew I was more interested in playing for the Home Team. GRRRRR-RUFFFF!

Now that it’s been over 48 hours, Mysta can be reported as a missing person. At least Diet Smith followed protocol.

Consensus has been reached…Mysta’s wedding is a fake. Archival, you blew smoke for a while but it is starting to clear.

I expect the scene where Tracy and Sam search Vera’s office for clues will be shown in the foreseeable future.

Unless Vera left a paper trail in his workplace, how will MCU catch onto this Archival fellow? If he is careless it has not been shown yet.

BTW, who is Stellaluna? Don’t recall seeing her in this strip before

Don’t forget on the 31st you can only log in with a gocomics password not a google or social media log in.

One big thing about Radar Men from the Moon: It was a lot more exciting than this much too long and pointless story. You Go Roy, you also made a great Purple Monster.

I wonder if Peanutbutter is still waiting back at the station?

So, they know exactly where they were going prior to disappearing. This should already be solved. Dick Tracy has never been the best detective.

And eating them out of house and home.Loved this kid.But if he isn’t a pest anymore,where’s the fun?

Holy comics-pandemic: there is a lot of jaundice going around in Tracyville these days! Peanutbutter; now, Stellaluna. "Dr. “Mad Colorist,” whether employed by TCA or not, is our very own SuperSpreader! [That was biting sarcasm, kids!]

Also noticed: Diet needs to get back on his diet! He is a “super spreader” in a different sense, as seen in panel 1!

Anyway, we have enough of consensus that the “elopement” cover story is fake news, and we have a filed Missing Person report, so, the stage is set! Time for action (would that be Act Three coming up?)….

Ok, let me get this straight – Diet reported Mysta missing THE NIGHT BEFORE and only now called in Tracy, his long time friend who is head of the MCS?

Smith went through official police “channels” first?