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

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    Pequod  over 3 years ago

    Mysta puts her foot down

    Raises a swift knee

    Archival writhes upon the floor

    Great his agony.

    Mysta her own person

    Not a figure under glass

    Autonomous and fabulous

    Knows when to whip ass.

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    DaJellyBelly  over 3 years ago

    Did she kick him in the jewels???

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    AnyFace  over 3 years ago
    You can get that past The Syndicate? ✨
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    Brian  Premium Member over 3 years ago

    gasp I. Want. To. wheeze Press. Charges. ohhhhhhhh

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    Maximara  over 3 years ago

    Did she knee him where I think she did? Ouch.

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    jimmjonzz Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Don’t we all love, in panel 2, the shock in Dick Tracy’s eyes?

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    22ph  over 3 years ago

    Stellaluna and Retik might have given her martial arts training :)

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    22ph  over 3 years ago

    Tracy still not recognizing the one ring !!!!

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    avenger09  over 3 years ago

    I’ll shock everyone by saying I like the Nancy Sinatra and Lesley Gore combo tribute, even if it wasn’t intended.

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    retropop  over 3 years ago

    Tracy is going to “look the other way” while Mysta assaults a suspect in custody? (Although this might be Self Defense!) But then isn’t Tracy derelict in his duties by not having properly restrained Archival who wasn’t even in cuffs yet. (Which Dick or Sam should have done already!)

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    Jab Jr 1957  over 3 years ago

    Looks like self defense to me. No jury will convict her.

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    boboscar  over 3 years ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTpvirQ-hPA

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    Neil Wick  over 3 years ago

    Good morning™, fighters!

    That’s our Mysta! I think that Archival earned that kick in the crotch after Tracy warned him to back off. The ring is no defense against that.

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    seanyj  over 3 years ago

    Did Mysta kick Archival in the Coconuts? : )

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    Jab Jr 1957  over 3 years ago

    In panel 2, a better sound effect would have been CRUNCH.

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    charliefarmrhere  over 3 years ago

    Wow! A big knee right to the cannoli’s. That has gotta hurt!

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    Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray  over 3 years ago

    Good morning™, Bad to the Nads !

    After all that do we really need to run him through justice ?  The lady has got satisfaction and in a much more earthy way than a walloping zap could ever hope to achieve.

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    therese_callahan2002  over 3 years ago

    Too bad Lesley Gore isn’t around to read today’s strip.

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    michaelyaakov  over 3 years ago

    All men everywhere felt that. It was not what I was thinking Mysta would do but it was very effective. Also, I think Tracy recognized the ring in Panel 1. I am very sure Archival will have to explain that. I mean was not all of Bribery’s things suppose to be locked up somewhere while he is in jail?

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    BigDaveGlass  over 3 years ago

    And that’s why he hasn’t been cuffed yet…….

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    iggyman  over 3 years ago

    Karma is a you-know-what Archival!

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    iggyman  over 3 years ago

    “You Don’t Own Me” “I am not one of your many toys” Leslie Gore’s song sounds appropriate here!

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    Space_cat  over 3 years ago

    There is no ring made by the hands of man that stop a very well deserved knee to the groin!

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    crobinson019  over 3 years ago

    Archival is hardly the first person to be assaulted by his victim while in custody. Mysta’s revenge is far less than he deserves at this point. He’s coming out of this with no bullet holes—he should be grateful.

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    tripwire45  over 3 years ago

    Satisfying.

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    Binky  over 3 years ago

    Better than getting zapped there I reckon (●¿●)

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    lunapeachie  over 3 years ago

    Your ring only protects you from psychic attacks, dude. How could you forget that?

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    Chris  over 3 years ago

    wow, what an idiot… kick him again. :D

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    LawrenceS  over 3 years ago

    Sunday: “It’s not kidnapping if they weren’t hurt.” grade Stupid

    Monday: “I’m wearing a weapon designed to hurt Mysta.” grade Stupider

    Tuesday: Attempting to assault Mysta in front of Tracy grade Stupidest (But why wasn’t Archive in handcuffs?)

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    jrankin1959  over 3 years ago

    Your “precious” couldn’t stop that, could it, dude?

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    cmerb  over 3 years ago

    Super great images again today , Mysta’s expressions in the first and second frames are super cool , but what’s with the " ring " in the first frame ? Tracy’s eyes are perfect in this cartoon .

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    Durak Premium Member over 3 years ago

    You know, I bet she would have been glad to visit your stupid island, if you’d just asked.

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    Durak Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Miss Leslie Gore. Wow.

    https://youtu.be/JDUjeR01wnU

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    Mongo  over 3 years ago

    That’s going to leave a mark!

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    Mongo  over 3 years ago

    Now Archival can sing soprano!!

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    Cronkers McGee  Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I know I would not mess with her. A knee to the groin brings down the biggest and the stupid.

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    WilliamVollmer  over 3 years ago

    The way Archival is displaying that ring, he must’ve have been sure that Mysta would try to “Mind Zap” him. Unfortunately for him Mysta believes in the old saying “where’s there a will, there’s a way.” Can’t “zap” him like he deserves. Okay, there’s the physical approach, as Archival was reminded.

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    Grumpy Old Guy  over 3 years ago

    I’m hoping there was a Mysta tazer effect follow thru, with that well placed kick…..

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    Curtis Mathews  over 3 years ago

    Why is everyone beating around the mulberry bush? Mysta scored a Touchdown by kicking the Pig skins through the uprights, scoring her Freedom as Tracy stands on the sidelines seemingly dumb founded not even seeing the Emerald Ring in plain sight!!

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 3 years ago

    She gave him a knee to the…………..!

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    scpandich  over 3 years ago

    Don’t have a ring to prevent that, do you?

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    tcayer  over 3 years ago

    OH MY GOD! The most gruesome violence ever in Dick Tracy!

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    Wichita1.0  over 3 years ago

    Next day we see Versa pushing her into the trunk of his car for ‘safekeeping’, and we’re off again!

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    Another Take  over 3 years ago

    HIT HIM IN THE LEFT KNEE! HIT HIM IN THE RIGHT KNEE! HIT HIM IN THE WIENEE! WE NEED A VICTORY!

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    Another Take  over 3 years ago

    1-DT: OK, you two know the rules – no gouging, no punches to the back of the head, no punches below the belt…

    2-WHAMP! pop, pop

    3-HORNY: You said “punches”.

    DT: Once again, an offender gets off on a technicality. However, I can’t declare you the winner because you didn’t wait for the bell.

    HORNY: I just rang his ding dong didn’t I?

    DT: Hmmm. THE WINNER BY TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT IS…HORNY!!!

    STAN LEE: medic

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    corpcasselbury  over 3 years ago

    And Archival learns the price to be paid for arrogance.

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member over 3 years ago

    “In the labonza! In the labonza!” ;-)

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    Ray Toler  over 3 years ago

    “Whap” is not a strong enough sound effect for the action. This needs a “PWANG!” or a “SCA-TUNGK!” or some other Don Martin sound effect:

    https://www.madmagazine.com/sites/default/files/imce/2014/07-JUL/MAD-Magazine-Don-Martin-Sound-Efx-Name_53c5568e684920.80692874.jpg

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    LAFITZGERALD  over 3 years ago

    Good reaction, Mystra – ha,ha!!

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    CynthiaLeigh  over 3 years ago

    Right in the nuts! Yay!

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    trimguy  over 3 years ago

    Critical 9 shot!

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    orbenjawell Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Mmmmph………RIGHT in the family jewels……..

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    198.23.5.11  over 3 years ago

    She didn’t learn THAT on the moon!!

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    198.23.5.11  over 3 years ago

    They censored “Breathless Mahoney’s” black eye but left this in??

    And Mysta Chimera rings the gong and wins herself a big fat cigar!!

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    iggyman  over 3 years ago

    Right in the pills, the ring did not stop that!

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    IvanB.Cohen  over 3 years ago

    Somebody, take that ring off his finger.

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    IvanB.Cohen  over 3 years ago

    Archival could have taken a course from Amy Vanderbilt when it comes to manners.

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    IvanB.Cohen  over 3 years ago

    The woman got the better of him.

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    Eric S   over 3 years ago

    BEAUTIFUL!! Hit him again!

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    oakie817  over 3 years ago

    harder!!

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    dalemcnamee9  over 3 years ago

    We hope that Vera has seen what Mysta did and is rethinking his behavior towards her…

    She can kick hard as well as “zap” him…

    And now that she is “recharging”…

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    tad1  over 3 years ago

    He deserved that.

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    Leo Cannyn Premium Member over 3 years ago

    We should take bets on the next storyline if it ends with a Shootout or a Tracy Uppercut. I think Mysta’s kick would have counted as an Uppercut.

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    198.23.5.11  over 3 years ago

    TRUE STORY DEPT.

    In 1936,the FBI arrested Public Enemy 1 ALVIN KARPIS in New Orleans.This is the one where J.Edgar Hoover himself is supposed to have made the arrest.But he just waited in a car nearby until it was over.

    Out of around two dozen FBI agents at the scene,nobody had remembered to bring handcuffs.So they ended up tying Karpis with t heir neckties.People half-joke that this is why FBI men always wore suits and ties on he job.

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    STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Lesley Gore – You Don’t Own Me :

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDUjeR01wnU

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    MDRiggs Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Right in the oompa loompas, as some would say.

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    carlfishman  over 3 years ago

    You know, if Archival tries to have Mysta arrested for assault, he’s going to be out of luck. The DA will simply refuse to press charges. But if he sues her in civil court for damages, he’s got a real chance of winning. Of course, no matter how the criminal trial goes, Mysta and Vera can sue HIM for damages. (Loss of income, stress, etc.) They’re likely to win a lot bigger! As OJ learned, winning in criminal court isn’t always the end of the story.Of course, none of this will ever come up in the strip itself. As Ray has repeatedly pointed out, once the perp has been arrested the story is over.

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    Sisyphos  over 3 years ago

    Mysta Chimera cuts that braggard-kidnapper down to size with a well-placed boot! Bravo! Even Tracy seems to accept that it was called for.

    Does um hurts, Bwocky-Wocky?

    I hope so!

    Key phrase: “You don’t own me!”

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    Black76Manta  over 3 years ago

    Good Mysta, he deserved

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    trainnut1956  over 3 years ago

    A “CRUNCH” would have been funnier than a “WHAP”

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