Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 08, 2022

Once again delivery stopped short of destination

Coffyhead is boiling, such is his consternation.

Payoff like a restless bird has left by taking wing

Coffy smells a dirty rat, the kind that likes to sing

About the secrets that he knows about all that he saw

Find the fool. Make him cease the wagging of his jaw.

A turncoat he must pay the price for spilling all the beans

Close his eyes and take his tongue. He is not what he seems.

Good morning™, all!

Back when juvenile delinquency was a big issue in the news, Junior started the Crimestoppers Club. Shortly after, Bronko, who was stealing small items, ended up driving his car into a river when the Crimestoppers gave chase, they rescued him and he became one of the first Crimestoppers. Later on, Coffyhead tortured him and Junior to try to get them to dissolve the Crimestoppers. Apparently, Coffyhead doesn’t remember any of this and doesn’t recognize his new driver as the teenager that he met long ago.

Good morning™, summary executioners !

If that is Junior I must say that Shelley has done a real job on his appearance. I wouldn’t consider that it could be him as any number of people in the department or close to it could do this. He’s right; it’s getting way hot to handle and now he just stepped into the frying pan. Hope he has his asbestos undies on because this is guaranteed to be a long slow roast, with a possibly abrupt ending.

Twenty questions and if the answers don’t please the boss, you get a shot from the pistol

Just think how much drugs they could hide in beanbag chairs.

So if he is bringing in drugs in those huge amounts, why on earth did he need Tonsils little bag of them?

Good morning, new Delivery Drivers! We have another name for Stuntman Mike. Bronko must be a fake alias to prevent Coffyhead from finding out he’s a CI. Right now his job is hotter than the back of his deliver truck. He’d better be quick on his feet or his stuntman days are over.

Hmm, just 59 comments yesterday and we only broke 100 once this whole week. Spring fever, or an ominously silent commentary on the story?

Poor Bronko seems to have troubles all his own.

“WHAT is your favorite color? What is the airspeed of a swallow? (t paraphrase Groucho) How any Frenchman can’t be wrong? What have I stuffed this gun clean full of? When I say ‘dirt nap’, do you assume I’m talking camping?”

“So, I’m guessing, sir, that this would be a poor time to ask about your retirement package?”

@ Neil Wick – Wow, thanks for the trip to “back in the day”. You are amazing!

1-STUDMAN BRONCO: Hmmm. The cops found drugs in one of our chairs and now there’s a cop car just sitting across the street. I wonder why…

2-…Hey Loogie – did you know that some store hid drugs in one of our chairs?

3-…I don’t think we should sell to them anymore. LOOGIE: Yawn. Great idea. Why don’t you share it with the boss.

4-STUDMAN: Hey boss. We shouldn’t sell to that store that puts drugs in our furniture. It reflects badly on our product. OH! Sorry. I didn’t know you were playing with your gun.

5-COFFEY HEAD: And with my pistol. But never mind that. There’s 500 pounds of “furniture stuffing” in the warehouse that I need you to hide…I mean keep…at your place for a while.

STUDMAN: Awh, why can’t Del and Buddy do it? I delivered all the “special” heavy chairs today. I’m tired.

COFFEY: SHADDAP! Because they’d snort up all the stuffing – that’s why!

STUDMAN: What? COFFEY: What?

I think they kinda rebooted the whole thing…

Yikes! Looks like Bronko (if that is really who he is) overplayed his hand as the mysterious informant ’Stuntman Mike," and now Coffyhead is ready to perforate him with some hot lead!

Will “Bronko” evade death? Will Coffyhead relent in his lethal anger?

Is Bronko/Stuntman Mike really the snitch (I still am not trusting in Luigi to be just what he purports to be)?

Is Bronko walking dead fish dead?

I wonder what Bronko meant about “having to see this through” ?

Also, I wonder what Dot did for Coffeehead in an earlier comic when Luigi commented about Dot and Tonsils being on TV and and said that Dot “delivered her package” ?