Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 21, 2022

Holy Callback, Batman~!! ✨

Good morning™, everyone!

So… the Cinnamon Knight returns to announce “a life-changing decision.” Cliffhanger, once again.

The moon is slightly tilted this time and maybe more accurate for 8 p.m. this time of year in the mid-west U.S., but possibly still mirror-imaged. That’s getting very technical though. It looks fine.

Good morning™, life (money ?) changers !

So he is not going to police school after all ?  I can’t wait ’til he tells Tracy of an odd looking man at the bank the other day. He and good lady friend thought nothing of it until they heard about the emptied ATM with no individual account draws having been recorded after a point. If it was on the news he might have been aware of the time of its last transaction coinciding with his arrival which to me seems like he would have to get that info from police as a news report might only have/give basic information.

C.K. looks like he’s ten feet tall in that last panel because of the perspective. He could pick up Tracy and crush him like a soda can! So, we gotta wait until tomorrow to find out what this big life-changing decision is. What a tease.

“I will, from this momentous day forward, be known as the Allspice Knight. That is all.”

Well, if Batman isn’t available for this super villain, I guess we’ll take what we can get!

I hardly think waiting to hear this LCD qualifies as a cliff hanger! LOL!

Are fashions from the Middle Ages making a comeback?

“I’ve come to a life changing decision”. This revelation required a roof top meeting? Why didn’t he send it in the message?

Good knight (no pun intended) what if someone sees this meeting through a pair of binoculars? I will go under the assumption that the building shown in the first panel just has day workers. Really now! 8 P.M. and not midnight. Being discreet obviously became a casualty.

It’s not Batman.

Hard to imagine a person walking around in full armor , on a hot day he would cook!

When did Cinnamon Knight make his first appearance in the strip? This is the first time I’ve seen him.

“He’s getting married in the Morning….”

Given the chronological flux of the strip he may have met Tracy just a couple months ago and may want to tell Tracy, “I got accepted into the police academy!” (Although why he needed to wear armor and have a private roof-top meeting or label it urgent isn’t clear… But it wouldn’t be first thing in the strip to not make sense.)

CK: “I’ve decided that you should signal me using a spotlight with a silhouette of a cinnamon roll…”

What’s SO urgent, that you mailed me a letter asking me to meet you a few days later?

Once again, hero cop Dick Tracy only upholds the law against people he doesn’t like. LARP Lad is illegally open-carrying a fixed blade much longer than 3", Dick. It’s not okay just because he’s your buddy. Stop grinning like a doofus and do your job.

…..that he WILL have a Big Mac rather than a Whopper for dinner tonite?……….Oooooo The suspense grows………..

A costumed “superhero” on Dick Tracy!? And, I thought that Green Hornet crossover was a one time thing. (Superheroes in Dick Tracy.)

I know! He is gonna leave the strip and head over to Rex Morgan, M.D., to join up with the Street Sweeper in a pan-comics League of Crime Fightering!

Great art work…effective. Tracy knows Cinnamon Knight and vice versa? His he a superhero?

1-DT: Windy – that’s good. It’ll look like the wind blew Cheryl off to her death!

2-DT: WHAT THE HELL?

DOOF: I’m here to deliver a singing telegram sent by Cheryl. Are you Dick Tracy? I can’t see out of this weird visor…

3-DT: Hmmm. Maybe I was wrong about Cheryl being preggers. This isn’t how a person would deliver that… DOOF: Ahem…LAAAAA!

♫ YOU SAID YOUR “BOYS” WERE OLD – THAT YOU WERE SHOOTING BLANKS.

AND THAT YOU’D PULL OUTTA THERE LIKE SOMEONE WHO HAD JUST ROBBED A BANK

WELL IN 9 MONTHS IT WILL BE OBVIOUS YOU LIED

WHEN I WELCOME TO THIS WORLD A NEW TRACY NAMED CLYDE ♫

Uhh, I usually get a tip…?

“I’ve come to a life changing decision. From now on I’ll be identifying as Lady Cinnamon."

i’m now Nutmeg Man!

“I’ve come to a life-changing decision. I am no longer the Cinnamon Knight. I am now the Knight Who Says ‘Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!’ ."

That stupid Cinnamon challenge has ruined my name so I’m changing it to AllSpice until social media ruins that too.

Cinnamon Knight: “I’ve decided to marry Toast Lady”

I wanna live with a Cinnamon Knight

I can be happy the rest of my life

With a Cinnamon Knight

Cinnamon Knight is getting out of the business of being a generic store brand cereal mascot.

His life-changing decision is to ditch the costume & live life like a grown-up, not like an overgrown adolescent running around in a cheesy Halloween get-up. Who knows? He may even make it out of his parents’ basement.

♪ ♫ Knight in brown cinnamon, now I’m reaching the end,

A letter I’ve written, to Dick Tracy my friend.Joining the police force, is what I want to do,Giving up my armor, for a trench coat like you. ♫ ♪

Nuts! I used the proper spacing between the lines, but when I posted it, the site compressed lines 2 – 4. Anyway, this might be what the Knight has in mind. (And yes, I do know that the original is “nights”, not “knights”. Although the original art for the cover did show a knight on a horse.)

Geez, you guys need jobs

Owie! The urgency of this episode is overwhelmingly painful! So, Cinnamon Knight has come to a life-changing decision that he apparently needs to tell Tracy about (why?). Whatta big deal! Tracyville slogs on.

To quote an old movie line, “Thrill me, detective!”