Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 30, 2022

talk about drawing the suspense out…

Good morning™, everybody!

We are no further ahead with confirming who is at the door and what they want.

I’m wondering if it’s rainy outside judging by the panel on the door which seems to be a window, but the views on the security cameras didn’t look like rain. The profiles in panel 2 look much better to me than the profiles I was uncomfortable with yesterday, but Tess’s left arm in the first panel looks a bit awkward to me. Other than that, the art is really excellent.

Dick has one of those old school xray glasses built in his watch!

Dr. Doom? ✨

Something is off with the faces the past couple of days. Tess especially looks weird and distorted.

Why would Tracy put on his sweater to go to the door? He wasn’t wearing it yesterday. Afraid of catching a draft?

Good morning™, Avon calling !

When the hood comes off and the face is lit we’ll all have a good laugh because it is just some poor soul asking for directions to the Plenty house; I heard they put on a good feed. That Wrist Wizard must have X-ray vision to see the figure so well and the door is still closed.

Is it me or is Tess starting to resemble Hortense the horse faced woman ?

Tess’s eyes are really bulging in panel one!

Ha! Love how Tracy is giving Tess the side-eye like he suspects her of two-timing him!

Lyutsifer Safin?

“Your Girl Scout cookies have arrived. One box of Do-Si-Dos. That will be tree-fitty.”

“Jake Blues. I’m here for your women.”

Moon Maiden meet Moon Knight !!!

He is the applicant for the position vacated by Cinnamon Knight

“Don’t you recognize me? I’m the old ‘Inner Sanctum’ movie opening.”

“Hi, I’m the Grim Reaper, I am smiling ’cause I like my job” Sort of an old Dilbert reference!

The Meddling Monk?

OFF TOPIC: Just posted a shot of Lon Chaney. Jr. in test makeup as Pruneface for the TRACY television series on the DT Fan Club FB group.

“I am the Whistler, and I know many things. Like…where you left our car keys. And for only a hundred dollars, I’ll tell you.

“Pwease, Mr. Twacy. I am but an innocent Bwownie Scout, here to seww you cookies. Pwease open up an’ don’t be suspicious.”

Hmmm. Tempting…

Is this the start of a future trend…potential informers or “well-meaning” persons making after hours house calls to Tracy’s residence?

never saw so many predictions as to who the mystery figure is… if he was accompanied by a wolf, I would have said it was Mr. Walker… but no Devil, so no Ghost who walks…

Who is going to tell this “visitor”, isn’t it a bit early for you to be doing “trick or treat”? On second thought you could be testing out your costume. Sorry…we don’t have any candy on the premises. This household is cavity conscience…we brush between meals.

Gahan Wilson once did a comic panel where a man answers the door to find Death standing there, then calls out, Honey? You’ll never guess who’s here!

Riiight. A cop who has been the target of bad guys for forever, opens the door, after dark, to some costumed idiot wearing a cape and a mask, right after Mysta gives him a warning. Who is he, Mandrake the Magician?

1-TESS: It’s been an hour and that person is still at the door!

2-DT:* Maybe we should call the police! Wait! I’m the police! Tess – you and Mysta open the door while I go get something from the Safe Room.

TESS: WE WILL NOT! DT: Fine. Hang on! I know what to do!

3-…HA! TEN THOUSAND WATTS OF BLINDING LIGHT SHOULD… oh. That’s just the regular flashlight feature…hang on…

MR. JONES: Hi Dick. I’m your neighbor. We’re out tonight to recruit new members for the neighborhood association. It’s kind of mandatory if you live around here so whaddaya say? It’s join…

OR DIE!

It’s just Sam stopping by after his Lodge Meeting.

“I am Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight, and I seek an audience with one Jabba The Hut”………

Tracy opens the door and says, “Good evening?” Holy Crap!

MOVIE QUOTE

“During the war,I was right where the bullets were the thickest.Hiding underneath the ammunition truck!”

Lou Costello—BUCK PRIVATES COME HOME—1947

A lot of humorous wild guesses—-The Moon Governor,no doubt.

But if he’s got a problem,why didn’t he go to Diet Smith first??

Holy s&#t! It’s a Franciscan! Run!

“Something’s at the door.”

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

“Am I in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas-Yet-To-Come?” Tracy asked.

The Spirit nodded.

“Come back in six months.” Tracy slammed the door and turned away, muttering, “Christmas keeps coming earlier every year!”

It’s the Governer

Why does Tess look like Lizz?

Reminds me of the way that they drew Betty and Veronica in Archie.

“I’m the Lightning Bug, baby… from the MOON!”

OFF TOPIC: Ellery Queen night here. I want to see a rival a Jim Hutton detective set up as competition and n occasional consultant in town.

Of course I also want to see Cookie Monster in the strip…

Mysta’s antennae are twitching, and Dick prudently is concerned with the women’s safety first. He answers, not opens the door by way of his house’s elaborate security system plus his Wrist Wizard. The image in panel 3 is projected from the Wrist Wizard, IMO.

As to who the hooded figure is, while we don’t know and may not find out immediately, the only practical answer I see is that it is the former Moon Governor, in need of some help, somehow, whether from Tracy or from Mysta, or both. Something Lunarian is in the air….

well, at least we know that it won’t be Abner Kadaver returned from the dead… that character is deader than a door-nail… there’s that proverbial door-nail again…LOL…

Daffy Duck in disguise :)