Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 04, 2022

Good morning™, everybody!

You have to feel a little sorry for Marina, but she did kind of take unfair advantage of the situation. Anyway, Tess didn’t have any reason to worry.

Odd digression.

Good morning™, unrequited advances !

Tracy does look offended in P.3. No one has mentioned this but her hair color bands look conspicuously like flag colors of a currently war torn nation.

He’ll never know how strange strange can be.

Tracy is afraid Honeymoon might see Pop pop kissing Santa last night and tell when they get back home :)

I’m here Marina! You can lean on me!

Tracy is really someone to look up to today, and always!

“Going home in two days.” So, Tracy does have a time limit on his stay in New Moon Valley … you’d think he’d show a little more urgency in uncovering the plot.

Don’t turn your back on her Dick !!!

What I see here is a youngish woman trying to find comfort in the midst of her very real grief and getting the signals all mixed up in the process. She misinterpreted Dick being kind and gentle with her (as he and most real “gentlemen” would be anyway) for something more personal, and made a huge mistake about it. Dick is doing the best he can to let her down gently but firmly. He could have got very angry and clearly understands her conflict. But that was never going to be an easy conversation for him.

That’s just excellent writing for such a short sequence in a comic strip, and the emotions in the drawing are really raw and in our faces. Brilliant work team.

Please don’t tell me that she takes a header tomorrow?

Tracy is a gentleman, and faithful. Well done. Although I feel for Marina. Having my share of broken relationships, all destroyed by my ADHD. It hurts, but we must move on to heal and try again.

A lot more good reasons besides, “I’m married”.

That poor young lady is clearly hurting and making poor decisions. She needs counseling more than she needs, ahem, Dick.

But Dick doesn’t need to run off like some scared schoolgirl. Telling her “No” and then skee-daddling probably left her feeling stupid and unwanted. No, he can’t have that kind of relationship with her, but he can still provide support.

i’ve got 2 days

…..plus, those things on your head kinda turn me off. I mean, what if…oh never mind.

Look out for a woman scorned.

Where has Sam been while all of this has been going on ?

“Darling, meet…err…Fifi, our new…ummmm. French maid.”

She’ll probably try to hide in ship to leave

Uh, Tracy? Watch out for the antennae…

A man with ethics!

TOLD YA IT WOULD BE NIPPED IN THE BUD TODAY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSyueBoC9mE&loop=0

1-DT: Marina, please! I find you very unappealing. Ugly. Disgusting even…

2- …Nothing personal but…

3- …I have my standards and you DOUBLE “D” DON’T meet them – if you catch my drift. So, see ya around. I gotta an early flight in two days. Gotta rest up. Don’t call or bawl, babe.

How do I get back to town…?

Dick Tracy is the best!

I think she was put up to it!

I guess he doesn’t have the seventy-three year itch.

NEW YORK CITY—-Lithium battery on E-Bike explodes—-killing 5-year-old girl;Father’s girlfriend,a nd three dogs.

father in critical condition with burns.

Diet Smith really needs a new power source.

MOVIE QUOTE

“Please,Julie,listen to me!”

“I listened to you once and you stole a circus!”

Stephen Boyd&Doris day—JUMBO—1962

Two days isn’t much of a deadline to uncover a vast conspiracy that can topple one goverment at its tamest and two at its worst.

On the other hand,we foiled the last one in only three hours.

First earthling to pass up “Moonookie??”

SEE? I told y’all she’d wind up on Earth, stalking the missus!

Some movie said “I will always remember Paris”!

SO, do we met the lunar version of B.O. and Gertie tomorrow? (ducking and running)

OH NO! Marina hurt herself in her confusion… :( I respect Tracy sticking to his guns on this! And Marina’s hair is still a wonderful design :D

“Take me with you”

I can see sympathy for Marina as far as she’s a grieving widow who is hurting, and perhaps she didn’t know Tracy is married,. But when he tells her he is, her response of “she’s not here” leaves me cold. What does that mean exactly – cheating is ok if you don’t get caught? She needs to ask herself how she would feel if the situation were reversed.

Don’t worry about Tess, Joe Adonis is “Taking care” of her, if you know what I mean

Tomorrow she blurts out “When we take over the Earth, I’ll force you to be mine. She’ll probably be dead anyway.”

No one has said it yet, but I’m guessing that a picture was taken

Oh, man, what a tear-jerker episode in this soap opera-like NMV saga. Poor Marina. I do feel sorry for the young widow (and, being a single guy, maybe a tinge of l*st, too). At least Tracy is true-blue in his devotion to Tess Trueheart Tracy!

I guess I don’t really understand Marina’s tears coming so easily. I think she’s manipulating (or was trying to) Dick Tracy. Do the moon valley people have some form of mind control at their disposal, or is it telepathy only?

Contrary to what some have said, Dick needed to get away from Marina and did the right thing walking away. He had become part of her problem, and is not in a position to offer any emotional support for multiple reasons. That needs to be someone else who is caring and objective, and not inside her emotional firestorm.