Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 29, 2022

Good morning™, everyone!

You thought Ro-Zan was down for the count, but the count continues! Now, it’s Tracy who is mad as a bull. The wimpy version is out of the picture today — even swearing in Lunarian!

Come on Mysta, it’s zappin’ time.

Good morning™, unfair turnabouts !

Yep. How does a guy like Thorin stay in the land of the living ?  Since Ro wasn’t ‘shooting’ I can see him only getting any effect from being in proximity so while the Armers are truly out, it paid Rosey to do a bluff.

And you guys said that DT didn’t learn anything while he was out and about looking for info. ;p

Tracy speaks moonspeak :)

I just hope Tracy won’t destroy or damage the ring when he punches Ro-Zan. I still want to see a Mysta x Ro-Zan encounter

OK, I admit it. The Asterix box made me laugh.

It’s been a while since we’ve had a patented Tracy uppercut….

Ro-Zan is about to find out how it feels to be hit by a freight train…

Rozan seems to have more lives than Rasputin … or the killer in a slasher movie.

Love that last panel.

I’ve not seen Lunarians exhibit “super strength” so I’m thinking a ticked-off Dick Tracy is going to deliver some serious punishment to Ro-Zan…..

Ro-zan standing on the Govassador is poorly drawn. Should have skipped the attempt.

I hope Thorin is alive.

Don’t forget that Thorin’s “armsmen” are coming…I also hope that Mysts and Honeymoon show up…

“You’re gonna hear two thumps, moon-boy, the thump of my fist in your face and the thump of your face hitting the floor.”

Tracy pulls out his gun and shoots him.

Moral: Bring a revolver to a fist fight.

Uh, Rozan? I don’t know how much of Earth’s quaint oddities you’ve picked up, but there’s one that applies here: Never mess with the hero of the story!

Nice to see that amid all the chaos, Tracy took the time to put his fedora back on

Go get em Dick !!!

Dick did learn some Lunarian ! I hope Honeymoon doesn’t pick up that word from her PopPop !

Hopefully he will get a charge out of Mysta and her big guns !!!

when did Dick learn Lunarian-speak?!?… and the naughty words, yet?… looks like it’s gonna be a knock-down drag-out between our combatants… Dick’s pissed-off because Thorin’s been harmed, but he still has Marina’s death on his mind… this is Dick that we haven’t seen in QUITE a long time, Dick getting down and dirty and ready to kick some Lunarian-ass… I LIKE IT… a smashing uppercut and a devastating haymaker will do quite nicely now… don’t disappoint, Dick… GET THE WEASELLY LITTLE BRICK!…

It’s Punch O’Clock!

and let’s not forget Tezla… she’s out there somewhere… hopefully, she doesn’t evade capture to carry on Ro’s madness in a future Valley adventure…

Tracy learned the important words.

I was hoping for a real, supercharged mano-a-mano with Thorin and Ro-Zan. Wow, Tracy. Language.

he’s going to duke it out with Dick Tracey? this will be interesting. :)

ka-Tracy

Great writing Mike! Tracy’s family is in danger and he isn’t about to back down without a fight. Love Tracy’s anger expression in panel 3, great job Shelley.

The anger on Tracy’s face in last panel is great. Excellent over all art work!

Tracy is getting testy isn’t he???

When we learn a new language from friends rather than an instructor, why is it that we seem to learn the curse words first?

I suspect it won’t happen, but Ro-sanne is stepping over Thorin in panel 3. Scenario is that Thorin rallies, reaches up, and sends him on a little trip.

As much as I want to see Tracy deck him, I don’t think Mysta and Honeymoon showed up here for no reason. They likely have a part to play in Ro-land’s downfall.

His men will… what? Arrest them? Finish them off?

….and in this corner…BAD MAN MOON DICK!

Four panels always work.

That second panel appears to show Ro~Zan cuffing Gov’s ears with some leafy substance???

Classic horror movie trope. The presumed-dead [slasher, monster, whatever ] revives one last time for an encore jump-scare.

What happened to Shane Fisher?

1-DT: Do Moon Men have hearts that beat, Thor-In? THOR-IN: Yes. DT: Uh oh…

2-BRO-ZAN: SURPRISE! SUCK-AAA!

3-DT: STAY BACK! I AM OBLIGATED TO WARN YOU THAT I’VE SEEN EVERY BRUCE LEE MOVIE!

BRO-ZAN: SO WHAT? I’VE WATCHED CHUCK NORRIS MOVIES WHERE HE WAS STILL YOUNG ENOUGH TO KICK ABOVE THE WAIST!

4-DT: Really? He could? NEVER MIND! GET READY FOR FISTS OF FURY! IT’LL BE A WIN BY KA-TOE BY WHICH I MEAN K.O.! I’M GONNA BILLY JACK YOU UP! Oh. Sorry. I got off theme there for a second. EN GARDE!

Ro-Zan is gonna get stomped out by Dick Tracy!

Imagine that…Ro-zan played possum and got the drop on Thorin.

August 29, 2022 is date which will live in infamy…Dick Tracy used a cuss word.

I guess that’s lunarian for ….TRUMP SUPPORTER!

Ro-zan has just underestimated Dick Tracy :DAnd dang, you know Tracy is mad when the comic team has to blank out his dialogue! :D

I hope the girls didn’t hear that.

MOVIE QUOTE:

“Why don’t you say it?”

“Say what?”

“‘They can’t do this to me!”

“Well,they’re doing it”

Gene Lockhart&Edward G.Robinson—-blackmail—1939

“Brother,you’d better start worrying.Because I’m going to put another wrinkle in that brow!”—-1944

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Loon-Aryan genetic engineering was such that being on a lighter gravity world wouldn’t affect their physiology the way it affects ours. They bounce back incredibly fast compared to us with no permanent damage.

the more I think on it, the more I’m starting to wonder if maybe we’re expecting Dick to do a beatdown on Ro too much, when in reality, perhaps Ro DOES have the upper hand somehow in physical strength over Dick and may proceed to do his OWN beatdown on him, thereby enabling Honey and Mysta to come to Dick’s rescue and save his bacon… THAT may be the way for the girls to come into play…

Ro-Zan is about to be tuned up!

Gasp! Dick Tracy Swears?!

In the immortal words of Steve Rogers: Language!

Somebody is in for a whoopin’!

TRANSLATION: ‘Doodoo head’.

And back in the city,Rikki Mortis is currently in her 17th month of pregnancy.

She always was kinda peculiar

Tracy’s gonna put his Neil Armstrong right up the Moonatic’s landing site. One small boot for man, one giant shoe in the you know what for humankind!

WAYYYYYYY OFF TOPIC. A marked departure from my usual pulp or PI material. Delivered the script to the reader. Note To Self: Never, never again work with your wife as editor. It’s exhausting….

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I love that censored word…

Anyone have a scenario where Tracy and Mysta accidentally take out each other? :)

This once fine comic strip just gets worse and worse…

Oooh, Tracy! Such language (even if “only” Lunarian)! And in a “family” PG strip!

I doubt that RoZan has any Martial Arts training, however strong he may be. Tracy is older, but seasoned and, I am sure, well versed in the various forms of hand-to-hand combat. Plus Tracy has The Ring to ward off any zapping Ro-Zan might try. That Bad Boy is going down!

Training and experience almost always win over emotional energy and inexperience. Tracy, within 3 panels.

So….ro-zan managed to A) flip over from laying on his stomach to B) be laying on his back to C) grabbing thorin by the temples to D) unleashing a moon sized zap to E) getting up to F) standing on thorin and ALL of this even BEFORE tracy reacts….hell, in the time it took ro-zan to do ALL of that, tracy should have been able to bum rush him and kick him in the ribs

You tell ‘em, Tracy!