Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 17, 2022

Good morning™, all!

So, the way I understand it, Derby Duggan, the cartoon character that we saw referenced before, looks like Pinfold in the Funny Papers book that Vitamin Flintheart is turning into a play.

Sam can’t wait to see the play, but we are going to have to wait until at least the end of the Minit Mysteries story, 16 days from now. Hopefully, I can read more of the book during that time, if not all of it.

Come on Sam, hit him up for a walk-on part!

Good morning™, ticket schmoozers. !

Is Sam going to debase himself to get that seat ?  He will do better to have Tracy get his ticket.

Wow, the Tracyville newspaper is only 4 pages!

STILL with the coffee drinking!

Wake me when the MM is done…

Will Sam bring his wife … or the entire squad ???

Could Vitamin turn down Sam after all these years ?

Gee, do you think Sam has gone a little twitchy fan boy over this? And will his wife make another all too infrequent appearance?

Advice to all those with questions about the play: write ’em down and ask ’em again in two weeks or so.

No wonder Minit Mysteries is being introduced tomorrow…MCU has been goofing off during Tracy’s “vacation”. Drinking coffee and reading the funny papers, what would the taxpayers think?

Oh big whoopie, Minit Mysteries…a gimmick to give Mike and Shelley time to develop a plot line for the upcoming story.

Hmm…Lee which part is Vitamin too old for? The kid or William Randolph Hearst?

Pat visiting the bullpen? Doesn’t his office have it’s own coffee pot?

1-CHIEF: Well now, did our Tracyville Triple A team win last night, boyo?

SAM: Says here they were all at a Double A Meeting last night. HAR HAR HAR! See what I did there?

LEE: Made a bad joke about alcoholics in front of our already drunk Chief?

2-SAM: Oops. Sorry Chief. I…uh…forgot about your little issue with adult beverages.

CHIEF: Think nothing of it, lad. You don’t rise to the rank of Chief by being thin skinned. Now get a mop and bucket and clear up this spilled cup of Hot Guinness.

SAM: What spilled… SPLASH …Oh. That spilled Guinness…

minit mystery coming up. yawn

Well, TV doesn’t offer any thing different…oh, Strager Things?

OH NO! please no!.

grrrrrr, thought we had seen the last of those Minit ‘Mystery’ things… no such luck…

Here I go again. I’d like to know the date where the Mole weds Toad’s mother.

oof, thanks for the warning. Minit mysteries are awful

Lot of elements in the new storyline. The play, Flintheart, Cinnamon Knight, . . .

I wonder who’ll play Joseph Pulitzer.

Oh Samuel. This will lead you down the path of corruption.

‘Fraid you’re going to have to wait two weeks, Sam, like the rest of us, before you can press Vitamin for comps.

A new Minit Mystery intervenes! I hope it’s a good one and that the two weeks will be well spent; but we shall see. The MM record has been spotty….

I wonder if the Minit Mystery will be backstage at the performance.

William Randolph Hearst.Not exactly a role model for the kiddies