Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 20, 2022

The guard did it! Or will do it! Shoot him now!!

Good morning™, everyone!

Well, there are two of the curators, but not much happening yet.

Dig the cheaters. ✨

Good morning™, first draft pick of suspects !

Might tall and lanky have something to hide or how ’bout miss Twiggy lookalike ?  P. 1; I see the detectives are still on a tight departmental budget as they have to content themselves with standard issue conveyances.

Dick and Sam have long playdoh faces!

Did the writer use a weird name generator or what? Christopher Wren was a male architect butWren Christopher is female? Basil Jett must be the zombie behind her then

“Excuse me, I didn’t ask to meet the INNOCENT suspects. Direct me to the UGLY one with a REALLY stupid name, and make it snappy.”

“But Detective Tracy, no crime has been committed here!”

“I’ve been around the block before, kid, and that Gobbledegook Flava Flav thing will be nicked in a day or two, mark my words. Let’s just cut to the chase and do this pre-cog style.”

Basil Jett has the look of a hard-core stoner.

Canʻt wait to see what Anita Bath looks like. Is she Pig Penʻs mother?

Hmm…just like the regular storyline…Minit Mystery is no exception…Tracy and Sam still ride around in marked patrol cars. Their city government cannot afford unmarked for detectives? Good Grief! On the television crime dramas (i.e. Law & Order, Chicago P.D.) the detectives have unmarked vehicles.

this is ridiculous. does anyone else agree?

What is Basil Jett holding? Is that a clue?

They both look guilty. What was the crime again?

Basil looks like a Spicy fellow.

Why is there a T on there ? Shouldn’t they be called Mini Mysteries ?

Basil Jett looks more like Christopher Lee and a relative to Abner Cadaver !!!

Stan Lee cameo!

That Froyne must be pretty dazzling for the guard to have to wear sunglasses.

Man, what an introduction! This thing’s got me on the edge of my seat! I bet tomorrow the guard asks Chief Detective Tracy (he’s a Chief Detective, you know) I bet he asks “would you care to sit down?”

Help me! I am in Antarctic Moon Valley withdrawal! There had been so many post, Moon Valley story false starts, I have no idea what is happening. I need a Space Coupe so I can get away!!!!

Sneaky-looking ‘guard’. Sort of an evil Murray Langston, minus his paper bag.

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY, GUYS! Let’s do a petition to make Binky The Clown a regular member of the strip’s cast! ‘Inspector Binky’! I LIKE the way that stumbles off the tongue. Just to get Jim Davis behind this.

anyone wondering what Basil’s favorite spice is? and Wren’s favorite bird?

Joe’s art and inks gives the current arc a bit of a rough, down-and-dirty, no-nonsense gritty feel and look to it… I like it…

I guess the expected crowd must’ve gone to London to see the Queen’s coffin. Tough luck. Vitamin’s plays get more visitors than that. Well, so long as the Nursing Home Bus doesn’t break down.

WooHoo, Joe has put the faux bow back on Tracy’s chapeau. Longtime no see.

The art work is seemingly darker…….

Mmmmm….Basil looks like “The Scream” guy, before he was totally bald……

MOVIE QUOTE—

“That’s for scaring me out of ten years of my life,which I can’t spare!”

John Wayne—BIG JAKE—1971

Basil Jett died years ago and the coroner neglected to inform him.

We shall soon get to the trap doors and the sliding wall panels.

Ribs Mocco,where are you?Social Security wants to know.

Can’t the Tracyville PD afford unmarked cars for the plainclothes people? Or, at least let them used seized vehicles. And, at least in Illinois should they be Ford Interceptor SUVs?

LOL…Yesterday I saw Wren Christopher mentioned in Dick Tracy. I have been in Christopher Wren’s building in Williamsburg, Va. The Wren Building. Ironic that I was reading about him, yesterday, with regards to buildings and the towers in England. (I suppose this she is no relative…LOL.)

Tracy says to Basil “Why the long face”?

Tracy and Sam,, looking very Tracy and Samish, are ushered into the Big Ticket Mass Popularity exhibit and immediately introduced by the onsite sergeant, possibly TPD (Tracyville Police Department) rather than private security (?), to two of the three curators (only Anita Bath is not yet to be seen; maybe she’s still at home, taking a long shower), namely, tall and slender and dour Basil Jett and rather young-looking and attractive Wren Christopher.