Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 21, 2022

Good morning™, everyone!

Assuming that Blaze is helping out the police, Tracy suggested that she could, hearing about Paul may come in useful at some point in connecting the pieces of this investigation. Blaze has now met two of the criminals involved as has at least heard the first name of the third one.

Paul Who? ✨

nothing of consequence today, except for Art introducing himself to Blaze… snore

Good morning™, best behaviors !

Everyone’s so cheery you would never think crimes are being committed. Maybe ALL the strip activities have gone “Wonderbread™” and crime in Tracyville will have been banished forever and that means we need a new town where crooks crook in the finest crooked tradition.

P.3. Is Sue making eyes at Blaze ? (Ooo-la-la !)

All is lost!

So, Art Dekko apparently does not have a smartphone so he can take calls anytime, anywhere, even at lunch, & also seems to be in the habit of asking his secretary for possibly sensitive or incriminating information in front of total strangers. Other than that, he’s a real criminal mastermind.

Perhaps Art and Blaze will bond over their love of bow ties!

The well is dry!

You know this Art Dekko fellow looks a bit like the character Lupan III. If anyone is into Anime you may see it.

Whatever you do, Mr. Dekko, don’t throw anything fickle our way!

Blaze is certainly a hot commodity in this episode, with at least three new friends…

“Hello, known snitch! We’re going to leave our criminal undertakings unattended for a while, feel free to browse around!”

Is Blaze Rize the identical twin of Hot Rize? Looks like she would have to be, though not as sinister. Hot was a cold blooded one.

Wait. Don’t tell me. Blaze is somehow going to overhear Dekko talk to his forger.

So, who all caught Mike announcing the planned TRACY/NERO WOLFE crossover of FB? He’d been describing the process of making contact and getting a response for some time. Just heard he succeeded about ten days ago. Glad it worked out for him.

“So I’ll just stuff my pockets and decide at HOME.”

Williams….or McCartney…….Young? Stanley, even?

When my eyes shifted to P3, it was a big URP!!! THAT DAM MUSTACHE IS GROSS

RE: The crossover with Nero Wolfe several have mentioned this morning:

The folks who come here to read Dick Tracy, and to comment on the strip, would probably be the most loyal fans. I’m guessing that readers of the newspaper strip are casual fans at best, and that many of them won’t even have a clue who Nero Wolfe is. And, of the loyal fans who do come here to comment, probably 90% have been pleading with Mike to stop the crossovers and the fanboy references, and concentrate on writing a solid Dick Tracy story patterned after the writings of Chester Gould, who he said he admired greatly when he first took the writing assignment. Yet he just keeps ignoring us.

Now, it is true that a crossover with a fictional “armchair private detective” such as Nero Wolfe may actually be fun. I hope to enjoy it. But I do wish Mike would pay attention to his fan base. The fact that he seems not to care what any of us think is becoming a little off-putting. Just my opinion.

1-ART: Lesbian you say? Well, it’s nice to have such a diverse customer base to sell fake cels to! Tell your friends down at the Manfree Ball-less Bar.

2-SUE: Here. You shouldn’t say things that your “brain” comes up with. From now on, just read this to customers.

ART: “Hello…How…can…I…help?” SERIOUSLY? PEOPLE LOVE MY WARM STYLE! Especially chicks, babes, and hot slam pieces – REGARDLESS OF ORIENTATION! SUE: Just leave…

3-…Sorry about that. BLAZE: No problem. Ummm. You got some chocolate milk on your upper lip.

SUE: That’s my bishin’ ‘stache, silly! BLAZE: URRRRP! Sorry. Just threw up a little…

Some of you have been complaining that Art always refers to Sue Reel by her full name every time. Well, today, he simply addresses her as “Sue”. Happy, now? d;o)

I wonder — could the creation of “Sue Reel,” considering her mustache, have been inspired by this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv05TdgIcQg

Sue’s blouse looks….ah…..quite perky.

Art comes on (on stage, that is). Art withdraws. Sue steps out, too. Blaze is left alone, unsupervised, with an opportunity to do a little snooping, if that’s what she wants to do on behalf of her friendly friend Lee (and so the MCU)….

How can Sue expect to be “Employee of the Month” when she goes on a break? What if a customer walks in? Art had to return a phone call. Oh well…just put an Out to Lunch sign in the window.