Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 03, 2023

she’s absolutely RADIANT!… LOL…

Sigh, Mike just can’t move past his need to push the relationship between Blaze and Lee on us.

He must realize that the main story is a snoozefest!

Lee definitely looks like she’s growing chin hair, which makes sense since Blaze likes her women with facial hair!

Neil is late with my “TM” again..I just gotta have a talk with that boy (in my best Foghorn voice LOL).

Good morning™, everybody!

Lee is happy these days and it shows!

I was saying yesterday, that this whole scheme might fall apart before the verdict of the committee is handed down. Mr. Ebert’s advice that it “may take time” seems to confirm that it isn’t going to happen right away. As we know from “garage man,” some things in the strip take a long time to develop.

Good morning™, old friends reunion !

I don’t know about other folks but SDM and I are drowning in “girl juice” and are ready to get to the nutz and boltz on this forgery plan.

Final thought of the day (maybe)

Lately it seems like Mike is resorting to tossing stuff on the wall and working with what sticks!

“The verification of the painting may take time.” Why should this be different from anything else in this strip?

“Unfortunately, our primary authenticator went home to clean out his garage, and no one has heard from him in months.”

Garage man is growing dusty cobwebs.

“Good Friend”? Is Mike implying Lee was involved with Blaze when she was undercover as T-Bolt? That’s taking a cover REALLY Deep!

I’m both happy and sad with today’s strip by the DT team; Happy that they kept it real world by not having Lee not revealing the her true relationship with Blaze, but also sad that it shouldn’t have to be in a fictional world like Dick Tracy.

Secondly. I wonder is this is the start of a “talking heads” arc where Lee reveals the relationship, because I do believe that Lizz isn’t buying what she just heard.

That’s more than a “good friend” glow.

i hope this turns out okay for them

Maybe she’s pregnant ? LOL !!!

Greetings, fellow Art Authenticators!

Nice effect with the wind in panels 2 and 3. Shelley had done something that I’ve rarely seen in Dick Tracy. They’re in a windy city (if not THE windy city) as evidenced by Lizz’s blowing hair and the leaves on the background tree. A nice touch. Kudos, Shelley!

I think 2 reasons why the relationship issue is still present is because Lizz and Lee are friends as well as collegues and Lizz wants Lee to open up to her about her relationship. Lee is afraid to tell the truth for fear of backlash and/or losing respect from her friends. This is what happens when people come out and I suspect it will be the biggest (and probably the last) issue of this subplot until we hear wedding bells. I, too am anxious to see the criminality of the story kick into gear but I don’t mind the character development.

Now, tell her, Lee and get it over with! In the immortal words of Art Dekko, “Lizz didn’t get where she is by being a brick bat!”

Good friend… yeah, that’s the ticket…

Well this is true—and even if the painting is validated as being from the time period, there’s always going to be the asterisk next to it—it’s not listed in any of da Vinci’s lists of works, not known elsewhere, so its provenance is going to be questionable at best.

One presumes that Lee has put the term “good friend” in quotation marks," considering that breakfast scene from the other day

Awwww.

1-EBERT: On a good day, it’s this big…

2-LIZ: Did you think that would be a big one or a little one, Lee? (Liz’s detective sense probes Lee’s experiences with…)

3-LEE: Oh. Well I wouldn’t know. LIZ: AHA! I knew you were a…

LEE: Virgin? Yes. I’m very principled when it comes to relations with men.

LIZ: So, nothing until you’re married? LEE: No. Nothing with men…

LIZ: Oh. OHHHHHH!

Panel one: All about verification. Panel two: About female glowing. Panel three: Blaze has the magic touch! And so it goes………………….

Can we please say “enough is enough” with romance and “joke- a- day” strips here for a while? Sure, Gould would use these elements from time to time, but the ratio of adventure to “fluff” was much, much, much higher than it is today. Thankfully, we have had mostly spectacular artwork here, otherwise there’s not much to stick around for anymore.

Blaze must have complimented Lee on her handsome husband and adorable children.

Had a horrible, horrible vision of where story line might be headed. Hoping I’m wrong… Will post my fear tomorrow. Hope Mike will not double down on the implausibility.

Three panels, three “talking heads,” all interconnected. Very nicely done art, Shelley!

And we coincidentally learn, at least implicitly, that Siskel Ebert is a curator at the Mussir Museum of Tracyville (which helps explain his lavish office, as I discussed yesterday in my main comment).

Meanwhile, the glowing Lee reveals to Lizz and us a little more of her background “friendship” with Blaze Rize….

It’s called “afterglow”.

The Mussir was the same museum Dekko burglarized during his original 1980 appearance.

Mention Art’s name and they’ll be suspicious on general principle.

MOVIE QUOTE—

“I say things and then I don’t remember saying them”.

“Look,why don’t you just run for Congress and leave us alone?”

Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope—-ROAD TO RIO—1947

If Lee’s partner wasn’t female, I might think she’s…

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