Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 10, 2023

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why does the plain-jane and unglamorous Lizz in panel two remind me of Carol Burnett with that pose?

Good morning™, Spooky Threats!

M-a-a-a-n !  If that is Lizz I am so spooked. :-o

That thing looks like a cross between a bat and an owl. Has Walter been getting into something ‘Strange’ ?

Good morning™, everyone!

Weird hair colour on Lizz. I’ll be back shortly with more on Shenanighoul. I’ll reply to this comment.

I guess Sam & Tracy aren’t talking anymore after Tracy shared his Nero Wolfe story with Sam. Otherwise I’m sure Sam could have told Tracy that the bank teller he spoke with in yesterday’s strip identified the robber as having a snake-eyes disguise & spared Tracy having to ask Liz about it today.

The ghoul is a reference to “Shenanigans” (sp?), a kiddie game show from the early 60s — my childhood. Are geezers like myself the target demographic ?

Riddle me this Tracy !

Shenanighoul…sounds like the guy causing trouble over in Beeker the robotic dog.

Shelley draws the most " sexist ladies " , top marks today . : )

why is Tracy asking Lizz when it seemed that Sam was the lead detective yesterday. If Lizz was on the scene why didn’t we see her?

Shenanighoul. Now THERE’S a name to strike fear into people’s hearts. After they stop laughing.

For those of you playing at home, you can now mark the “Nostalgia” space on your Mike Curtis bingo card.

If I’m reading this right, Tracy, and, Sam are back in the squad room, Liz has just returned from investigating a S&L robbery. (Which there aren’t many left any more, having converted to “savings banks.” ) But when did the call for this new robbery come in? When we left our heroes yesterday, they were interviewing the teller from the Federal Bank. (Presumably, the sameone the Jones brothers tried to rob in the Wolfe crossover.)

Very interesting . The two way wrist radio is a holographic emitter.

What’s this, a rare Bat-Owl?

1-DT: Anything happen while I was at BEATING OUT CONFESSIONS WITH EVERYDAY OBJECTS training? LIZ: A couple things. The S&L got robbed and…

2- …I took Cha Cha lessons – see? DT: You look like a spastic Lauren Bacall in the last scene of To Have And Have Not LIZ: Hang on, I got a video message…

3- …Mind if I rest my heavy breast on your head while I display the message. DT: Just don’t mess my hair… OMG OMG OMG! WALTER IS THREATENING REVENGE! I’ll need a 24 hour around the clock personal security detail until that menace is shot from the sky!

LIZ: That doesn’t look like… DT: Make it 25 hour around the clock. A little overlap can’t hurt!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs4vI2XnQJ4&loop=0

Okay, this could be a fun arc if it doesn’t become just another laborious exercise in esoterica….

She looks nothing like the Liz that I’ve known in Dick Tracy for years.

Somewhere in the 1960s Batcave, Batman and Robin are getting dressed and the BIFF and POW guy is muttering that he’s too old for this.

How did the bank robber “leave” this “note”? On a piece of paper? Then why didn’t Lizz bring the actual note to the lab for analysis? On the wall somewhere? That’s a fairly elaborate drawing for someone to accomplish while running away. Or did they do it before entering the bank, like I guess they did with the street signs at the previous robbery?

So, the snake-eyes robber identifies himself as Gameboy! And he, presumably with his ninja-garbed partner, have now also hit an otherwise-unnamed Savings and Loan. Gameboy has left a note with a rather esoteric reference to a short-lived TV show for kids, albeit with a nice rendering of a bat-winged owl (somehow bringing to mind—for this Old Guy, anyway—a couple of post-WW II comic book favs, Blackhawk and his team, and Airboy, with his flapping-winged plane, “Birdie,” not to mention this strip’s recent favorite owl, Walter). Our brassy bad guy likes to rub the cops’ nose in it, it seems; this brashness could ultimately be his downfall.

I am concerned, however, that this arc as constituted so far, seems to lack a middle, or “Second Act”; we’ve had two bold robberies already as a First Act, and it seems the story (again, as we have it so far) is ready to jump to Act Three, the downfall and capture (or other fate) of Gameboy. For these reasons, I think we have not yet seen the whole cast, specifically on the “villain” side….