Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 19, 2023

Clearly he’s working with Gameboy! Shoot him, Tracy.

another con to attend… Mike the fanboy strikes again…

So we have today the proof the yesterday’s strip was totally meaningless, other than to serve as time filler and as an ego trip.

I suggest we offer the job as head writer to Firestrike!

His drug induced, warped minded, gutter living, peep show doll owning stories would have to be better than what we’ve been enduring these recent years. Lol!

But which “Simmons Corners” …

So I guess the Sunday strip, where Sam seemed sure the next target would be a 1860s game at Gould Gallery or whatever, was basically a waste of time too. Maybe it’s time to stop thinking of Dick Tracy as a continuity strip, & think of it instead as a daily gag strip, like Blondie or Beetle Bailey, with the humor based on the obscure trivia or contrived cross-over character or pop culture reference Mike can think of on that day.

Salutations, fellow Con attendees!

I believe we’re getting more Cons (as in conventions) than we are cons (as in criminals). This has definitely become a go-to pattern of late. I don’t mind the occasional use of a convention as a crime setting, but this is a bit excessive. It fits this story, but I hope this is the last convention we have to see for a while (a long while). Collectibles aren’t the only items that crooks steal. Criminal activity occurs in many varied settings such as casinos, stores, alleys, homes, nightclubs, financial institutions, tech companies, etc… After this story, it would be nice to see some criminal activity and investigations that don’t involve a fan convention of some kind, and not a murderabilia convention either. Peace my fellow Armchair Detecatives.

Good morning™, “Con” artists !

If only this story could be air dropped onto that island and that when the bomb goes off all these gamers go with it.

Maybe the Sunday strip wasn’t a complete waste of time. Gameboy could be after both targets. Or, it may be a ploy to cause Tracy to split forces between both locations. Or, yeah, all of this could just be a waste of time.

So Lil’ Annie is coming to town, huh?

I like the comics history pointed out here!

Even Tracy in panel two has that, “I can’t believe these stories are so lame” look!

Was it found in a garage by a guy with no eyeballs?

All kinds of interest in this story. People googling Life, Simmon’s Corners, discussing Annie. Monopoly. Pawn Stars! All kinds of interesting things for the peanut gallery to chew on and discuss.

And, tomorrow, Steve will explain how this Simmons COrner map is game and/or, toy related.

The art is improving. Dick looks good.

You might have known a Con would be involved. I predicted it a week that there would be an old toy convention. It happens in nearly every story. The only thing people think about in Tracyville are Conventions that feature some kind of memorabilia, nostalgia, or trivia.

I wasn’t interested enough to bother to google “Simmons Corner Map” (I will however read what Neil tells us about it.)

1-STEVE ARINO (Absolutely no connection to persons living or dead): TRACY! WHERE’D YOU GET THESE NUDE PHOTOS OF ME???

Editors Note: While this was one of the team’s better efforts of late, our lawyers determined that the Panel 2 and 3 Alt Takes might lead to “issues” best left alone. We apologize for being unable to share those Panels. You don’t know what you missed. Unless… hmmmm.

Going to take a guess at this – someone who invented a well known game will be said to be from “Simmons Corners”…

This is all horribly interesting.

Kind of ironic. If I did another MM, I considered doing a ‘Sam’ story in which hick relatives from a small southern town called Sparrow’s Rest come to the big city and insist on following him around the office and on ‘his’ next big crime investigation.

Tracy would be highly UNamused.

Gee whiz, Uncle Jed. Sounds like Mark is off’n his meds agin’!

2- …IF YOU PUBLISH THESE I’LL BE RUINED! HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT???

3-DT: Nothing. I just use ‘em to get Tess “in the mood.” SOME ARINO GUY (Absolutely no connection to persons living or dead): Tess? Oh yeah. Your wife. I didn’t know she was even alive – nobody ever sees her. So, she’s into the old “chin” beard, eh? Maybe I should demand money from you!

DT: Sure. Or maybe you should just get used to being the guy known for playing solo Nude Twister!

SOME ARINO GUY (Absolutely no connection to persons living or dead): GULP! No, uh, you enjoy. My treat. IN FACT, lemme send you some pictures of me playing Nude Battleship! Those’ll get her torpedoes out for you!

DT: Mine too! FIRE TUBE ONE!!!

The ladies call me Anderson Windows because I, like them, am Double Hung.

(I just got an ad from them in the mail and here’s the result. Feel free to use it with no accreditation – my gift to you!)

Uh-oh. The crossover guy from TV has a blip on his radar that points to ANOTHER CON and a prelude to the arrival of [once Little Orphan] Annie for a summer visit (crossover), “straight out of Simmons Corner”!

This is a map that I’d gladly gift to Gameboy.

What has become of this Crime Story? https://tinyurl.com/mxlpy47