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

Coffee stand chick is thinking, “Dick Tracy sure looks silly in that get-up!”

Good morning™, old chums ?  !

The meeting looks congenial so far but I keep waiting for a shoe to drop. P. 2. Did Tracy suck in his gut ?  He’s lookin’ buff.

Good morning™, everyone!

Tracy was busy trying to arrest Silver Nitrate and Sprocket. The woman in the background looks like a Japanese anime character.

Such a bore

To the core

Where’s the exit door

From this magical mystery tour

now what possible bit of conversatin’ can Dick want with Adam?…

does it have SOMETHING to do with Susan Sprocket?… I don’t see HOW, unless Dick knows more and HAS known more than he’s been letting on…

I have this sinking feeling that Dick is going to spring SOMETHING on Adam concerning her…

I hope NOT…

Dick’s shadow in panel one makes no sense.

Adam needs to lose the comb over!

Seems like a bromance developing!

so..Aside from Sprocket, how is Midnight Mirror related to this telephone scam? I would assume Tracy has no knowledge of Susan being here…

At this point, Sam, feeling left out of the action, was stunned when Tracy gleefully lent him out to Spider-Man on detached duty, where he went undercover as Samee Ze French Maid at the Kingpin’s shady Super Weight Loss Haven For The Incurably Gullible Rich.

Coffee as made. Many clients enjoyed night terrors for months, in which zombie coffee beans relentlessly pursued them. Nick at Barney Miller asked for the recipe.

In the meantime, he is quietly replaced in the MCU by The Inedible Mr.Limpet (the Chief can’t stomach him), who was put on the case of Spongebob’s vile foe Manray.

See, I can do terrifying crossovers TOO!

The meds clearly aren’t working…

“ONE WORD per page?! Page count 500, word count 490 and ten signed doodles in crayon?!! Look, Sport, I seriously think your skill as a writer is on the way down faster then a crazed wombat on a greased luge!”

" I saw the ad for your book signing and wanted to talk to you". Kudos to Tracy for keeping up with current events.

Ok, here you are. So….?

the dick is flexed and ready to pump Adam for whatever he can get out of him…

whatEVER that may be…

We figured out that Tracy wanted to talk to him yesterday. Does Mike think we missed that and needed another day for that light bulb to switch on? “OH! I GET IT! Tracy wants to TALK to him. I’ll be darned!”

Maybe tomorrow we’ll see them walking hand-in-hand to the coffee shop to…I dunno…TALK?

A very sporty looking Dick Tracy…I wonder why?

yellow shirt…does that mean he’s on duty?

1-ADAM AUSTINPOWERS: So you moonlight as a BOOK SIGNER RULES ENFORCER? I never knew that position existed.

2-DT assuming a classic karate fighting stance: Yes. My skills in Sho n Ru have proved useful when sanctioning writers like Hemmingway. You should know that I could sever your jugular with a quick flip of these sunglasses. HAIIII-YA! A.A.: Ummm, yes but please don’t.

3-DT squinting at the wall-menu: Uh…I’ll have a maraschino? STONED BARISTA: That’s a Macchiato. With whip?

DT: Only if you’re wielding it baby! STONED BARISTA: Great. Another old man who thinks he’s funny…

Editor’s Note Regarding That Last Line: If you thought to post something along the lines of “LIKE YOU, TAKE! Or “LOOK IN THE MIRROR, TAKE!” – don’t bother. I see it too._

R.I.P. Ted Kaczynski

So Adam and Tracy last saw each other at “the premiere of Midnite Mirror,” and Adam is now on a book tour for that book. Couldn’t have been all that long ago…

Not sure who or what the cute redhead in panel 3 is supposed to be, but it probably doesn’t matter, since she’s just filler giving some background ambience at the book-signing venue. Too bad we probably will never see her again.

The character who is of interest here is Adam Austin. Whether an innocent honest author or some kind of Bad Guy in the long run, for now either way he strikes me as unctuous, oily, and not to be trusted.

But what does Tracy want to talk to him about? Is it just The Midnite Mirror, or does Tracy have some further suspicions?

I don"t think Tracy likes this guy.