Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 13, 2023

Good morning™, everyone!

Something shocking outside Diet Smith’s window! What could it be? This is a job for Dick Tracy!

“Kids! On. My. Lawn!!”

My milk has gone bad!

Are we about to learn when the time drone ended up?

Good morning™, panicky in shock, tycoons !

It’s gotta be serious when you drop your favorite drink. Remote controlled motorized drapes. All the upscale homes have them.

shocking news awaits Dick…

I’ve finally figured out why so many of you hate sudden switches like this one when a storyline is going on.

Not a one of you has ever watched a soap opera.

If you had you’d be able to follow along with all this stuff going on at the same time.

Nice have head of detectives on speed dial !!!

He must speak to Dick Tracy immediately. Whatever it is must be on the level of a four alarm fire.

Diet Smith must have downsized. Didn’t he use to have security or were they just limited to his industrial company?

Given the state he is in, there will be no crying over spilled milk.

Gasp. Me has dropped me glass of water. This crime must be reported to Tracy!

“Someone has arrected a giant phallus on my lawn,”

*Can you guess which word that I wasn’t allowed to use by Nanny?

Poor Diet. Kids have toilet papered his trees again.

That’s a great set of panels

Is this curtains for Diet Smith! Tune in tomorrow for the next exciting episode……

“FRANKENMINDY IS USING THE SMITH INDUSTRIES FLAG POLE TO PRACTICE HER STRIPPING ROUTINE AGAIN!!”

What are ya gonna do, when the staff is off? He can’t POSSIBLY clean up his own milk.

Stay tuned for “Morning Glory or What the Rich Man Saw…”

Who’d he see? The Phantom Of The Opera?

The lost Space Coupe just landed in his yard!!!

“TRACY! THERE ARE SPARROWS N MY LAWN! -AND I THINK THERE”S A—A CHICKEN LEADING THEM!! CALL OUT THE NATIONAL GUARD!!!!!"

Maybe it’s like that old CAPT. EASY (formerly WASH TUBBS) daily in which the millionaire (Jupiter Pluvius, and I forget his last name) found the symbol for the planet Jupiter burned into his lawn and thought aliens were after him?

(why do I remember things like this?)

Diet’s bedroom looks like the organ chamber on the Nautilus.

Culturally deprived as I am, I had never heard of remote control-operated curtains.

The question is; “what did DIet see out his window that he thinks requires Tracy?”

Good grief !

Is Dick Tracy at the police station in the middle of the night?

Diet opens the curtains as he stands there with his robe open!

1-DOIT: I think I’ll play The Great And Powerful Oz for awhile.

2-… Oh. I forgot. The staff isn’t here to scare and send out on ridiculous quests. Oh well.

3-… ARRRRGGHHHH! SKIM MILK!

4-I NEED AN AMBULANCE! I’VE JUST BEEN POISONED! SAVE ME AND THEN ARREST MY KITCHEN STAFF! Click. Hmmm. If I survive until they arrive, I could pull The Great And Powerful Oz gag on them… WHAT ARE YOU ASKING OF THE GREAT AND… Ugh. I don’t feel so good

Let’s play “The Name Game”

1.)A costume designer for film and TV in the New York area is named Ami Goodheart.

That’s for those who think"Tess Trueheart" is a silly name.

2.)On April 15th in Manhattan, a man was arrested forvandalizing two “Gay Pride” flags,allegedly going to the bathroom on one of them.

His name? Fred Innocent.

MOVIE QUOTE

“You can kill my body but my spirit will never die. I will be stronger in death than you are in life!”

Evil Witch Doctor—-FROM HELL IT CAME—1957

If nothing else, we found out that there’s such a thing as a room being TOO big.

Hopefuly,the police vehicles answering Diet’s call won’t meet a GASOLINE ALLEY fate.

The moon people have re-discovered how to build their magnetic flying vehicles

I spilled my drink! Get me Dick Tracy!

I’m guessing Diet Smith saw something related to that time machine failure a couple of years ago.

Okay, I give up. After Diet Smith (in need of dieting, for sure) opens the automated drapes at his sitting room, he sees something (or someone) that gasp! makes him drop his glass of milk and call TPD HQ and demand to speak to Dick Tracy immediately! —I have no idea what’s going on here or how this might relate to any of the other dangling elements of this putative storyline. Maybe we’ll see (literally?) in the next day or two. Or maybe not.

What a quagmire this disjointed adventure is becoming….