Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 20, 2023

Good morning™, everyone!

Somewhere more comfortable? (Just kidding, she doesn’t look like the sort that has a place “more comfortable”)

Just relax while I slip into something comfortable.

that spider to the fly thing?…

“Somewhere appropriate”…surrounded by volumes of books and manuscripts. As Grady from Sanford and Son would say " good, googly moogly".

Good morning™, chummy coquettes !

Libris appears to be mustering her best hot look for Tracy and she doesn’t do that for just anybody. Nice blue shades and the “rod” is present in both panels. Looks like Shelley was paying attention to your “Nez Perce” call out, (Ray).

Where is Tar/Cate Blanchett taking him? :O

Oh, that expression! Well drawn, artist!

Mr. Guest Writer, let her break it down in layman’s terms the stuff Tracy needs to know for progress on this case. But not so ivory tower as to cause my eyes to glaze and mouth to say " what are you talking about Miss lady"?

Yeah, that’s not the expression of a serial killer at all, is it.

“Somewhere inappropriate.”

HER DUNGEON!!!

Book her in the library.

Cue the Bernard Hermann music.

More appropriate eh. You means under that cone of silence eh.

This story has been going on for WEEKS now, and Tracy’s team doesnt even have the BEGINNINGS of a clue as to the whys and wherefores as to what the actual hell is going on

Eh look like lotsa fore-shadowing here.

Eh watches out for that trap door Tracy. Look like she push button!

Either her bedroom or her BDSM dungeon. I cannot determine which.

“Sticks and stone might break my bones, but whips and chains excite me.”

The Evil Library!!!

“Let’s talk someplace more appropriate where I keep my knives, ice picks and stealth weapons.”

I don’t trust this woman. She’s GUILTY!

“My bed of nails is in this room…….”

“Please ignore the rack and the Iron Maiden, they belong to the help”!

Like the smirk she has in panel 2!

I know that we all have thoughts of S&M happening, but we know that the censors, uhmm I mean editors won’t allow it.

We really must think of the children.

Is it the Abattoir?

“You first. The elevator is THERE. The bulb is just out. (snicker, giggle, Chrissy Snow snort)

Library reveal on Sunday!

the background of the house reminds me of a 1940’s bugs bunny cartoon ‘rabbit in red’

My, what big hands you have…

Oh my! That smile has creepy overtones kind of like Wednesday Addams in Addams Family Values. RUN, TRACY, RUN!

Filmy negligee or low cut decollete?? Hope Tess serves up eye candy regularly to Tracy~~~

Easy, Lady – he’s a Private Dick.

…..“the queen-size waterbed’s just behind this door”…..adds she…….

This is not funny. Dick should be with a female officer.

doesn’t the two panels today convey the sense of foreboding and possible impending doom for Dick at the stern and capable hands of Frau Krautengruber, who will soon revert to her Mistress Spankenasser persona?…

the dick will soon be deep into whatever she has waiting for him… LOL…

Black Widow?

Oddly, I can see all the main comments, but when I click on any Reply, I am sent to the All Comics A to Z page. Is this happening to others? Anyone figure a way around it? Hope it clears up soon.

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“The female is in the perfect state. Defenseless and silent”

Villain—MONSTER ON THE CAMPUS—1958

You can smell the boiling carbolic acid a mile away.

And why is there a green-faced monster lying unconscious on a table?

Nobody here seems to know and it received minimal publicity—and Mike Curtis is a fan.

Phyllis Coates,the original TV Lois Lane, died on October 11th at the Motion Picture County Home in Woodland Hills,California.She was 96.

Married and divorced four times.She shoulda waited for Superman to ask her.

“Miss Lane, my name is Bomb. Not B-A-U-M.B-O-M-B!”

I wonder if her farts stink .

OT: Darnit. After binge watching 5 seasons of DETECTIVE CONAN, I now have an off-beat murder and a new P.I. in mind, and I’m still coping with the bad read on one audio book and finishing the follow-up volume. Pacing, Universe. Give me pacing!

This is the former 198.23.5.11(THIS number was randomly assigned to me by a computer built for sadism).

I’ll be taking a week’s vacation—-and since I keep track on my work computer, I won’t be commenting again until Monday October 30th.

I feel like a heel—-I’m running off and leaving Dick Alone with a woman who bought all of Abner Kadaver’s old devices at a police auction.

I’ll assume Dick will still be alive when I get back.

And for a good time, go to 198th and Figueroa.

Either she’s about to show him her notorious library or she’s really misunderstood the situation.

Tracey better put on his raincoat … ;)

let me get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini

I call this the Quiet Room. So no one can hear you scream! Witch Cackle

“in the Quiet Room, no one can hear you scream…”

It must be about time for some action panels…we’ve now had the lengthy, mundane setup…

anticlimatic I know, but I expect they are going into the library

One can easily hear the dark, ominous musical score to this scene. Heavy on the pipe organ.

“Somewhere appropriate.” Ms. Frosty-Stares could be leading Tracy into a sitting room; or into the Library; or into a dungeon/torture chamber, for all we know or all we can read from her great stone face. I opt for the Library as most logical. But, with Xaviera Libris, who can be sure what she has in mind?

Tomorrow (Saturday): minor revelation. Then (Sunday): more major exposition….

Why didn’t she take Tracy’s coat and hang it up?