Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 31, 2023

Rikki Mortis breathes free air

Freshly sprung from prison lair.

Look to see humble abode

Pays to know the cipher code.

Mysterious magician

A hitter sans contrition.

Metal eyepatch with a lens

Deadly trouble soon begins.

Kadaver’s understudy

Things bound to soon get bloody.

a-HA… an secret associate/student of Ab’s that Rikki knew nothing about…

Chick fight!!!!!

Rikki thought she was the understudy.

Surprise, Rikki! You weren’t thevonly woman in Abner’s life!

So Rikki adjusting her bra yesterday was for no reason?

and what’s with Morgana’s eyewear?…

and just because she SAYS she was Ab’s understudy doesn’t mean it has to be gospel truth…

she COULD be running game on Rikki for some reason, which I THINK she IS…

just a feeling I have…

3 days,,,,,,,,,,,,,

And I’m not bored yet!!!

’Tis the season of miracles!!!

Fata is very Borg-ish!

Good morning™, everyone!

A fata morgana is another name for a type of mirage, a fitting name for someone who works as an illusionist. https://en.wikipedia.Org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage)

Merriam-Webster notes:

“Fata Morgana is the Italian name for Morgan le Fay (meaning “Morgan the Fairy”), a sorceress of medieval legends. This sister of the legendary King Arthur is sometimes portrayed as the ruler of the island paradise Avalon and is said to have had a number of magical powers, with which she caused a great deal of trouble. Among her powers, say some versions of the legend, was the ability to change shape, and she has been blamed for causing complex mirages over bodies of water, especially in the Strait of Messina."

Fata’s stage act was world famous for the incredible “knife through the eye” trick until one nite….

It appears that Fata managed to pass a note to Rikki, specifying how the rescue would happen, without alerting the guards, by the use of Abner’s secret cypher that only Rikki would recognize. That’s pretty clever, although it might look a bit too suspicious in real life.

Good morning™, shocked [former #1] understudies !

Rikki has gone from being #1 to #2. Is Morgana also a baby bearer ?  At least M.C. is in step with R’s skin tone. Is the eye cover real or a gimmick ?  If it’s real this thing could be wired to the optic nerve and is transmitting light the way a normal eye would albeit electronically.

Aye, see what you did there…….

Don’t tell me…I’ve asked someone not to tell me…this Fata Morgana is going to end up doing a magic act at Vitamin Flintheart’s theater. Nah, the woman could not be that desperate for work.

Whoa! Abner loved you Rikki, but he had secrets. What was that old saying? Oh wife is always the last to know.

Better known as Morgana The Kissing Bandit of Major League Baseball, who probably used her amazingly huge hooters to smother to death her victims !!!She almost killed Nolan Ryan !!!

Abner coulda had some nice 3 somes, lol

Nope—Rikki always thought she was his Boo…

Todays strip “digging up” the dirt on ol’ Abner !

Art of Panel 2 is breath taking, wow!

An understudy!? You mean….Mutton Jeff???!

The story is starting well . So far so good .

She’s wearing her Phantom of the Opera starter kit.

Fata Morgana is a dead ringer for Dr. Pulaski as portrayed by the legendary Diana Muldaur .

And so it begins………

Whoopsy! Old Abs got forgetful in his senior years!

HIPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!

Happy Seventh Day of Christmas.

1-RIKKI DON’T LOSE THAT NUMBER: Here. I made this for you in the prison print shop.

2-FATS: I spring you from the joint and you give me a card written in Klingon?!?

3-…Here’s what I think of this “gift”

4-POOF!!!

5-… Oh…how did you enjoy your dinner? It’s my favorite recipe – YOUR BABY TAR TAR! BWAAAA HAAA HAAAAAA!!!!

Two comments1. Fata Morgana seems older (about 35?) in the first panel, next to the Hall of Fame than she does in the panel where she says, “I’m Fata ….” (about 18 – 20?

2. Wonder how close Fata and Rikki will become?

it can’t get any worse than it already has been, can it?…

well, only if a certain Mirrored-Legos resident is victorious next year, but I digress…

BUT have a happy happy to one and all and thanks for a great year of sanity as well as INsanity…

I had a good time and I hope you all did, as well…

seeya all in ’24 for more…

I’m hereby dubbing our new female rogue as ‘Morgana Screweye’…

Happy hew years kiddies.

This is great!! Abner and Rikki are back! (But didn’t Abner die?).

Serious comment, here:

A “fata morgana” is a phrase that refers to a mirage. Could FM’s specialty be pulling a “disappearing act” when it appears that she’s cornered with no apparent means of escape otherwise? Or does she have the ability to cast “illusions”? If so, could that thing on her left eye be some sort of holographic projector?

Yay, another metal-faced antagonist. Will she experience the same problems Steelface did (about a year ago), or will we get some new tropes?

Not only does she know the secret cipher, she prints her greeting cards on flash paper.

Happy New Year, everybody!

How is Fata related to Xaviera Libris? You know she is. Sister?

Well, since the Borg angle has been done half to death, permit me to ask if Rikki has been busted out of prison or merely released (as she’s still in prison orange).

Gweedo! I texted you a happy New Year. Now stop stalking me before I sic firebutt on you, literally! LOL!

OOOOOOOOOH!!! :D :D :D

Now You Know!

Fata Morgana, the greater will o’ the wisp, the maleficent sister of Arthur in legend, and here, the traveling stage magician with half-“Phantom of the Opera” mask, half-Borg ocular implant. Perhaps as an occasional hit person and newly-revealed understudy to Abner Kadaver, it serves her as also a targeting device, In addition, we learn what Rikki was fishing out of her top yesterday; viz., this ciphered note. Rikki Mortis did not know (nor did we) that Abner had an understudy, hence her shocked in the final panel (we are sturdy to deal with a retcon like this, though).

Just one more thing, Ms. Morgana.

Why have you brought Rikki here (wherever “here” is)?

NOTE: Corrected text added here to preserve Replies already made to previous edit….

Now You Know!

Fata Morgana, the greater will o’ the wisp, the maleficent sister of Arthur in legend, and here, the traveling stage magician with half-“Phantom of the Opera” mask, half-Borg ocular implant. Perhaps as an occasional hit person and newly-revealed understudy to Abner Kadaver, it serves her as also a targeting device, In addition, we learn what Rikki was fishing out of her top yesterday; viz., this ciphered note. Rikki Mortis did not know (nor did we) that Abner had an understudy, hence her shocked expression in the final panel (we are sturdy to deal with a retcon like this, though).

Just one more thing, Ms. Morgana.

Why have you brought Rikki here (wherever “here” is)?

Well, the New Year has certainly started off great for GoComics!

I’m all for Rikki in this thing. I think she’s wonderful.

Hey Gweedo, can you tell the GC staff to leave your goats alone and get back to work please?

Today is obviously the setup for a Bill Murray crossover….

Coming up: Plentia Kopz and the Supertroopers investigate ‘The Case of the Dilatory Daily’!

For those who can’t wait for GoComics to get over their New Years Eve hangover!

https://www.seattletimes.Com/comics-king/?feature_id=Dick-Tracy

Say what happen to this comic and Pluggers? Nothing for 1st day of 2024?

What happened to the January 1st comic strip?

a Happy New Year and a good day to all the resident inmates here at the asylum collective…

let’s hope this year will be a better one for the world and for the strip itself…

but it’s already started off on the wrong foot here as of today…

(settle down there, General, we all know about the foot kink fetish that fascinates you so much and that you are so enamored of)

it doesn’t look that way, as GoComics personnel are still in bed trying to recover and recuperate after they probably partook of Gweedo’s hell-hooch hill-swill all last night…

turpentine-poisoning WILL do it to ya every time…

there oughtta be a law…

Today is the first , I think ?

It might be a week before they fix this issue. Lol!

Just for you!

https://youtube.Com/shorts/lrofPdtakX8?si=AhJJPCFk2Oi_AygS

No update for Monday?

Thanx to Avenger, I was able to find today’s strip on the Seattle Times website. Click on Entertainment on the front page, then on Comics when the Entertainment page comes up.HAPPY NEW YEAR!

A random thought… Could Fata possibly be Abner’s sister and not a previous girlfriend? Hmmmm….

Maybe Fata gave Abner the disorder that ended his life, and took his place. (Sith are known to do that…)

Looks like no Jan lst strip.

What happened to January 1 strip?

Here’s today’s strip.

https://v7.comicskingdom.Net/comics/Dick-Tracy/

Knew it wasn’t coming when I saw Brewster wasn’t updated.

Enjoy!

https://youtu.Be/B_KOAr9eaG4?si=HunZ02rshBFv98xa

and ERROR 404 continues…

Good morning™, everybody and a belated wish for a happy new year!

If you missed yesterday’s strip, it should be available for about a week here: https://tribunecontentagency.Com/article/20240101csdtc-tif/

Today’s: https://tribunecontentagency.Com/article/20240102csdtc-tif/

Fata would have the audience believe that she’s a mind reader, too, but we know that she more “volun-told” Mr. Throughton than volunteered him.

Good morning™, magic show cahooters !

If that’s not accomplicing I don’t know the meaning of the word, but then she only does pretend magic. I thought Rikki would be the volunteer. Maybe she will kill someone in the audience for Morganite.

None of comics from Tribune Agency is appear here. Pluggers, Brewster Rockit, Gasoline Alley, and this one. And it 2nd day of 2024 now.

Anyone else notice Tribune content hasn’t been updated since the 31st? Gasoline Alley hasn’t been updated either.

No more DT on GoComics?

No Sunday strip at Tribune but they have the 2 January strips

Go comics does not like URLs. Replace + with slash and # with a period

tribunecontentagency#com+premium-content+comics+dick-tracy

Shelley has P.1. “Ft. Morgan” looking dazzling.

That might be a Dr Who shout-out in today’s strip. But no hint as to what’s going on with L’il Abner.

Where are the Dick Tracy comics?

Annnd it’s day two of the Blue Flu here at GC, folks….

no new tracy for 2 days, did they drop the strip on the new year?

two days with no new strips nor a reason why. Is there another site to access the strip?

If this isn’t fixed in the next day or two, we’ll all wear out our fingers scrolling….

…..somebody jog those guys, and wake ‘em up………….they shouldn’t have partied so hardy on 12/31…….

On the Sunday strip….When Abner left to chase Tracy around Europe in 2015,he trusted Rikki to carry out his full schedule of contracts for him.

So she won’t like the notion t aht she migt have thrown her life away on the wrong guy.I don’t think these two ladies are going to like each other that much.Bette Davis and Joan Crawford stuff.

So on the January 2 strip: I believe someone predicted that Fata Morgana would be performing at Vitaman’s Patterson Playhouse :)

DT is updated on comics kingdom.

WAKE UP, GOCOMICS!! You’re living in the past!!

HOW MUCH DO WE LOVE DT NOW THAT MIKE IS WITHHOLDING IT FROM US?

Nice power move. We won’t complain any more!

MOVIE QUOTE——“I’ll have another martini. And put a black olive in it!”

Dan Duryea—LADY ON A TRAIN—1945

Are the computers at GoComics on strike again? Several strips haven’t updated since New Year’s Eve.

Two days behind now

Let’s all move over to Aaggghhh for our Dick Tracy comments until they fix this problem. It’s an appropriate description and the writer of the strip could use some comments!

Dick is back…

so let’s plunge deeply…

back into Rikki Mortis and Morgana Screweye…