Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 03, 2024

Good morning™, everyone!

Finally a strip on time. Mr. Throughton is very enthusiastic about being sawn in half! He doesn’t know who he’s dealing with or he’d be more cautious.

“Oops!”

“Wow, that’s the most lifelike version of the trick I’ve ever seen. That guy really looks dead!”

Screwface Strikes in… The Tracyville Chainsaw Massacre… LOL…

Well I doubt she’ll kill someone in front of dozens of spectators. She would be accused of manslaughter on the spot, if not murder

Good morning™, real dangerous  looking implements !

This could be a fake because Morgan is right there and could be an easy capture, unless Rikki helping means a clean getaway will be made.

Maybe the cabinet is really Mr. Throughton’s TARDIS, and it will de-materialize when the chain saw gets too close.

“Annodda trick is sawing a woman in half. You wouldn’t have a woman on you?” – Bugs Bunny, “Easter Yeggs”

hope having a screweye won’t impair her vision and perception to the point that she has an unhappy accident with the ’saw…

she didn’t see very well, so she sawed off the little runt…

reminds me of that banned episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents with Brandon deWilde…

https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=9m4bcN-_hbo

This could get real messy in a hurry!

You know what they say, “It’s all fun and games until someone loses his lower half.”

Morgana is a great magician. She made the Tracy strip disappear for two days.

Oops! Gee Whiskers….what happened?

What crime is going to be linked to her? MCU personnel might want to take a course in chain saw fighting. One just never knows…

I hope he doesn’t go to pieces over this! And if does, which half will be his better half?!

Why would he feel uncomfortable? Heh,heh,heh!

Groovy.

Don’t know about him, but I’m feeling uncomfortable about this!

Another psycho on the horizon ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

“Dang, I lose more audience members that way.”

Will he get cybernetic implants ? Resistance Is Futile !

“But first, we’ll wait for my sister, Ms Libris, to show up.”

In case I missed it, a Fata Morgana is a displacement mirage—One that makes ships seem like they’re floating.

And I would think that after ONE public killing, Fata wouldn’t have much of a career…

Wow, 2 DT strips today.

1-FATS: I apologize to the remaining members of the audience for the long delay but it’s essential to this trick that Mr. Throckmorton sign all the Consent Forms absolving me of blame in the likely event of his death… MR. THROCKMORTON: LIKELY?

2-…Are you ready to die…errrr…ready, Mr. Throckmorton? MR. THROCKMORTON: Spin me around – I want the audience to see my “good side”.

3-FATS: That won’t matter to you in a second. YOU’LL NOTICE THAT I’VE UPDATED THIS OLD TRICK TO INCLUDE A CHAINSAW INSTEAD OF A HAND SAW! IT’S QUICKER AND EASIER FOR ME. OH…AND MORE HUMANE! PLUS THE 2 CYCLE SMOKE AIDES MY “GET-AWAY”!

MR. THROCKMORTON: ERRRR….I’m having second thoughts… AIIIIIIEEEEEEE!

Fata Morgana is executing an illusion

MOVIE QUOTE—

“Enter the cage or your Quaker lies!”

Boris Karloff—-BEDLAM—-1946

Abner Kadaver’s new gang is about to get initiated . Rikki probably suspects as much and Fata Morgana will be an unwitting pawn .

If you have to tell the audience it’s an illusion, it probably isn’t.

So does this occasional hit-person actually kill her assigned targets, or instead makes it appear that they’re dead and gets them into some type of witness protection instead?

I’d feel uncomfortable just having that face staring down at me.

They once sawed Oodles in half and nobody noticed.

One angle nobody’s thought of yet—-a professional illusionist would be pretty good at framing somebody else for THEIR crime.

Rikki,beware.

Oh joy, a “staged” magic act (they don’t call ’em “stage magicians” for nothing)….just what I needed………

He will soon find out……….hopefully not!

The coloring is so cheerful and bright the past few days . When does it get gloomy and dark ?

“I saw a saw and it sawed me in half!”

I’ve never heard a magician announce, “Remember, this is an illusion, so don’t believe it!” So it won’t be an illusion?

Sorta’ like Robert Klein’s standup bit about the dentist: ‘Now, tap me on the back if this hurts…’ Tap him on the back – I broke three of his ribs!

It happens to the best of em’-

David Copperfield lost a fingertip when a guillotine stunt went wrong

So I decided to see how unique Mike’s concept of a illusionist/hit person was through an online search. What little I found is centered around the Hitman video game series. In Hitman 2 and 3, “Illusions of Grandeur” is centered around a hit of a magician-in-hiding. Another hit in involved the hitman disguising himself as a “Vampire Magician” in order to complete several tasks that will allow him access to complete his magician.

However, neither of these cases had an individual who was both a hit person and an illusionist. It’s an interesting combination – an illusion can be used to lure the mark into a death trap.

Someone mentioned , " What a great magician she is, she made 2 days disapear " more important her magic has somehow stopped the great complainer from his daily display of nonscence and his and picky picky., u no woo eye meen!

Right! Y’all keep that in mind, rubes!

Fata Morgana is playing the house for all it’s worth. Let’s just hope she’s as good an illusionist as Patrick thinks she is….