Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 09, 2024

Trouble in paradise!

As I said before, Mike’s gonna turn Rikki into another Blaze.

That would be disappointing.

Good morning™, all!

“Trueheart” is missing an “E,” but I do give Rikki credit for having at least a little bit of ethics. Abner’s death is confirmed.

At this point Fata should kill Rikki. Can’t have any loose ends.

Nice work by Shelley today, except she put Fata’s borg implanted eye on the wrong side of her face.

Good morning™, Miraculously, Moral Compasses !

Looks like even Rikki’s evilness has a limit. Rikki was Abner’s helper and lover while Morgana really was an earnest student/protegé.

Eh they wants her gone but not partner for he no be problem? Why? Because he incompetent imbecile who no do his job properly? Or he corrupt crook who be bribed and silenced?

Didn’t Fata research this before she took Rikki under her roof? That “someone” should know more not less attention will come their way if Tess is snuffed out. MCU won’t leave any stone unturned in tracking them.

Rikki looks great , almost likable last panel!

Rikki has a conscience? Bad thing in a killer…

Conscience or not, prison didn’t knock the goth out of her. I’m wondering why the prison allowed her to slather her body in blue makeup? Well, I guess that some prisoners set up black markets to trade in cigarettes or drugs and some trade in gallons of blue makeup.

I want to see the color of the baby.

I’ll bet the little tyke is a dead ringer for his dear old dad.

The logic of hitting on one partner of a detective agency the other being no problema eludes me.

Would writers leave the Tracys alone and think something more original? The previous story maybe was slow and full of holes but at least wasn’t autoreferential

When did Tracy’s wife become a private eye?? I’ve never seen her in other than a housewife role! Johnny Adonis a new character to me; could be related to late pro wrestler Adrian Adonis??

Ummm… Wait a minute, the person wanting a hit done is concerned that private detectives are getting close, but not the police? Just how ineffective is the MCU? Or, conversely, let’s imagine it’s something the police aren’t concerned with – a guy cheating on his rich wife and is afraid she’ll divorce him. How does a guy like that find the number for a contract killer? Why does FM accept the commission without a generous down payment? Why risk going to jail for setting up a murder when what you’re doing isn’t a crime?

ok I’ve always liked rikki but she just shot up in my estimates. it’s not, he killed abner i want him to feel the pain I do, but abners death was part of the business and i owe tracy. Honor. darn hard to beat.

MOVIE QUOTE

MOE: “How did that baby get here?”

LARRY: “Business as usual”.

MOE: “WHAT?!?”

LARRY: "I mean…the kid walks in and asks for a match and I say “Nah,I don’t smoke”…..

THREE LOAN WOLVES—1946

I thought it would be something like this. Rikki will end up “doing a Blackjack” and doing the right thing for once(assum ing she doesn’t end up hog-tied).

Out Screweye hitlady is making the same mistakeALL the hitpeole make—assuming the job will be “a cinch” before you even get started.

In t he immortal words of Flattop—“Five Grand isn’t bad for such a small job”.

And poor Johnny Adonis.He looks like Snidely Whiplash!!

Tracy does have a soft spot…….

I’m still fairly new here, just a couple years at most, but didn’t Blackjack aleays have a bit higher moral code than most Tracy criminals ? He wasn’t a murderer, right?

“Well, you should have said something before we said YES!”

Interesting .

1-FATS: This new job is a government contract from Texas. They want us to take out Tess for smuggling illegals across the border…

2- …one at a time. She has successfully been claiming that they’re her twin brothers!

3-RIKKI DON’T LOSE THAT: I’m out. As the only member of the Blue Person Community I support easy immigration. Especially since… sniff … my criminal past – and present – is why this country no longer accepts immigrants from Bluegonia! sniff HAIL BEGONIA! I MEAN BLUEGONIA!

Is that Johnny in P-1? If so, his hair is different and the MC gave him a seriously overdone spray-on tan. And why does Miss Overconfident think that Johnny won’t be a problem or that Tess will be an easy mark? They both use firearms and he was a trained police officer. Next she’ll be taking a job with Lex Luthor to finish off Superman.

Weirder and weirder. Apparently the hit is being ordered up by someone currently under investigation by Tess. We have, of course, absolutely no knowledge of her current cases, so this is an open window. Johnny Adonis reappears (looking somewhat older and porkier than I remember him), but is dismissed by Fata as “no problem.” A crisis in the new hit alliance appears, though, as Rikki wants no part of a contract on Tess, because Dick did her a favor when Abner was dying. Where might this go? How will Fata react to this rebuff from her new hench(wo)man?

My attitude toward Johnny Adonis has always been “meh”.

But when a case gets “politically hot”,like Chief Climer and the second Mr.Crime;The Tracy Agency is necessary to fight crime from “outside the loop”

Johnny Adonis . Sounds like an actor in certain “films”.

Gee, a hit person with a sense of honor.

An Intelligent way to get out of something that can only end badly.