Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 21, 2024

I noticed something from yesterday’s installment in panel three…

Thor looks suspiciously like the occupant in the rear seat of Aberli’s car…

and Ro is just gonna stand there and take it from Thor just like that…

This heathen is the new Sir “Hatealot”.

Good morning™, Challengers !

Rozie just might relish this declaration by Thor. Is it just me or does P.3 Mysty have an almost air brushed, pure, page before the centerfold, look ?

and we STILL don’t know how Ro escaped detection at Smith’s guest house, so how was THAT managed?…

how did Ro escape detection to rendezvous with Aberli?…

Hmm… I’m guessing there’ll be no bets taken whether or not he’ll be in his quarters?

Good morning™, all!

Let’s see if Ro-Zan can follow orders. I expect he won’t be inclined to do that.

Love those antennae sparks, must be getting very emphatic!

Like heck he will.

Hopefully a flash in the pan and he doesn’t go off half cocked. A couple of firearm references for a Saturday morning……..

Say what does them steenky antennas is does anyways apart from some fancy electric sparks? Is they helps to emits and receives mind waves or sometheeng?

It appears Lunarian security forces are even less effective than Smith’s. A dangerous revolutionary and wanna be mass killer of humans has no one guarding him, steals a space coup and flies off no one knows where – and meanwhile apparently has made contacts with a big name gangster.

Or maybe Ro-Zan has been watching lockpickinglawyer® on YouTube™… Wonder if Lunarian locks are more like MasterLock™ or the Lawyer needs to dig out, “The tool Bosnian Bill and I made…”

He’s NOT? Color me shocked. (As I’m sure so many others in the room will be)

Who’s that standing in front of the bookcase? The skeptical security guard from 9/8?

“(ahem) ‘See.’ “Invade and dominate.’ Same thing, right? A simple spoonerism.”

“Tracy? Get a very large spoon. I need to properly thwack devil’s pinkies until he can no longer play the piano.”

A Spoonerism is a transposition of sounds. e.g.: It is kisstomary to cuss the Bride.

He once proclaimed, “Hey, belly jeans”

When he found a stash of jelly beans.

But when he says he pepped in stew (stepped in pew)

We’ll tell him he should wipe his shoe.

I was once in a show where I had to give an entire long monologue in Spoonerisms. The Hee Haw comedian, Archie Campbell, frequently used Spoonerisms in his stand-up act.

Anything Ro-Zan says at this meeting is a lack of pies.

1- ROCKS-ANNE: The Govfather sent me here to look into opening a casino in Tracyville. Casinos need hot cocktail waitresses so…

2- THE GOVFATHER: YOU WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO HIRE THEM – NOT “TEST” THEM OUT, FRAID-O!!! Also…

3-: …I knew it was you, Fraid-o. You broke my heart when you tried to take over the South Pole operation. Now that our mother is dead, it’s time you went fishing. ROCKS-ANNE: Why would I do that? I hate fishing! THE GOVFATHER: Get the boat ready, MYSTA! And don’t forget to take along your Colt 45… malt liquor in case you get thirsty. wink wink

MYSTA MYSTA: I don’t like malt liquor! GOVFATHER: JUST SHOOT FRAID-O YOU JESSICA SIMP-SON!!! MYSTA MYSTA: OHHH! I get it now… FRAID-O: Wait-what?

I’m surprised that RoZan arrived for the “discussion” in one piece, considering the various reasons Mysta is…unhappy with him.

The English translation of that last panel is “You’ve got about 12 hours to escape, just FYI.” At least this time it’s the good guys being idiots and leaving the main character alone in a room.

Let’s see Rohan turn into Captain Marvel!

She actually got him back without a fight??What kind of Halloween candy did she tempt him with?

If Roz-An doesn’t give them the slip soon, we’re not going to have a st ory…..