Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 01, 2024

isn’t that Archie Bunker’s home address?…

and isn’t Eugene Roche an actor who played the character of one of Archie Bunker’s buddies?…

not ANOTHER Flattop…

Good morning™, everyone!

This is a rerun of a story that originally ran from 2018/08/19 to 2018/09/02. There probably isn’t much new that I could say about it.

Booooo on this interruption.

Instead of “Flattop”, Tracy could have met with an “aircraft carrier”.

Why put in the time & effort coming up with new, original material when you can just lob stale, lazy pop culture references totally unrelated to the Tracy universe & then turn to that old narrative stand-by in the Mike Curtis era, adults suffering from arrested adolescence engaging in sadness-inducing cosplaying?

Just when I was getting all wound up about the clock in the tower, a MM appeared!

Well, if this is how this one begins, I’m tapping out for two weeks…tired of everyone “putting their spin on the tracy/flattop story” and thinking that they’re some sort of literary genius…also, the art is rather “abrasive”

Ummm….just noticed the credits are listed as Mike, JOE, SHELLEY, and Shane… so this is a rehash minit mystery then?

What? After over a month of wasting time with clueless unclear snailpaced story which wents nowhere now it suddenly dropped for this? Or this now gonna be Sunday only theeng?

Please let it be a dream… Please let it be a dream…

Not a dream in the strip. I’m praying I’m asleep, and when I wake up I’ll discover they’ve not stopped an on-going strip (even if it appears to have going nowhere) for a brief rerun.

They need to stop this crap. Chester is turning over in his grave…