Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 18, 2011

Good morning all…

I wonder why the bad guys always live in the basement?

They have friends in low places…?

Their part of an underground movement…

Goodmorning VB, et al!

Make that ’they’re’. Thank you.

Winkin sure looks like Brenda Starr’s boss at the newspaper…

Great seeing Pouch back in the picture. It makes perfect sense that he’d try to make an ‘honest’ buck off Harley’s situation. I really like the way Mike & Joe are using supporting players.Dick Tracy has one of the comics’ all-time best supporting casts, and by weaving characters such as Pouch, Junior, Honeymoon and B.O. Plenty into the story – even if only for a few strips – it makes Tracy’s world seem 3-dimensional and realistic.In fact, I enjoy Tracy more now than when I was a kid.

Putty Puss and Pouch together! Freaky-deaky! Will Pouch fink on Niav?

I hope they don’t dispose of Pouch!

BTW, for anyone who cares, the magnify feature has been fixed on last Sunday’s strip.

I just bought volume 1 of the IDW book, The Complete Dick Tracy for a Christmas present to a family member. Of course I’m reading it before I wrap it. It’s a great story!

“They’re doing it from pole to pole”. Dancing?

Pole to Pole….North Pole/South Pole….anything to do with Christmas?

Don’t forget Batman’s lair was in the basement ;)

Nod needs a coat for Christmas

They call him “Putty Puss” because “Clayface” was already taken, and his employers have gangs of lawyers.

And bad guys live in the basement because of lower overhead.

That singing is getting old fast! Could you please lose the musical numbers?

PP was on a reality show about make up. Might the “doing it from pole to pole” lyric be about his next crime gig on a dance show? You read it here first.