Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 08, 2012

Good morning everyone…

The plant needs some Miracle Grow!

Love the Mushroom Lady. Oh who will fill the plant’s need??

Good morning, VB!

Mornin’, Vista Bill and everyone….

That Panda sure does have a green thumb.

By the way, Mike Curtis said recently in the Dick Tracy Yahoo! group that the final battle in this storyline will kick off in a Sunday strip on 7-8-12. Looks like we still have a month of twists and turns to go. Buckle up, boys and girls!

Panda should do Society a favor and feed himself to that goofball plant.

A lovingly-nurtured pair of carnivorous vines with a special taste for Long Pig! And the Mushroom Lady to care for them.…………………………………………………………………………………………….I am surprised that Panda has not yet got the next several hits all mapped out!

I’m glad Team Tracy is taking its time with this one. There’s no hurry to end a storyline as well thought out as this one. And that plant may well end up eating Panda in the end, we’ll see. (And it might spit him out as well!)

It’s nice to see the Mushroom Lady is still alive; according to an earlier erroneous report, she had died in prison. (An old Collins/Fletcher Rogues Gallery entry.)

#10!! lol… i’m thinking that either mumbles or little face will be chosen as the muerte vine’s next meal. btw, add the mushroom lady to the list fo villains and NOW we’re at TEN.. i think.. so there may be some surviving criminals after the gunfight!

I wonder if the plant can sing or talk… Lol “Feed me Seymour…”

Some villains have to survive to return and harass Tracy in the future

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Panda were to be the accidental victim?

Apparently, a “real meal” must be alive to satisfy the plant? That would be very odd, if true!

Oh, shnap! Little Face’s days are numbered!

I wonder if, Morticia’s Cleopatra was also a Muetre Vine…

Seymour: Wait a minute. I don’t know anybody who deserved death.

Audrey 2: Sure you do, Seymour. Take a look.

(Seymour and the plant watch the sociopathic dentist mistreating Audrey).

Seymour and Audrey 2 sing together: The guy sure looks like plant food to me. The guy sure looks like plant food to me…

Feed it yourself! Show it you really care.

Wonder if that fictional vine is related to the fictional vine in the Tarzan movies, ie someone steps on it, it wraps around the ankle, and victim is drug off screaming into the jungle?

I wonder if Littlefaces plastic surgery will lead police to the evidence they need to convict Mr. Crime? (would a plant digest “plastic” ears?)

I wonder if they are related to the Brazilian Gustie Gumo that entrap their prey and slowly digest them alive. (See Batman and Louie the Lilac for details.)I did, and this is what I found.

As I have stated previously the Muerte Vine is in reality based off of a plant called Banisteriopsis caapi. This plant is also referred to as the “vine of the soul”, a name given to it because of its entheogenic uses by the Brazilian natives. To put it mildly, this plant gives you an “out of body” experience. I believe The Mushroom Lady, Maria? is the equivalent of a Brazilian native medicine woman, or a shamanic priestess. Her job would have been to administer the drug and watch over the person while they were on their “spirit journey”, or be the one who used the drug on herself.

♪♫Feed me, Panda! Feed me all night long!♪♫

wopuldnt it be GREAT if panda’s first name was revealed to be… ANDY!!! lol

Panda was very wasteful in blowing up the Mumbles Quartet. If he’d have kept them around and fattened them up, that poor plant would have been happily chowing down for weeks.