Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 09, 2015

Seems like a place of EMPTINESS back at Patterson Playhouse ! ? And it’s now one month later, since the explosion (comic strip time) and it seems nothing has really changed there, Smoke (fire? or dust?) whatever is still rising ?

Still, Not a Sign of Police or Fire Services - or any accounting of others that may’ve been injured or died ? (Mel O Dee and the unnamed Floor Director - come to mind). We already heard (December 26th) that Vitamin and friend were unharmed. Concern for the other remains ! ?? But can we blame it all, on the absence of a 4th panel ? ;- )

Lizz , left by Tracy and Sam at the scene, as they pursued Gruesome, unaccountably abandoned her post (?) - before replacement officers arrived ? Not only are the Police not there, but they’re unaware that a dead body (Janitor Otis) remains under the theatre’s widow seat. Amounting to a new, additional charge of Murder against Gruesome,

Perhaps in the days ahead between the new birth and the above June and December romance, some ‘missing’ needed REALITY will ‘kick in’ ?Or do readers just continue to Applaud, and Live . . . with an “Unfinished Symphony”?