Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 11, 2015

“That’s what SHE said!

Wait a minute…she DID say that!

If a gun is introduced in Panel One …

Or Panel Two …

How many separate groups of characters are we tracking now?

Aha! I saw this coming! Melies, Venus and Apollo are getting jealous of BB Eyes, Blaze, Doubleup and Mumbles. Now watch the Blackhearts implode and fall right into Tracy’s lap!

Maybe Mr. Melies just found out that Mr. Bigg has been holding out on him in regards to the secret gold stash, & now wants a piece or all of it for him & his crew.

I can’t remember how long ago I mentioned that I thought Méliès, Venus, and Apollo would start to get jealous. There you have it. I don’t know if it will start a civil war in the ranks but it’s bound to spark a competition.

I wonder what the gun is for. I’m sure Apollo has a use in mind, but I can’t think what it might be. He doesn’t strike me as being as intelligent as Méliès.

After seeing the gun close up like this, I imagine it’s going to reappear and be used at a key moment in this story. Against whom, though?

Good morning guys!

I need a scorecard!

Morning, Tracyville!

And that is fantastic artwork in panel two! The gun is drawn in so much vivid detail!

I am betting that Apollo is not a responsible gun owner.

I for one am delighted that Melies, Venus and Apollo are still alive. Here’s a thought—What if Johnny Adonis and Apollo are related?

This is the problem when the writers weave TOO MANY PLOTLINES into one story. Theres too much jumping going on here in the last few days

Happy Saturday morning everyone.

It was a great discussion yesterday with good comments up until midnight. Very informative.

Mike Curtis thought so as well. He posted the following on Facebook:“GREAT comments on GoComics today! I will say that this wrapup to be Blackhearts will see many of our gang sent off to jail or worse. It’ll reintroduce someone knew to watch for, and quite a bit of action. And yes, there is one special question from four years ago it will answer. You all know I write depending on ideas I get from tones and moods in songs. In this it’s LIVE AND LET DIE by McCartney and also by Guns and Roses.”

RUMBLE of an ‘Insider Revolution’ in the Upper Bribery Camp ? ?

And stirred not by the Upper Effete, but by their underling who had been in “charge” of ground operations in a ‘land grab’, when the ‘opportunity’ to seize the unexpected, (just arrived) Space Coupe materialized at the farm.

He’d been seen to reorganize his men and call the shots on Sept 18, and Oct 2, 2013 . . . . . . there Flash Munro would be the pilot, joined by Drs.Tim Sail and Zy Ghote

Then we see Méliés (Oct, 4, 2013), reporting directly to Venus !

Once again, he’s the “instigator” today, a move that looks like a new ‘first step’, in what might lead to - an attempted ‘Palace’ Revolution ?

Don’t think there’s any special significance to the “Gun” other than of ‘symbolic’ nature, for what I ‘suspect’ is now about to be ‘proposed.

This Group hasn’t been seen to be ‘involved’ in any job of consequence, since that special Group Meeting of March 28,29,& 30 held by Mr. Bigg ! ?Given this Back Seat “treatment” Bribery has apparently quietly imposed, on what had been his most trusted group - one can ‘understand’ some likely ‘seething’ resentment.

“It’s an 88 Magnum. He had it made special.”

Maybe he needs an RC Cola and a moon pie ;)

They’re all used to him by now.

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From Late yesterday . . .

BIG ‘Thanks’ to . . . holiday76 - for ‘recalling’, that the current Authors had Diet ‘remarking’ (10-17-2013) that Dyne O’Matick, (Diet’s first Space Coupe pilot) had indeed DIED “some tears ago” . . .

Here the strip with the information :

A bountiful weekend to all. Loads of good info and suggestions today. Maybe we will see some action next week. Thanks to all who posted.-——@Ray Toler: Thanks for posting Mike’s cooment.-——Be well my friends.

This Moon Epic is great…..TBC…Stay Bewildered???

Boy howdy, that’d snap you into reality!

Apollo’s new toy is almost certainly a Desert Eagle caliber .50, oft referred to as a “Hand Cannon.” What he might want it for is a scary thought. Venus, today, is looking even more than ever before like Brenda Starr’s twin sister, I think. Méliès has something in mind (looking at that big moon-head, how could he not?), which might indeed be a suspicion-driven plot against Mr. Bigg’s new favorites, the BB-Eyes team….

Compared to the size of his hands, looks awfully small for a .50 cal.

My DT friends I’ll explain all of this foolishness soon but for now let me say thanks to all you folks that show you care. Man, oh man I have never been so humbled by so many things as lately. going through a lot but I do know that life its self is a test, gosh I never liked tests. it is what it is … I thank you all for being real … even though I have never looked at any of you in the eye … Man, … God is good … all of the time.My buddy Gweedo I hope you get what I got (not this illness) but the HOLY GHOST of the living God.I mean it Gweedo I think about you a lot, I do believe you are going to be blessed one day beyond your wildest imagination.can anyone imagine gold so pure that it is transparent ?.I don’t think so!Now, that Melies the ugly guy that I love to despise !!

Mr. Melies appears to be a Luna-tic. Ducking now.

Could all of Venus’ and Adonis’ hair be covering horns?

With each switch from one scene to another new information is revealed and the possibilities expand. The ongoing question is who is Mr. Bigg and there may even be some candidates that haven’t been mentioned. While Bribery seems to be the most obvious I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out to be someone like Ace of Spaces from the 52 Gang. Does anyone know if Pruneface is still alive? I don’t think it could be him. Just curious if he’s still around.

The unsuspecting innocence of summerLong days, movie nights and sudden claps of thunderA time when young girls get to stay up lateEventually they start to talk of boys they want to dateThey could never know or believe in thier wildest dreamsThe evil plans devised by those implementing devious schemesThe chill of summer will soon descend, Lives will change, hearts will need to mendWho will survive to live for another dayThere’s plenty of time to mourn So for now we can let the little girls play.