Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 27, 2015

Truly spectacular strip today !

Mike has squeezed in near 4 days of ‘hand wringing’ out of some of us, after seeing Apollo’s gun shot and that incredulous ‘expression’ on Méliés face last Sunday.Today, visually - we are hardly any wiser - on the damage, not sure if he is dead (?), although we do see the edge of his head, which tells us (thankfully), it didn’t ‘roll down’ the stairway well and hit Fritz Ann coming up, squarely in the chest !

But what’s really got my ‘attention’ today, is what’s Venus doing with her left hand*?* . . .Is she pulling down something in front of her chest?

.Well, observed it’s the rage in Bill de Blasio’s NY City now, women going around TOPLESS in the streets. And you’ve got to concede Joe’s given her much to show off ! ?But in the circumstances (Police raid) it might be a pragmatic “self-defence” move ? Which sane man looking at a beautiful naked woman would aim his gun, and then - pull the trigger ?

Maybe by tomorrow things will progress (more ‘undress’?)Not likely in the comics !. But one Mr. Raley may ‘wake up’, and just (maybe?), decide to take a closer look ?