Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 13, 2021

There’s a new comic, freshly inked, open eyes wide to see

Crime fighter in a fedora: J. Straightedge Trustworthy.

Once hooked you cannot get enough. I’d sail the seven seas

To read the classic story of the fate of 88 Fleas.

They say that he was one bad pooch who could not be house broken

The Milk Bone caper his Waterloo, look to see that I ain’t jokin’.

It was the bite that brought him down, he made his victim holler

No getaway on that sad day, Trustworthy got his collar.

One more pest, worse than the rest, of whom we must be rid

The author of J. Straightedge: Sparkle’s ex, Vera Alldid.

He has a brand-new story line. A vixen, the “Mars Maid”

Sam shares the strip with Tracy, who gives it a low grade.

Bad enough to be the stuff of farce and parody

Now it lampoons Mysta for everyone to see.

Yet Mysta made of sterner stuff. No wilting violet she

Should Alldid cross the line again she shall not let it be.

Good morning™, comics readers!

Apparently, Tracy doesn’t follow the Trustworthy strip any more than Mysta does, but you can imagine him rolling his eyes at the name “Mars Maid,” even if his eyes are kind of squinty most of the time.

I do like “Probiotic Jones” as corresponding character to Diet Smith, probiotic diets being so popular lately and the surname Jones being almost as common as Smith in the English world. We also learn that Jones’ equivalent to the Space Coupe is the “Solar Ship.” It’s the first time we have learned so much about the world of J. Straightedge Trustworthy.

“Mars Maid” apparently has white hair like Moon Maid had, but we are no further in finding out if Mysta Chimera’s hair is still yellow-blonde.

I like Trustworthy’s Pac-Man wrist device. I can’t remember seeing it before.

Okay, how will this lead to the next caper Tracy will have to solve?

What a shame

Another day of pain

As we read todays unfunny strip

We’re brought on a memory trip

To the glorious days of lore

With action, suspense and gore

When evil tried to rule over the land

And the righteous fought them hand to hand

You eagerly waited for a new day

To read what Dick Tracy had to say

Now it’s just stories without a plausible groove

And flowers that on their own like to move

Wrote this in 5 minutes. It shows! LOL!

Is Probiotic Jones any relation to Stupifyin’ Jones? Either way, Julie Newmar would’ve made a heckuva “Mars Maid” (or any other kind of maid for that matter!)

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Good morning™, tacky cartoon guys !

He did not capture my best side in P. 3. I am pleased with how I look in the throwaway panel, tho’ I am not comfortable being shown on my Pac radio, which I only wear on my officer-lectures-at-the-grade-school days. The kids go ape-doody over it.

For officer Andy, they should have taken that guy alive so he can learn about Geo. Floyd first hand. Harsh, I know. A good chance he had more ‘going for him’ than whatever he got pulled for and that it would have shown up on a license and registration check.

Wait until Mysta sees this !

She should refuse to promote the strip and sue Vera…

Ugh. This looks like it’s going to go downhill fast.

Love the guest appearance by Pac-Man! Glad to see he’s still working!

Interesting , very interesting!

Tracy’s “No” speaks volumes.

Let’s move it along, here!!!

To be fair, Mars Maid is only about 7% goofier than Moon Maid, when it comes to monickers.

What I’ll bet is Tracy really wanted to say No with the icy edge to the word balloon that Abner used…

1-SAM: Hey Tracy. Can you read? DT: Yes.

2-SAM: Then read this comic to me.

3-J: “Hello.”

4-FREAKIZOID: “Hello.”

5-DT: WOW. Compared to what’s been going on around here the last several days, this comic is ACTION PACKED! I’M ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT! What could they possibly say tomorrow that can top this???

SAM: They could say “Here’s a new Minnit Mystery for you as this story is going nowhere slow.”

DT: Well yeah, that would be an improvement I suppose…

Her head is freaking bifurcated!

Good enough to start a firewall of critques!!

Gould rolls over once again. Sad

“Probiotic Jones” – come on, Mike – can’t you be a little more clever than that? :)

The art work in today’s ‘toon is really great! The shading is terrific! The story????

he has pacman on his watch?

Mystra is going to do promotions dressed up like this?

Mars Maid….Vera must have seen episodes of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits.

Maybe one of those rovers we now have on Mars will snap a photo of where she lives!

Tracy’s so alarmed, you can actually see his eyes. Does “The Daily” have an online edition? Is JST available on gocomics?

Have we finally solved the famous “face on Mars” mystery?

I think Tracy speaks for all of us in that last panel LOL

This character (Vera) is not clicking with me. A bit too slimy. Needs more sheer eeeevil!

Tracy’s big reaction shot in the last panel about sums it up for me, too. What do we have to do to get free of Vera Alldid? —Put out a contract on him? Who would do something like that? —I just want him to go away and leave us be!

Arthur (A) Rachnid is a wealthy, spoiled cartoonist, who’s hitched his wagon to THE BUGABOOS, a strip concerning beetles dealing with totally inconsequential issues. After the first comic is universally panned during a victory celebration at LIzzie Yeast’s bakery, he’s run out of town on a roll and swears eternal vengeance. Then (wait for it) IN with the unusually large spiders, WITH pointed sticks!!!! Since you ASKED…