Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 25, 2022

Good morning™, everyone!

Tracy probably should have kept with the fur-lined winter jacket. Maybe he thinks he’s more approachable without it, but maybe not, since the people clam up as soon as he tries to talk to them.

“Ah. Well, I’ll pour a pot of coffee down your pants. That’ll warm you up!”

“Swimming Pools” qualify as “Attractive Nuisances,” too.

(Just sayin’) ✨

I wonder what Coffyhead would think of the Lunarian brew.

It’s nice that that the MoonGuvBassador can heat up the pot with just his hands. Putting that Moon Power to good use!

Good morning™, casual talkers !

Looking at them today you would never know that Tracy and the ‘many hats’ guy ever had bad blood between them. Maybe Moon Maid Mom can get Dicky a one on one with So-Ray ?

I believe he is heating up the coffee pot with his bare hands .

Tracy’s shirt looks black in panel one. I know, it’s the angle/shading/distance! LOL!

I’m beginning to think they should change the name of the strip to Perk Tracy….

well, all in all, today’s installment is basically an uneventful one…

Since the Lunarians live in the cold… How will they conquer a world that has 4 seasons, 3 of which run from warm to very hot ?

Just wondering…

Reviewing yesterday’s strip, I noticed that while Tracy’s breath is seen as vapor because of the cold in each panel, none of the Lunarians’ breath can be seen. Just an observation; I’m not sure if it means anything.

Tracy stumbles across a vast chamber filled with titanic rocket-launching tanks, but is easily put off the trail when one of the local assumes a Jed Clampet voice and explains: “Wheeeee moon doggies! Them’s fer gopher control. We’uns got a passle of them critters, and they do love Granny’s turnips.”

Gidget, in the soda fountain next door, has a snit.

(Let’s see how many catch that one.)

And yet look like an Earth spy in the trench coat.

CLIFF NOTES VERSION:

1 – OUCH! HOT!

2- Nobody’s talkin’

3- It’s cold here

I read this today:

“A secret world of animals and plants—including unknown species—may live in warm caves under Antarctica’s glaciers, scientists said Friday.

“The caves, hollowed out by steam from active volcanoes, are light and could reach temperatures of 25 degrees Celsius (77 Fahrenheit), researchers said, raising the possibility of a whole ecosystem of flora and fauna deep beneath the frozen surface.”

— https://phys.org/news/2017-09-antarctic-caves-harbour-secret-life.html

1-GOVADOR: What’d you learn?

2-DT: I quit school over 70 years ago. I don’t have to learn anything anymore. That’s in our Amurican Bill Of Rights – the 16th Amendment I think because I got a t-shirt that reads “I’M 16 AND DONE – TIME FOR SOME SUN, SON!”

3-GOVADOR: I meant about the take-over of the world by the rebel Moon faction.

DT: OH! Yeah, that’s happening tomorrow. Got any cream? Who milks the walrus anyway? Ooops. NEVER MIND! I quit school over…

GOVADOR: Yeah, yeah, I heard ya before!

Boy this story is exciting

Makes me wonder if in Moon Valley they drink Maxwell House or Sanka coffee. But no croissants or doughnuts to compliment the beverage?

Does the Ambassador just hang around the house or does he go to work each day?

NO! (he’ll see that darn pentagram on me if I do…….thinks dick!)

Is the story starting to build yet…………….

Paul Sorvino, who played Lips Manlis in the 1990 DT movie, has died.

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/paul-sorvino-dead-goodfellas-1235324940/

just an observation of something that I have noticed as this story has progressed… it seems that towards the end of the Memory arc and now the LoonAryan arc, comments have seemed to dramatically increase… why IS that?… is it because of the Memory arc that the readers have become disenchanted at what’s being presented to us story-wise and are feeling negative and vocal about it?… as the LoonAryan arc progressed, has the readership hoped that this arc may be a sort of turnaround in quality, but it seems to have not lived up to the expectations of the readership?… I HAVE noticed that the comment numbers has increased quite a bit from several months ago… ARE we becoming frustrated with what we are given every day?… or is it just coincidence that numbers have gone up at this time?… I’m just curious as to what my fellow Tracers thoughts and opinions are on all of this…

For humanity, it’s a cold day in New Moon Valley, in more ways than one. While intrigued by the Stranger-in-Yellow, Lunarians have little to say to him, keeping their own counsel and being highly Laconic except for the occasional chirpy one, such as yesterday’s Sor-Ay, quickly shushed by her companion (who happens to be a member of the cabal, and so had reason to want her to shut up). Look at the funny-looking man in the strange yellow clothes, Mama: he’s got no antennae!

So, Tracy ducks back indoors to warm up and for another morning cup of coffee and some conversation with Ambassador. The investigation is not exactly off to a rip-snorting start, but at least Tracy is making himself known and trying to connect with ordinary Lunarians….

In case nobody noticed,Moon Governor is heating the coffee with his bare hands.

Now let’s have some coddled eggs.

I’m wondering where they got the antique coffeepot.Admiral Byrd must have left it behind