Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 01, 2022

This story is moving at a pace that would make Ferenc Pavlics proud!

Shoggoths.

Good morning™, mystery solvers!

Thorin brings strange news. I can’t even guess what an Antarctic pyramid would contain! Despite the “no-fly zone” mentioned in previous strips a few years back, at least they do admit now that airplanes occasionally pass.

Wow he’s discovered Atlantis!

I would NEVER advocate violence BUT Tracy would be justified if he gave the Govassador a much deserved smackdown!

How many secrets do the Moon people have ?

Good morning™, no sharing secrets !

He owes Tracy more than that. After all, anytime Dick goes out on a call there is risk he may not come home. It must not have to do with the pending insurrection otherwise Tracy should know right now what is in there. The casual observer wonders if the bad guys have a weapons pile going in that pyramid thing.

We might be seeing Dick’s breath so well because he is near a poorly or non insulated door ?

So does this pyramid tie in to the insurrection, or do we have multiple threads here?

I hope Mike isn’t going down the road of “Ancient astronauts must have built the pyramids because our ancestors weren’t smart enough to figure out how to do it” with this new plot twist.

Tracy’s breath is visible again after taking the day off yesterday.

Consistency is a wonderful thing!

Interesting, what’s next?! Why can’t the Ambassador just tell Tracy right out instead of saying “You’ll find out eventually”?!

You want shoggoths? ‘Cause that’s how you get shoggoths.

On other things Lunar, I came across a link to a story on the NASA website that NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has found some deep pits on the Moon’s surface where the temperature is about 67 degrees F, a bit balmy for the Moon Folk, but comfortable enough for humans. Well, except for the lack of air and all.

I don’t think I had “Habitable caverns warmed by lunar volcanoes” on my Bingo card.

But it does make Moon Valley seem a little more plausible.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/lro-lunar-pits-comfortable

Ten years ago today: the very first appearance of Mysta Chimera!

If the moonies dont mind the cold, then why is big chief moondoggy wearing a scarf and coat?

cue the ominous music

So, what, they shot down the plane and killed all the passengers? Or at best used their moon sorcery to mindr@pe them into losing their memories? What else could that mean? THIS IS NOT AN OKAY THING AT WHICH TO SMILE, HERO COP DICK TRACY.

“And you’ll be held over there longer than Carrot Top at a rabbit fest, stupid Earthman! Oh, I said that aloud, didn’t I.”

(psst) Lunar Fortress of Solitude. So, when do we see the lunar version of Ham and Monk?

TRACY (astonished): HEY! That thing is made of…LEGOS!

AMB: Well, of course. Did you REALLY think your technology could create them? Perfect! Used one way,y you get skyscrapers and boxy doggies. Another way, and they become a painful mine field.

OK I am getting confused! Are they on the moon or in the Artic’s? If the moon, how could an “airplane” fly over? If just by radar or something, how did the Lunarians SEE the plane?

My local newspaper, in addition to posting information about Ozone (which they refer to as No-Zone when it’s very high), they also post information about Dick Tracy’s action level. Today is the 12th No-Action day in a row. I think Congress might do something about it.

a new mystery awaits… to prolong our agony even further?… and possibly a connection to the rogue faction??… stay tuned for the next chapter in the eternally lengthy adventure of the New Moon Valley arc… same Dick time, same Dick channel… (but I’ll admit, I AM curious as to what new ingredient can and will be added to the soupy mix… or is it the soupy MESS?)

R.I.P. Paul Sorvino—aka “Lips Manlis”.

And in DT COntinuity,Lips is still alive and well somewhere.How about a tribute appearance?

MOVIE QUOTE:“And on the last day,who walks in?”

Dick Tracy,to arrest us all!!"

James Garner &Dick Van -yke contemplate criminal activity

THE ART OF LOVE 1965

People are still wondering how the Egyptian Pyramids got builtwithout adhesive between the stones.

I’m back,in case anybody cares.Looks like I didn’t miss t he uprising.

1-GOVADOR THORIN: HEY TRACY!!! GUESS WHAT??? DT: What?

2-GOVADOR: We found evidence of the existence of a gigantic woman! And she apparently favored those cone-shaped bras Madonna wore back before ‘they’ started to sag…

3-DT: SHOW ME! I GOTTA SEE ME SOME GIANT B00BS!!!

GOVADOR: Well, we’ve only found one so far. Our scientists are out there now with hair dryers. They couldn’t possibly be more excited about this discovery!

DT: Me too! And I’m just imagining it!

GOVADOR: This discovery leads us to now believe that some of the spires, chimney rocks and so-called hoodoos in your southwest are actually parts of giant petrified men who may have died in an “agitated” state.

DT: Uhhh, yeah. Let’s leave that one alone for now. GOVADOR: Ahhh, yes. Understood.

In an exceedingly long. long series of boring, actionless stories, this current dud ranks number one. There’s more dialogue than Hamlet, and less action than Seinfeld. Maybe, just maybe it’s a Dallas “Bobby’s Dream” arc. Interesting comment, if true from Another Take about the “actionless tally” I hope the paper has a lot of space.

Watch out, Dick! They’re going to make you a prisoner!

okay I missed something. All this time I thought Tracy was on the moon visiting the moon people at some underground base there. But this is some kind of earthly “moonbase” colony of the moon people? (I admit not being very caught up on moon people.) I mean—referencing airplanes, and the snow, I finally caught on, duh.

no snarky comments about a PLANE flying over. Were there planes in an earlier adventure?

It’s a missile silo most likely.

Gosh! Now we have to figure a mysterious pyramid into this tale. Nothing is ever so simple as it seems at first.

BTW: On a personal note. Yesterday at around 8:30 PM, just as I was about to post a Dick Tracy comment, my internet went dead. I did not get it back until this afternoon. So now I have to scramble to get caught up….

‘Airplane’, huh? Would have anticipated more advanced tech if they’re on Mars. Now, watch this turn into ALIEN/THE KEEP when they all go inside.