Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 14, 2022

Speaking of babies! Lest we forget the May-December family.

oh jeez, not that leering Vitamin again… guess he was due for a return…

“Yes, tomorrow I will choose whether to divorce him or craft a fiendish murder plot.”

Good morning™, everybody!

Checking in on yet another baby, will he grow up to be an actor like his dad or a filmmaker like his mom?

Soundtrack for today’s strip: https://youtu.be/J8Kg23lpVvA

(I think that Vitamin Flintheart will definitely be involved in the new story.)

Good morning™, infants lineup !

Is it possible that Shelley herself might be in a ‘baby state of mind’ ?  Will more characters start disappearing/dying off screen like they mostly have in the “Alley” ?  That Flintheart kid is awful quiet for having been touted as a loudenboomer.

With the name “Kane Flintheart,” the poor kid has been consigned to a life of violent crime. I mean, look who’s raising him; this unfortunate lad is barely a year old and already has one of the most grim supervillain backstories I’ve ever seen.

As was said earlier, looks like we get a few days of seeing how other members of Tracy’s circle are doing at the moment….looks like all is well for now.

To have a child at his age Vitamin must be taking mega vitamins!!!

…..or else Kandi fools around, lol

Gosh, we’re getting a goulash of boring stories.

♪ and she whispered, “sometimes, love is only sleeping” ♫

My mother HATED the Monkees! (And they were pretty mild compared to the Stones…)

Too bad Mickey Dolenz is the only one left.

“Kane” Flintheart, shades of Rosebud! (giggles) Maybe he’ll just be a Citizen ;)

Why not a critic?

I see being a Dick Tracy villian a definate possibility in little Flinty’s future.

Forty Years Later: Don’t worry about me, Gettys! Don’t worry about me! I’m Kane Flintheart! I’m no cheap, crooked politician, trying to save himself from the consequences of his crimes! You’re going to Sing-Sing, Gettys! SIIIIING SIIIIIING! (With apologies to Orson Welles)

Good Lord was there ever a more boring intro to a story than this? Now Kandilame has shown up as well

Enough baby steps, it’s time we were marching boldly into some definite storyline….

actually he’ll grow up to be a construction worked and use those lungs to cat call women 30 floors below him.

I sang my son Christmas carols, the only songs I knew all the words to. A little weird in the middle of July, but it worked.

OR a highly theatrical MASTER CRIMINAL, perhaps?Hmm? Hmmmmm?

I consider this a catching of breath of sorts ( Hi, there! Remember us? ) while we await the next story line.

https://genius.com/The-monkees-look-out-here-comes-tomorrow-lyrics

An angelic face drawn on the baby’s face by Shelley in P3.

Nice to see Rose Marie in that video, and, that she actually got the guy, for a change.

Kandi’s raising Kane.

Of all the various character names, I have always like Vitamin Flintheart, perhaps thebest?

saw the Monkees 3 times, and Davy in solo concert too

NOOOOOOOOO!!!

If Kane FlintHeart has the lungs to be a stage actor, does this mean he’ll get leading roles in the high school drama club?

MOVIE QUOTE—“Poor George.All he wanted out of life was to go to Peru and play his trumpet”

Humphrey Bogart—DARK PASSAGe—1947

1-KANDI CANS: ♪♫ I WANNA GET DRUNK, GONNA MAKE IT CLEAR. I WANT ONE BOIBON, ONE SCOTCH AND ONE BEER! ♪♫

2-VITAMIN: That’s a strange choice for a lullaby but it seems to have worked!

KANDI CANS: No silly – that’s what I fed him!

3-…See how peaceful he sleeps? VITAMIN: Darn. I was hoping you were still breast feeding. drools at the thought

KANDI CANS: I am. I drank that 30 minutes before I fed him!

VITAMIN: So smart! It’s so hard to get laudanum these days! KANDI CANS: Not if you know the right people. Why do you think you fall asleep before you can act on your amorous intentions you old lech?

VITAMIN: What? KANDI CANS: What?

Well that song is about choosing between two girls. Maybe a better one would be I’m a Believer?

Awwww……Vitamin seems to be slipping into fatherhood quite nicely.Although he really should stop re-enacting “The Death Of Julius Caesar” as a bedtime story.

I’m still stunned they didn’t name the kid “Hamlet”.

A little tired of the negatory about these two.When Bogart met Bacall,he was thrice-divorced and 46.She was just reaching 18.It lasted.Bogie’s wife before Bacall was a raging alcoholic.Onceshooting was held up on one of Bogie’s pictures because she gave HIM a black eye that would show up on camera.Would be nice if we checked in on The Mole and his new familywhile we’re in a mellow mood.

How the middle kid,Jewel Tracy?Honey gets all the front page stories and she’s practically invisible.

……or maybe a cowboy or a fireman…….

Nice to see the Flintheart Family again, Vitamin, Kandikane, and little Kane. I do think, though, it’s a bit early to be speculating on Kane’s occupation once he has grown up. Besides, kids tend to resent parents who push them toward a certain career.

But I came here to see Tracy crush crime and to chew bubble gum, and I’m all out of bubble gum….

If I recall correctly, that song was written by Neil diamond

I guess this makes Vitamin Flintheart a “Daydream Believer.” Mickey Dolenz the lone Monkee.

The writer seems to have a special fondness for VF who was a recurring character over the years. But so little for BO and Gertie who were constantly featured.

I also like the Monkees.

Hopefully this story won’t be like another “Last Train to Clarksville”

“Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)” was the first track on Side 2 of “More of the Monkees”. It was written by Neil Diamond, who also wrote the better-known album finisher on that same side, “I’m a Believer”, which reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. That album also had two tracks written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart (“(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone”, which reached #20 on the Billboard Hot 100, and “She”), two by Mike Nesmith (“Mary, Mary” and, with Roger Atkins, “The Kind of Girl I Could Love”), one by Carole King and Gerry Goffin (“Sometime in the Morning”), and one by Neil Sedaka and Carole Bayer Sager, “When Love Comes Knockin’ (at Your Door)”. Some pretty formidable songwriting talent!

I’d love to know what “banned” words I supposedly used when I mentioned Rose Marie’s appearances on a certain actor’s sitcom from the 60’s, or, a tv game show that featured 9 celebrities in a tic tac toe board.

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