Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 30, 2022

BLAZE!

Filler?

Good morning™, everyone!

I believe that Lee and Blaze became good friends while Lee was working undercover as “T-Bolt.” Blaze is reconnecting after some time away, apparently.

It’s a relative of Howdy Doodie !!!

Old friends.

Old foes. ✨

Good morning™, reunited former work partners !

Blaze looks like she is free and happy, with the past of working for Bribery and delivering those packages to Notta, comfortably behind her.

Nice crisp graphics. :-)

That’s a very hesitant handshake for sure!

Blaze has her Joker look down to a tee!

Why does Blaze’s jacket button up like a man’s?

(I noted this after seeing an Agatha Christie TV show that hung on Poirot/Miss Marple noting that a supposed woman closed her bathrobe left-over-right, not right-over-left, thus showing the “woman” to be a man in disguise.)

Good to see Blaze Rize back….wondered what happened to her.

^^ Did someone have to their original account for some reason?

It is good to see both Blaze & Lee Ebony, who I’ve felt has been an under-used character. Who knows if something more than friendship is in the cards for them?

Hilarious.

For those of you just joining us (within the past 6 years):

Blaze Rize was created by Mike Curtis, Joe Staton, & Shelley Pleger in their first year on the strip in 2011 and was a fairly prominent recurring character for the next 5 years until 2016 as a mostly sympathetic, reluctant criminal. Lee Ebony helped Blaze turn herself in while working to infiltrate the mob Blaze was working for, Lee using the alias T-Bolt. This is the first time we’ve seen her in 6 years, apparently reformed and free. Learn the details of Blaze’s biography here:

https://dicktracy.fandom.com/wiki/Blaze_Rize

Ah, the Annie Lennox look is back in.

Er, how did Lee know that the visitor was female? Telepathy? Or was Blaze expected?

Look, I’m a millennial and a comic book fan. If you’re using the acronym “MCU” and you’re NOT referring to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then you need to tell me what’s being discussed.

Great, now Lee is going to be in a lesbian relationship with Blaze

And by the way Lee, you’re working undercover at the Furcon this weekend

Note that Blaze must have told Lee she was coming by, since Ms. Steffihawk didn’t specify the gender of the visitor.

1-LEE: I don’t wish to be disturbed, Ms. Steffihawker.

STEFFI HAWKER: It’s Ms. Hawker. Steffi is my first name. And I just sent someone up to see you. Just to get rid of her. She was making me very uncomfortable.

LEE: I sensed that it was a female. I got me some ESP ya know.

2-BLAZE O. GLORY: Heil Hitler. LEE: Hmmmm. My ESP may be failing me… Who are ya and whadaya want? I’m busy!

3-BLAZE: I’m Blaze O. Glory and I got a problem.

LEE: I know. Your parents won’t accept you for who you are. No? Your hairstylist thinks you’re a man. No? You can’t stop shopping at the Men’s Warehouse Outlet. No? I give up.

BLAZE: You’re not gonna believe this but…

Tune in tomorrow as AltTake drags out this story like a dentist struggling with a stubborn bad tooth!

How did she know the visitor was female?

In the context of Lee and Blaze’s conversation, who, or, what is “T-Bolt”?

More like a sibling to Archie?

https://dicktracy.fandom.com/wiki/Blaze_Rize

How does Blaze know the identity of T-Bolt? Did Lee give herself away by saying “She’s happy for you, too, Blaze”?

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“You must be quite a girl”

“Wanna bet?”

Joe E.Brown&Jack Lemmon—-SOME LIKE IT HOT—1959

Well,here’s a surprise.Also that Blaze KNOWS about Lee’s undercover role.

I should think they’d want to keep t hat a dark secret,and not just because they might want to use the T-Bolt thing again.

Maybe Bribery doesn’t know who that disguised lady was who pulled the wool over his eyes for a whole year.But he’d love to.

As Paul Newman said in THE STING—“You’ve got to keep the con even after you take his money.He can’t know you took him”

Art Dekko,the incurable “Ladies Man”—-meets Blaze Rise—-all goeswell until Blaze brings out her “tool kit”….

Blaze Rize!! It’s been a while, great to see them again!!

That’s gotta be Howdy Dontdee

Kowabonga!

The return of Blaze Rise! That’s a Good Thing, but how will it tie in to the “Counterfeit Cels Caper”? Will Lee Ebony finally get some “face time” in the strip as this story inches forward?