Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 09, 2024

Fata, being presented with an opportunity to kill Tracy, will be foiled by Rikki, who’ll remind Fata; “I told you, he’s untouchable!”

wow, a car with fins… nice… when cars were REAL cars…

This meek version of Rikki is a huge mistake by Mike.

She’s just a gray skinned Blaze 2!

Good morning™, all!

Those tunnels are incredibly extensive!

I guess the antique car stays behind in the antique house. It would be too flashy for an escape vehicle.

If they get away scott-free, they’s gonna be some unhappy folk in comments. Not me though! Rikki and Fata can show up in couple years with Abner Jr. in tow, because why not.

This clueless, bumbling version of Tracy is a far cry from what he used to be.

Good morning™, Endless Searchers !

Traveling light helps make for quicker bugouts. Rikki so hardly looks like herself I was wondering if it was Fata doing the packing and then I remembered the lack of freckles on this one.

P2 – FML.

Rikki to Fata/Baxter, “we got to get out of this place, and it can’t be the last thing we ever do, we got to get out of this place, maybe to a better life for me and you”. Ah, such good travelling music.

Fata knows the tunnels better than the coppers and has made her escape….

I think she will maybe have a new identity in mind?

Great job today, Shelley, I like the breath being shown meaning the tunnels are cold!

Rikki definitely needs more sun ! She and Fata should run off to another country like the Banana Republic of Miami or Mexico where she can bake in the Sun. They would need an interpreter for Miami tho.

Tracy, you ruined everything! I had tickets to tomorrow’s show.

But Rikki consoles herself with, “But Fata says this happens all the time. In two weeks the heat will die down and she’ll be back on stage – killing the audience! Ha, that’s funny. I’ll have to tell her that.”

I think Fata has disguised herself as Rikki and left Rikki to take the heat. Today we see Rikki? leaving after Fata told her yesterday to stay put. Fata said yesterday because she (Fata) had to make a quick change.

so they seem to have completely abandoned the fact rikki was carrying abner’s child at the end of her last appearance here.

SHE’S STEALING THE BATMOBILE!!!!

Quite an extensive network of tunnels . Dick should’ve plunged in further .

Fata removes her beard

While Rikki has packed her gear

And off in the night

To tomorrow’s delight

While Tracy is left in the rear.

:D

Obviously that car is Fatty in disguise. Well if she can pulls off being disguise as broader shoulders man then she can turns into a car too.

MOVIE QUOTE—

“My formal education has been limited to two revolting weeks in kindergarten”

Clifton Webb—MR.BELVEDERE GOES TO COLLEGE—1949

Rikki looking a little weary, a little schlumpy—-AND like Peter Lorre

Hopefully, the car looks like THE MUNSTERMOBILE and will attract the cops all by itself.

Made me think of a scene in the movie " The Saint with Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue. The tunnels leading to the US Embassy in Russia." Tunnels built by KGB"… One of my favorite movies.

“Not much to pack” as she hauls down two cubic meters of crap.

Did nobody check Fata’s living quarters and notice escaped and very distinctive felon Rikki Mortis living there?

1-DT: ALL TEAMS – IT’S COLD AND SCARY IN HERE – CANCEL SEARCH! WAIT! COME FIND ME FIRST! HELP!!!

2-ROCKI: Time for some road work. Maybe I’ll run up the steps at the Tracyville Museum of Art. Then some work on the heavy bag…

3-… Then I’ll crap lightning and fart thunder! Note to self: No more Hellzapoppin Burritos before my workout…

This strip sure has a tunnel complex.

Wait! Just one more panel! Something is about to happen!

Is she a new character?

Interesting how Rikki is thinking in panel 3 as if Fata and Baxter are two different people. Perhaps she had recently checked out “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” from the prison library :)

I think she wants a normal life.