Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 20, 2024

Fetus Annie has become Baby Annie, soon to be Little Orphan Annie…

Good morning™, all!

Finally, Annie is born! That’s a very tall-looking hospital building.

Remembering Morrow, 6 years after his sudden and unexpected departure from Tracyville. There’s a short tribute to him on YouTube but I’m being blocked (URL’s not allowed)

In the spirit of Morrow, it’s nice to know I caused big brother a headache!

Good thing I finished my latest Vengy tale!

My channel is Avenger09 if you want to see it.

Annie sure has a full head of hair! Welcome to the world, Annie Gray ….

Good morning™, Bundles of Joy !

Too bad the joy will be short lived. :-(

You can find me on Facebook under avengeroq if you want to see the Morrow tribute.

Hmm…on her mother’s or her father’s side of the family, which one decided she should be a red head?

And it looks like Dick Tracy’s reboot of Little Orphan Annie is up and running!

Can’t tell if she has her mother’s or father’s eyes yet!

Ah, the blessed event has occurred, !

Christopher Nolan’s Annie Begins.

[super gravelly voice] Leapin’ lizards!

I was expecting a plot twist where she was named “Hortense” or something.

“Now, put the baby BACK! You’ll have you own eventually, and he mother is calling in the cops! We don’t want TRACY snooping round DW’s illicit baby mill operation,s so we need to look legit!”

WAAAA ! That’s what I say every morning when I read this .

Only later did they realize the child was a klingon changeling. That was when she adoptd the nickname Ksh’ak The Lethal.

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“I never saw him, you know. They shouldn’t keep a man from seeing his son”"

Richard Haydn to Clark Gable—-NEVER LET ME GO1953(his son,age 7,died trapped behind The Iron Curtain)

Annie debuted in 1924, at ten years old. Later, it was (tongue-in-cheek, but we’re running with it) established her birthday is February 29th, which is why I think modern-day Annie turned 35 this year. But when was she born? 1914 wasn’t a leap year. Was she born in 1912, and comic-strip-time kicked in in ’24, but then it started when she was 12. Was she born in 1884?

Hey,how about congratulating MRS. Gray? She’s the one doing all the heavy lifting!!

In anticipation of what’s going to happen, I hereby re-name hi m Boris(SPOILSPORT)Sirob.

OT RANT: My SOUL IS SMARTER THAN I AM (AND IT GLOATS:

I drive a spaceship. Worse, I drive a spaceship that nags me and, I suspect, conspires against me. Let me explain.

In the good old (i.e, sane) days, you could actually work on a car if things went wrong. If the damage was beyond your abilities, you could entrust it to someone covered with grease. That put your mind at ease, as he clearly knew what he was doing.

Not today. No.

First off, my car has 5 — count ’em — 5 positional radars running simultaneously. Should I offend the Overlord by getting too near the edge of a lane, it feels free to advise me of this with strident shriek. It also suffers from separation anxiety. If I leave it with the key fob in my pocket, it loudly complains. And do I really need a computer placed in front of me and decorative trim inside the cabin that lights up at night?

I’m pretty sure my old cars never did this or had an electronic brain. And let’s consider fuses. Old car? Maybe the radio would stop working. You’d replace a single fuse. New car? $6,000,000 to have the computer checked out.

Not to mention an Assist function that activated yesterday as I was serenely plowing through traffic. I was totally unprepared for a female in some distant, dark corporate lair to perkily ask me what my trouble was.

Though I was sorely tempted, I refrained from beginning a lengthy and generally quirky list that would have extended back into early childhood, and simply apologized.

How exactly is is progress?

Though the heated seats are nice…

@Charles Ettinger – Panel 2 is a touching piece of art work. I wonder if coincides with the original story so many many years ago? Or did Annie just appear in the original?

1-DOCTOR REX MORGAN: WAAAAAA! WHADAYA MEAN YOU CAN’T PAY ME! GET OUT!!!

2-HAROLD: Ha! I can’t wait to tell my pal, Bozo, that she has hair like him… WAIT A SECOND! LEMME SEE THE SIZE OF THIS KID’S FEET!!!

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And Pee Wee The Elephant will be the godparent

John Lustig of last Kiss, has a theory or hypothesis, if you prefer, on why GC has redoubled their (ill fated) efforts at blocking out bound destinations and no, I do not believe it distracts readers away from the strips but actually enhances our enjoyment plus a lot of times the links are not only entertaining but informative and educational as well.

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Has this birth scene ever been shown before?

I don’t recall it and I was a Dick Tracy and Little Orphan Annie fan when I was a kid.

Of course, I’m a few weeks shy of 81, and my memory ain’t like it once was.

I also read Terry and the Pirates, and a couple of other long gone strips.

youtube. com/ watch?si=8KwmDMcXwWZx4iSV

Say everyone, Lucas Debus is the author-artist of “Wannabe”.

Check it out. It is a really good cartoon, that, like FurBabies, is actually funny