Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 27, 2024

Good morning™, everyone!

Well, at least Ms. Asthma’s new charge comes with instructions and at least Annie is safe. Not a lot happened today, but people would be complaining if this was skipped.

Tracyville’s annual snail race moves faster than this story!

Firestrike’s bowel movements move faster than this story!

Mike’s Cosplay weekend retreat moves faster than this story!

Chucky, not for nothing, but the buzzer moved higher in the last panel.

Let’s not start getting sloppy, or the honeymoon is over and your invitation to Gweedo’s goat farm will be retracted!

Good morning™, Tot Takers !

If only Annie knew what fate awaits her. I thought grannie age ladies were full of sugar and spice and the best durn cookies and pies you ever et.

The note says" No deposit, no return."

In spite of the optimism in yesterday’s strip, leaving a child there implies a fairly certain feeling of ’ain’t coming back’, suicide mission.

Much cheaper than mailing her to Grandma’s!

And so, the hard knock life begins.

Filler disguised as drama.

“Yet more fodder for my zombie experiments! Life is gooooood!!”

I could really not care less for this story. But what makes them think they can just show back up and pick up their child? I bet the orphanage would not be so quick to just hand her over. “Oh, you were just looking for a couple days of child care? I don’t think so!”

Does this still happen?

4 panels to see the pickup……..and buzzer move higher!

THree days later—-Baby Annie is already on floor scrubbing duty.

“You don’t have to BE brave. You just have to ACT brave”Bryan Cranston—-KUNG-FU PANDA 4—2024

1-MISS HANNIGAN: WHO’S THERE? IDENTIFY YOURSELF! I’M ARMED!

2-…Wait. Did I order a pizza? Or something. CREAAAKKKKK!

3-…WTF?

4-…. Oh. The Postman! Thanks but you could’ve left it in the mailbox.

Your a constant pain in the butt!

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Look, I may not be an expert in Little Orphan Annie lore, but I did imprint on Carol Burnett as Miss Hannigan like a baby duck at an early age, so “Ms. Asthma” here had better be already trying to figure out how to profit from this infant’s labor or I’m going to be very upset.

@Charles Ettinger For what it’s worth, while the sudden change from Shelly’s style to your art is taking a little getting used to, over all i thing you are doing a good job. At least your character representations are fairly consistant.

Huh? I read the first strip which showed her she was bemoaning the lack of orphans (although it wasn’t clear and could be interpreted in different ways). Now she’s unhappy to have one? Some people are hard to please.

Miss Asthma is the warm up

Ms. Asthma was just watching an old movie adaptation of Oliver Twist. She gets to a particular scene and thinks, “This business about the foundling orphan being left along with a locket containing identity information – it’s just too unbelievable to be true!!”