Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 11, 2024

Don’t Fear the Dick Reaper…

“And since there’s no possible way a cop could contact the prison and find out, you’re outta luck!”

Good morning™, all!

So, there were five siblings. I guess we’ve now got a definitive number for those siblings. The fact that he says “none of your business” means that maybe he knows when she was due to get out. I’m sure that Tracy can trace her down, but she wouldn’t necessarily have been booked under her nickname.

Good morning™, Blown Offs !

That’s tellin’ ‘em, B.T. !  Would Tracy of old have kicked ol’ orange top right ‘n the ’nards’ ? LOL !  ‘Nice’ family portrait and very well graphicked anger. Admirable how Tracy keeps his cool in P.3. Harvey Bullock would have got right up in that mug’s face .. just shy of re arranging it.

Any other crimes you want to confess to, Blow Top?

Poptop. Almost LOL.

In our state, you can look up any inmate’s release date (if they have one) online if you know their first and last name or inmate number.

The Mystery Tribune Colorist strikes again – why does Sharptop have red lips?

Now we see the other reason Blowtop decided to stop eating the bitter fruit of The Weed of Crime….he likes living too much.

“You’re the Grim Reaper to our family”. Unseen thought bubble " I wish we could sue you for “emotional distress”. Good luck trying to collect, Tracy has the law on his side.

“Have a nice day, Blowtop”. Ooh Tracy, you are so wrong, rubbing Blowtop’s nose in what you did to his family. Then on second thought you could have played the dozens on him and said " at least my family’s not dysfunctional".

Have a nice day, like it!

Nice family portrait !

Ya sure there ain’t anymore top tops where these is come from?

So, Poptop gets quotes, meaning I guess that it’s not his real name, but none of the others do? Those are their real actual first names? I guess Poptop and Momtop thought “Why change a winning trend.”

Blowtop is a little less forthcoming as he has been in the past

Who was (or is) Curlytop? There’s nothing about a Curlytop in the Dick Tracy Fandom wiki.

Not the Family Circle comic I am used to seeing!

maybe your family shouldn’t be doing bad stuff, maybe then he wouldn’t ruin your lives.

Well, there you go – definitely one of Poptop’s.

Is it just me or should Tracy not have known more about the Jones family than the newspaper reporter? Should he not have already found out about Croptop before going to see her brother? In a police interview, it’s helpful to already know the answer before you ask some questions.

MOVIE QUOTE—

“Your assistance as welcome as water in leaking ship”

Sidney Toler—-THE CHINESE CAT—-1944

Well I now have my suspicions confirmed in the last panel as to why this guy is named Blowtop. Of course the red hair was also a clue. My family is of Irish descent, and I also earned the red hair trait, although it gradually darkened to auburn, and now of course it’s white! (Sorry for the tmi!)

Does he know what a nice day IS????

I hope the old guy remembers what happened the LAST Time he let a relative stay at his place.

How many stitches was that again, Mister bad temper?

ka-woo gosh

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Man, Blowtop, if I were you I would’ve kept quiet about the fact that you’ve been robbing banks (since that’s illegal) and freely offered any information you had about Croptop’s release date (since that’s information that a police officer could easily obtain from the prison system anyway). Not my business I realize but that’s just my suggestion!

Looks like Blowtop was the only one who didn’t inherit the infamous pouty lips.

What would the grandkids be named -

Desktop?

Laptop?

Hardtop?

Stovetop?

none of your business? she’s a convicted felon, it literally is his business. her fav food or bra size is not his business, when she is at liberty most defiantly is.

1-BLOWJOP: The Five Tops were bigger than the Jackson 5 at one point but then…

2-…YOU outted us as Milli Vanilli lip-syncing fakers who were trying to make a fortune from fans of groups like The Mills Brothers and The Andrews Sisters

3-…We were taking those old farts Social Security dough like it was ours till you interferred! We were moving more vinyl than a discount furniture store! HEY! Come back here!

DT: Why? I don’t even know why I came here to begin with! I forgot that, as a cop, I could a just looked this all up. ♪♪♫ I’m so dumb, someone should write a song about me, about me! ♪♪♫

BLOWJOP: HEY! THAT’S ONE OF OURS! I lip-synced the lead on it!

Did he just confess to the police about robbing banks?

TOMORROW—-The Ghost of Hawker Davis

So Croptop is Flattop’s sister. Okay.

I don’t blame Blowtop for thinking that.