Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 04, 2024

well, that was a fast segueway…

“Tell us at your own speed … the writer is hoping to drag this simple interview out over at least two weeks of strips.”

Good morning™, Working Detectives !

A human touch in the dialog appeals. :-)   Is that guy a Gordon Pierce twin ?

Another Tracy cousin. The strip’s been full of them lately.

The ladies are getting right down to business.

Just noticed that the middle panel shows a guest writer.

Did he model for Tom of Finland?

Is Lizz left-handed?

Why is Lizz feeling blue?

You cant fool us with that fake mustache Richard Tracy!!!!

“Mother is drunk as a ….I mean, ‘indisposed’. I don’t know much, but I do know she enjoys the company of her friends John Walker and James Beam.”

LIzz’s claws in p2!

I like the Lizz silhouette.

Why is Lee taking the lead? Liz is a senior.

“Mother is in her rocker up at the eerie old house. You’d like Mother. I must see that you meet. Some dark and wind-swept night. (giggle)”

….looks like the guy with all the pillage-n-plunder flying robots in the Fleischer Superman cartoon “The Mechanical Monsters”………..just sayin’………

little Gordy Pierce really DOES look like Tony Stark…

1-LEE: SLAP ME SOME SKIN, HOMMES! PETER PIERCER: SOUL SISTAH!

2-…Apropos of nothing at all but people kept confusing me with Clark Kent so I ditched the glasses and grew a bichin’ stache. So…whadaya think?

3-LEE: I’m not seeing it. I’ve met Clark and his honker is normal. Yours could hold up eyeglass frames made outta the leftover steel from the Francis Scott Key Bridge catastrophe. LIZ: Speaking of lead, my pencil needs sharpened. Hey Peter. You got any lead in your pencil?

PETER PIERCER: Do I ever?!? Lemme make sure Mother won’t interrupt us! LEE: Actually, it would be more efficient if she joined us. PETER: Kinky! But too sick for me. Hard pass. LEE: What? PETER: What?

No Neil Wick!!?? How are we gonna know what we’ve just read?

So, question for the writers and story telling folks: What is, in your opinions, the best pacing formula for these stories that that have a maximum 3 panel daily and the Sunday layout?

Good story by Guest Writer…..Combines new police research with old “lino type” technology that owner of Gossip Sheet prefers—a real old-fashioned villain but maybe paid with computer money! Take care

WHOA!! Who’s t he matinee idol? is he single?

In t he background, Lizz is brushing up on her shorthand.