Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 02, 2024

Good morning™, all!

Well, there’s another charge against him, anyway! I wonder whether this deputization is temporary or permanent.

Sign, another limp, Firestrike type outcome!

Mike should have surprised us by suddenly having Ro-Zan flip the switch on Tracy and Mad “Deputy Dawg” Mindy and, anticipating a setup, have his people ready to assist his escape.

That would have been interesting.

This is Ho Hum boring.

They should incarcerate him in "Moon"achie, New Jersey.

“If you’d offered me something cool, like Vegas, maybe. But Tracyville? Bleah.”

Good morning™, Deposed Despots !

This guy never quits. He has more resolve than “The Brain”, but no world domination today. Wouldn’t Tracy need to be a sheriff to do any deputizing ?

Maybe now Mike & Charles can have a spin-off strip: “Deputy Mysta! She’s the Lunarian law keeper who’s out of this world!"

Deputy Mysta, no need for a police radio, picks up the calls on her antennae!

“I shot the Sheriff. But, I didn’t shoot the deputy” ~ Bob Marley.

Is Mysta going to work undercover to bust a prostitution ring next ?

Let’s see… Roz-an is in shackles designed to contain him, so he’s helpless. Tracy is wearing a vest that makes him immune from the zap, and Mysta is also wearing a zap damper vest (bet she can’t use her power while wearing it). So how could she help, even if she wanted to?

Roz-an may have cracked… Perhaps he’ll be calling out to cockroaches, or a house fly, or a stray dog, “Help me and I’ll give you the city!” as he’s led off.

Have Ralph Kramden send him back to the moon .

To quote Bugs (Bunny) in re: Ro-baby: “What a maroon!”

The Lunarian smear campaign was a promisingly dramatic element that Mike introduced with much ominous portent but virtually ignored thereafter, now seemingly resolved and dismissed with a single sentence as if blowing away a pesky gnat. Like the botched Annie arc, this story began with the feel of a feature-length blockbuster, only to be abruptly and inexplicably cut down to a two-reeler….