Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 20, 2025

I’d hate to be married to THAT loudmouth…

Middle panel—-Is that Firestrike and Avenger? !!!

Good morning™, everyone!

Our perpetrator has a liking for alliteration it seems. Claire’s two bumbling nephews botched the job, but there is a “but” coming.

Blue footed Boobies?

What the goats call Firestrike and Gweedo at the goat farm.

Can you imagine dating this chick? Yikes!

The family that “slays” together….

Stereotypical traits.

The manic woman

The bumbling idiots

The suave British type dude

Nothing new here.

wonderful…

Good morning™, Goony Goobers !

I can’t help noticing how Carlos seems to always have a well built rugged He-Man as one of the bad guy bunch. I was wondering if this was a slightly altered Freddy boy, as he would want to change his appearance a bit in order to avoid easy detection. They should hire Charles part time over at Andy Capp as HE KNOWS how to do wall paintings that look like a lot more than an early morning fog in the bay shot.

Boobies? Oh my!

Somewhere William Safire is smiling.

A children’s rhyme on Burke and Hare.

“Up the close and doon the stair,

But and ben’ wi’ Burke and Hare.

Burke’s the butcher, Hare’s the thief,

Knox the boy that buys the beef."

Who this Auntie Haddock? And bungling blue footed whaaaaat?!!!

What on earth did they want the body for? It’s not as if anybody needs to steal bodies for medical research these days.

Anyone else notive the strip was more fun when Mike writes it – regardless how you might feel about his writting, it was entertaining. Eric’s writing just seems formuletic. Not bad, but DICK TRACY has a flavor to it that seems to be missing of late. The Supporting cast of characters beyond the MCU for instance. Chet had those characters for a reason, and I think Eric is missing that – unless Mike when he returns has plans and asked Eric to downplay the supporting cast.

Is this new villain called Auntie Alliteration?

Well, the question I asked a couple days ago was why did they want to steal an unidentified body, cause of death unknown? Question is still out there.

My top guess was that something about the victim or the method will point to them.

I wonder if her middle or last name is Leslie?

When Chet Gould wrote and drew the strip, we were introduced to the characters first and understood their motivation before the crime was committed. it’s hard to follow the storyline because I think Eric can’t follow the storyline himself.

I like those peach fuzz mustaches and sad faces on the bungling boobs .

Ah. Dr. Smith from Lost in Space is writing her dialogue, I see.

Claire’s gonna pop a neuron. Think she already has, judging how jumbled her thoughts are. “blue footed boobies?” What no #Q#$($%$#%###!!?

Kudos to all of those who guessed this bellowing Bella Donna is the villain yesterday.

1- JACKIE CHAN: FOOLS! I’D PUNCH YOU BOTH IN THE SACK IF THEY WEREN’T EMPTY!!!

2- BLONDIE: My sack isn’t empty., Auntie. It’s like, stuffed with two cantaloupes – this big! SONNY: Mine’s empty. I remember when you cut ‘em off in 7th Grade and said you didn’t want me growing up like Dad. I can still grow a bichin stache though…

3- DAD: Give the boys a break honey. You should’ve told them just to take the guy’s sack. That’s all you wanted anyway – because you feel bad about Sonny? You wanted to fix him – right?

JACKIE: GRRRRR! THOSE DOLTS WOULD’VE BROUGHT BACK SOME WOMAN’S OVARIES!!! WAIT! GO BACK TONIGHT AND GET SOME OVARIES – 3 PAIR! I’LL FIX ALL OF YOU!

DAD: Glad I could help. JACKIE: SHADDAP!

“Animacules”? She may have a gift for alliteration, but not for spelling.

MOVIE QUOTE—

“I’m half man and half alligator!”

Ernest Borgnine—BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK—1954

Who’s the loquacious lass?

Okay—4 villains,It’s an organized gang—-or maybe disorganized.

REAL ART TEST—-The famous Chester Gould blizzard.Hurry up and draw one before we reach April.

“What pier did we throw that dame off,Shaky?”

“What do you care?”

Auntie Claire. I bet her name is Claire N. Present-Danger.

I’d use stronger language, but this is the comics!

Yeah, “calm down, honey!” That always works with my wife!

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Dick Tracy is a comic strip that operates in an exaggerated storytelling mode, entertaining us with outlandish plots about corpse theft and so forth. But it can also touch on very real, down-to-earth issues, like the problem of inadequate nephews. Are your nephews good-for-nothings who don’t even have the skills and/or gumption to properly steal a dead body? Dick Tracy sees you, and hears you, and knows you are valid.

Anyone watch Outlander? Chriiist, Claire.

I thought for a second that we had some kind of Wizard of Id dialogue going.

“Frammin at the jim-jam, frippin in the krotz!”

Who had Female Dr.Smith in the betting pool?

The corpse has the router password tattooed on his torso…….

Very unique speech patterns from both Claire and her tan-toned teammate. I’m invested! I want to see what happens next.

Hmm…are these two from generation x or the millennials? They won’t be mistaken for smooth criminals.

Could those two kids be Pat Patton’s two worthless nephews let out of prison from some decades ago? Could Pat have an evil sister named Claire?

I just now opened this page @ 20 past 11 am MST and already I see 170 postings. For a “bad” story this thing is a runaway success. Eric should be elated that his stories are getting more talk than Mike’s and some others who have contributed story content. Break out the party Goods, Eric ’cause yore going places ! :-)

OT SCREAMING RANT: Ah, ‘tis Tax Time, that merry time of giggles and guffaws. And what’s wrong with TRYING (note ) to get my waddling quackers duly lined up n advance? Wellll…Hotmail, plain and simple.

I have two accounts for audio books: one for those I’ve narrated, and for those adapted from my books. Well, Hotmail lost the e-mail password for one, which I need in order to access the one account. I have spent three days and about 40 tries to reset it and gotten nowhere.

So bad that, after try # 41, I took a hot bath and considered never coming out. I just want to change the contact e-mail to another provider and dump the secondary Hotmail account.

I wonder how much my Marcel Marceau audio book is worth?

Good morning