Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 03, 2015

Well, apparently Notta was expecting to share a drink with the delivery person. What happens when a sex-starved nymphomaniac meets a dominatrix who looks like Jimmy Olsen? Maybe Blaze might find a new customer. Notta seemingly didn’t mind some rough treatment from her husband.

This could be leading in to any number of areas!

Blaze knew that she had to gobut Mr. Bigg controlled the showThis drunken slush just loved to talkSo stay she must she couldn’t walkTo mention things from distant timeWould cause no harm or cost a dimeYet something odd about this drinkMight change the mood and cause a stinkThis Notta broad is mighty strangeBut what she’s worth sure ain’t chump changeShe’s coming on so sure and defiantPerhaps I’ve got a brand new client

I know Willy has posted this before on this board but I think it bears repeating:

A Good Friday to all.

Today is mostly important exposition for new readers and reminders for old readers. Blaze recently “did a lateral transfer,” though it’s not as if she had a choice. (wiktionary: “Lateral transfer: The movement of an employee from his/her current post to a different position without noticeable benefits.See also sideways promotion.”)

Some observations: Notta seems to be familiar with most members of the Blackhearts. It looks like she’s expecting to be working closely with Blaze. She’s a very pleasant host.

I won’t say much more for a bit. I just got an urgent job that has to be done tonight.

Good Friday, DT fans!Oh, BlazeYou make me dazeWould you staySome more And get our souls ablaze?

This was pretty hot stuff for a comic strip in 1967.

This is getting quite interesting…

A good one, Gweedo…Actually, I retired a year ago, so most days are all the same to me!

A special day to pause and thinkOf how our lives were on the brinkOf separating us from himWho loved us all despite our sinWhat could be done to bring us backOur own ability we lackedBut Grace came down and lifted highThe fathers love the reason why.

Avenger09, your poems are so poignant! My compliments!

You wont stop talking to us now that yer in the big time ?

.I am NOTHING without my adoring public! LOL!

What if Notta is really an intersex? That would explain the beard….

“Despite her abundant charms, I’ll never get past that chin.”Piggy couldn’t get past it, either, so he took matters into his own hands. More rough treatment for Notta, and as it turned out, he didn’t finish the job because she screamed and Piggy ordered his men to stop.

I was digging around in the the original story of Purdy and Notta, and I found something interesting that might speak to what’s in the package Blaze brought to Notta. After Notta’s husband was killed and she was put in jail, brother Purdy (who was living on the Moon) was arrested and brought to Earth on a murder charge. Purdy eventually recanted his confession and said that he was only interested in tricking the police so he could get a free ride to Earth. Tracy roughed up Purdy and was still convinced he was guilty, but he didn’t have enough evidence to hold Purdy on the charge and had to cut him loose.Tracy and crew were nervous about being sued for false arrest, so they gave Purdy a wide berth regarding the date of his return to the Moon. Purdy spent a few days running “errands,” including paying a visit to Notta in prison. As it turns out, he brought her a package (which he slipped inside her guitar) — containing a “FIX”!The implication at that time was that Notta is a drug user. What’s interesting (and fits with the “Purdy is Mr. Bigg” theory) is that Purdy is the one who sent Notta the package of H or whatever it was. Possible that the delivery of the package from Mr. Bigg is a hint that Purdy’s involved?I’m not sure about that, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the package has dope in it and Notta is a dealer (and perhaps still a user).

No VistaBill yet?

Thanks to Willy and Ray for the Notta Fallar pictures and backstory.

So Notta was “Riding The White Horse,” huh?

Edgy stuff, even in its day.

… Although at this point she might be thinking that the anonymity ship has sailed.

Blaze looks like Jimmy Olsen? I guess she does, but because of the jacket I always think of Spike Jones.

If Notta is flirting with Blaze, then perhaps she already knows a little about her. Romance can be a useful tool for manipulation…

Happy Good Friday everyone.______________@avenger09: two good poems no less!______________Ashmael: good poem!______________@cpalmeresq: good poem!______________We now have at least 3 poets. We are blessed indeed!Y’all have an inspiring day my friends.

Gweedo, I, too, find it hard to disregard her beard.

I’ve been re-thinking some of our assumptions in the light of what we’ve been shown in the past several days. I am now wondering if Blaze Rize might be a professional submissive, while the bearded lady compensates for past suffering by dabbling in dominance? Cf. Dominance and submission at Wikipedia.

she drugged the drink

Incidentally, since at the end of the original Purdy Fallar story Dr. Klipoff was not jailed and was so insistent that Purdy could be brought back to normal, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him make an appearance in this story knowing Mr. Bigg’s proclivity for hiring mad scientists (re: Ghote and Sail).

A side note: Rio committed suicide by hanging himself in 2012.

I’m not sure how to interpret the facial expression of Blaze in panel 2. Is she stunned by Notta’s question; not sure how to answer it? Or is that a very strong drink that she just sipped?

I always thought Notta should have been the waitress in the Mos Eisley cantina in “Star Wars”…-“What’ll it be, Solo?”“Listen, honey, I’ll have a triple fondoo, and nothing for the Wookie – he’s my designated pilot.”

Despite her abundant charms, I’ll never get past that chin.You and me both, Gweedo!

I wouldn’t think a professional Dominatrix would ever switch roles ever. Hurt her cred.

You could be right about that. I wonder what happens if you get two of them together. A clash?

We need Morrow back.

And if I were a man’s man, I would be the one with the beard, Sherlock !Absolutely, Gweedo! :-)

Regarding the beard, I doubt many people love it, and who knows, Curtis and Staton may have Notta shave it off for future appearances, considering the feedback it’s gotten. I hope they do! It’s kind of passe anyway since Notta’s husband is gone and she doesn’t go by the name “Chin Chillar” anymore. Since the play on words is over and the lookalike hubby is long gone, why keep it? Notta has a new career (whatever it is!) and an important role in the Blackhearts’ organization, and since she’s going to be around for awhile working with Blaze, it seems like a perfect time to lose the beard and make Notta more beautiful (hint: Rio commissions).

If Notta expects to be invited to the wedding, she’ll have to get rid of the beard! Notta’s notta invited with her beard!

Helllooooo, Morrow !He’s got a notion that he’ll “be back on the ice”

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SDM wants to know the name of who Morrow bribed! LOL! Seriously I’m glad he’s coming “home” but does he still blame me? I thought we cleared all this up.

@Ray Toler

Technically we are all drug users since we have receptor sites and glands.____________________

There used to be a character in the LEGION OF SUPERHEROES comics called “Chemical King” who was described as a “Human Enzyme” in that he could speed up and slow down chemical reactions.

[I think E. Nelson Bridwell was the only person at DC who understood how those powers were supposed to work.]

In later years, there was a story – Or possibly a write-up in one of the handbooks of the day – Which noted that his powers had messed up his own internal body chemistry as well.

In short …

… he was very sick. :(

A beard on a “lady” is a buzz-kill for me, Sisy.Nevertheless, she was always very proud of it, so I don’t think you’re going to see her without it. She is quite meticulous about the way she dresses, does her hair, etc. You can be sure that the beard is very deliberate.

The line probably referred to the horse – Of CourseAnyFace, I’ve tried to copy the embed code for a YouTube video to respond to your line above, but I can’t get it to work tonight, for some reason. Anyway, the line above put me in mind of the video in this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAbc5uQXJo

I offered to put in a word for him, but maybe that’s not wise.

Maybe not!

I thought today’s comments were going to be kind of sparse, since there wasn’t a lot of action in the strip, but we’re over 160! Wow.

“Your explanation gave me pause to think those may be very explicit commissions.”Actually, I heard from the same source that the missing Notta commissions were of the same type we’ve seen above and not explicit. One of these days, who knows, maybe the owner will post them on the net.

@Pequod77“Because it is an iconic element of the character’s appearance, just like Sam’s cigarette. Wait…never mind.”Exactly! If Sam can lose his cigarettes, surely Notta can lose the beard.“What fabulous globes in the Rio commission. I like the earrings too.”I did a doubletake when I read your comment, but I definitely get your meaning and agree 110%!!!

Oh the joy of this glorious dayDefeat is snatched and cast awayNo more my head is hung in shameMy life’s reborn he carried my blameThe grave is bare no one is thereMy freedom won good news to shareMy soul proclaims He’s truly the wayThat lights a path on Resurrection day!

Sometimes the whispers of our dreamsLike misty vapors just never seemWithin our grasp to grab ahold“They’re foolish hopes”, we’re often toldYet every once and every whileAn answer topples off the pileIt floats and drifts until it landsOn someone’s heart and on thier planA love a home a room a bedA simple pillow to lay a headSo keep your dreams alive and wellPerhaps today you can never tell.

Sometimes the whispers of our dreamsLike misty vapors just never seemWithin our grasp to grab ahold“They’re foolish hopes”, we’re often toldYet every once and every whileAn answer topples off the pileIt floats and drifts until it landsOn someone’s heart and on thier planA love a home a room a bedA simple pillow to lay a headSo keep your dreams alive and wellPerhaps today you can never tell.

huh blaze use to work in the black hearts.