Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 16, 2017

Currently under audit

Hickman comes up short

Loves himself some luxury

Dresses like a sport.

Tracy gives him a heads up

Blackjack on the loose

Hickman waves police away

Sits on his caboose.

Amount he’s short is ample

Numbers don’t make sense

Hickman ponders his next move

Shorts could use a rinse.

Sam and Tracy stake it out

Drudgery ensues

Blackjack finally makes a move

Has his own issues.

In the trash a match is tossed

Flames begin to spread

Blackjack calls the whole thing off

Tracy’s seeing red.

Hickman thinks he’s quite the brain

Smoke now fills the air

Feels he’s beat the auditors

Scoundrels best beware.

Seems Blackjack has a zero-tolerance policy for people getting hurt during his robberies, even from causes not directly related to the crime.

State of the World of DT

I didn’t post an update last week because I wasn’t at home and didn’t really have it ready. I have updated my storyline map:

http://worldofdt.info/banksoplenty/

So, we have three acts and three separate, but related, stories. First, B.O. and Gertie contact the bank, who tries to foreclose on them. Blackjack gets to meet them.

Second, Sparkle Plenty, Blackjack’s favourite Plenty happens into a different branch of that bank just before Blackjack appears and she talks him out of robbing it in exchange for a private autographing session.

Finally, we have a third bank robbery (at a different bank) and a development that Blackjack certainly didn’t expect, so the robber is about to become the rescuer. Any other robber would have run away, fast, but not Blackjack.

Hey, where’s his music?

Arson, or carelessness?

Someone else has added to the mix. The fire won’t help anyone there except to get the people out. Won’t stop the audit at all.

Fire set, place your bet

Odds on favorite that Hickman gent

Theft was the plan, murder is banned

BJ yells an evacuation command

Tracy’s late, for his bromance date

Time will tell what’s BJ’s fate

Sam wonders why, Tracy loves this guy

And how he’ll react if his BJ should die

Regarding the Hall of Fame feature, here is more about the incident with Cpl. Awagy:

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1036296/saudi-arabia

I wonder how unusual it would be for an Arabian woman to propose marriage to a man. It doesn’t say if the woman was Arabian, but it seems likely to me.

Good morning fellow DT and BJ fans far and wide!

I knew that full trash can would probably come into play sometime…

Hey! I’m still waiting for Sven and those rubber chickens!

Hopefully not another gunfight in a smokecloud. I’m aware of the visual restrictions placed on Team Tracy ie. singular panel cannot feature someone firing gun, someone else getting hit but we’ve been down this road several times before.

Blackjack’s teeth look like he and Mortimer Snerd go to the same orthodontist.

Blackjack’s in a tight spot. He and his partners in crime are amply armed. Just for show? If those guns aren’t loaded the judge will have another reason to reduce the sentences. Getting people out will earn some good will, but it seems unlikely that Blackjack will elude Tracy. Smoke gets in your eyes, of course, but we may soon see Blackjack tub-thumping in a cell. Hickman? Where there’s smoke there’s fire. The audit will go on. Will Matty Squared fix Hickman’s mess…for a price?

Thanks to Willy Carlson, Neil Wick, Gweedo (nice!), Night-Gaunt49, Vista Bill, 22ph, JPuzzleWhiz and Ray Toler for the kind words. Very much appreciated.

With only Tracy and Sam on the scene so far to represent John Law, Blackjack might have a good chance at getting away in the smoke and confusion of the fire and the soon-to-arrive Fire Department. I guess much depends upon how much care Blackjack puts into assuring the safe evacuation of all bank staff and customers; whether he meets and decides to confront Frankie-boy Hickman; and whether or not he is determined to carry through with the robbery (though that option seems rather dicey).

IMO, there can be no doubt that Hickman has added arson to embezzlement on his pending rap-sheet….

Looks like a false flag operation to me!

Off-topic, but George A. Romero, director of Night of the Living Dead has died at the age of 77. He was once of the Hollywood elite that I was privileged to meet.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/george-romero-dead-1.4207900

While we’re at it, Martin Landau also died yesterday. Among other roles, he was in 76 of 171 episodes of Mission: Impossible but was listed as a special guest star for the entire first season for various reasons.

Well, there’s no mention of Tubthumping here but it’s Blackjack robbing a bank, and I can’t imagine him doing that without Tubthumping playing somewhere in the background, so here it is:

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