Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 07, 2022

Good morning™, everyone!

Those bankers are an impatient lot. Apparently, they are worried about a run on the banks, even if certain readers say that’s not plausible. The mayor still looks a little pudgy, even from the front. Can she force Tracy to make progress? We’ll see.

Why does the mayor always look like she is sucking on a lemon? LOL

So far this story is a real snooze fest. ZZZZZzzzzz,,,,,

“We didn’t say anything, but Tracy found out anyway. So why hasn’t he solved this?!”

The mayor looks like Mrs. Howell from Gilligan’s Island in that first panel.

How come the top of the ties are always drawn so weird?

Good morning™, pucker pusses !

That old biddy expects magic with sparks flying from Tracy’s finger tips. Oh wait. They’re flying from her finger tips. She’ll pull a rabbit out of Dick’s hat if it kills him.

Incredible. The bald fat-cat asserts that Tracy is dragging his feet on progress, rather than the fat-cats were concealing the thefts and delaying the investigation.

The problem with this story is that instead of showing us these crimes, Mike has all these talking heads telling us about them which is as boring as can be. If you want to make a cybercrime story interesting, you have to show us the ins and outs of how it’s done but Mike didn’t bother with the technical research to pull it off. The story started off well with Memory using his gadgets like the hypno-glasses and the electronic fingertips. I think the story would have been way more fun if Memory continued with these gadget crimes and we’d get to see all these neat little gadgets he uses like something out of the Johnson Smith Company.

The weapon of choice with these bank robberies are probably done with a pen, a paper and a keyboard.

She should be calling Efrem Zimbalist Junior! (Who remembers)?

Wasn’t Baldy complaining a day or so ago that Tracy was investigating? I wonder if he’s Mr Memory’s accomplice?

I’m sure Tracy is expecting her call, like a toothache!!!

He hasn’t solved it in 17 hours, despite the fact he isn’t even an expert in computer forensics? No wonder the mayor is incensed!

So, who are the bigger idiots in today’s strip. The bank presidents whose lousy security allowed the crimes to happen, and then blame Tracy for not solving it with a snap of his fingers or the mayor who thinks she can force Tracy to solve it faster with a shrill scolding?

(psst) “Be careful not to mention that the reason we don’t have sity funds to lose is because of those bass boats and SUVs we purchased to that big fishing weekend in Tahoe! I named MINE the Graft Spee.”

“And he’d better be able to figure it out. I’m all OVER Wordle!”

“Just ONE word. If he’s such a hot shot detective, that will be enough of a clue to solve the case.”

cue the ominous music

Meddling in complex investigations irks me to no end.

Here is where politics takes a hand!

1-MAYOR STRETCH ARMSTRONG: Which one of you wants to find out what ZZ Topp was singing about in that Pearl Necklace song? CLARK: ME! ME!

2-PAUL TREE: Let’s stay on topic, shall we? CLARK: Thanks a lot, Tree. I was about to get a Pearl Necklace treatment.

3-MAYOR STRETCH ARMSTRONG: Fine. You’ve bored me long enough – and not in a good way. Sooooo, I’ll press this button and the floor beneath you will open and you’ll disappear from my si…Wait. I’ll press this but…Hang on…I’ll press… DAMMIT

MAINTENANCE!!!

The mayor isn’t calling Tracy, she’s calling her campaign manager to make sure their funds are moved to a bank in a different city!

MOVIE QUOTE—-“All I did was notarize a bill of sale”

Edmond O’Brien—D.O.A.—1950

Okay,Tracy has had less t han 24 hours to work on the case and suddenly he’s “too slow”??

More likely they’re aware of Tracy’s rocky relationship with the Mayor and are hoping he’ll get pulled from the case.

Aw,let’s HAVE a run on the bank.We haven’t had a really good one since IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE.

Who are you gonna call? The police department? The military? DICK TRACY.

So, the bankers were upset that Tracy even learned about the heist, but now they are upset that he hasn’t done more to solve it. Typical suits.

Look at those scumbags, trying to put the blame on Tracy! They’re in spin control now, trying to get ahead of this before rumors start spreading through the copshop that the banks broke the law by not reporting the thefts, and those rumors float through the otherwise empty head of the Mayor. I just can’t see Banks as victims! Gotta love that expression on the Mayor’ face in panel 3 tho! :D

So, what if the mayor has put on a few pounds. I wondered who bought that necklace I saw at Wilma Flintstone’s garage sale.

THE IOWA STATE FAIR.

During the Collins era,the Ownley Chylde affair while Sparkle performed there.

Just read that this year’s star attraction at the Iowa Fair will be acow sculpted out of butter that weighs 600 pounds,

This mayor seems corrupt

I’ll say this for Banker Clark: he would be poison in the bank’s PR department! That fat cat really knows how to shift the blame from the Gang of Five Bankers’ Cabal, that tried to HIDE the cyber-thefts, to Tracy, only newly on the case, and that, thanks to the Cinnamon Knight, not the bankers. What a scuz-ball! Let’s hope the FDIC comes down on him like a ton of bricks!

And Mayor Armstrong is no peach, either. She is headstrong in her implacable hatred/jealousy of Tracy and is only too happy to tag him with any faux blame she can!…