Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 05, 2023

“I’m just an innocent Bible salesman!”

Geez, the action today is as satisfying as a two day old cup of meat!

Is that supposed to be Lizz? Looks a lot more like Dorothy Hamill!

That’s not Gameboy, it’s a diversion to distract Tracy from the real crime taking place.

“As neat as a cup of meat!”

Good morning™, all!

Of course, this is not Gameboy. Sam and Lizz are chasing a fake Gameboy like the security guards at that other show. There’s still Tracy there somewhere. Maybe he’s not distracted by the fake.

Criminals truly are fiends. How dare they interrupt the big chicken nugget brand promotional event at the antique show and selfishly abscond with the collected musings of Chairman Mao? I hope even more deus ex machina policewomen teleport into the story out of nowhere to arrest them even harder!

Seems Lizz put in her green eyes today.

Their security, wasnt tight (Mike gets bored easily when he doesn’t write about things that only he likes)

This story was a HA-YUGE misfire from the get go…we were introduced to a bank robber (which, last I checked was a FEDERAL CRIME so it should’ve been IMMEDIATELY turned over to Fritz Ann) who left a “unique calling card” and he was almost immediately switched over from a bank robber to a pilferer of “rare game items” and the bank robberies (two of them to be precise) were summarily swept under the carpet as “means to an end, to fund his robbery spree”….which I guess CAN get expensive…have you checked the price of comic con tickets lately? Lord knows how much the price of tickets for a convention focusing on games and friggin chickens goes for? But I digress… after a week long “comedy interlude” which had ZERO relevance or impact on this sham of a story which, by the by..featured an antagonist…(I’m not calling him a villain because he isnt even a “Z-LIST” character) who was always “one step ahead” of tracy and his amazing friends then out of NOWHERE pops up right in front of Sam, Tracy, Security, meaningless throwaway character Klinique, B.O., and Chick Tracy 2..in a pathetically lame “snatch and run” attempt…only to be stopped by NOT the “tight security” but apparently Lizz Worthington displaying her heretofore unraveled superpower (it must run in the family) of appearing out of nowhere to stop a criminal

this isn’t “suspension of disbelief”…. this is flat out laziness and a telltale sign that the writer doesnt give two chicken pellets about his own stories, gets bored quickly (time to re-up the ritalin prescription) and just brings stories to a screeching halt at whim

….you don’t know it had no relevance; maybe Chick 2 will be the one who reels in Gameboy…..

Never thought a villain would give up that easily.

Hi! I am a Shellhead!

He ain’t the REAL McCoy

Gweedo! leave those goats alone and get on here. You’re late. ;p

Eh they not use the old “stop in the name of the law” line anymore eh.

Well, quick ending!

Sam SPEAKS into action! Using the power to stun his prey with the force of his voice, given him by Aquaman, he nearly wins the day!

Meanwhile, the chicken makes off with the boxoffice take. Surprise villain!

wow that was quick

it’s an odd perspective but speaking from experience when a gun is pointed at you, the end of the barrel is as large as the freaking holland tunnel.

Too easy. Way too easy.

Is this the end?

There were so many two-panel days in this arc that when we get to any action, it has to be squeezed into skinny panels with no room to show it. Yet, Chick Tracy often gets 2/3 of the strip.

My AltTake yesterday had Sam spotting a guy in a dice-mask. I am so in tune with Mike it’s like we have a mind meld going on! Looks like this story is mercifully over! UNLESS…

That’s a guy Gameboy hired to wear the mask as a distraction while the real Gameboy swiped the game! Is that a guess or is Mike in my head again??? (I do have an odd urge to go watch old Superman TV show reruns for some reason…)

GAH!

1-SAM: STOP THAT GUY! HE STOLE A PRICELESS FIRST EDITION OF CHAIRMAN MAO’S LITTLE RED BOOK!

2-… oh he’s in for it now! Exiting via an Emergency Only Exit! That’s a “shoot-to-kill” offense! Where’s my gun…?

3-LIZ: STOP IN THE NAME OF LOVE – I MEAN “THE LAW!” Darn that song!

4-NOT GAMEBOY: What??? I just really needed to pee and couldn’t find the restroom! Uh oh…

I don’t have to pee anymore…

This is not making any sense to me.

MOVIE QUOTE—

“Nicky,I think I smell-a a rat. MY a-rat!!”

Marjorie Rambeaue—-EAST OF THE RIVER—1940

WHOOSH!!That was a fast shift in action.I think I sprained my neck.

Is it really over this fast and this wimpy?That doesn’t look like a Monopoly set to me.

Did they just catch a decoy,and the real one is sneaking in from the other direction?

DMITRIO—-

I have been on t he wiki/fandom “blacklist” for 18 months!doN’T YOU THINK ENOUGH IS ENOUGH???

FINALLY! A stakeout that worked!

And as we all depart for the weekend,I leave you with an important unanswered question—

“Why did Oodles bother to drink skim milk?”

This is too easy…this case seems to be progressing quickly…

Good afternoon™, exposed miscreants !

Well, that was a quick “Sweatbox”. You know tomorrow’s will be the closeout and then maybe we can get back to GG and see if he is on his way to show Tracy that important stuff.

Will Walter be going to the ER, from all that chickin, lickin’ kickin’ ? ?

Didn’t Gameboy at the beginning of this storyline have blond hair? With B.O. and his cousin plus the chicken thrown into the mix, I done lost track. Methinks this wannabee is a copycat.

I do declare the plots are getting shorter and the criminals, well they don’t draw them like they used to.

Either the most ho hum ending ever, or, as many have suggested, this easy-surrender guy is just a decoy who wore a Gameboy mask probably for a few quick bucks, having no idea what the real reason was. And so Gameboy again outwits Tracyville’s Finest and gets away with the POW Monopoly rarity (but where or how can he fence it; or is he satisfied in this case to be a collector himself?).

Lizz may look like Dorothy Hamill here, but she wields a mean piece, easily stopping the perp in his tracks regardless of whether he is the real Gameboy or just a decoy….