Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 30, 2024

and they’re wearing ‘monkey suits’… LOL…

Good morning™, everyone!

I feel like this story was probably told in detail in the Little Orphan Annie strip at some point, It’s a pretty funny story in an case.

Warbucks is evil!

They went on to have supporting roles in the opening sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

So the story of Annie’s parents is left hanging?

Next up, how Annie got her first tricycle, followed by how Annie learned to Double Dutch. Ultra excitement at it’s best!

Jim Douglas slammed our chief slammer about 2 hours ago

@Gweedo it’s legal here Murray

spare me, please , I’ve seen some of his plagiaristic work, no talent, but he can sure criticize other people who visiually have great talent, I guess that’s a talent even if it’s negative.

He Is a cross we bear. LOL !

Good morning™, Chimp Change !

Curiosity kills cats while doing something entirely different to humans. LOL !  Is Sunday a new story or a continuation of Annie’s tale ?

Gives new meaning to “Making a monkey out of you”……..

This story has more layers than an onion. Mike, what are you doing?

The thing is, this is NOT part of Gray’s original storyline. It’s more in the nature of fan fiction! Now, I LOVE fan fiction, I’ve written a ton of it myself (including an Annie story). But I never consider it part of the original storyline—fan fiction exists in a parallel universe, alongside, but NEVER part of the original. Which is how I’m reading (and enjoying) this story.

WHAAAAT? Now what sorta monkey business is this?

Like a kid-friendly version of Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

Not having read the original story (from the 40s?) I am rather intrigued by the fact Boris and his men were out in the jungle, slaughtering another group of treasure hunters and looting treasure for themselves, while wearing tuxes. Not very practical jungle wear.

Or maybe the prehistoric air (how does it differ from modern air? Less filling, tastes great?) which reduced them to apes also put them in the monkey suits?

I guess that makes as much sense as a chest full of prehistoric air… I wonder where the factory that makes modern air is located? I’ve check the expiration date of my air – it’s good until 2025.

Awaiting the banana boat!

ah yes. the old prehistoric air trick!

This is Dick Tracy?

And planning on burying the Statue of Liberty in the sand.

This is getting a bit weird, though granted this isn’t going to be a crime-oriented storyline.

So… Since AM is God (to prove that American capitalism is sacred and must never be questioned) there are any number of theological questions that should be raised in any original Gray story-line which included the character. Like, why AM needed practice before raising the dead (in the case of the Asp)? What does that fact Warbucks is only one or three or four people worth raising from the dead mean? Is Warbucks, who symbolizes capitalism to be worshipped? Was it deliberately planned to run that bit of story before Easter? Will tomorrow strip recap that – showing Warbucks victoriously emerging from the tomb with angelic attendants?

Just about any comic strip has some bad ideas that are best ignored. If Mike wanted to bring Annie into the strip (and, obviously, he does), IMHO the great AM and any reference to him would have been better ignored rather than glorified.

Are we entering SciFi now ?

Perhaps a mutant virus ?

….to become the future race of Borissirobsapiens, I reckon…oh joy, rapture!……..

I’m reminded of the three Skrulls in Fantastic Four Volume 1 #2 (cover-dated January 1962), who changed themselves into cows and were hypnotized by Reed Richards into remaining in that “contented” state until other Skrulls snapped them out of it about 9 years later. Boris and his henchmen may have reverted to fully human by now…

This is so bad that even Mystery Science Theater 3000 would stay away.

1-DADDY-O: OH! I gotta another story about that backyard campout! I told them all that I had a chest of cash for anybody who could tell a compelling story involving monkeys and treasure. Well…

2-…the writer, Michael Crichton, was with us and fortunately the ghost story I had told hadn’t killed him SO, he came up with a story about killer monkeys who guarded a diamond mine.

3-The story stunk BUT the chest was empty anyway – HAR HAR HAR Oh. Crichton got the last laugh when he published that dumb story and I financed the movie. I lost a small fortune while he made one. DT: HA! THAT’S FUNNY! DADDY-O: SHADDAP!!!

/ wiki / Congo_(novel)

Eep eep. Ook?

I don’t know what the writer’s smoking, but I wish he’d share.

Well that’s a disappointment.

For a moment I thought I had skipped to Tarzan (BTW, Tarzan helped Tracy find Annie in “The MAD Comic Strip Musical.”)

cigar man seeems pretty chipper when the chimps are down.

The Marx Brothers will now sing “Monkey Doodle Doo”