Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 09, 2012

Good morning all…

Moon Maid?

Finally the Moon Maid story becomes part of the continuity!

Good Morning, VB! Tracy, Sam, Pat Moon Maid, Honeymoon, & Phishface all on the same page. Awesome!

Forgot to include Arthur Curry!

That’s a haunting, beautiful image of Honey in today’s last panel. Unexpected and moving.

The renewing begins. amazing…..

I was hoping we’d get another peek of that spectacular woman we saw yesterday. Guess we’ll have to be content with the pic of Honeymoon’s mom. Don’t mean to sound all glum, because today’s strip is great. But after waiting patiently for more than a month, I wanted me some more Moon Maid!!

What a beautiful tribute in today’s Hall of Fame to the first responders (police, fire, etc) who died trying to save others in the World Trade Center. Thanks for remembering.

Aqua-man !

Arthur’s hair and shirt are the correct color and so are Moon Maid’s antenna.

Phishface’s ultimate scheme is either to corner the sushi market and drive up prices, or accelerate global warming by injecting massive amounts of methane into the atmosphere…

One of the alternative identities for the mystery vigilante that I had considered was that it was a suddenly-matured (moon genetics, you know) Honeymoon. Today’s expressive strip rules that out. But I am still reluctant to believe that what Junior (Dad) and Dick (Pop Pop) told Honeymoon about that fateful day was incorrect. Moon Maid, I believe, is dead and will remain dead. But someone is doing a fine job of looking like a living Moon Maid!

RIP, Capt. Mazza and other heroes of 9-11.

GREAT storyline here. Still, this is one time the Tracy Hall of Fame overshadows it. Capt. Mazza certainly belongs in MANY HOF’s. Terrific choice Mr. Doherty.

Great Sunday. So much going on! I wonder if the mysterious woman storyline will actually intersect with the phishing one.

Honeymoon was there when her mother died. I guess she was either too young to remember or blacked out the memory.

Great to see Moon Maid again, if only as a screen shot on Honeymoon’s PC.

Great rendition of Moon Maids full face by Staton. This creative team is by far the best since Collins and Fletcher!

I hope the first years work gets put into a book form somewhere along the line.

Any plans on this?

All the old villains are accounted for; some of the forgotten characters have returned. Patton is again Chief of Police. Lt. Teevo is sleeping with the fishes.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it appears that the nightmare/Locher era of DT is finally completely over.

This is interesting; the right of the picture is flopped, yet the front is fine. Weird! :)

but thanks for the repost. Pretty superheros are always appreciated

Fine tribute to the 9/11 captain, gentlemen. I printed out last year’s 9/11 strip on high quality paper, and now it’s framed. Good work.

Excellent inking and coloring today.

Good one, Hector…..the resemblance is uncanny!

he really does look like Al!

Honey moon is crying. Wow this is so cool, and I do not need an explanation I just want the kid to be able to talk to and enjoy her mom!

aquaman!!!

Nice story on Capt. Mazza. May she rest in peace.

No reference, but there was a Liza Mazza in the animated series Gargoyles (1994-1997), but that was seven years before the events of 9/11. Also: Tuesday is the actual day the event happen. Nice reference to the DC Comics character Aquaman. These days he’s drawn (and animated) with a beard. I say he looks younger without it. What do you think?

5:33pm and i’m number 47… quite a drop from #3 yesterday! lol!

poor honeymoon, i feel bad for her. FINALLY someone in the tracy family sees a news report… whta will junior and tracy’s reaction be? not to mention tess, sparkle, lizz and everyone ELSE too! this is shaping up damn good!

wont you feel foolish day-day2001 if the moon maid in the strip currently turns out to be the actual moon maid

Re: My comment to morrow, above. I guess I didn’t do that quite right. The first two lines are a copy and paste from morrow’s comment. My answer starts on the third line.

@ 60sFan

How (and why) did you flop the art work, but not Joe and Mike’s names? Back in the day, when I was working in the printing field, that would happen if someone accidentally flopped a negative during the plate making process. But, everything would flop. – words would be mirrored too. If you manipulated the image on purpose, I wonder why?

I want my giant escargot!

Apologies to anyone who was offended about what I said about the Locher era. I only found Dick Tracy here a couple of years ago, and the action was slow and the characters poorly developed. I remember the month Tracy spent in a haunted house, etc. I remember Chief Patton getting a dont-let-the-door-hit-you-on-the-way-out dismissal, and the introduction of a meaningless Lt. Teevo.

If Locher saved the strip, I’m thankful to him. But what I saw really was painful for a guy who, as a kid, had been raised on Chet Gould’s classic.

Wow, they could have used Teevo on this ‘phishing’ expedition…If he hadn’t gone and gotten himself turned into mulch! BURP