Wildwood Cemetery in moonlight, after visiting hoursLook to see a mystery, mourners with unique powers.They come to pay heartfelt respects, a daughter to violence lostTheir pain still keen, scars unseen, a bombing’s endless cost.Since the day she was taken away they’ve avoided human beingsDeep heartache knows no relief, nor respite from severe scenes.Her mother first felt it in her blood, slight suspicion without nameDim glow where once was darkness, disturbance she could not tame.She felt her daughter’s presence, yet that could not be soThe sensation was persistent and daily it did grow.The Governor he felt it too, initially in denialTelepathy would not let it be, his heart and mind on trial. A family excursion soon was planned, down to WildwoodAt her grave in moonlight bathed they bowed their heads and stood.Perplexed that intuition said Mysta was not now deadA perception profound, a song without sound, thoughts that could not be said.
This is too good to be true. The moon people are alive and on Earth! Really, I’m pinching myself. Thank you Team Tracy for reviving the most amazing era of my favorite comic strip!
First, fantastic work, Pequod77. Thanks for that!Second, WOW! The tall one has to be the Governor. And the one on the left is his wife I bet? Plus two new daughters I’m thinking? This is wonderful and encouraging stuff for fans like me. Just as we thought the Space Era might be headed for an extended hiatus—BAM!! Hoping it won’t be long before we see these folks again, out of the shadows.
Could they have been the ones to sabotage the Space Coupe and have sent it into deep space. Perhaps they monitored the trip that Diet, Dick and Honeymoon took earlier this year. Perhaps the “ruined Moon City” was a mirage or false facade to discourage further visit by Diet and others.
I stick by my previous “WOW!”, but the way I viewed this was as the perfect end to the Moon Maid story. Nothing more really needs to be added. We don’t need any answers to what we saw here. Let’s just smile & move on. Kudos all around, Mike & Joe!
I agree with cpalmeresq "Mikeyj and Timmy are rolling over in Mysta’s grave. " has to be the best comment today. Once they roll over, we’re on to a new story, though.
I don’t think this group is living on Earth – they’ve just come for a visit to the cemetery, but they are all alive (as we would assume) and they obviously have the means to travel still, even if all of Diet’s space travel vehicles are now destroyed (which they must be, as soon as the Sparkle Plenty crashes).
I do not know what to say….At first, we thought we were getting Moon Maid back without the moon people..Now it looks like we got the moon people without the Moon Maid!.Or did we?.We still have the Sparkle Plenty, complete with the three stooges, on a collision course for Jupiter..One question – who, how, and when did the stone get replaced?.But something tells me, from here on out, starting tomorrow, we’ll be reading Li’l Abner!
Perhaps this is Mike and Joe’s final commentary on the original Mysta: She’s dead, after all!.With moon people able to telecommunicate through their horns, the moon people haven’t heard from Mysta..They knew all along that Mysta was dead..Silly earthlings. Only we thought she was still alive.
OK. So I wasn’t expecting that one. I figured this was Mike and Joe’s way of getting a Moon Maid like character back into the strip without having to revive the entire space era and the real moon people. Thus the end of the coupe and the moon technology. So this is a surprise,
Love it! Love it! Love it!I don’t think they’re living on Earth, but they do have the ability to visit whenever they want. And also, they will probably rescue the runaway space coupe!
Definitely Moon Maid’s parents and others. I hope the team will now put the whole space coupe thing to “rest” so to speak and revive some old time crooks and do some serious detective work again.
And to think that at 2AM, woken up by a barking dog, I didn’t automatically reach for my phone to read Dick Tracy. Reading this now was like a triple espresso!!!Long live The Moon Era…in occasional stories so certain people don’t spontaneously combustion, hahaha!!!
Those who wish for no more space stuff and a return to the so-called hard detective work, be careful what you wish for; you may just get it!.It’s doggone near impossible to find past threads in the Go Comics comments trails. But I seem to remember at least one person who posited the thought that even Dick Locher found just cops and robbers on the boring side….I know I did..It was the space fantasy stuff that got me hooked on Dick Tracy oh so long ago..And it was the space fantasy stuff that brought be back for this last year..I can’t say that I will find the upcoming Li’l Abner story as interesting as this was. And don’t get me started on Sweatbox!.(Though I did like the cutaway to the reformed Mole. There was an alternate take, not published in Go Comics. In it, Toad was deleted from the Sunday panels, and in her place, a just-as-menacing-as-old Mole grabbing the Sweatbox – great stuff – wish Go Comics had published that one!).(That is a thread I’d like to explore – reformed Tracy villains – and perhaps we just got another one in Franken-Mindy).In the meantime, I really regret that Mike and Joe didn’t “go all the way” and bring the original Mysta back, and for good..But I’m thankful for what they did. It was almost as good.
Unless the visitors turn out to be revealed as other people who have undergone the “Chimera Treatment” by Drs. Ghote and Sail. After all, it would stand to reason that Mindy/Glenna wasn’t the only Guinea pig subjected to such a delicate experiment.
But as the rest of you guys said, it’s a great, mysterious denouement to an epic story. The mystery of these visitors is for another time and a different story arc.
This is the second time we’ve seen a glimpse of Governor and his wife. I can’t believe this is the last we will see of them. We have space-themed crooks still lurking, Melies and Venus, and I am confident we’re going to eventually the moon people, too. Or at least I sure hope so.
Holy Cow! This is a wonderful surprise! I’ve been mourning Mysta all week, but seeing the moonies at her grave site today makes me feel a lot better. Maybe we haven’t seen the end of the revived Moon Era after all.
POWERFUL STRIP! Very revealing! And, it answers a lot of questions that have been floating around lately. This epitomizes the adage “a picture is worth a thousand words”. I think this is the strongest set of panels I’ve seen since Team Tracy came aboard!
@archangel, my thought exactly. why haven’t they contacted Honeymoon? Maybe they want to just observe and can do so without becoming visible to earthlings.
Wow, awesome. This is a classic Gouldian Saturday one-off, I used to love those. If we could have four panels instead of three, this could be my favorite storyline. Thinking back to that Sunday where it was foretold someone would die, this might just be. Excellent work, excellent use of the medium. Never thought I’d see The Governor again!
This is a very important day in Dick Tracy. It is a thrill to see Mysta’s family, and on Earth at that. We don’t know when Mysta will be reunited with her Lunarian family, but it now seems inevitable. Will contact with her parents, given their telepathy and powers, make further changes possible? An acceleration of transformations wrought by the superimposed DNA? This is a reunion I would very much like to see. That this stunning close to chapter one of “Mysta Reborn” is so satisfying, while leaving (the vast majority of) readers chomping at the bit to know what’s next, speaks to the immense talents of Team Tracy. While my take on events may be infused with a dash of wishful thinking, I don’t believe it is a coincidence that Mysta’s family felt compelled to visit Wildwood in the aftermath of Mindy being sacrificed to become a host for Mysta’s DNA and attributes. Ghote will likely die not knowing the full extent of his breakthrough. While anticipation for the next chapter of Mysta Chimera’s story is fierce, I am also looking forward to seeing what happens with Venus, Méliès and Kadaver as we creep into Halloween season.Thanks to Rene Tray, Gweedo Murray, Detective Willy007, Neil Wick, Night-Gaunt49 and marvee for the kind words. Much appreciated
I’d have to agree with retropop and others. This is actually a nice wrap-up. We know that these folks are around, so just bring them in sometime in the decades ahead. I very much doubt that the intent is to extend the moon story right now; it just leaves it open for the future.
Hey, whatever happend to Flintheart’s lifelong friends (or whatever he called them) getting knocked off? Remember that?
I doubt it. The Moon People swore off all contact with Earthlings, and they don’t strike me as the type who would violate such a vow.________________________
The Moon Governor (he has never had a name, perhaps Mike will give him one) swore off all contact with Earth. That does not mean that he could not rescind that order at any time. He is a dictator and his word is law.
I don’t think we’ll see any more about this for a while. I believe this appearance by the Moon people will be like the first Mysta sightings which were sprinkled throughout several other stories until the Mysta story took the forefront. We will eventually see where this goes but not for some time.
How will the Lunarians or whomever react if they ever meet Mysta Chaemera? She’s the product of stolen material, and unnatural. Would they accept her as a version of the original—and maybe offer to bring her with them (with Stellaluna and Retik. Now that would be a happy ending.) or…what?
I LOVE it! The Governor and his wife were always favorites of mine. A lot of readers seem to think that this is the end of the story and they won’t be making another appearance, at least for now. I for one would LOVE to see them in a full story, or as recurring characters as in the past. Since it turned out that Moon Maid is really dead, I doubt this will happen, but it would be nice for Honeymoon to FINALLY see her Grandparents after all these years. GREAT writing Mike Curtis, and GREAT art work today Joe Staton!
Where’s the “Mole” ?,,,,,,and what happened to him ?The Mole has reformed and is caring for a small community of otherwise homeless people in his old underground “digs”. He popped up in a couple of stories last year and in early 2013.
Junior may have had the stone repaired. He knew about it, didn’t he? (I’ve forgotten now.) It’s one of those small details that the reader should fill in, because it would slow down the pacing too much if all of these little things had to be explained.
It actually occurred to me that Mysta’s moon family could have replaced/repaired the stone as part of giving their respects, but it appears that they are merely laying flowers there, so I think the repairs were done some time ago.
JPuzzleWhiz and others: Yes, I am the one who called her Franken-Mindy. I have been doing so ever since Willy007’s “reveal” which, in many ways, was much bigger than Dietrich’s..But I’d also like to point out that I use the term, Franken-Mindy, with a good bit of love and respect. I happen to be one of a few who wasn’t entirely happy with her keeping the name Mysta, especially after even she admitted that she wasn’t the original Moon Maid..Be that as it may..I reiterate what I said this morning, originally, we thought we were getting back the Moon Maid without the Moon Era; looks like it’s the other way around: We got a new Moon Era without the original Moon Maid..Other stuff: Again, it is practically impossible to find previous comment threads in Go Comics. Nevertheless, I do recall a previous comment, possible spoiler, from Mike indicating that they are not done messing with Junior and his women..With that in mind, and recognizing that the space coupe is named Sparkle Plenty, I also reiterate something I have been saying the last couple of days, which is that if something bad happens to the space coupe, Sparkle herself may be in danger!.This is due to the heavy use of symbolism in this current incarnation of Dick Tracy..In the mean time, expecting Li’l Abner to begin tomorrow, I will probably be taking a vacation of sorts from Dick Tracy..I just don’t have the same emotional investment in him as I did the Moon Maid..Nothing bad against Mike and Joe or the strip..Just a fact. I’m not as crazy about grotesque villains..Cheers to all, and quoting Jerry Garcia:.“What a long strange trip it’s been!”
That doesn’t quite let Flintheart/Curtis off the hook. No he didn’t actually say that someone would die, but he did say “Alas! Some of my dearest friends will…I cannot continue.” Alas is an expression of grief, indicating at the very least, some of Flintheart’s “dearest friends” were going to suffer in a bad way during this story. The only character who really suffered after that curtain speech was Mysta, herself. Moon Maid was never among Flintheart’s “dearest friends” unless you believe they became that way off-panel somewhere. And if Mysta’s not Moon Maid, then she isn’t among Flintheart’s “dearest friends” by any stretch of the imagination. And even if she was, there’s still no “some” among Flintheart’s friends who really seemed to have suffered after the curtain speech. That curtain speech raised expectations that were not met at all.^Still, today’s strip is a very good strip. It’s almost good enough to make up for the disappointing, lackluster anticlimax of the past week. Almost.
Replying to your comment above, I made the point once before that Vitamin has always been a ham actor of the first order – he is always overstating, over emoting, etc. Look back at some of his early appearances in the Tracy strip. The slightest little thing would set him off, and he would be running to fortify himself with a handful of vitamins (hence, his name)
Speaking of Moon…how friggin’ BRILLIANT was it that Mike & Co had today’s strip when it was actually a FULL MOON! Ya gotta love that attention to detail, huh? Q: What exactly was the “LUNARIAN EVENT” that Mieles referred to? Q: Who was behind the hidden camera in the Moon Face with Bullet Stuck In The Eye Painting that was in Mieles’ room when he had that meeting? The authors of the strip had an arrow pointing to the hidden camera but yet we were never privvy to whom was spying.
cpalmeresq over 10 years ago
WOW!!!!!
Pequod over 10 years ago
Wildwood Cemetery in moonlight, after visiting hoursLook to see a mystery, mourners with unique powers.They come to pay heartfelt respects, a daughter to violence lostTheir pain still keen, scars unseen, a bombing’s endless cost.Since the day she was taken away they’ve avoided human beingsDeep heartache knows no relief, nor respite from severe scenes.Her mother first felt it in her blood, slight suspicion without nameDim glow where once was darkness, disturbance she could not tame.She felt her daughter’s presence, yet that could not be soThe sensation was persistent and daily it did grow.The Governor he felt it too, initially in denialTelepathy would not let it be, his heart and mind on trial. A family excursion soon was planned, down to WildwoodAt her grave in moonlight bathed they bowed their heads and stood.Perplexed that intuition said Mysta was not now deadA perception profound, a song without sound, thoughts that could not be said.
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ over 10 years ago
Good morning everyone…
And who are these night people? Never a dull moment!
60sFan over 10 years ago
THE MOON PEOPLE ARE BACK!?! YIPPEE!!!
Rista over 10 years ago
Yowza! Love it!!Perfect Halloween strip too.
yumpinyiminey over 10 years ago
This is too good to be true. The moon people are alive and on Earth! Really, I’m pinching myself. Thank you Team Tracy for reviving the most amazing era of my favorite comic strip!
willy007 over 10 years ago
First, fantastic work, Pequod77. Thanks for that!Second, WOW! The tall one has to be the Governor. And the one on the left is his wife I bet? Plus two new daughters I’m thinking? This is wonderful and encouraging stuff for fans like me. Just as we thought the Space Era might be headed for an extended hiatus—BAM!! Hoping it won’t be long before we see these folks again, out of the shadows.
cpalmeresq over 10 years ago
“Mikeyj and Timmy are rolling over in Mysta’s grave.”I don’t care who else comments…That will be the funniest post of the day!
TJ000 over 10 years ago
YOWSAH!! This is a great development!
DaJellyBelly over 10 years ago
Could they have been the ones to sabotage the Space Coupe and have sent it into deep space. Perhaps they monitored the trip that Diet, Dick and Honeymoon took earlier this year. Perhaps the “ruined Moon City” was a mirage or false facade to discourage further visit by Diet and others.
jonahhex1 over 10 years ago
Wow…..always a surprise around every bend in this tale……
stomaino over 10 years ago
A perfect ending to this storyline, for now….
cpalmeresq over 10 years ago
I stick by my previous “WOW!”, but the way I viewed this was as the perfect end to the Moon Maid story. Nothing more really needs to be added. We don’t need any answers to what we saw here. Let’s just smile & move on. Kudos all around, Mike & Joe!
Neil Wick over 10 years ago
I agree with cpalmeresq "Mikeyj and Timmy are rolling over in Mysta’s grave. " has to be the best comment today. Once they roll over, we’re on to a new story, though.
I don’t think this group is living on Earth – they’ve just come for a visit to the cemetery, but they are all alive (as we would assume) and they obviously have the means to travel still, even if all of Diet’s space travel vehicles are now destroyed (which they must be, as soon as the Sparkle Plenty crashes).
blunebottle over 10 years ago
It is definitely the Governor. Even in outline, he is recognizable.
coldsooner over 10 years ago
Those don’t look like sad eyes to me. They look more like “revenge” eyes…
trappergraves over 10 years ago
And who knows? Perhaps the story that was told to Diet Smith about Mysta was a lie.
Sisyphos over 10 years ago
Well, that came out of left field. Now what? More moonie stuff? Or a respectful disengagement?At least Junior had the smashed tombstone replaced.
Cheapskate0 over 10 years ago
I do not know what to say….At first, we thought we were getting Moon Maid back without the moon people..Now it looks like we got the moon people without the Moon Maid!.Or did we?.We still have the Sparkle Plenty, complete with the three stooges, on a collision course for Jupiter..One question – who, how, and when did the stone get replaced?.But something tells me, from here on out, starting tomorrow, we’ll be reading Li’l Abner!
emile.a.schwarz over 10 years ago
Very nice surprise in today’s strip: THANK YOU.
DocNero over 10 years ago
Nice twist there.
Cheapskate0 over 10 years ago
Perhaps this is Mike and Joe’s final commentary on the original Mysta: She’s dead, after all!.With moon people able to telecommunicate through their horns, the moon people haven’t heard from Mysta..They knew all along that Mysta was dead..Silly earthlings. Only we thought she was still alive.
andrew_c over 10 years ago
Great conclusion to the storyline!
retropop over 10 years ago
Now The Moon-stuff can be put back to sleep for another 35 years.
Mdstudio over 10 years ago
I wonder if Diet knows they’re on Earth and had a hand in getting them here. Perhaps that’s why he hasn’t destroyed the Space Coupes before now.
jz27wk Premium Member over 10 years ago
OK. So I wasn’t expecting that one. I figured this was Mike and Joe’s way of getting a Moon Maid like character back into the strip without having to revive the entire space era and the real moon people. Thus the end of the coupe and the moon technology. So this is a surprise,
jz27wk Premium Member over 10 years ago
Either that or our late doctors were busier than we knew….
Any one know what the weather report of Jupiter was today?
galaxyg over 10 years ago
This is the best surprise yet!
davidf42 over 10 years ago
Love it! Love it! Love it!I don’t think they’re living on Earth, but they do have the ability to visit whenever they want. And also, they will probably rescue the runaway space coupe!
436rge over 10 years ago
Definitely Moon Maid’s parents and others. I hope the team will now put the whole space coupe thing to “rest” so to speak and revive some old time crooks and do some serious detective work again.
orbenjawell Premium Member over 10 years ago
Yikesies!!
PatrickDC202 over 10 years ago
And to think that at 2AM, woken up by a barking dog, I didn’t automatically reach for my phone to read Dick Tracy. Reading this now was like a triple espresso!!!Long live The Moon Era…in occasional stories so certain people don’t spontaneously combustion, hahaha!!!
a-man2 over 10 years ago
Maybe this is the real Lunarium Consortium that has been mentioned a couple of times.
Cheapskate0 over 10 years ago
Those who wish for no more space stuff and a return to the so-called hard detective work, be careful what you wish for; you may just get it!.It’s doggone near impossible to find past threads in the Go Comics comments trails. But I seem to remember at least one person who posited the thought that even Dick Locher found just cops and robbers on the boring side….I know I did..It was the space fantasy stuff that got me hooked on Dick Tracy oh so long ago..And it was the space fantasy stuff that brought be back for this last year..I can’t say that I will find the upcoming Li’l Abner story as interesting as this was. And don’t get me started on Sweatbox!.(Though I did like the cutaway to the reformed Mole. There was an alternate take, not published in Go Comics. In it, Toad was deleted from the Sunday panels, and in her place, a just-as-menacing-as-old Mole grabbing the Sweatbox – great stuff – wish Go Comics had published that one!).(That is a thread I’d like to explore – reformed Tracy villains – and perhaps we just got another one in Franken-Mindy).In the meantime, I really regret that Mike and Joe didn’t “go all the way” and bring the original Mysta back, and for good..But I’m thankful for what they did. It was almost as good.
jrankin1959 over 10 years ago
Nice “Twilight Zone” twist to the arc! Well Done!
MoonlitKnight Premium Member over 10 years ago
Unless the visitors turn out to be revealed as other people who have undergone the “Chimera Treatment” by Drs. Ghote and Sail. After all, it would stand to reason that Mindy/Glenna wasn’t the only Guinea pig subjected to such a delicate experiment.
But as the rest of you guys said, it’s a great, mysterious denouement to an epic story. The mystery of these visitors is for another time and a different story arc.
Jerry1967 over 10 years ago
This is the second time we’ve seen a glimpse of Governor and his wife. I can’t believe this is the last we will see of them. We have space-themed crooks still lurking, Melies and Venus, and I am confident we’re going to eventually the moon people, too. Or at least I sure hope so.
brine Premium Member over 10 years ago
The last panel is awesome … hope there will be more development of this!!!
archangel2244 Premium Member over 10 years ago
I bet its her family while their in town they should go visit her daughter.
Chief Patton over 10 years ago
Holy Cow! This is a wonderful surprise! I’ve been mourning Mysta all week, but seeing the moonies at her grave site today makes me feel a lot better. Maybe we haven’t seen the end of the revived Moon Era after all.
Kip W over 10 years ago
Wildwood Cemetery? C’mon, guys: let’s go visit the grave of Denny Colt.
the too late song over 10 years ago
That just blew me away.Wotta curve from Team Tracy.
fhoffman01 over 10 years ago
I’m very glad to see this. I’ve been sad because the Moon Maid story ended. This gives me hope even greater things are ahead.
Morrow Cummings over 10 years ago
POWERFUL STRIP! Very revealing! And, it answers a lot of questions that have been floating around lately. This epitomizes the adage “a picture is worth a thousand words”. I think this is the strongest set of panels I’ve seen since Team Tracy came aboard!
nerdhoof over 10 years ago
Seeing the Moon people in silhouette was such a surprise that no one was mentioned we still don’t know where Lizz is! Maybe we’ll find out tomorrow.
kantuck-nadie over 10 years ago
You can imagine my ‘shock’ when I saw the strip over on http://www.chron.com/entertainment/comics-games/comic/Dick-Tracy/
Quite an interesting touch.
jwmeritt over 10 years ago
We do not know if all the Lunarians are on earth – just some. And those silhouettes match her family. Where are the rest?
sjsczurek over 10 years ago
This gets curiouser and curiouser.
DrSid1 over 10 years ago
I mentioned the headstone on Wednesday…nice plot twist.
marvee over 10 years ago
@archangel, my thought exactly. why haven’t they contacted Honeymoon? Maybe they want to just observe and can do so without becoming visible to earthlings.
@Pequod, Beautiful poem!
APersonOfInterest over 10 years ago
Since my studio is in Wildwood, it pleases me to believe that Joe and Mike named the cemetery in my honor 8-)
hablano over 10 years ago
Mysta’s mystery gets more mysterious!
MrBriberysShrunkenHeads over 10 years ago
Wow, awesome. This is a classic Gouldian Saturday one-off, I used to love those. If we could have four panels instead of three, this could be my favorite storyline. Thinking back to that Sunday where it was foretold someone would die, this might just be. Excellent work, excellent use of the medium. Never thought I’d see The Governor again!
Pequod over 10 years ago
This is a very important day in Dick Tracy. It is a thrill to see Mysta’s family, and on Earth at that. We don’t know when Mysta will be reunited with her Lunarian family, but it now seems inevitable. Will contact with her parents, given their telepathy and powers, make further changes possible? An acceleration of transformations wrought by the superimposed DNA? This is a reunion I would very much like to see. That this stunning close to chapter one of “Mysta Reborn” is so satisfying, while leaving (the vast majority of) readers chomping at the bit to know what’s next, speaks to the immense talents of Team Tracy. While my take on events may be infused with a dash of wishful thinking, I don’t believe it is a coincidence that Mysta’s family felt compelled to visit Wildwood in the aftermath of Mindy being sacrificed to become a host for Mysta’s DNA and attributes. Ghote will likely die not knowing the full extent of his breakthrough. While anticipation for the next chapter of Mysta Chimera’s story is fierce, I am also looking forward to seeing what happens with Venus, Méliès and Kadaver as we creep into Halloween season.Thanks to Rene Tray, Gweedo Murray, Detective Willy007, Neil Wick, Night-Gaunt49 and marvee for the kind words. Much appreciated
MJ Premium Member over 10 years ago
I’d have to agree with retropop and others. This is actually a nice wrap-up. We know that these folks are around, so just bring them in sometime in the decades ahead. I very much doubt that the intent is to extend the moon story right now; it just leaves it open for the future.
Hey, whatever happend to Flintheart’s lifelong friends (or whatever he called them) getting knocked off? Remember that?
Ray Toler over 10 years ago
I doubt it. The Moon People swore off all contact with Earthlings, and they don’t strike me as the type who would violate such a vow.________________________
The Moon Governor (he has never had a name, perhaps Mike will give him one) swore off all contact with Earth. That does not mean that he could not rescind that order at any time. He is a dictator and his word is law.
I don’t think we’ll see any more about this for a while. I believe this appearance by the Moon people will be like the first Mysta sightings which were sprinkled throughout several other stories until the Mysta story took the forefront. We will eventually see where this goes but not for some time.
RickD Premium Member over 10 years ago
How will the Lunarians or whomever react if they ever meet Mysta Chaemera? She’s the product of stolen material, and unnatural. Would they accept her as a version of the original—and maybe offer to bring her with them (with Stellaluna and Retik. Now that would be a happy ending.) or…what?
abdullahbaba999 over 10 years ago
Great. The Full Moon always brings Change…
dennis4476 Premium Member over 10 years ago
I LOVE it! The Governor and his wife were always favorites of mine. A lot of readers seem to think that this is the end of the story and they won’t be making another appearance, at least for now. I for one would LOVE to see them in a full story, or as recurring characters as in the past. Since it turned out that Moon Maid is really dead, I doubt this will happen, but it would be nice for Honeymoon to FINALLY see her Grandparents after all these years. GREAT writing Mike Curtis, and GREAT art work today Joe Staton!
dennis4476 Premium Member over 10 years ago
FRANKEN-MINDY? LMAO NOW that is FUNNY!
Mikeyj over 10 years ago
Mikeyj and Timmy are rolling over in Mysta’s grave^^IT’S ALL JUST A DREAM! :P
Ken in Ohio over 10 years ago
Where’s the “Mole” ?,,,,,,and what happened to him ?The Mole has reformed and is caring for a small community of otherwise homeless people in his old underground “digs”. He popped up in a couple of stories last year and in early 2013.
Morrow Cummings over 10 years ago
Whiz, I think you caught Mike & Joe with their pants down. Who repaired the stone? Good catch!
Neil Wick over 10 years ago
Junior may have had the stone repaired. He knew about it, didn’t he? (I’ve forgotten now.) It’s one of those small details that the reader should fill in, because it would slow down the pacing too much if all of these little things had to be explained.
It actually occurred to me that Mysta’s moon family could have replaced/repaired the stone as part of giving their respects, but it appears that they are merely laying flowers there, so I think the repairs were done some time ago.
the too late song over 10 years ago
Roses are a nice touch and giant Escargo
bluegirl285 over 10 years ago
Oh man, what do you think will happen if they learn about Mysta Chimera?
Chris-One over 10 years ago
I had a dream about the Moon People last night
Cheapskate0 over 10 years ago
JPuzzleWhiz and others: Yes, I am the one who called her Franken-Mindy. I have been doing so ever since Willy007’s “reveal” which, in many ways, was much bigger than Dietrich’s..But I’d also like to point out that I use the term, Franken-Mindy, with a good bit of love and respect. I happen to be one of a few who wasn’t entirely happy with her keeping the name Mysta, especially after even she admitted that she wasn’t the original Moon Maid..Be that as it may..I reiterate what I said this morning, originally, we thought we were getting back the Moon Maid without the Moon Era; looks like it’s the other way around: We got a new Moon Era without the original Moon Maid..Other stuff: Again, it is practically impossible to find previous comment threads in Go Comics. Nevertheless, I do recall a previous comment, possible spoiler, from Mike indicating that they are not done messing with Junior and his women..With that in mind, and recognizing that the space coupe is named Sparkle Plenty, I also reiterate something I have been saying the last couple of days, which is that if something bad happens to the space coupe, Sparkle herself may be in danger!.This is due to the heavy use of symbolism in this current incarnation of Dick Tracy..In the mean time, expecting Li’l Abner to begin tomorrow, I will probably be taking a vacation of sorts from Dick Tracy..I just don’t have the same emotional investment in him as I did the Moon Maid..Nothing bad against Mike and Joe or the strip..Just a fact. I’m not as crazy about grotesque villains..Cheers to all, and quoting Jerry Garcia:.“What a long strange trip it’s been!”
chromosome Premium Member over 10 years ago
I hope they never lose the moon theme. I’m not interested in a purely crime-fighting strip and like the sci-fi element.
Durak Premium Member over 10 years ago
Holy Foreshadowing Batman!
RonBerg13 Premium Member over 10 years ago
A HAH!! I knew it!
boboscar over 10 years ago
That doesn’t quite let Flintheart/Curtis off the hook. No he didn’t actually say that someone would die, but he did say “Alas! Some of my dearest friends will…I cannot continue.” Alas is an expression of grief, indicating at the very least, some of Flintheart’s “dearest friends” were going to suffer in a bad way during this story. The only character who really suffered after that curtain speech was Mysta, herself. Moon Maid was never among Flintheart’s “dearest friends” unless you believe they became that way off-panel somewhere. And if Mysta’s not Moon Maid, then she isn’t among Flintheart’s “dearest friends” by any stretch of the imagination. And even if she was, there’s still no “some” among Flintheart’s friends who really seemed to have suffered after the curtain speech. That curtain speech raised expectations that were not met at all.^Still, today’s strip is a very good strip. It’s almost good enough to make up for the disappointing, lackluster anticlimax of the past week. Almost.
Ken in Ohio over 10 years ago
Replying to your comment above, I made the point once before that Vitamin has always been a ham actor of the first order – he is always overstating, over emoting, etc. Look back at some of his early appearances in the Tracy strip. The slightest little thing would set him off, and he would be running to fortify himself with a handful of vitamins (hence, his name)
Ken in Ohio over 10 years ago
Ooops. The reply was meant for boboscar, regarding Vitamin’s remarks during the Sunday strip which “broke the fourth wall.”
blochouse over 10 years ago
Wildwood Cemetery is where Denny Colt was buried, who is also known as The Spirit. A shout out to Will Eisner.
Ed Brault Premium Member over 10 years ago
They walk among us!
PatrickDC202 over 10 years ago
“Moonshine” — very funny.
Speaking of Moon…how friggin’ BRILLIANT was it that Mike & Co had today’s strip when it was actually a FULL MOON! Ya gotta love that attention to detail, huh? Q: What exactly was the “LUNARIAN EVENT” that Mieles referred to? Q: Who was behind the hidden camera in the Moon Face with Bullet Stuck In The Eye Painting that was in Mieles’ room when he had that meeting? The authors of the strip had an arrow pointing to the hidden camera but yet we were never privvy to whom was spying.
cpalmeresq over 10 years ago
What are the odds that Abner Kadaver will escape with help from the Consortium, feeling betrayed by the Apparatus?
Pequod over 7 years ago
Wildwood Cemetery in moonlight, after visiting hours
Look to see a mystery, mourners with unique powers.
They come to pay heartfelt respects, a daughter to violence lost
Their pain still keen, scars unseen, a bombing’s endless cost.
Since the day she was taken away they’ve avoided human beings
Deep heartache knows no relief, nor respite from severe scenes.
Her mother first felt it in her blood, slight suspicion without name
Dim glow where once was darkness, disturbance she could not tame.
She felt her daughter’s presence, yet that could not be so
The sensation was persistent and daily it did grow.
The Governor he felt it too, initially in denial
Telepathy would not let it be, his heart and mind on trial.
A family excursion soon was planned, down to Wildwood
At her grave in moonlight bathed they bowed their heads and stood.
Perplexed that intuition said Mysta was not now dead
A perception profound, a song without sound, thoughts that could not be said.