Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 23, 2015

Alright! So far, we have a bevy of villains ranging from 1942 (Pruneface) to Shoulders (1946), including 88 Keyes and Shaky (as well as a mention of the name, “Trigger” – as in “Trigger Doom” from 1941). All we’re really missing from that time period so far ARE Flattop and Itchy. I don’t include recently-revived foes like BB-Eyes & Measles, etc. So what are my conclusions? Absolutely none! But, I still love it, no matter where this is headed! STILL entertaining!

Did not see that coming.

Should have.

Yes, and nice to see the Brow as a “good guy”!

.Good morning fellow DT fans!.The countdown continues…❹ Days = ① ⓪ / ② ➆ = Vista Bill = ➇ ➀

They should make this a yearly deal: visiting Earth-3 around Halloween or April 1st!Thank You Mike & Joe!

I notice that the B&W strips from earlier have colour now.

And how did The Brow became named Al? Anyone knows his real name?

THE BROW???? This has curveballs followed by knuckleballs with a few screwballs thrown in to boot. Keep it coming, this is riveting stuff….

Is “The Challas” some sort of frelance Detective/Consultant to the Police?

This is just a wild guess, but I’m thinking that this little costume party is going to last until Halloween, and then all will be revealed. The heroes dressed up as villians, but still acting like heroes — and vice-versa?

It’d be interesting to see old Stooge once more, even if this really is all just a masquerade…

Gweedo You had to go and mention Bambi 3:o}

The Brow (Al) seems to be the valet for the mysterious Chalice. A Gentleman’s Gentleman—very different from his non-Midnite Mirror incarnation! Young master Bud has all the street word.Okay. Now what?

The Chalice has a palace! With brew that is true?

For whoever was wondering, it does indeed seem from today’s strip that Bud is on a very friendly first-name basis with “Al” and probably with The Chalice, too.

I bet “The Chalice” is Flattop!

The Chalice has a sumptuous abode. Good to see Brow and Master Jenkins on the side of right. Can’t recall Brow ever smiling.Tang tasted best when used to wash down a savory Space Food Stick.

Perhaps the Brow is the Al mentioned earlier. but that seems relatively immaterial - just as the character transposition we’ve been seeing here appears . . .A play, a movie, or (Diet’s) alternate world could be a logical explanation, but if this goes on into next week before that’s revealed . . . it seems half the original story time to make the point ?One week of strips, would’ve done just fine

You begin to ‘understand’ now - why, TMS once insisted on Six Weeks story ‘frameworks’ . . .That is, get to the point, cut out unnecessary WAFFLING . . . … that resembles a page or two out of Matt Masterson’s Dick Tracy Rogues Gallery - which just about everybody here has seen . . .Some seem fine with the way things are going (polite?) But you begin to realize the Authors are “straying” from tradition, perhaps off the page (?) when 2 posters (cbreze and bobarion) tell you SO, and another (a ‘decades long’ reader) Bobby Thomas speaks of ‘ceasing’ to read the strip’

There’s an insightful old saying from Tennis . . .

“Never change a Winning Game . . .Always change a Loosing Game !”

Could the “Boss Man” be Diet Smith?

From yesterday . . .

A few more ‘near’ Al’s -

Alderman Zeld (1930’s political flunky for Big Boy)Alex the Timer (1954 bomb maker – Open Mind Monty gang)Vera Alldid (Cartoonist – Sparkle’s former husband)Alpha (another name for the 1950’s – Mr. Crime)

I for one am loving the long build up, it gives us a chance to see Staton draw all the classic villains.

The entire Rogue’s Gallery could be out on display under new names….after all, we will all be given New Names!!

If it weren’t for the names, I’d wonder if everyone being look-alikes was just a massive coincidence.

So the villains have nick-names while the heroes have given names…its all turned around in the Midnight Mirror…I Think…TBC.

This is becoming the cartoon version of The Walking Dead

Could this be some kind of fever/coma dream of Mumbles? We don’t know his status in the wake of the Ace Tower shootout, do we?

Gweedo joked,Don’t forget your TangTM, Bill !-——————————————————————————.Do I hafta?

What’s funny for me is that in the original story, The Brow was an enemy agent, implied to be Axis, and so it wouldn’t be impossible to imagine him with a German accent. Here, he says, “Master Jenkins” which implies a British accent. In either reality, there’s a possibility that The Brow is a foreigner.

Gweedo indicated,Space monkeys and wild west heroes don’t leave home without it, Bill !-——————————————————-.Do I have to drink it?

Gweedo noticed.I see that you guys are going to great lengths to dig up attendees for your party, Bill !-——————————————————————-.We plan to dig up all of our neighbors for the 27th! We have our shovels ready!

Maybe this is the storyline where Mike and Joe FINALLY give Brow’s Son a name…like Mike hinted at YEARS AGO!!

Gweedo cautioned,Be careful not to poke me while you are digging.-—————————————————————————————.I’ll tell Igor to be careful when he reaches the recent occupants section.

Suggestions that this could be a “fever dream” of either Mumbles or BB Eyes brings up another possibility – what about Fritz Ann? She could very well be sedated after her injury. I think someone may have suggested this right at the start of this sequence.

OMG! It’s the BROW!

are we only going to see 1940s villains??? i’d like to see Tonsils again ( thats only 1952)

exactly one more week to the 4th anniversary of….Abner Kadaver’s debut in this strip, lol!

It took a long time to reveal “Venus” and “Mr Bigg” so the Chalice could take time…you never know…with all the roles reversed…traditionally the “Bad Guys” had nick names and smokes in their mouths…the “Good Guys” had given names and were righteous in their behavior toward Justice….some of us have been Tracy fans for a long time, from childhood into our elderly years….not that we’re Old, we just been young a long time….TBC..