Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 29, 2015

Well…we ARE getting everyone in here now, aren’t we?!! Diet Smith as a chauffeur, plus Willie the Fifth & Flyface (who I wouldn’t stirring my pot of soup/chili – or WHATEVER!) Looking at it again, I’m sure I wouldn’t want Fifth’s cigar ashes in whatever he is serving either! No matter what, I’m still loving this interlude! In my opinion, I think that Chester Gould would be fascinated and approve!

Really didn’t see “Smith” coming.

What is going on here?!!

If Boss Tracy’s car is a coupe, “Smith” makes a little more sense.

The flow today is definitely dream-like …

Any bets that might be Junior Tracy?

Why are Flyface and The Fifth working at the soup kitchen …?!

“Boss Tracy” still in shadow …

At least so far. Maybe we’ll see him eventually.

Call the Health Office, these two slobs aren’t fit to work in a kitchen, bleaugh!

They’re coming out of the woodwork…Hmmm good soup..TBC..

@AnyFace said: “‘Boss Tracy’ still in shadow …”You had brought this to our attention a couple of days ago, and now that I think about it, you’re right. All of “Tracy’s” appearances have been in shadow.

This could be a clue as to whose dream or altered reality this is. (I’m still guessing it is an induced nightmare courtesy of Abner Kadaver. It is almost Halloween, after all.)

“New” characters: Diet Smith first appeared January 2, 1946, but of course we’ve seen a lot of him lately. It looks like he’s Boss Tracy’s chauffeur in this Midnite Mirror.

Flyface and Willie the Fifth first appeared in the Fall of 1959 and they may be the most recent characters in this scenario so far. They did appear in a story in 2011 also, but then they were both killed.

I wouldn’t really want them serving me food, either, but I suppose you can’t always be picky at a soup kitchen.

I think it’ll be fan fiction chimera, honeymoon or sparkle is writing ala doogie houser

FLYFACE cooking???? GAG…..

In this altered world, would the chauffeur’s name be Banquet Smith?

More to the point, why is boss Tracy going to the police station? Curiouser and curiouser!

For what it’s worth …

MIDNIGHT MIRROR

10/12/15 – ?

Cast:In Order of First Full On-Camera Appearance …

Reggie

88 Keyes

“Trigger” Catchem

Patton

Lizz

Boss Tracy

Ownley Childe

Chief Boche

Mayor Trembly

Officer Shoulders

Bud Jenkins

Jake

Al

“Big Ears” Finney

Mr. Eizlander

“The Chalice”

S.T. Ench

“Plainclothes” Itchy

Gertrude

“Art Ticulate” AKA L. O. Quence

Smith

Flyface

Fifth

For convenience sake, even though “Boss Tracy” hasn’t appeared fully on-camera yet, he’s included at the point at which he entered the story.

And I missed the un-named individual who was turned away at Chief Boche’s door, as well as the soup kitchen patron.

No Mole yet. :(

Or Breathless Mahoney.

Or Tess.

Might Tess have been killed by dastardly criminals in 1931 …?

I wonder if BOSS TRACY has a scar of some sort?

The fact he’s got half the police force “on his payroll”just shows how powerful Tracy the Criminal is as Tracy The Cop is.

.Good morning guys!.My cardiologist’s visit yesterday took it’s toll on my tired old body! I slept straight through 1:11 am! Next week is the eye doctor..As Halloween approches, watch for: ☑ Abner Kadaver, ☑ Rikki Mortis, ☑ Vitamin Flintheart, ☑ Vista Bill (I wish!).

After seeing “The Chalice” in the yellow coat, I was a bit confused by seeing Boss Tracy with the hat. I thought for a moment that it was Chalice in the car.

What if BOSS TRACY is really JUNIOR?! We have no idea the progression of time in this universe. Think of it – Tracy killed Flattop and Flattop Jr came after him years later. So what if The Chalice Killed Tracy Sr and now Junior is in charge?

If Mike is running parallel, this might be the case – thus the not yet reval of Tracy’s face.

I still think it is Dick Tracy’s dream. With the mention of Junior’s name, he is aso a possibility but I still call it the evil within DT.Jonathan K. must be right that this might connected to Abner Kadaver. This is probably the plan that Abner mentioned to Bribery.I am still hoping for a Sunday reveal but the story is not moving fast enough for that.

I wonder if Tracy’s Enmity with The Chalice comes from the Chalice’s killing of Tess in a shoot out

Well, if we are moving now to characters outside the 40’s, I can still hold out hope for Bribery as mayor. With Kitty, of course.And his sister can return as Beautiful Christine!

I’ve been watching the Lone Ranger on one of those stations that shows old reruns every day. In the episodes when the Lone Ranger takes off his mask and puts on a disguise, our unnamed character today looks a lot like Clayton Moore with a beard and big bushy eyebrows.

A Flyface stew simply will not doStomach’s better left to rumble.The ladle melts in the Fifth’s handSo out the door I tumble.Better to stay hungryRun don’t walk from the soup kitchen.Scavenge berries and some nutsDanger kitchen well worth ditchin’.

The 5th, and Flyface, and Smith? This is been fun! But I lost my appetite seeing flyface at the soup :(

Smith in the chauffeur outfit looks remarkably like the early versions of Bob Keshan’s Captain Kangaroo…

It looks like Shakey is mayor Tracyfan. I would hope Bribery would be the DA (Mr. Honesty?) with his faithful South American Shaman Nah Tay, assistant DA Matty Circle (complete with lollypop sucking cat) and, of course, Beautiful Christine!

It’s like Mysta is writing a version of “Alice in Wonderland” for a writing class.It can’t be, though; we haven’t had a Cheshire Cat. Well, not yet.

A good day to everyone.-——-@Vista Bill: Praying that you get good reports from all your doctors. -——-Have a bountiful day my friends.

when will Big Boy, Lips Manlis and Larceny Lu show up??

Does this mean that Chalice and Boss man T both wear that same hat ?

I think that yellow was poor choice for that hat by the GoComics guy.

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-————————————————“… I’m still loving this interlude! In my opinion, I think that Chester Gould would be fascinated and approve!”-————————————————-Perhaps Chet would? But then, perhaps (on recalling what “worked well” over the years) he wouldn’t ?

I guess it would ‘depend’ on the purpose of the Dream? Sequence, or this Movie? (or Play?) or rehearsal ? They’re not the originals, not real and most of the ‘characters’ appearing are Long Dead !The point that it was LIKELY one of those speculations, became readily ‘apparent’, and I’d think, easily ‘realized’ by most after week ONE! ?

Two weeks more of the ‘same thing’ with new faces to deepen the same point doesn’t do ANY more than ‘increase’ reader WAITING TIME for SUBSTANCE (and may even trigger ‘irritation’?) . . .A need NOW to GET to the POINT, for Readers to find out what’s “cooking” in the Kitchen, It’s only ‘stretching out’ meaningless activity to make ‘not a thing more’ than the same point at the end ?Perhaps they’ll take a whole MONTH to do so ?That’s ‘Two-thirds’ of a TMS’ (desired) story line time, yet ‘Nothing REAL’ (no crime) has yet occurred in Tracyville? It’s always a CRIME that gets things in Tracy ‘moving’Currently story ‘engine’ is just “idling” and ‘gears’ not “engaged” Main story Still to Start !Just the pleasantry of a USO type show for the troops, by seeing how well Joe Staton “draws” these historic figures.

This long wait this apparent flirtation with a new “story format” gives me pause . . . A worry perhaps, do a ‘toying’ with a departure from things ‘tried’, *’tested’, say, like a known FORMULA that’s worked in strip, every time - and used for 84 years . . . … starting, before anyone here was Born !

My concern is, this is all a prelude into setting a “Mystery” in Dick Tracy, following a murder (still to come), going down into a “Who Done it” moad? !

Sadly, that might lead to yet another ‘miss-step’ on the DOWN Escalator . . .Means your Villain ‘design’ likely comes as a PLAIN George (or Jenny)? … so, readers can’t identify him /her/ easily.You got to wait, not getting the ‘Big Surprise’ until the very end.

If SO ? Seems that come with a Hidden Benefit . . .Nice ‘rewarding’ ‘side step’ - as the Authors automatically AVOID the need to create the traditional “stand out” Rouge for this event ,“Groan !That’s not Dick Tracy !And as you contemplate it all. you realize that the only ‘Impressive’, Rogue ‘design’ brought in this year is T-Bolt, yet “wasted” in the sense that, it is only a Lee Ebony “disguise” !

Diet Smith, chauffer. What a demotion in this universe for him.

Boss Tracy still in shadow.

Yngvar mentioned something previously—“Saturday is Halloween, good time for the reveal, which I suspect may involve seeing Boss Tracy’s face.”

What face would we see, we wonder?

Some say scarring, others (like me) say facial hair, like a villain-style moustache. But since we are close to Halloween, and Abner Cadaver figures so much here, another thought occurred to me: the big “BOO!” moment, when we see Boss Tracy’s face, is it the skeletal Abner Cadaver’s? And Boss Tracy’s main squeeze: Rikki?

Again, it’s wild and silly speculating on my part, and I’m gonna give Vista Bill fits, I’m sure.

So, sorry in advance, Vista Bill! Glad you are doing okay!

This is really great. Love all the face dropping here.

I also love the “face dropping” but it will have to end soon. The crowds are getting restless with all these characters and little action.

I still think Boss Tracy is really Junior and Boss Richard Tracy is dead. Again think of the Flattop/Flattop Jr Parallels.

Which makes it weird, as we all know who Dick Tracy looks like, or are we to assume he has a goatee like any respectful parallel-universe doppleganger?

That’s not Tracy, it’s The Chalice

@JPuzzleWhiz said: “I still think he may have a thin mustache, making him look like Al Capp’s Fearless Fosdick.”That is very possible. Vera Alldid has called Tracy “Fosdick” before, and an “Arev Alldid” was mentioned in this story arc.

Flyface!? Remind me never to eat at that joint!!

@Gweedo – It’s legal here !!! – Murray

Does this mean that Chalice and Boss man T both wear that same hat ?____________________

I’m not sure that Flattop can wear a hat.

But it is the same kind of hat ! An easy mistake to make, unless he copies Tracy or vice versa, as a means of mocking.

Yes, it’s an easy mistake to make, though I’m not quite sure if it’s the same type of hat. This one seems to have a rather floppy brim.

Nice to see Flyface and Fifth again. I was glad to see Team Tracy bring them back in their 1st story. But it was such a short story and a rather unlikely plot. Since the two crooks were doing so well in their new life it seemed odd that they would risk it by killing a cop. I didn’t like the ending either because I hoped they’d be kept alive to use again.