Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 02, 2018

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Good morning, guys! ™

160 comments yesterday.

Is the call about …

- Mysta?

- Ugly Crystal?

- The Moon Governor?

They already found Crystal!

And I still say Rifle Ruby found her. Twice the hero.

Some of the comment buttons still don’t work for me, here goes…

Once it lets me, now twice. And time for more of the team!

So Dick Tracy needs his granddaughter….something interesting is afoot…..

Junior’s hair looks like a cross between Moe’s & That Fat Boy in N. korea!

Poor Honeymoon. She still hasn’t mastered the ability to make her attenna sizzle between panels! LOL!

June? I thought Sparkle Plenty Jr’s nickname was Jewel.

Pop-Pop needs her to take care of Ugly Crystal or help find her!!!

After the Christmas incident (which wasn’t your fault, Junior, I know), the destination better be a good one…

Good morning all y’all.

An ice Crystal would be an ugly way to go.

After a few years of buildup, Tracy’s bust-in-and-arrest Bribery seemed much too easy and anti-climactic. It was made more so by today’s quick cutaway. The readers have invested too much in this overarching storyline for it to be resolved in two strips: Tracy busts in; Lee slaps on the cuffs. Bribery was so slick in his first run, Tracy never caught him. The way this went down, Bribery just seemed inept.

BTW, Tracy is probably calling Honeymoon to come and meet her Moon grandfather. After all, that was why he was taking her to the Moon when they learned Moon Valley was deserted.

A new development… The train that Sawtooth was supposed to board got derailed several miles from Tracyville and he scrapped his plan to escape. Since he heard on the radio that Bribery was arrested, he decided to go back and setup an ambush on the police car with Bribery on it. The ambush was successful and Bribery is free again. Grateful, Bribery quadrupled his fee and made him his new bodyguard. Then hand in hand they danced and disappeared into the horizon…. and that’s when a very disturbed Chief Patton woke up from his nap in his office. :)

Anybody have an idea of how many YEARS mike has invested into this whole thing, only to wrap it up with a now classic Sweatbox Ending?

Honeymoon is looking good in panel 1, as she tries to entice Junior to allow her to stay Home Alone; but then the call from Pop-Pop interrupts. She is urgently needed. Maybe in part to complete the reunion of Lunarians and quasi-Lunarians, but also to help with the search for her new friend, Crystal. I do hope they find her before she freezes to death! What a way to go, when even Bribery is not injured during the explosive arrest!

Does anyone else seem to notice the magpies are beginning to circle?