Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 30, 2018

Good morning™, smiley hipsters!

Soundtrack for today’s strip: “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” by Billy Joel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au74rR9lIYQ

Who could this guy be? What’s going on at the Jarman residence? Who is he talking to? Chances are that Mike will keep us guessing on most of these questions for a while.

♫ “Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb …” ♫

https://youtu.be/MT9QZBGyXjU

I have nothing on this. Not in my skill set.

NIGHT-GAUNT49 GC INSIDER ABOUT 2 HOURS AGOI’d rather them sacrifice some information to get a better story and ending

Huh?

You’re not allowed to mock me if you’re going to agree with me. That’s hypocritical.

This dude must be going to a oldies kareoke bar.

Did his hair just change which side the part was on?

He’ll get a table near the street in their old familiar place, and get a bottle of white, a bottle of red, or a bottle of rose’ instead.

The plot thickens!

The music is from the 70s, yet his hairstyle is more that of JFK…

Maybe he’s the tech guy Topper will use for his new shakedown scheme?

The neckerchief is sixties, but it’s also old west. Lone Ranger/Green Hornet connectivity with the old film stuff from earlier in this run?

From deep left field comes….some silly twit it would seem……

Who the heck is THIS clown???

Too many characters to follow in this strip.

I still don’t understand how they’re able to use copyrighted song lyrics without paying a humongous rights fee.

This righteous dude, this Johnny-come-lately with the Big Hair and the narcissistic attitude, doesn’t want to be seen at the Jarman Place (whatever and wherever that is)?! So the fussy grooming is just to satisfy his ego? (Never mind the shifting hair-part and neckerchief knot; “it’s all done with mirrors!”)