Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 17, 2018

Let’s do the Time Warp again

Dance and sing, respond and grin

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tonight Only! Thus Glitch did go

To have some fun. Sing and dance

Share some laughs, a knowing glance.

When who shows up to bring foul strife

Who clamps fierce jaws and ends a life?

A voice cries out! Sam so alarmed

Checks out the crowd. Are all unharmed?

A bloody body on the floor

A big, bad boy moves toward the door.

Sam appraises situation.

Sawtooth bent on confrontation.

Good morning™, buds!

Sam! Watch out for that guy in the Meatloaf costume!

Dance the night away

Have some fun and play

You wish the joy would stay

Perhaps another day

Mayhem rears its head

You should have stayed in bed

You hope the cat was fed

In case you wind up dead

ZOUNDS!!!!!!!

Good morning™, expired party goers !

I would still like to know Bribe’s motive for getting Glitch exxed out !

Three cheers for Constable Patel!

Isn’t this the wrong time of year for Rocky Horror?

Thanks to all who wished me well on my trip- I arrived home safe and sound…first time I’ve flown in 23 years. (Hate flying.)

I had the extreme pleasure of rooming with a member of the Cleveland cast of the Rocky Horror Experience. He taught me some of the callbacks and encouraged me to come up with some original ones.

Where do we go from here, I wonder …? ✨

The Rocky Horror homage continues to impress! I see Magenta, Riff Raff, and even Frankie in silhouette. That makes sense since his outfit is too risque for the funny pages. Did Bribery find out that Glitch didn’t like his teddy and knew he was a no-good kid? What a guy…

“The two are hed to hed.And Glitch, he just might be ded.Did Sawtooth carry out his evil deed? Aaahhhhh!!!!”

So how exactly did Sawtooth kill Glitch? I don’t see any weapon….except his teeth.

So, how did Sawtooth recognize Ygor in full makeup and costume in that huge crowd of costumed people?

Great Scott!!!

Happy Father’s Day. God Bless You All.

Let there be lips!

X-Ray!

I hope Sam’s packing.

What kind of place is this?

I know, I KNOW—he’s dead…But the “Columbia” in the background reminds me just a TEENY bit of Abner Kadaver

“And now…let…there…be…lips!”

Are we going to see Sam’s daughter Julie here?

The strip seems to be just hinting that Glitch is down, but I believe in the scream!

Now Sam needs to take care that he doesn’t become Number Two on Sawtooth’s score sheet! Sawtooth is certainly “in the mood” for mayhem….

On the other hand, that was a perfect response, Mr. Sawtooth.

Intro (skip if you’ve already read any of the previous intros):

Hello, greetings, casual readers of past Tracy stories. I’m here because I’m on 2 missions. The first is something I’ve never done before, read each Tracy story by Mike Curtis (or his occasional guest writer) in one sitting each. I feel his stories are worth it. IMHO, Curtis is by far the best post-Gould writer this strip has ever had, and we’re all lucky to have him.

My second mission is to provide an immediately useful Featured Comment whenever needed. My 3 friends below will reply to me. You can read their replies if you like, but their only real purpose is to bump up this comment to the Featured Comment.

There are 2 basic types of immediately useful Featured Comments: the first type is to provide you with a Mumblespeak translator when needed. The other type (this type) is anytime that day’s strip quotes a real song. I will provide an html to a recording to that song so you’ll know the tune even if you’ve never heard it before.

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Yesterday’s strip, Neil Wick’s link to this same song was the Featured Comment, so I didn’t have anything to add. Today’s strip is not so fortunate, so I provide the html here:

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