Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 17, 2019

Good morning™, protectors of Annie!

Annie is headed to the gift shop. Who isn’t on their way there now?

Impossible to acceptits

Today’s ludicrous havereadits

A kid who prefers printformits

Over modern day cellphoneits

Good morning™, security detail !

A lot can happen in fifteen minutes.

Life and death can happen in 15 minutes.

Sounds like an opportunity for gun play, kidnapping, assault, and other felonious activity at the gift shop….another fun time with DICK TRACY…………

All the actors are about to assemble- BB’s henchmen, Dick Tracy (maybe even Junior?), Gypsy Gay, Annie…who knows, maybe even Crystal & Honeymoon.

I know there is more than 1 elevator in a fancy hotel???

Interesting! What is next?

You have to be a Warbucks to afford the daily paper these days. My local paper, The Philadelphia Inquirer is now $2.95 on weekdays, $4.95 on Sunday. Not being a Warbucks, I don’t buy it anymore.

I think we all know what’s going to happen, don’t we?

Yes, she said something about stumbling onto a kidnapping and “furthering the story along”… What is she talking about, friend Asp?

The Asp could just take the stairs. He is Ninja enough that he should reach the lobby about the same time as Annie’s elevator does.

Uh, maybe I’m nitpicking, but…what’s with the coloring on Punjab’s face? It, uh, used to be darker, didn’t it?

1- ANNIE: I don’t believe ‘Open Carry’ laws pertain to swords. How do you sit down with that thing? Has the blade ever taken a sudden shift to the right? Never mind. I don’t wanna know. 2- PREACHER: Holdeth the door my child and abundant blessings shall be yours… ANNIE: I prefer “Teach a man to take the stairs and he’ll never be stuck in a tall building”. Suckaaaa 3- PREACHER: Ha-rumpffff!! My cheapass flock needs to pony up for a suite with a private elevator next time I travel to the TV Evangelists Convention…

Annie doesn’t read the funnies on GoComics‽

I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you!!

Punjab needs an update so he doesn’t look like a stereotype. Give him a suit and tie. He could keep the turban.

Read the “funnies” on your iPad, as I do. Oh, wait, you have go to Gift Shop…

The Hotel Siam doesn’t leave a complimentary newspaper by the guest room doors every morning?

Geez, I hope No eyes finds a crossover between Dicko and Barney Google in the “funnies” (Circa ’40s term) More excitement might ensue.

cue the ominous music

It looks like Asp had the tips of his ears rounded off.

Loves me some Punjab and the Asp!

But I fear for the Little Princess. Twenty floors and fifteen minutes is way too much time—nefarious deeds could transpire in far less time, friend Asp….

Bet the Siam Gift Shop has never seen so busy a day as this one will turn out to be!