Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 26, 2019

The third panel leaves us all with bated breath!!

Good morning™, sensationalist story tellers !

This had better be good, lady !

Good morning™, anticipating readers!

This calls for another coffee — it must have been something she never expected to hear.

I thought she might want something stiffer to drink.

Oh oh…

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale so hot it’ll hiss. Of a criminal case from a girl named Frisk, and told to a girl named Lizz. . .

It must be a “doozy”!

Does it turn out that Lizz is a Howell baby too?

Lizz has a caffeine addiction!

And what’s with Tracy’s moving MCU logo? (check yesterday)

Pour a little whiskey in the coffee Liz, this may take the shock off!!!

Lizz looks totally appalled in the second panel. Whatever Frisk told her is not good.

“I got the story, all right, but not from Norman…”

Origin stories can be unsettling.

1-DT: Holy cow chief. Lookit her eyes. Pegged on 10! 2-…How can you not know she’s wiped out every kind of upper in the evidence room? 3-CHIEF: Gosh and Bagorra boyo! Can’t ye see that the wee lass has just had a tad too much coffee? DT: So you’re Irish now, Chief? Whatever. It’s clear now that a cute haircut goes a long way around here. CHIEF: Ai, she’s a fine thing to be sure. Well, I’ll be. Lookit the clock. It’s time for a pint o’ the dark stuff. And I don’t mean coffee… DT: Ye old dosser. AWWHHH! What’s going on around here?

“Lemme tell you a story ’bout a man named Jed….”

Not first hand knowledge!

Lizz was a brokered baby?

Will Glenn Close finally win that Oscar? Stay tuned

cue the ominous music

Just a teaser today? Wasted story time?

Well, at least gimme a cup of coffee whilst I await tomorrow’s revelation (I hope we get one)….

Today’s strip sure brought the narrative momentum to a screeching halt.

Going to Michigan tomorrow, be on when I can.