Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 10, 2020

Ahh, the good old days when you could smoke in hospitals! ;-)

Gosh, I ’m sorry but I really dislike Vitamin quite a lot. Nothing personal, he just annoys the heck out of me. I wish he and his sugar Queen would move over to a different strip. Maybe start hanging out with Winnie Winkle.

Off to a great start, messing up the color of leer boy’s jacket!

Good morning™, historians!

Any kind of backstory is what we lacked in the previous story, so I think this is a good introduction.

So Shaky’s father is Trembly…

Good morning™, new farmer daddies !

Looks like that seed he planted last spring has come in.

Ah, some fuller until the next crime story arc.

Trembly !?! Instead of Tremblay !?! That’s a trembling thing to see…

“Shakin all over”

Way back when???

“Now, I have to warn you of all the possible birth defects he may have from all the smoking you and Mrs. Trembly have done.”

I would like to see Mr. Roboto without his mask…

1-SUGAR DADDY: Well, audience, Metropolis bombed after it was reviewed with Barber Pole playing the lead in a robot costume made of cardboard boxes…

2-…but I won’t disappoint those of you who had already purchased tickets to that now closed effort. (Nor will I refund you). Please enjoy our new play, “Riffing Without A Script” starring my younger brother who doesn’t have anything better to do until spring! Sound of 3 people clapping

3-DOCTOR: Here. This is either your new son or the tumor we removed from your wife. You take it from there. FARMER DADDY: Looks like a sack of taters.

Wait, huh? Shaky is dead fish dead. Are they introducing the Earth-2 version?

“Please pay attention to the man behind the curtain.”

OMG: By the Way, Mr. “Trembly” doesn’t look like he’s dressed in 1920’s garb, which is when this would have to be, if we are reviewing the back-story on the long dead Shaky.

Nobody has more right to narrate “Shaky’s Story” than Vitamin,Thanks to the originalstory,their names shall be forever linked.And this is hardly the first time Vitamin has beenour narrator.This bum killed a fireman for 15 more minutes of freedom.So this better be atwin brother,a MIDNITE MYSTERY actor;or a son of one of the first three wives.The originalgot what he deserved.

In the Air Force we had a C-124 which were called “Shakeys” we they flew in the air you would swear they were standing still! This guy would be good nose art!

And we are trembly with anticipation.

EVEN IN 1944-45,SPACE HEATERS WERE DOWNRIGHT DANGEROUS.

I find this quite moving

While Joe, Mike, and Vitamin present Shaky’s backstory, in the present, Tracy’s filling out paperwork (again!) and taking Mysta’s statement about the Roboto case.

No doubt old man Trembly is happy that he’s begotten a hardy helper son rather than an expensive daughter (he is an old-fashioned guy). Is this Trembly son Shaky? Or Shaky.mk 2? I am eager to see Mike explain his way out of having raised the dead.

Vitamin is just doing his oft-reprised introductory bit-part; it’s A Thing in the Tracy Handbook….

Mr Trembly? Surprised he’s not named Mr Parkinsons.