Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 20, 2020

Good morning™, cellmates!

So she stopped writing and never got to buy the pony farm. That’s what caused this whole thing!

For the RooterMech

Gweedo it’s legal here Murray less than a minute ago@rootmachine666

~ That was an accident as I am not familiar with Mr. Gere’s material.

Good morning™, frozen warped meat hunks !

That “thing” on the bed looks like a butcher paper wrapped something. She’s been in stir so long she brought some of its decorating scheme home. Is this place one of those converted to loft spaces for the economically disadvantaged ?

Does this mean Mysta now remembers?

Brokeback Mountain? Female version!

I could like this Mysta, unfortunately she’ll revert back to her arrogant, self centered obnoxious self next Monday.

Rats!!

I vote to make Charlie a regular guest artist!

Hmm. She almost “bought the farm” just to buy a farm?

figure in the jail cell: The knees up position that was the “clue” that this Mysta was Mindy!

As an aside, doesn’t Scarmony seem quite muscular for a woman? She must have made good use of the prison’s gym!

Wtf!?! Need something stronger this morning.

What is that thing sitting on the bed?

Ugh. One more week of this crap…. I’ll be glad when Mike & Joe are back.

Mysta repeats to Scarmony that her memory was wiped. Is it sinking in yet? The pony farm notion is not far fetched. Mysta was good with “Sparkplug,” the horse cast in The Moon Maid film. She said she had never ridden before, yet clearly had an affinity for horses.

https://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2014/04/17

The long, long arm of the lawless.

Don’t forget, “They also transformed me into some weird, human/alien hybrid that can zap that pistol right out your hand!”

I like this story, but… IS there a mystery here?

Col. Potter asked: “Is this what this is all about???!!!? Horse Hockey!” – hehe

I’m guessing they were in a minimum security prison given the space between the bars. And that they appear to be made of wood…

I can’t wait for this to be over.

This is so stupid. Never thought I would see an ugly Mysta.

I’m outa here…let me know when we are back to Tracy!

Sorry, vanis and Cynthia, this is about the best we’ve seen, maybe even since Donnie Pitchford!

When this is over, that’s when I will go back to Sundays only!

The writer is based at a mental institution.

This story has really “jumped the shark” and Tracy and Company can’t arrive soon enough !

8 down, 5 to go.

At the end of the day (okay, two weeks), we now have a new dilemma:

The defense of the insanity defense.

As in, if I don’t remember doing it, I must not be guilty of it.

I was “out of my mind” when I did it, so I’m not guilty.

Updated: I’m out of my mind now, so I shouldn’t be held accountable for when I did do it.

I really can’t say which side to fall on. If all you’re into is punishment, then I suppose punishment should always be meted out.

But if you’re dealing with a changed person – and wasn’t that the purpose of the punishment – to change the person – is punishment appropriate – is punishment still relevant anymore?

“Tell me about the ponies, Mysta!”

Is this a lover’s quarrel? It would make this story a lot more woke, & more interesting…

I give up Charlie, what’s the grey blob on the bed?

FWIW, it was clear to me right away that the silhouette on the bed is Scarmony. It’s a jail cell; we were told on Thursday that Mindy and Scarmony were cellmates; the huddled position indicates loneliness, therefore there is only one person in the cell, probably sitting on her own bed; the drawing/photo on the wall behind her is addressed to “SIS” with a heart, and the second-to-last panel of yesterday’s strip showed us what they looked like “back in the day”—in particular, Min had a pointed chin and a pronounced gap in her front teeth, as does the gal in the photo, who is therefore Min; and given the inscription, the photo likely hangs above the bed of “SIS”, not Min; therefore that’s Scarmony huddled on the bed, QED.

The clues are there in the artwork. All you have to do is pay attention. :-)

Now that it has been deciphered for me, I can “see” Scarmony sitting on the prison bed, knees up and arms wrapped around. But the absence of any interior detail, even just a few linear strokes, -none that I can see in this GC reproduction, at any rate- made it an illegible “sack of potatoes” for me, too, hitherto. Given that Scarmony seems to be a few beans short, the “pony farm and letters” revenge motive works well enough. But is she now going to forgive and forget? What will happen now when the MCU shows up, as it surely will by week’s end if not before?

I get it! It’s a Mysta-ry.