Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 22, 2020

“Come over here so I can bite you, copper!”

Will he try to take a nibble out of Liz?

I thought Lizz KO’d him yesterday.

The faux fangs lithpify his speech:

“OK! OK! Quit making that faith at me!”

Freudian thlip?

Good morning™, arresting friends!

Stokes is decidedly not a “happy camper.” That blow really came out of left field and took him by surprise. He looks like a bull in a bullfight right now.

I hope fangs leaps onto Tracy and tries to bite him. If he surrenders meekly then it’s yet another lame, boring, predictable ending from team blah!

Hmmm…surprised that Tracy doesn’t have a couple of uniforms as additional back-up. Something could definitely happen here, Stokes seems a lot more dangerous today.

Good morning™, cornered wild ones !

Is he going to go out in a blaze from Tracy’s gun glory ?

Stokes has potential for one last desperate act given that his life as a freeman is over.

On Tuesday Lizz took Stokes down with a right hook, but now he looks fired up again for round two. If so, she should remember her vampire lore and finish him with a left cross!

“Okay, doc. Ya killed the girl. By why’d ya take her blood? Ta make us think a real vampire killed her? FYI – vamps don’t use chloroform, which showed up on the autopsy. Well, bat-breath? Whattaya say?” “Oh thit.”

There are no ideas in the last storylines. They are too much short.

Tracy (or Lizz) took a bite out of crime!

Liz carrying handcuffs in her purse. Is there something in Liz’s private life that we may not want to know?

“Foolish girls, spending money that should have been mine on frivolities like convertibles! They didn’t even KNOW their uncle”

Dick Tracy always gets his man!

Act II

okay readers, no more biting comments!!

Does Tracy have silver bullets in his gun? Or am I confusing vampires and werewolves again? Or Tracy with the Lone Ranger? Or the Dick Tracy comic strip with a meandering tribute to Orphan Annie, Brenda Starr, Svengoolie, and “Bart” Bush?

Just shoot the jerk and get it over with . I miss the beautiful ladies that were in the script a few days ago .

Stokes is down(ed by Lizz’s purse) but not yet out. Panel 2 strongly suggests he still has Malicious Intent. Maybe he will go out in a blaze of gunfire, trying to put the bite on Tracy or Lizz.

Meanwhile what of lucky Hope and enigmatic Charity? Could a Charity turn on her sister be the last twist in this arc, necessitating one last rescue?

1- DT: Allow me to apologize for the horrendous actions of Detective Doll. As an endangered species, it is our duty to protect Vampires and their natural habitats. If you’ll tell me where you keep your coffin, I’ll take you there now.

DOLL: WAIT! He’s not a real vampire, Tracy! He’s just trying to identify as one. See those tubes? Real vampires don’t have those.

2- DT: Well whadaya know? Still there’s no law against that. But there is a law against clobbering a citizen, Doll. Do you remember your rights? I forgot my cheat sheet. DOLL: BUT…

THE SHARP TOOTHED INSULT COMIC PROFESSOR: Yeah! She hit me for picking up her hanky! Speaking of which, it has a strange chemical smell to it. Here Tracy, see for yourself.

DT: You’re right! What is…that…Doll…uhhhh, THUMP! TSTICP: Heh, heh. Now where were we? NO! NOT THE PURSE AGAIN! THUMP!!

KNOCK KNOCK Who’s there? OTTO. Otto who? OTTO BE A LAW AGAINST LOADED PURSES!

You’re just a Coca-Cola vampire…

looks like his fangs have ‘trainers’

UH OH! Stokes is going to go bat#(*^% crazy on them now! lol

Gun and a pair of handcuffs? With that look in the professor’s eyes Lizz and Tracy need a stake to drive through his heart.

Great art

All those years on the force, and she wacks him with a purse?Is it 1935 again? Does she get a hat pin too?

I would like to see an explanation of why Stokes’ wanted to collect the blood of all 3 Brown sisters ?

A fetish about blood or a fetish with the Browns or both ?