Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 19, 2021

Convenient. ✨

Good morning™, thespians!

I didn’t know Honeymoon was taking a drama class. Now I really think something is going to happen at the theatre when Tracy is there. It’s only a matter of time. That theatre is a dangerous place!

Between the already trite plot developing with the escaped Rikki (surely Dick should know about that), now we’re getting Honeymoon involved.

Can Little Orphan Annie be far behind? Ugly Crystal?

Let the outrage begin! /s

Oh gawd…Honeymoon again?!!

Honeymoon is getting bigger… I mean taller. She doesn’t look like a child anymore

And she appears to be hitting puberty, a bit belatedly for someone born during the LBJ administration.

From the desk of Neil W...

Who is “crazy hat shooter guy”? Blackjack?

That’s him. My jammed “hard drive” wouldn’t yield the man’s name at the time. Your and Ray’s redone curtain links deliver the goods. :-)

Good morning™, worn out retread story lines !

Patterson playhouse will once again be rocked by tragedy, if not the building itself, but some within. Enter Sailor Moon style team saviors. Can Abner be the one who finally “retires” ?

As much as I enjoy Joe’s inks, if Honeymoon is going to play a major part in this story I’ll be very happy to have Shelley back ASAP. She’s much better at portraying our lovely female characters!

Good to see Honeymoon again!

The theater poster Honeymoon has was rolled up in her backpack, so why does it have fold creases in panel 3?

I think the plot just got thicker…

so the crappy art continues this week. sigh

Looks like theres a guest artist?

This art style makes Honeymoon look like the female in those old ads for sea monkeys.

Sorry to be political, but Democrats mature slowly…..not saying Honeymoon is?

The Moon Maid returns?

Editor’s Note: I’m basing character’s name on their actual names now because I don’t want to go back and find what I called them before. And it’s less confusing as to who I have speaking and I see that you don’t care soooo,…

1-HONEYMOONS OVER: Can I come in? DT: Well this IS the men’s room and it’s no place I’d care to be after I just finished the entire newspaper – if you catch my drift and, for your sake, I hope you don’t. PEE YEW! Let’s go to my office instead.

2-HONEYMOONS: I NEED FIVE BUCKS!

DT: Yeah, and I need softer toilet paper. I gotta rash you wouldn’t believe from the sandpaper the city buys.

3-HONEYMOONS: Don’t care. Listen. I don’t expect you to just give it to me. In return I’ll give you this cool, maybe blacklight enabled, poster designed by the same guy who used to do all those groovy music posters for the Fillmore West!

DT: WHOA DUDE, get that away from me! I’m havin’ a flash back! Duane? Janis? Is that you?

HONEYMOONS: Good lord, just cough up the fin, would ya? AND PUT THAT LIGHTER AWAY! That’s not how they demand an encore these days you old fart!

Can you say RETREADS kids? Oh, and thanks Neil.

A few days ago I had mentioned Honeymoon might one of those to attend the play. For the record, no I did not have inside information nor am I a prophet or have E.S.P. Next thing all kinds of eccentrics will be showing up my doorstep.

Some of the storylines on Tracy get written in such a way that I am sure those who post here have seen them. For example on television has anybody seen a drama or sitcom where the scenes are set in such a way you know what a character is going to say before the words come out of their mouth. You know because you’ve seen it done before on other shows. You know because you’ve seen it done so often that it is predictable. And when they do …you say " aha" I knew he or she would “go there”.

REALLY off-topis: back when I was contributing he Yeti storyline, I made a mention in comments about a ‘dead clown in the bayou’ P.I. story. It’s out now, and I just got narration sample of the in-production audio book. This is what I do in my spare time:

https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AA0%5Fo1SpDX93Yg4&cid=85A983B003113792&id=85A983B003113792%21166&parId=85A983B003113792%21152&o=OneUp

cue the dark ambient music with discordant overtones

The artwork looks weird.

Honeymoon Tracy, as portrayed here, seems to have been experiencing a growth spurt. Instead of the 11- or 12-year old ‘tweener that she formerly appeared to be, she now looks to me more like an actual teenager, say 13 (or maybe 14), as suggested by Ray Toler above (in his Reply to 22ph). And her drama class-generated enthusiasm for the Old Thespian and the coming attraction at the Patterson Playhouse provides the (yes, contrived, but that’s how all fiction functions!) motivation for Tracy and family to be on scene when whatever goes down at that unlucky venue.

The story is still only in the beginning stages (ahem!) of taking shape. Give it time, gentle readers (and others)….

I guess Tracy has plenty of time to go to the theater. It’s not like there’s any urgent development on the crime front … like a break out from prison.