Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 09, 2021

Good morning™, everyone!

Well, there more to Tracy’s job than just chasing criminals, but I think he should be an authority on the history of the department, considering how long he’s been there. You guys knew there would be some kind of anniversary acknowledgement.

90th DT anniversary 4 october!

“Sure, it’s not like anything else is happening. Just that boring old time-travel thing Diet is going on about.”

Good morning™, ravishing reds !

This would be the perfect kind of undercover as no one would suspect such pixie cuteness of any possibility of wrong doing. A dish like her could leave a bomb on a timer with an easy complacency on Tracy’s part being an invitation to finally get the blast that Moonmaid took for him lo those many years ago.

“No, lady, I’m a married man!”

She could very easily be part of the Ace’s plan to keep Tracy busy. Note the bangs covering her forehead — where the (original) 52 Gang had brands of tattoos showing their rank.

It looks like this arc is going to be complex. We have 3 plots going on simultaneously: Diet Smith and his time drone experiments; the Ace of Spades and his attempt to steal the drone; and now Tracy being interviewed for a magazine article for his anniversary. Mike doesn’t write simple stories, does he?

Happy soon to be 90th anniversary Tracy. You haven’t aged a bit.

Say remember a few years ago when Broadway Bates, the Penguin’s twin brother made a brief return that went nowhere? I wonder will they bring him back?

Great beehive hairdo. They’re all the rage in 2021! Who needs Diet’s time machine, we’ve got team Tracy! LOL!

Someone has a sense of humor with the names here.

Presuming that the “reporter” is the mole for the apparatus, and given that deep cover inside agents are sometimes called “sleepers”

The Little Briar Rose is the original name of the 1697 fairy tale by Charles Perrault and adapted by the Grimm Brothers in 1812 as the story “Sleeping Beauty”

And with that, the Chief makes his escape.

A Rose by any other name would be that good looking!

“Hahaha! Good one, chief. But seriously, what’s her name?”

Well, I hope Tracy doesn’t put her to sleep for a hundred years but, is it just me, or does she look like a young Brenda Starr?

For a second, I thought Brenda Starr was back in town, but then I noticed no twinkle in the eye… then the name. (Hey – maybe this will dredge up an unsolved case that will be a good test for the time drone.)

Red hair and freckles? Could this be a biological sister Junior never knew he had?

Brenda Starr knock-off.

“While the rest of the human race are descended from monkeys, redheads derive from cats.” -Mark Twain

Ah yes, Briar Rose…a rose is a rose, but not in this case!

Wow, a new mega-babe!

I can’t believe it! This is a near-perfect depiction of my dream girlfriend (based on a girl I once encountered but was never able to establish contact with… long, long story.)

Kudos to whomever designed this character.

How much of her article will be about the precinct and how much of if will be about Tracy?

If Tracy takes her around to meet the rest of MCU (Liz, Lee, Sam) then all the weight won’t be on him. Law Enforcement Magazine…probably has circulation across the country.

Chief Patton…doing what chiefs do…delegate!

Red wig over blond hair?

Many of these “commenters” obviously need jobs

“Be aware she has a little bit of a problem waking up. I think if you gave her a chance, she’d sleep for a hundred years.”

Off down another side road.Somebody tell Brenda Starr she’s got a daughter she doesn’tknow about.

1-CHIEF: HEY TRACY! GET YOUR BUTT IN HERE!

2-DT: What’s with the s**t eatin’ grin, Chief?

CHIEF: LEMME SHOW YA!

3-CHIEF: TRACY. MEET MS. FELATIO! Wait. Let’s not be so formal. Sez here on her business card that she’s SUKI FELATIO.

DT: Lovely to meet you, Suki. I note that your parents preferred the eastern diminutive of “Suzan” when they named you. As a detective, I notice small things like that.

SUKI: Actually, it’s just a nickname. Also, your Chief mispronounced it – it’s NOT “SOO-KIE”.

DT: So, it’s…

CHIEF: YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT!

Television has gotten so bad that even Splitscreen doesn’t watch it anymore.

Could Ms. Briar Rose be a long-lost relative of Junior Tracy—perhaps even a sister separated at birth and adopted into a different family?

In any case Law Enforcement Magazine seems a reasonably safe lion to which Patton throws Tracy, probably for some surrogate of the strip’s 90th anniversary, providing legitimacy for Tracy to review Tracy, maybe even with the exciting new help of the Time Drone.

—Let the Old Times Roll!…