Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 28, 2021

“I bet you always wanted to be a slick PI’s sidekick, right doll?”

“Whatever.”

Peaches can bearly contain her boredom! I understand completely! ZZZZZzzzzzz,,,,

How silly to break out of jail just to contact Tracy and have additional time added for the jail break. Just contact him from prison, Tracy likes you and owes his life to you. He’ll get on the case ASAP.

They need to bring Stiletta back from the dead(everyone else returns), she was interesting.

Wasn’t this story about a time drone at some point?

Good morning™, everyone!

Like several other recent characters in the strip, Blackjack is part Mike Curtis. Mike was well known for having one of the largest Superman collections in the country (till he donated it all to the Cleveland Public Library). In a similar way, Blackjack is the biggest collector of Dick Tracy memorabilia.

The first thing BJ should do is check the security cameras’ recordings. Surely his memorabilia rooms had them. If they didn’t, he’s not as smart as I thought.

Good morning™, new Tracytown detectives !

If B.J. finds his pieces will Tracy be getting pointers on sleuth work ?

Sheesh how many open stories do we have going right now? I assume they’ll all come together somehow… right?

Stay tuned…..!

I wonder how many… assistants… BJ went through that eventually quit, thinking, This guy’s a weirdo.

WOW ! Peaches looks so sexy today . Sweet lips , bright eyes and all . Great images all of them .

I’m not one to comment on the art but Joe has broken his mold of blonde bimbos with Peaches. The bored expression is so well done.

Thus endeth my first and probably last Art Comment

1-LEACHES: So you knocked up your celly – color me shocked.

2-JACKBLACK: Yeah but I’m going to turn it to my advantage by…

3-…pinning the rap on Tracy, see? Rube that he is, he’ll think the impure thought he had about Rikki when he arrested her might’ve got her preggers. So he’ll take the fall and be in for 18 years – of raising a kid. That’ll keep him too busy to foil my next caper, see?

LEACHES: Yawn. Yeah, what caper is that?

JACKBLACK: Get my valuable Tracy memorabilia back!

LEACHES: Won’t a cheating on his wife and pregnancy scandal tank the value of that junk?

JACKBLACK: Oh. Yeah. Maybe. Probably. FORGET ALL THAT THEN. We’ll raise the new baby to grow up to be a Detective who secretly works for us! Then we’ll never get arrested for anything! And we’ll get by for the next 25 years or so on whatever it is you’re doing over…there…? No? I’ll keep thinking…

The ADHD Tracy Team is in full scattershot mode again.

C’mon, there’s always APT 3G or LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE to fixate on. Say ‘arf’. Say it WITh me!

Likely it’ll come into use in figuring who got the collection. Of course it needs to be stolen first.

Someone stole Bribery’s ring but Tracy is apparently not looking for the culprit/mole. And, in addition, someone stole BJ’s collection from right under Tracy’s hooked nose. Tracy said he would look after BJ’s collection. I suppose Tracy’s word or reliability is not very good anymore.

Any criminal or wannabee criminal would be getting rid of this Dick Tracy collection by now. They have their work cut out for them…no pawn shops are going to touch the stuff.

Peaches has sexy lips!

Hmm…if he gets desperate enough, Blackjack might try to collect the real thing…Dick Tracy himself. I can hear Tracy now, " Blackjack, what did they put in that prison food"? Are you on drugs?

“I’m the foremost collector of Dick Tracy in the nation. And I don’t plan to give up my title”. What is this, some equivalent of a beauty contest? He and that comic strip collecting guy would make ideal cell mates. They could “shoot the breeze” (talk non-stop) about their collections.

Who is Peaches to Blackjack? His secretary?

That’s a funny looking hat in P1

What about that scar that starts on BJ’s nose and goes across his face below his right eye in panel 3? Has he always had that? Is it a prison souvenir?

Usually there is an A story and B story. This is probably the B story.

Peaches is bored, or at least complacent, with her job (whatever she is doing with that computer) or with Blackjack, or both. But the sometime bank robber and dapper dresser is revved up to regain his prestigious collection of Tracyana. I imagine his search will be stark, but will lead to some kind of meeting or confrontation with the Ace of Spades and his deck of merry cards, plus Apparatus muscle. Such a scene could end in a lot of tub-thumping action, with crack-shot Blackjack asserting dominance. A parley; and then the newly-allied team can combine their searches for the missing Tracy memorabilia and for control of the Time Drone—which, if achieved, could help with the former….