Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 14, 2022

Good morning™, everyone!

Vitamin finally realized that he may have put “Tonsils” into danger as the faces of Kandikane and Kane smile at him from his laptop computer. From the picture frame Snowflake Falls, Vitamin’s deceased first wife smiles. She and he were ambushed at that same café where he has just sent the Tonsils impersonator.

“Snowflake” remains remembered. ✨

“My word, that is terrible! I will arrest the scoundrel immediately! Imagine, putting Tonsils on stage!!”

Elsewhere, Dick enjoys a laugh over on “Gasoline Alley” today. ✨

Gosh is this story predictable!

I called this setup a week ago.

To make matters worse we need to see Kandi Lame!

In fairness it’s hard to stay on top of the game.

Team Tracy is definitely showing cracks in their armor.

Good morning™, sweethearts late and current !

A slow memory is better than no memory ………… one can hope. Given the kinder gentler nature of the strip lately I can see these two kids coming out alive and at least shaken from the near miss (kill).

BabyKane must be eating purple candy.

I like Dick’s partial sideways glance; like he sees a spider on the wall.

You’re right. Frame 3 is very impressive. Pleger’s sketches are amazing here. This story is finally picking up its pace. Mike has done well here.

DUN DUN DUUUNN!!!

Rest easy, Tracy is on the case!

What gave Vitamin the clue? Seriously. Did Vitamin just do something he should have done before signing any contracts or sending Matt out? And why didn’t he do it before? If he’s just learned something new… Well, I assume he’ll tell Tracy the new information tomorrow, or admit he screwed up royally by not doing the job he should have done before sending Matt out.

Okay, they really need to get the notifications fixed so they don’t default to the featured comment every time. It’s getting pretty annoying by now….

“And you want me to close the show down before it starts, citing concerned for the greater public’s health? I’m on it!”

man must be mad…right now over in gasoline alley…tell him i’ve got the Molehill Highlanders on the way

After the last week or so in this strip…I’m still hoping tracy goes rogue and shoots up everybody

notice the third panel.

1-VITAMIN DEFICIENCY: TRACY! MY COMPUTER HAS BEEN HACKED! PICTURES OF WEIRDOS I’VE NEVER SEEN KEEP POPPING UP…

2-…And I think my wife, Snowflake, has been kidnapped! I haven’t seen her for years! It’s been so long that I can only remember her name because I wrote it on the picture frame…

3-…YOU GOTTA DO SOMETHING!

DT: There, there Vitamin. I believe you’re just having another “Sundowning” moment. Remember? You had to stop performing matinees because by the third act you believed the seats were actually full of adoring fans?

VITAMIN: What? I always perform to sold-out houses, Tracy! You know that!

DT: Yikes! Just stay right there, Vitamin. I’ll be right there as soon as I can sign out a tranquilizer rifle.

VITAMIN: Excellent idea! We can’t get information as to Snowflake’s whereabouts from a dead kidnapper!

DT: Uh, right. Pssst! Hey Sam. Go get me a couple of Rhino-Dose Tranq Darts and the gun!

Vitamin finally realized it was THE SAME ADDRESS as his past horrible experience.

My guess is Snowflake came down with pneumonia or some such after her near-deathtrap with Shaky;which is why the happy couple moved to Southern California for a spell.

MOVIE QUOTE—

“I’ve still got the gun.Maybe I can create a diversion”

“Yeah,you can blow your brains out”

Gene Wilder&Richard Pryor—-SILVER STREAK—1976

Recent NEW YORK TIMES article in ARTS Section on a Stephen Sonheim tribute at Museum of the Moving Image;NY CITY

Curator Michael Koresky talks about the 1990 DICK TRACY movie.

“For me,as a little gay boy with his Madonna “I’mBreathless” cassette tape in 1990,it was the essential thing.Period.

Dick Tracy,the gruff,lantern-jawed,masculine comic book detective.just does not interest me.

But I remember those songs.It’s one of those things that’s a queering agent.“Dick Tracy” really feels like a hybrid of a lot of different sensibilities.

I like the way Sondheim&Madonna’s contributions help to negate the uber-masculinity of the text".

P.S.—HE said it ,not me.

If Vitamin knew how Tracy felt about Tonsils, why did he rub his nose with it…all that hype about a “discovery”.

First, commendation to Vitamin for calling Dick Tracy about his concerns, knowing how DT feels about Matt “Tonsils”; and second, commendation to Dick for setting his animosity toward Matt aside, and putting duty before his personal feelings.

Wait, who shot DT?, Tonsils or Matt?

By the Way our favorite detective is going shopping with kids on Gasoline Alley, as a police good-will program!

I’m sorry, but Mike appears to be back filling gaps in his story.

Does anyone else find it weird how everyone has slid into treating the Tonsils impersonator as Tonsils himself?

Get to the point, Vitamin! Give Richard the “short story” version, not the “Flintheart novelization”!

Meanwhile, we wallow in sentimentality, with Vitamin’s current young wife Kandikane and infant son Kane on the laptop in panel 1 and a framed picture of deceased first wife Snowflake in panel 2. The Old Thespian is really tugging at our heartstrings….