Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 05, 2022

You picked me up the other day. Appreciate the lift

Hens are busy where I live, so here’s a little gift.

Fresh eggs like these taste oh so good, scrambled, poached, or fried

Pancake batter or French toast with sweet syrup applied.

For me, I choose an omelet, with peppers, ham, and cheese

Have a hungry family, so go through loads of these.

On the side, potatoes and fresh bread toasted just right

Should Gertie whip up biscuits, there’s bound to be a fight

For the final savory, a gravy-soaked quick bread

No eggs needed for this treat, just like Gertie said.

I’ll take my leave now, neighbor. A good turn deserves another

I had a flat. You picked me up. Done right, just like a brother.

“Of course, I’ll have to kill you later.”

Five banks, five stuffed shirts. Who’s covering whom, eh gentlemen?

Good morning™, all!

B.O. interrupted just in the nick of time before Mr. Memory expanded his attacks beyond the five banks whose management we’ve already met.

I’m wondering if B.O. has pygmy chickens or is it just another example of Mr. Memory’s large hands? They seem like very small eggs.

Once you read memory’s lines in Sulu’s voice your life will change forever!

I find it funny that B.O. feels the need to repeat his name and give a reminder of their past meeting to someone named Mr. Memory.

Organic chicken eggs laid by free-range hens.

How neighborly!

Think B.O. will help solve this crime?

Great visuals today, and we get to meet Walter the Owl! Super!

Chester Gould made his villains purposely ugly to reflect their inner/moral deficiencies. Mr. Memory looks like a normal guy, and it’s throwing me off.

Mr Memory at his most Victor Buonoish! And it appears he’s remembered a bit more about being conversational

Five banks? Weren’t there representatives of 5 banks at that meeting Tracy just had?

Yay! Mr. M is back, firmly reasserting that he is indeed the designated Special Guest Villain of this arc.

Todays’ featured Hall of Fame is one from my own county! how cool :)

Super great images today for sure , Mr . Memrys expressions are just super , great job by Shelley again . : )

The colorist did a wonderful job on today’s strip! Beautiful gradations on the egg (and that back highlight!) , the lighting on his face from the computer screen and the ambient lighting :) Two thumbs up!

BO; those look to be pretty small eggs. Don’t your laying hens produce larger ones? And, the price pf a dozen eggs, even grade “A” large, doesn’t equal the cost of a gallon of gas nowadays. Unfortunately.

Nice bromance they are developing, it could turn out to be Mr. Memory undoing

WAIT! Are those…OWL EGGS?!?!?!?!?!! Cue the next bizarre TRACY death, come breakfast time. At the pointy claws of an outraged, feathery conspirator.

Lemme guess: B.O. mysteriously gets a “gift” in his bank account… and a visit from Bracy asking questions.

Hmmm, will B.O. become a part of the story? The innocent raising chickens victim!

“I appreciate the thought, even though I’m accumulating a very nice nest egg on my own.”

Being that the owl is so wise…Walter must be the brains in this duo.

When he gets busted, Mr. Memory says the bird made me do it.

1-MEMORY TRENCHY: Darn you Walter! You got me hooked on Owl Porn and you don’t even care about it any…

2-…more. Visitors?

3-B.O.: I brung you a present. MEMORY: Oh. You’re that talkative, curly haired fellow I should’ve run over the other day.

4-B.O.: None other! Here. Eggywegs – I’d smash ‘em!

5-MEMORY: Spare me the Clockwork Orange quotes. Hmmm… Walter has failed miserably at supplying me with a morning breakfast. I shall enjoy these. Thank you and good day, sir. I SAID GOOD DAY! SLAM! _Oops…

Walter meets Hedwig

Beneath that greedy leather hide of his, there seems to run a sliver of samerir, sammarin, samorarrar, uhmmmm, “good deed doer”, eh?

That is applying the good neighbor policy, I congratulate you, few people do it nowadays (good for B.O.).On the other hand, that computers entered the banks was a mistake and a curse, before computers, thieves had to enter with a band and a gun and say “hands up”, now with a computer terminal, they can loot a whole bank without leaving their house!

This Memory fellow has put me in mind of James Beard. Yet today, in the first panel, he seems to look more like Peter Ustinov.

This story is leaning really hard into the whole “It’s computer stuff, you wouldn’t understand” trope. So far this guy has supposedly plundered hundreds of billions of dollars in assets cleaning out five financial institutions (don’t ask how he’s acquiring and liquidating these assets or where the money is going, I’m pretty sure Mike Curtis didn’t think about any of that), and it’s only whetted his appetite? Is he some kind of financial terrorist looking to destroy the economy? When are we getting his manifesto?

Every time I see Mr. Memory I am reminded of Victor Buono.

THREE CHEERS FOR SHANNON BUSH!!!

Late in the day, and maybe nobody cares, but check out today’s Bizarro in Comics Kingdom!

I so enjoy reading Mr. Memory as Victor Buono.

DICK TRACY reference on THE MUNSTERS tonight.

Who?! Who?! Who?!

Something I’ve begun to mull over: is Walter “Chekhov’s Owl?”

Now that B.O. has gifted Mr. Memory with a dozen fresh (if small) eggs, a gift Memory accepts graciously, be it noted, I am wondering if somewhere down the line a confrontation will take place between Walter the Owl and the Plenty chickens, leading to neighborhood acrimony and consequently leading Tracy to Mr. Memory and connecting him to the five, count them, five, bank robberies he today claims to have already committed?

Mr memry reminds me of victor buono

You’d think a high-tech wizard like Mr. Memory would have some sort of front door video surveillance system so he would know who was knocking at his door.

I like the sunlight splash through the closed curtain.

BO must be raising pygmy hens.

I recently got hooked on brown eggs,because the yolk is much richer than white eggs.

I like how when Mr. Memory stands (looms) in the doorway, he resembles an owl – large chest, wings tucked back, feathery chin and a beak.