Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 01, 2022

Who doesn’t enjoy a saucy puppet-show?

Mysta seems to notice Ro-zan. Another complication to solve in a single strip?

In a future story: the return of Ro-zan

Good morning™, everyone!

Well, that argument was quick, but Thorin had to admit that Tracy was talking sense after all. Meanwhile, he needs to pay attention to make sure nobody else seizes power. Ro-Zan is ever belligerent, but he hasn’t got a chance against four loyal armsmen.

Nitpicker’s notebook: First Panel: IT’S when it should have been ITS.

Yeah, I’m kind of a grammatic fanatic!

I seem to remember a Dick Tracy story that featured a criminal named Hy Jackie who murdered someone in Lunar City and he and Tracy ended up fighting each other with golf clubs…Tracy wanted to take him back to earth and the Moon Governor said that he would face Lunar justice which is more draconian…Ro-zan will face that justice…

I love Tracy in the first panel !

Bring Marina back like with Mysta…..if she hadn’t spoke up and got killed, Tracy never would have known…….plus she was cool, lol

Good morning™, bitter enemies !

The devastation, if that seething anger that would erupt into manifest violence wasn’t being restrained. Sloe-Gin should be there to kick Ro-Dan in “the boys”. Will they need to build a jail to keep Ro and his minions with ?  Up until now it seems the Moonites were a pretty docile people with no prior need for a lock up. Earth television can’t be a good thing; with all the bad influencing exhibited therein. If only John Surely was evaluating the media signals they get in order to edit out the bad stuff that the puerile teens enjoy so much. ;-)

Ro-zan: “And that’s not right! You’re my puppets! Mine! All mine!”

Mysta: “[crackle pop] Aww, you’ve made an ash of yourself.”

That first panel had me thinking of The Shadow ….

I guess it’s now time for Ro-Zan and members of his faction to go where the chosen ones went, wherever that might be as long as it is as far away as possible.

Mysta in Panel #2.

“And it also goes so well with my attire.”

Is the Arms man disarming Ro-Zan in the last panel?

RO-ZAN seems he’ll be returning….hopefully not.

I did like this story. But l look forward to a new one.

Ro-Zan is not any way discouraged, is he?

What’s with the Lunarian Rover Car in the background of panel 2 ? Looks like a Cosmic Clown Car to take away Rozan and his circus of rebels !!!

They’re subduing him with a wet willie. Lunar policing is weird.

That final quote may be Rozan’s tagline to run for Governor and seize power that way on the Not A Puppet ticket.

Nice little Punch and Judy show now, Ro-zan. Your Judy, welcome to reality now.

Besides, someone has to keep Mysta in line

at least he was willing to drop the subject real quick.

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Fools! Don’t you see you’re his puppets? …and not MINE?

glad to see that Thorin is being reasonable about the Bribering… and what with the look on Mysta’s face?…perhaps realizing what a scumbag Ro is?… and how does it feel to EAT IT, Ro?… and there’s still the matter of your punishment, you jerkwad… Into the lava falls with you…

Well, who’s a grumpy bunny?

Is him screaming that to Tracy, to the ambassador or to Mysta?

Dang it, Tracy… the possessive form of “IT” is “ITS”, not “IT’S”.

“You’re supposed to be my puppets!”

Will Bribery get early parole as reward for bankrolling humanity’s salvation—or as incentive to share the ring technology with Space Force?

And, if you had succeeded who would be the puppets, to your Puppet Master?

There are quite a few “throw him in the lava falls” comments this morning, and the idea of that being Lunarian punishment has floated before in the comments. But, besides Tracy being shown those lava falls as a natural wonder, was there ever anything in the strip itself to indicate that the lava falls are used for capital punishment in Moon Valley?

This has turned from a knock down, drag out fight to a draggggged out story.

1-DT: SEE THESE FINGERS? SEE THIS THUMB? SEE THIS FIST? YOU BETTER RUN!

2-THOR-IN: Geez, Tracy! That taunt is as old as the moon. Ali had better material after Parkinson’s floored him. MYSTA: I’ll never forget you, darling!

3-BRO-ZAN: I WANT A REMATCH! TRACY SUCKER PUNCHED ME! IT WAS A QUICK COUNT! TRACY COULDN’T CARRY MY JOCKSTRAP! *

•With this last comment, we learn that Bro-Zan had seen on TV the remark made by Larry Holmes about Rocky Marciano.

Be honest. Tracy got it from a box of Cracker Jack.

“Fools! Don’t you see you’re his puppets?” Spoken in the wake of trying to make everyone his puppets. People like Ro-Zan often accuse others of the things they themselves are guilty of.

Miss the good ole days when usurpers were summarily executed.

Tracy: After all, it’s mine… I seized it in an arrest… it came to me… my own, my precious…

Huhn….look who’s calling who a puppet-master: ’ol “Do my bidding, armsmen, or face the dire consequences of not doing so” hisself……

Speaking of puppets,I’d love to see Roz-An swing from a nice strong cord.

MOVIE QUOTE—

“When you break his legs,don’t damage the tights,they’re mine!”

Circus owner looking for Bob Hope—-ROAD TO RIO—1947

Just so the MCU can be prepared,September 29th is “National COffee Day”

I’m glad that Thorin accepted Tracy’s honest answer and it didn’t become a sticking point right when they’ve kind of had a bonding encounter! Keep babbling Ro-zan, ya jerk! Also looks like Mysta is fixing him with a disapproving glare, which he deserves! The jerk!

Shame on them! “it’s” tech? no apostrophe.

One of the Armsmen: No, we’re not puppets. We’re muppets.

“Don’t you see you’re his puppets? You should be my puppets! Mine mine mine!”

Hey, dont’ second guess me.

Time to give Ro-Zan a fair trial and then execute him for treason. Problem solved.

Tracy rightfully retains The Ring for the sake of humanity, and Thorin reasonably yet surprisingly agrees. Mysta has no “happy face” for the traitor, who remains defiant and, like so many of today’s politicians, accuses others of exactly what he is guilty of doing….

Exactly what I said yesterday