Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 25, 2023

Good morning™, everybody!

Silver Nitrate’s cellmate, The Jumbler, first appeared March 8, 2013 (https://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2013/03/08) and was arrested April 14 or that year, the story concluding two days later. Apparently, he’s still in jail.

I’ve never known restless legs syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restless_legs_syndrome) to occur quite the way it’s depicted, but I think it works for a comics panel.

Good morning Silver, time to make the doughnuts.

General Trelane (Ret.) Premium Member I think he missed it about 8 hours ago

@Gweedo it’s legal here Murray

Why wasn’t I invited ?

What was our association in about 1985 ?

Good morning™, bad dream wakers !

Bad dream wankers, for firepit. LOL !

I bet he stops if you put your leg, hard and fast, between his. ;-p

Are we starting in jail ?

Taking one heck of a chance letting this Jumbler character get the top bunk. What if he tossed and turned? Oh well, that would be all she wrote folks. Now look out below.

Aha, Silver Nitrate was dreaming. Is a trend getting started here? First Tracy, now him. Wonder what the coffee is like in jail? Plenty of that beverage but no chicken n’ delites for nourishment.

Getting a wee bit crowded with characters me thinks!

Nice transition and layouts. Well done team.

I very seldom dream my own life story including narration.

Silver is still haunted by his childhood memories of his father dealing with an angry customer. For a moment, he thought he was a child again, with his sister nearby.

I wont comment on silver being on the bottom….I wont comment on silver being on the bottom….I wont comment on silver being on the bottom….I wont comment on silver being on the bottom….

DAGNABBIT!!! I just commented solver being on the bottom lol

‘Dang’ is rapidly becoming the default expletive of the Tracyverse…. I’m sure Nannybot is well pleased!

I see from the Dick Tracy Fandom entry on the Jumbler that he was involved with collectible comic books, but not counterfeit items like the Nitrates and Art Dekko were both (separately) involved in. Googling “counterfeit comic books” didn’t provide much information, so I might be reaching in suggesting it.

@Neil Wick – Thanks for that info….

I’m coming up to speed. This Silver Nitrate is some sort of criminal mastermind or arch fiend or villain with an addiction to photo developing chemicals and his sister , Sprocket , is his muscle . Have I got it right ?

They let him keep his shades in the joint? Must be a progressive warden…

Oh great. One of Mike’s best characters and one of his worst.

1-HIYO: I’m dreaming that I’m little again and that a mysterious “he” is at “my” backdoor…

2-…WHOA!

3- HIYO:DANG IT TO HELL! RAMBLER! Stop stressing about it and just accept that you’re in love with #390892! We’ll ALL sleep better when you do!

THE JUMBLER?!?… he was probably the first bad guy from Mike that I extremely disliked and looking back on the story, I STILL don’t like it or him… now that I see THIS idiot inserted into what might have been an enjoyable Nitrate story has for ME, went down a few notches… the inclusion of this imbecile does nothing for the high hopes I had… and this happens on the day of my surgery in a few hours… will be leaving for the hospital in about an hour to have yet another piece of me taken away… so it’ll be my fourth toe I’ll be involuntarily giving up… dam-ned diabetes… seems I’m leaving bits of myself wherever I go… LOL… so I’ll be back out in a few short hours afterwards, rest up when I get back home and be back for tomorrow’s installment, but I won’t be looking forward to seeing useless excuse for a bad guy again… the Jumbler, my god.. of all the bad guys to have as a bunkie, it had to be HIM?!?…

We’ve had an intro with a brief backstory and a transition to current day. So far, so good. I’m learning some characters who exist in the Tracyverse and who have been introduced in the past decade. With a probable murder or manslaughter conviction to add to his con game and prior prison break, it’s not likely Silver’s sentence is up anytime soon. Looks like we have another probable prison break coming up.

I haven’t read up on the Jumbler yet. Is in for anything other than theft?

Im so confused.

Aw,nuts,just when things were getting interesting.

Silver says to his cellmate—-“You actually left CLUES for DIck Tracy???”

MOVIE QUOTE—

“I was the first one to make bridegrooms out of pot cheese!”

Jackie Gleason—DON’T DRINK THE WATER—1969

We lost another one.

https://www.reuters.com/world/singer-tina-turner-dies-aged-83-2023-05-24/

It’s fun to see the Jumbler again :3

Dang

Nothing like a PTSD attack to get a new story off to an exciting start.

Not exactly the clearest writing. Silver Nitrate was seemingly narrating the tale of his deficient childhood in a coherent and straight-forward way to someone unknown to us. But now we find him awakening, startled by — good grief! —Jumbler’s Restless Leg Syndrome, BAM-BAMming against the wall of their shared prison cell. Dreams are rarely so linear as what we’d had up until today!

Now what? A jailbreak? Or parole? Or a switcheroo to some other potential villain (Sprocket?), and a frickin’ crime? Are we on a Magic Carpet Ride?

https://tinyurl.com/ya4bgy5h

This looks like a short respite before we see who the next criminal(s) are who’ve taken too many bites from the bitter fruit of The Weed Of Crime…………….