Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 08, 2023

Literary. Extraordinary. Rare manuscripts she knows

O. Cormac recommends her. Recollecting her he glows.

Choate alumni ’85. You’ll find her in The Brief

She’s sure to lend her expertise, help end this deadly grief.

Here at the exclusive club, she enters like a Queen

Finery from head to toe, luxurious her sheen.

Classy. Regal. So refined. Thus, many heads do turn

Tracy’s mind is on the case. So much he needs to learn.

“Olympic alternate”. Probably for the fencing team. En garde Tracy!

Good morning™, everybody!

Ms. Libris looks less “fun-loving” than she did in the yearbook picture.

The Lit is The Choate Literary Magazine, but the title on the cover now just says “Lit.” Gertrude Stein made an address to Choate students which was published in The Lit in 1935 with her permission under the title “How Writing Is Written.” It has since been reprinted many times in various places. Edward Albee, famous for _Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and other plays, had his first play printed in The Lit.

Amazing how well preserved she looks after all these decades.

Hall of Fame: You can watch the bodycam footage of Officer Callaway saving the baby here:

https://www.fox5atlanta.Com/news/senoia-officer-saves-choking-baby-cpr-body-camera

Toe taping ?  LOL !

Tickets for the Gweedo’s Farm’s annual Halloween Goatfest go on sale this Tuesday and are expected to sell out fast!

Good morning™, statuesque entries !

She looks rather imposing of a figure, not the pretty coy coed of 1985. Hopefully she is not the killer. She looks the educated type who may be able to help Tracy get closer to finding the killer. Panel 3 Tracy looks dashingly handsome. ;-p

Looks charmingly . . . stern these days.

Gweedo and the goats could use someone like her to administer some stern and severe spankings…

Another;

fun filled

Action packed

Spell binding

Plot twisting

Jaw dropping

Leg tingling

Toe tapping

Finger snapping

Fart blowing

Gweedo goating

Sunday in Tracyville!!!

Yeah!!!

I post late on yesterday’s strip where I hypothesised that the reason for Dick was smiling was because he recognised the her name from the log book.

After the introductions, I guess they will get to the basics between bites of food. Probably not! Good manners say you don’t talk with your mouth full.

She looks like Cate Blanchett.

Looks like she “matured” !

Darn! He turned indiscreetly.

She’s in charge of chemical firm. I’m betting that fact ties into the plot in some way. I’ve got no idea how, but am still thinking it might be more than, “Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.”

There has been a lot of ancient tech that was lost, maybe the works had details for some dye formula that has been forgotten over the centuries. Books are too new to tell us what the Soma of the Vedas was, although a lot of plants/fungi have been nominated as candidates.

The speed that this story is moving at is incredible! Why, it’d DEFINITELY come in a distant second in a footrace with a sloth!

Better life through chemicals……?

An english school marm. Hy bless ma soul, I gotta touch…wait. Wrong dialect. Why’s hello govn’er! (giggles)

Why she got some nose eh. It the second thickest nose me has seen on a hyoomin ever.

Very rude of Owen not to invite Sam.

Don’t they make Pastrami sandwiches in this fancy restaurant?

Tracy hasn’t been this happy in years!

I would have been more suspicious of her if she had inherited her family’s cutlery firm……..

What do you know, the woman who doesn’t go out much just happens to go out the night Tracy goes to the club. Lucky break for Tracy.

Looks like Harleen Quinzel.

an olympic alternative-in what? fencing? could that be the blade used?

Well, the betting odds on whether or not Ms. Libris is the mastermind of all this just changed dramatically.

I also think Eric Costello is starting to make an impact…

She looks so serious and grey. But also 20 years younger.

Shelley’s images are just " fantastic " great job , what a talent she has : )

1-DT: You’re paying, right?

2-NORMAN DESMOND: I’ll pick up the tab if you take care of my speeding tickets.

3-DT: DEAL! MORE WINE GARCON!

4-NORMAN: HEY GARCON! MAKE IT A BOTTLE OF RIPPLE THIS TIME! I’m just an Assistant States Attorney. I don’t get the big money bribes yet. Wait. Be cool, Tracy – she’s here… WOOT WOOOOO! HEY XAVIEE! REMEMBER ME FROM CHOATE?

5-…IT’S DESSY! POP A SQUAT! TRACY WAS JUST LEAVING! DT: Huh? But…wine…?

If it was not for Neil Wick’s help earlier, I wouldn’t have had a clue about “We were both on the ‘Lit’ together.”

………“Chemicals”……..well, I’ll be………

Dick Tracy and Owen Cormac Desmond are dining at the very private, very toney Choate Club in downtown Tracyville, and bantering background on Xaviera Libris, when…, she makes An Entrance, looking very button-downed and domineering. This is a prelude to…what?…

She’s a Barbie girl ! Her chest is plastic ! She’s fantastic !

She must be pumped full of chemicals from her company to be well preserved !!!

When the scriptwriter is in one’s corner eternal youth and much more are possible!