Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 21, 2024

little button-eyed Annie…

“All hands on deck! Annie, grab a pistol and cover your Ma and Pa while we go in!”

Good morning™, all!

Just when you get home to have a relaxing day with your new baby, your boss calls to say he’s going into action against your secret other boss.

I love the way the shadows are done here. I think that Charles is better at that than Joe and Shelley were.

It looks like a flip phone from 10 or 15 years ago. That’s just about the correct amount of time back, given Annie’s age.

Maybe I’m getting sentimental in my old age, but I have a sneaking suspicion Harold & Wini don’t get offed in this story, but have to disappear or something & are forced to leave Annie behind in the orphanage, & Tracy tracks them down now & reunites them with their daughter. Hey, Mike’s already retconned Annie’s origin story to put Tracy & Warbucks in it, he might as well go all the way.

What an astonishing, mind boggling, awe inspiring strip tod,,,,

ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz,,,,,

Charles appears to be acceptable.

He can stay!!!

Since Winnifred just gave birth to Annie, is Boris expecting her to participate in kidnapping Warbucks? Where are they supposed to find a babysitter?

So we add Breast feeding to the banned things by TCA that can’t be shown or hinted at?

Good morning™, Bassinet Babies !

Just had the kid and going back to work ALREADY ?  Winie’s a real trooper.

I really like the first panel!

Harold has his back to us because it’s been a long nine months .

1-WINNIE: That hair and those blank eyes make it easy to dump you at the orphanage later. Well let’s feed you – I guess.

2-HAROLD: Hello…No. Wasn’t us….No problem. click

3-WINNIE: Who was that? HAROLD: Hospital Collections. They think we owe for the birth of a baby.

BOTH: HAR HAR HAR!

MOVIE QUOTE——“The trouble with the straight and narrow is that it’s too narrow.

Joseph Cotten—-WALK SOFTLY,STRANGER—1950

This is hilarious! I just realized that since “just kidding” can no longer have a slash in it when abbreviated – it now warns you about URLs! LOL

So Boris still trusts them after their assurances that Tracy would NOT be a problem proved wrong on the first kidnap effort? What is he – SIMPLE???

“Wait! I have brilliant PLAN! We’ll substitute the KID for Warbucks. Other than the size difference, the hair and the drooling, he’ll never know the difference!”

They ban black eyes in this strip,so why not breast feeding?

Besides, Annie demanded Ovaltine instead of regular milk

“Whoooooop-dee-DOOOOOOOOO, all you Happy, Hyper Hipsters and Super-Swell Swingers out there in Terrific Tracy Town! Thanks to our good buddy Brian yesterday, I, your Daring, Dynamic Deejay, JPuzzle The Whiz, am back spinning the Platters That Matter on the Big, Bold BMBG turntable, which spins once again! And I have a Delightfully Devilish Double Play for your listening pleasure! The first one is dedicated to the aforementioned Bright, Brilliant Brian for coming to my rescue! The second is related to the scenes depicted above!”

youtube .com /watch?v=swu0DCXHYzA

youtube .com /watch?v=2dYoHijfA00

(Just copy-and-paste into your browser, and eliminate the spaces!)

Okay,I shall return on Monday March 25th.I must consult with family accountant about a little thing called “Income tax”.

I won’t make Al Capone’s mistakes, so don’t worry

Lotta hair for a newborn. Anyhow, the Grays’ abode has an austere, strangely retro look to it. Check the cradle Annie is in. It could be the 1930s if not for the cell phone in Harold’s hand.

Perfect timing!