Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 10, 2019

Good morning™, diner denizens!

… and just like that, two weeks have passed, just when anyface thought time was moving slowly. “Mommy” has built up a certain level of trust, even though Frisk remains vigilant.

Observations not as keen as they might be. ✨

WOW! What a cold hearted woman!!

Good morning™, killer victim baiters !

This person is pure evil, I hope she gets in the line of fire or whatever means are being devised for Frisky’s termination.

Look out Frisk!

Well, at least she gave up lighting the filter.

You would of thought she had died from so many years of smoking!!! Mommie dearest!!!

No worries the cigarettes will kill both of them anyway

So.. for those of you who are members of the dick tracy crimestoppers network group… i put up a poll his morning which closes next sunday the 20th.. so theres plenty of time to vote

Frisk had to have been raised by someone, she already has a Mommy. Why is she so desperate to reconnect with this lizard?

1-PRIMM: What’re you doing here at the Smokers Anonymous meeting Tracy? You don’t even smoke.

DT: True but I’ve learned that the chicks here dig a guy with a couple packs of smokes in his pocket.

2-You got smokes? Ok. You can stay. See me after the meeting.

3-JACKIE (in an oddly decorated part of the same room): Hi. I’m Jackie. I been smoke free one minute. Well, after I finish this one.

CROWD: Hi Jackie.

I don’t get this smoking. Everywhere I go I see No Smoking signs. Where are these places that they are allowed to smoke?

It appears that “Our Town” isn’t the only play in town…

And unbeknownst to Clair and Lily, Dick Tracy ( and maybe Lizz ) are playing their roles in this drama…

And Frisk isn’t so caught up in her feelings to be oblivious to Lily…

I also agree with the idea that Lily will be disposed of after the trap is sprung…

cue the ominous music

Lily is a piece of work. After all, she’s not “playing mommy”; she is mommy (though I understand what she is saying). Could that lead her to a last minute change of heart (in classical drama, peripeteia) and an attempt to save her daughter from Clair’s fiendish plot? Or am I being too Pollyanna-ish?

Either way, we are approaching a crux….

I have heard it said that hands are hard to do but panel 3 hand is an exquisite reproduction of a malnourished druggie person’s hand.