Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 28, 2020

Seatbelts, everyone. Seatbelts.

OMG, I KNOW! HOW COOL IS THIS?! It’s almost as cool as when Sonny & Cher helped Scooby-Doo and the gang unravel The Secret of Shark Island…

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6m2oih

(I’ll leave the comparison to Fonzie jumping the shark to others.)

It’s worse than I thought.

It’s a week long commercial!

Good morning™, visitors!

So, it’s nice to have confirmation that Annie still does live in another city. She must have made special arrangements to attend school in Tracy’s and Annie’s city while the journalism camp takes place.

I guess this is another talking heads day. Character stats so far: Tracy 9, Brenda Starr 3, Annie and Honeymoon 11. Stokes 14.

Good morning™, ad meisters !

There’s a story in here somewhere, I think.

Aw, this is fun……and has potential to be a really good story. Dick Tracy Halloween ones usually are!

Look to the street, Tracy!

Liking it so far, fun injected into a pretty gruesome crime investigation!

This is kinda fun. But I miss the days when we’d have had a second crime by now, and scenes of the villain working on his plan as the pressure mounts on Tracy and the other cops to catch him. You know, when this was an action-adventure strip.

TV studio time, wish it was Elvira, I would visit her in a minute!!!

since svengoolie films in a suburb of chicargo i guess that confirms tracytown. aurora illinois!

I cant wait til this whole thing is over

Just a heads up … Over at Li’l Abner, Lester Gooch has been released from the sanitarium, so it looks like an adventure of Fearless Fosdick is about to begin!

https://www.gocomics.com/lil-abner/2020/09/28

At the rate this arc is progressing Sven will probably want them to meet his ghoul friend Elvira

1-BLONDIE: This is fun, a surprise trip!

2-DT: Now you didn’t tell anyone you were going somewhere with me, did you?

3-ANNIE: No. We snuck out just like you told us to. Daddy Warbux never cares where I am anyway.

BLONDIE: And I don’t even know for sure if anybody lives with me.

DT: Excellent. I couldn’t ask for a better arrangement when using kids as bait…

ANNIE: Uh oh. You ruined the surprise.

WE’RE GOING FISHING, BLONDIE! YAAAAY!

I’m skipping DT this week. I can’t stand that guy.

To tsull2121..Problem is, the next one will probably suck too.

There’s gonna be tween hijinks.

ASP?

Svengoolie? This thing has gone off the rails. Or maybe not!! Svengoolie probably knows some real vampires, he could be a good source of information!

Watch out! the fine print at the end of Swen’s Saturday credits warns that “there is vampire dust all over and his allergies are starting to kick in.” [I don’t watch it live]

A visit to Sven is worthwhile, since he is likely to offer a good lead. But, nitpicking, I think the show is not currently broadcasting live from the studio. Sven has been holed up in “a secret location” due to the virus. I think he may be immuno-compromised due to his health issues from the not too distant past.

Also, Annie’s reporting to Daddy and his aides/security guys, Asp and Punjab, could bring in some useful reinforcements, especially if the showdown takes a magical turn….

Just remember: NO PERSONAL CHECKS!

Will they be back in time for the Trump-Biden first debate?

It is going to be interesting to see what lead Svengoolie can give them….short of watching clips of Dracula movies in the booth at the studio. But then what do I know.

Yeah, I bet that Punjab and the Asp, with their well-known bubbly senses of humour, are great Svengoolie fans, and would really be impressed.