Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 06, 2022

Good morning™, everyone!

Well, there’s the missing Marina, crying in the dark!

Shay-Gin is yet another new character, but I think she will also be key. My first thought is to pronounce her name with a hard G, like shaggin’, but with stress on the second syllable. It could be like “gin,” the drink, but then I would have spelled it with a J.

“Meeting,” hm?

uhoh, I DON’T like the looks of THIS one… possibly a member of the faction using Marina to get to Dick?…

Good morning™, cheap soppy tear jerks !

Marina has her ticket to the inner workings of the “faction”. Will Dick see her and Shay-gin going in ?

Hot ziggity !  I knew that was just an act. I’ve got her on the ropes now !

Because top-secret military conspiracies are always looking to recruit emotionally unstable people to join their ranks.

Is she going to get that cheap tramp to join the revolution? What else do you call a home wrecker trying to get a married man ?

Is Marina going to give them up to Tracy in a bid to win him?

Shay-Gin “The Vulture” sees that her friend is vulnerable and wants to lure her into a crazy secret society?! I’m more and more afraid that Marina will sacrifice herself to save Tracy!

Forget Tracy, Marina! I want you!!! Woo woo! Ding! Ding!! DING!! Hubba! HUBBA!!

And thus wrong assumptions will be made.

The plot thickens. Marina becomes Tracy’s stoolie, his “in” to the bad guys

Why does Marina have an Earth name? Does any other Lunarian have a non-hyphenated English word for a name?

How old is Marina, 14? Still boo-hooing over Tracy? Get a grip, girl. He was bad news anyway.

No plump girls in Mooniville. Jus saying for a friend.

It’s a meeting of that Earth dreamboat (siiiigh) Sam. And they say he’s a good provider, always stuffing things in his pockets for later!"

Meeting? Will there be Kool-Ade?

What we have here is a soap opera?

Uh-oh (Part 2).

Yes, a meeting! That will cheer me up!!!

At least Tracy is a solid good guy here. And sneakin’ around to get the scoop on their treachery. Woo ha ha!

1-THUNDER-THIGHS: You gotta cold? What’s with all the sniffles?

2-MARINA: I can’t get a man, Thunder-Thighs. What’s wrong with me? BOO HOO!

3-THUNDER: Well, for one – a lot of people think you murdered the one you had…

MARINA: But they couldn’t prove…I mean, no I didn’t.

THUNDER: Say. I’ve had good luck on the Lunie Love dating website. Let’s get you set-up! OR, we can go to a meeting of Lunies Who Lost Their Loves It’s like AA but everyone’s just there to hook up.

MARINA: WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?!? LET’S GO, GIRL!

THUNDER: THAT’S THE SPIRIT! On the way there we’ll work up a story about what happened to your man. Let’s not use the one you told in court – ok?

MARINA: But it worked! I mean… but it’s the truth! THUNDER THIGHS: Umm…yeah…of course…

Marina, I guess she never looked at Tracy’s fingers to see he’s a married man. In Moon Valley they probably don’t wear wedding rings.

To give Marina a sense of purpose, she might get assigned to set up the conference room for those planning the invasion of earth.

Somehow I don’t think Marina would have any trouble finding a date.

Shay-Gin, cabalist vixen, tricking vulnerable Marina into attending a Renegades’ Rally. Will Marina be converted to The Cause? Will she be revolted by the revolting and fink on the xenophobes, either to Liska and Thorin or to Tracy?

Wipe away your tears and prepare for a promising Sunday strip!