Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Shelley Pleger for February 06, 2023

Good morning™, everyone!

I guess this is the answer to all the questions I’ve seen here about why her mustache is black. The secret is out now.

Oh WOW, Lee is cheating on Blaze already???

Seriously, today’s installment is the most vital piece of information we’ve received in weeks!!!

This strip is turning into a regular; “As the MCU Turns!”

Since there’s nothing left to surprise us with this saga, we can safely say we’ve just endured yet another lame ending to a pothole filled story.

After yesterday’s thrilling climax, today looks like the start of a dailies’ week’s worth of resolution.

Doesn’t look like Sue Reel’s in any trouble. She’s probably agreeing to testify in exchange for immunity like Blaze Rize did.

Still, it’s fun to see a reveal for how she’s able to keep her moustache so black, long, and thin.

I’ve noticed that so far, 99 has only appeared in the dailies and hasn’t even been mentioned in the Sunday strips. I wonder if she’ll get caught or escape. It could go either way, but I expect we’ll get some kind of definite answer in the near future.

Well, I guess we were about due for another clunker of a strip.

Good morning™, waxy black build up !

I just love seeing the ladies exchanging beauty tips. LOL !

Looks like Sue will not be doing any time or we would have seen cuffs.

So while Dick rushes off to confront Krypto, Lee calls for backup and takes Art in for booking, then returns to schmooze with Sue. Huh?

From a rooftop shootout to this!???

So it would’ve been too squeamish for them to show Kripto being scraped off the pavement?

What, No splat on the sidewalk to conclude the assassin’s fate?

It would’ve been a fun strip if they drawn the MCU crew encircled around the panel looking down as if they were looking at Kripto’s body with possibly some dialogue.

She had me fooled, I thought it was mustache wax!

Looks like Lee is going to solve the mystery of the mustache!!! And go deep deep deep undercovers !!!

“Why don’t I give it a little…YANK?”

“Oochies!!!”

“His name was Groucho.”

Not that it really matters, in terms of the case, Lee. But who was it you knew that dated a bearded lady?

Beards and Stashes. Stashes and beards. The Tracyverse has always been filled with people who have abnormal physical characteristics. Nothing else here except fine artwork.

Does she give moustache rides?

With eyeliner? How exactly? As it seems to be a thin strand of hair pulled out in a handlebar. You know, they have electrolysis to remove unwanted hair.

1-SUE: Was that gunfire? LEE: Yeah. Don’t worry, hot stuff. I’ll protect you.

2-SUE: Was that a “SPLAT?”

3-LEE: Yeah. Don’t worry, hot stuff. It’s only 50/50 that it was Tracy. What say we go back to my place and I show you my 18th Century Erotica? SUE: Nah. I’ve seen all of Art’s fake cells of that stuff.

LEE: Did you not see the bedroom eyes I’m making at you??? SUE: OH. Yes! Sorry. There’s a bed over there. Go ahead and catch a few winks before we find out who hit the road. I’ll wake you if Kripto comes in.

LEE: Geez. FUGLY AND DUMB

LEE – OFF PANEL: SXXXXXXX! Ooooh. That mustache tickles! SXXXXXXXXXX! That’s the spot! SUE: Wow. She really was exhausted! ART: I’m gonna go now. See ya!

CWS (“Creeping WOKE Syndrome”) storyline detected!!! Late Chester Gould’s corpus delecti might spend more time spinning nowadays than mainstream media!

Those names in Dick Tracy: Art Dekko, Sue Reel!

Today’s panels…girl talk? The Peggy Lee song comes to mind “is that all there is” to the recent story line? If so why bother to go through the motions of fighting crime.

That ‘stash makes her unattractiveand creepy. Heck, Mrs. Pruneface wasn’t as unsteadying – and she was hidious!

MOVIE QUOTE—

“Remember when I knocked Waterfront Nell down?”

YOU knocked her down?? I knocked her down!"

“Well.I started kicking her first!”

Bartender and W.C> Fields—-MY LITTLE CHICKADEE—1940

Lee is EVERYBODY’S friend,isn’t she?

A little tame,considering they must have heard the shots inside the shop and should be ducking for cover.

But Sue looks relieved that this whole thing is finally all over.She’s been sensing impending doom for some time now,I’m sure

Hey,BOTH ladies are beautiful!!

i’m going to use those pick up lines

While Lee is waiting,she buys some Lena Horne stills….

Small talk—very small talk—between the ladies. Is Lee hitting on Sue? We learn secrets of the blackness of the mustache, not that it matters a whit.

A really anticlimactic strip today, wasted, trivial, mere filler. Needless. Adds nothing to the story, unless “the story” is Lee’s love life….