Overcoming adversity.

After what felt like an eternity, the robot story has been wrapped up and it would seem that we're finally moving on, though a series of mysterious panels showing Diet talking on the phone with Tess are still wandering around in my mind, trying to make sense of themselves.  I wonder if Tess was calling him about her condition, since her T-Rex arms seem to have stabilized but not reversed, as has been the experience of other characters.  Could she have been calling about getting help for her condition only to be turned down?  We'll have to wait and see.  For the moment we should just be grateful that the poor woman was finally able to pull herself out of bed and get dressed.

In other news, it seems that Dick's (or Tess's) obsession with coffee cups is taking its toll on the Tracy household as the door in panel one seems to have some sort of mug handle on it.  Panel two points to more troubling obsessiveness as Tracy seems to lose track of what he's saying the moment he sees that coffee cup perched precariously on some molding.  (I must admit that even I am impressed by whatever is in that mug as it seems to be able to spell out letters  with steam.)

The third panel brings in the possibility of a new character: the mysterious Professor Noll (could his name perhaps be G. K. Noll?).  We'll have to wait and see whether this mention leads to an actual character, or if it's merely a name mentioned in passing never to be heard from or seen (Lt. Teevo, I'm looking at you).  Panel three also gives the first glimpse of what our intrepid detective looks like when he actually lets his hair down (and I must say that I think I prefer the slicked back detective look to the wolf man look).  One can only wonder if this is but another throw away strip, or the beginning of some new case.  (One can also wonder if we're ever going to see that work of art Dab Stract gave them, but I think we all know the answer to that.)