Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 31, 2018

Good morning™, silent ones!

I like the interesting angle of view in the first panel, although it appears that the chair has been moved again.

For anyone using my GC Replies bookmarklet, I’ve revised it for the changes to the message board last night. Get it here:

http://worldofdt.info/gchelp.html

The GC Index one will hopefully be updated sometime later today. I won’t be able to get along without it for long.

Two of the changes I noticed is that we have our @ names back for replies and the page no longer scrolls when you click on the reply link.

Not up on silencers, but are any of them not suitable to add a silencer onto the end?

I never liked the automatic scroll anyway.

Might the “Silencer” have been an improvised object …

so what am I doing wrong, last couple of days. clicked on view comments, only one comment, same on show all comments….

Tracy seems as bored as I am as he kills time in panel one! LOL!

Kudos to Rick who’s doing a splendid job illustrating an otherwise pedestrian Mini-Me story.

Wouldn’t it be great if a transporter malfunction beamed captain Kirk to Tracyville?

Imagine the possibilities!

There are only five guns in the picture, but there are six suspects.

Can anybody here identify the weapons pictured in panel 2? Just for the fun of it.

Possession of an unloaded gun is the same as a loaded one. I hope they all have permits!

Those guns each has a tag on them, making them hard to use to murder someone! LOL j/k

Can’t use a silencer with a revolver, so forget them.

Wow – eye popping graphics. I’m really impressed with the fill-in illustrator

For a minute mystery this story arc is taking a long time

Is this going to turn out to be an elaborate cosplay prank at Tracy’s expense, with the “victim” explaining all on Sunday? Because there haven’t been any useful clues for the reader so far. (Now if this were a Fearless Fosdick story, our hero would realize all the players were colluding against, not noticing that nothing criminal had actually happened, and shoot them all up.)

If they’re all just used as props, how hard is it to sniff the barrels for a trace of gunpowder?

“And no sign of the silencer?” “Dr. Lloyd is out sick.”

Just for funsies: whose was each weapon in panel 2?

From top to bottom:

First up looks like a Ruger .22. Shakey or maybe Pruneface.

Luger 9mm. The Brow, clearly.

.38 Police Special. Probably Blackjack’s choice.

Walther PPK. Flattop; its of his [the original, real Flattop’s] vintage.

Heavy revolver (.44 Magnum?). DoubleUp.

—A total of five guns shown, but we have six suspects. Are we missing one gun, the actual murder weapon?

At the Rogue’s Gallery club, apparently, the only thing that can stop a “bad guy” with a gun is another “bad guy” with a gun.