Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 08, 2019

Good morning™, life fighters!

It sounds like Sam has narrowed the field considerably, so that’s good progress.

So Sparkle is still alive. Yesterday’s strip made it seem otherwise.

There doesn’t seem to be much of an actual mystery. They’ve only talked about a single suspect. The only question is where to find him.

Good morning™, monopoly contractors !

Solving this wont take but a Minute !

Thanks for reading – good night all!

Well so no having to look into any but one. Simplified. But is it that simple? Someone who can set this up like the fake video tape would need to take time to get what he or she needs once it is decided how to go about laying the trap. I would have suspected that the killings wouldn’t have happened so fast unless it was during several months or years.

Well that certainly narrows it down

nice to see some actual detective work taking place

Finally a clue.

I don’t generally like Joe’s inks as much as Shelly’s, but today they work extremely well. Shelly’s inks embellish, whereas Joe’s usually feel like a new layer of pencilwork that takes advantage of the what the brush can do, the result often blocky and sometimes crude (which always is interesting and very easy on the eyes, nonetheless). But today the ink lines are a little lighter in places, so the panels are nicely balanced. Renderings of Sam are particularly strong.

The “mystery” is why are these 2 weeks being wasted

Okay, the most well-known villain associated with poison gas in DT is probably Pruneface. Now, he’s dead (twice, right?) but this could be the execution of a plan formulated by Pruneface before he died.

The mystery is – who’s gonna keep Tracy and Junior from beating the s**t out of the perp.

Angeltop Jones? Apparatus? hmmm

Not much of a mystery if there’s only one option.

Well done, Sam. By narrowing down the field of potential suspects, your investigative work has set this story on course for resolution in its allotted time! Panel 3 Tracy is the grim LEO ready to do what is necessary to end this series of poison gas murders….