Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 26, 2019

Good morning™ to the rudely awakened!

Barnabas is extremely unhappy about his newly-given nickname.

I wonder…..could we readers be led on a merry chase where it turns out Barnabas ISN’T the killer…………?

Someone looks like a deranged Clark Kent!

These two remind me of the Cartwright boys; no two alike!

Who still reads the paper in bed?

So did he go from Phoenix, Arizona all the way to Tacoma?

Just a mite unhappy, he is!!! Oh well go to work and give yourself a name!!!

Well, looks like my theory of the “Teacher’s Pet” giving Wendy that tip is all we. Or, is it? Could Barnabas have a split personality? Maybe teacher’s pet is the guy bringing the news to Barnabas, could be just the guy who gave Wendy the ifo.

You think Wendy might be a target now?

So, the thing is this… Joe said yesterday that nobody knew the nickname that his department gave the killer.. so A) how did Wendy Wichell find out? B) How did Barnabas know it? C) How did Rocks know about it?

Something here doesnt sit right

I thought something wasn’t right yesterday!

Alt Script: 1- Hmmm. In other news, Wrongway Corrigan traded to Australian Rules Football team where his tendency to run to the wrong goal line is thought to be naturally corrected in the southern hemisphere where sink drains run counter clockwise. Makes sense… 2- WHAT THE?? 3- WHO TOLD THE “Snoop On The Streets” COLUMN I DON’T WEAR PAJAMA BOTTOMS? I DO!! SEE! Oh, wait…

I’m curious about the stories with the headlines “Rube Rooky” (written by Barnabas?) and “Starlucks Stock” LOL

The “sparkle” of the teeth gave him away when we first saw him! Pretty-boy killer!

Is “Rocks” Tar related to Silver Nitrate? He has almost the same profile.

https://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2014/03/10

Tar indulges his rage, revealing his emotional immaturity. His cowardly brother is in denial, which can’t last. Will the next attack force him to step up?

Whoa! Easy there, Barnabas, before you fly into a homicidal rage! —Wouldn’t want to off your own kin!

Okay, so the Tacoma cops seemingly originated the nickname (and Tacoma was Barnabas Tar’s base city back in Washington?). And now some scribe for The [Tracyville] Daily has used that same nickname in a story about the latest murder. We know Wendy Wichel works for SBN, but might she also have a print medium presence—that is, could she be the writer of this story that has incited Barnabas to a manic rage?

(And I’m just going to guess that the “Rube Rooky” [Rookie to most of us] Sports story is by Barnabas, while the “Starlucks” story in the Business section ties in with Tar’s western state origins….)

BTW, over on that social networking site, Mike has said that after this story will come a Minit Mystery by Jim Dougherty (former Crimestoppers contributor), drawn in a ’30s style….