Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 21, 2020

Good morning™, finder keeper-Coney weepers !

Does Tracy have plumber’s crack ?

Well, people usually use the toilet to drop a load. Not hide a load! LOL

Team Tracy doesn’t even try anymore, do they?

This latest installment of “As The Stomach Turns” reached new depths of ludicrously.

I can’t find one thing that deserves praise from this story other than I has ended.

I strongly suggest Joe and Mike put in for early retirement.

I think the complainers should go back and read the last year of Mr. Locher’s work on this strip. No matter what goes on under current “management” it’s not as bad as that stuff was.

I can hear the ghost of Stooge Viller laugh his belly off somewhere. I’m sure he rather have Tracy find his cache instead of thieves after he buried the axe just before his death.

That’s a very dumb way to hide all that loot. All those years anyone could’ve simply pulled the chain. Why’d anyone hide loot which falls like that when the chain is pulled? This is too preposterous. I unfollowed this comic sometime ago, but thought to give it one more shot. I expect detective stories to be interesting and intelligent but this is the very opposite. Bye, folks. Until the next time I take a peek in Tracyworld.

It’s a royal flush!

So can she keep the money Tracy?

She’d better keep her hands off that dirty money. It’ll have to be laundered first.

Love Dethany in the first panel!

Love the side eye groan that the uniformed female cop is giving in P2

and they didn’t think to fix it?

And the toilet is exactly where this crappy story belongs

…..or Stooge Viller’s cash cache.

1-DETH: HEY GANG! There’s plenty of toilet paper in there if you want! It’s moldy but beggars can’t be choosers in the Age of Covid.

2-FAT ARCHIE: HEY! Did you flush? I didn’t hear a flush! GROSS!

3-DT: Well, here’s your problem. This ain’t code. No licensed plumber would a done this. Forget the kidnapping charge, Sam – book ‘em for USING UNLICENSED UNSKILLED LABOR.

SAM: Uh oh Fat Archie. You just FLUSHED AWAY the rest of your life.

FAT: Whadaya talkin’? The judge won’t DROP no more than A DEUCE on me for that.

SAM: Not since they updated the peni, penu…PENAL code. (I always have trouble with that word.) GATOR vs BROWN made it a major felony. Cooperate and you might live to see daylight someday.

FAT: You could give me the TURD degree and I wouldn’t cooperate, CRAPPER…I mean copper.

SAM: You’ll regret that! There’s no HERSHEY SQUIRTS for your ice cream where you’re going.

FAT: Depends on who RUNS the courtroom.

DT: No matter. I’ll see to it that D.A. PHILLIP DABOWL gets this case.

FAT: That don’t scare me Tracy. My mouthpiece, COLLIN OSCOPY will ream him out.

FAT: NOOOOOOOOOOO!

It was hidden in a perfectly sized, box shaped container that mysteriously didn’t function like it was supposed to. No one thought to look under the lid that comes right off. Don’t I feel stupid?

Tracy in panel 3 tries hard to plug the leaks in the messy plumbing of this plot. I’m not so sure he succeeds. Meanwhile, the warehouse is now swarming with cops, it seems. It’s no wonder Coney (panel 2) is frustrated. Wait until he finds out that prison doesn’t include a steady supply of ice cream cones….

Thank God this is almost over…just another day or two of Coney grumbling and the annoying Dethany babbling and then a new story begins. Hopefully it’s better thought out than this one, which isn’t setting the bar very high but based on what we’ve been getting…

So, in front of the cops and the FBI, she gets to keep an armload of money that criminals hid in this warehouse years ago?

Tracy wins again

Shades of the “Godfather”!

This strip might be labeled Dick Tracy on the surface but now has become to resemble “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not”.

Regarding “poorly written storylines”…

Why don’t Joe and Mike offer to take reader story submissions and only supply the artwork ?

But, then I remember the " Minute Mysteries" and the “plot holes”…

I’m stunned; Neil has finally made a relevant, accurate comment. So along with Avenger and TSull, let me join the ranks (growing) who believe these stories, crossovers, and so called “Minute” mysteries, have killed a great comic coming up on it’s 100th birthday. Please hire a writer.

Far from the best Dick Tracy story line, but still way better than the current Alley Oop. (Though, admittedly, that’s not saying much. Anything is better than the current Alley Oop.) Hopefully, Joey Allison Sayers will never get her hands on Dick Tracy.

Well, at least there were some interesting characters in this one, too bad the story wandered aimlessly, then fizzled out. Bring back Shaky and Edison.

For once Coney is right…it IS impossible that the treasure was hidden in a toilet for all these years.

I have updated the live links bookmarklet at http://worldofdt.info/gchelp to embed videos from mobile YouTube URLs and pictures with a .jpeg extension (in addition to the more popular .jpg one).

The real question is Why no one ever pulled the chain in all those years.

Unless that wasn’t the real release and Dethany just happened to pull so hard she Broke it.

Well I hope there isn’t… anything… in the bowl – where tthe rest of the money is falling.