Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 27, 2020

Good morning™, everybody!

I don’t think it’s the police that are the fools. Headlights coming up behind you as you jump down onto a roadway are never a good sign! Stokes’ triumphal pronouncement will be very short-lived.

It’s a truck full of girders!

Except maybe an oncoming semi!

Good morning™, new grave plots !

P.3. The howl of worn brakes being forcibly applied.

Really like how Stokes is depicted as completely believing he’s a vampire and being totally insane in panel one. His problems will be over by the start of panel three.

Well done today team Tracy!

Wonder what the last thing through his mind will be.

Will it be his butt?

At this age I’m allowed to be 12 once in awhile.

As they said in the Ballard of Thunder Road:

“The law they swore they’d get him, but the devil got him first!”

What are “Famous last ironic words” for $1200, Alex……

Sweat box Express in 3 – 2 – 1

I thought it was nobody can or fun to catch a Lucky Charms leprechaun not a smelly vampire want to be!

Next panel: standing there with a sad-faced expression holding a tiny sign that says “HELP!”

TRACY: Game-Set-Match!

Yep, Stokes has gone bats.

I’m waiting for that to be a truck full of wooden stakes.

that gonna hurt!

The SMACK heard round the city!!!

Who said anything about capturing?

that would be, if you were a real vampire that is.

He’s about to be hit by the Spanish Inquisition, because he wasn’t expecting it… (How old do you have to be to recognized the reference?)

Ah well, at least he’s not getting the Varney the Vampyre treatment (live volcano.)

Other irony suggestion: The truck belongs to some church, and there’s a big cross on the forward panel.

exactly what i said yesterday. meep-beep.

so now he’s a vampyre? what was the motivation? he wanted the money or he’s just off his nut?

he forgot to scream “I’M INVINCIBLE!”

To be fair, he’s not about to be captured.

Skreech! Whap! Wow, look at the vampire fly!

Does auto insurance cover vampire collision? I bet the helpful agents at Protect-My-Car would know!

“…We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also…”An Wang

Splat.

Could be Liz in a police car?

Meanwhile, the driver of the ACME Moving Co. truck is going “MEEP MEEP!”

“I spell ‘vampyre’ with a y, even when speaking!”

1- THE SHARP TOOTHED INSULT COMIC PROFESSOR: Good thing I insisted on practicing High Altitude Low Open jumps at sky diving school. They called them HALO jumps but as a practicing vampire, I refuse to use religious terms.

2- ETHEL: Harold! There’s a man in the road.

HAROLD: Dammit Ethel. Don’t ya think I see him!

ETHEL: Well, you do miss a lot these days. Maybe you should apply the brakes?

HAROLD: ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT! Which pedal is that again…?

THE SHARP TOOTHED INSULT COMIC PROFESSOR: No worries. It’s just a dog.

A Greyhound

A Dad Tribute SAAAAAAAA-NAP!

Some wrote a couple of days ago…an on coming truck would be his undoing!

You’re right. They don’t catch them they scrape them off the front of a truck

He still looks more like a catfish than a vampire. In a second he’s going to look like a dead catfish.

I repeat..a truck carrying Omaha Stakes

In the past few years, two first responders have been killed here in the DC area when responding to highway rescue calls. They leapt over a highway barrier, thinking there was more roadway on the other side, only there wasn’t. Instead they found they were at a great height and fell to their deaths. That’s what I thought was happening here at first, but it seems it’s not going to be the sudden stop from a high jump that’s lethal, but oncoming traffic.

Stokes, tell Lucifer he still owes me $$$$ on the Super Bowl.

Stokes becomes either “bug splatter” on a windshield, a hood ornament, or makes an impression in the truck’s grille… X-D

he’s pronouncing it with “-yre”?

As I said yesterday, “SPLAT”!

Called it

Wow, Who saw THIS coming? Oh, right. Everyone.

Well, those aren’t the Twin Suns of Tracyville looming on the horizon, but they will have sunlight’s effect on our pretentious and, as it seems, short-lived “vampyre” (why not go All The Way and call himself “wompyre”?).

WUMPH! “Oops, gasp, didn’t see that coming. Farewell, cruel world, what a sucker you lose in me!”

That’s going to leave a mark!

Of course, the poor truck driver will be traumatized over i killing a person, killer or not.

The next sound to be heard is…..thump. Three days before Halloween….professor meets his demise.

Boom Boom…..out go the lights!