Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 19, 2020

Good morning™, patient readers!

Well, that actually didn’t take too long (for us, two hours for Sam). So much for Yeti’s “don’t concern yourself” and “don’t worry about it.” The police are preparing to tail them before they even get to the museum!

We still don’t know what Tracy’s ten locations are. And if the museum is one, how did Commissioner Gordon figure it out before he went to the Bat Phone?

Are they out of the truck yet and in the sewer system? If so, seems like it would be pretty hard to guess that they went into the sewer and are headed for the museum…

Nothing better to do for 2 hours???

Grid reference 9.16? Does that mean the meteorite is actually made of… space corn?

Good morning™, secret surveillers !

If they come out of the bottom of the truck, if they are actually parked over where they want to start their underground run, the drone will only see a parked truck. I doubt that thing will move close in unless it is concluded no one is in the truck.

The name on the truck might give them a clue who is involved!

Um… Ten possible targets Tracy picked out in the city. (No reason given for the ten.) Drones are supposed to be covering all ten possible targets. (Okay, assuming the ‘logic’ for the ten choices is accurate that makes sense.) Nothing seen at any of the ten. We send the drones out searching for blocks around each target. Several blocks from the museum (one of the ten) we see a panel van that looks out of place. What logic then dictates that it proves the museum is the target for the robbery? There will be anomalies anywhere you look. (One of the things that bothered in in Peter Wimsey mysteries. There would be a thousand little oddities/irrelevancies going on, but he could dismiss them all and pick out the one tiny clue that solved the whole complex problem.)

Big Bro, Skynet, Uncle is watching you!

The Elegance Fragrances truck is near enough to the museum that an ace detective should be able to figure out that it and its treasures are the target of the baddies. And a fast check of tax records should identify Yeti and his employee, Daisy, whose name will be a tip-off.

How fast can MCU field a Quick Response Team?

Roger, Riger!

Cool images again today . The drone rules .

From the book of Tracy, Grid Reference 9:16: And whosoeverth would break the law, shall answer to me shouldest thou get caught alive.

I’m just wondering if Yeti can even fit through the manhole. Be nice if he gets stuck! Then he could be arrested for vandalism and obstructing traffic.

Tracy’s nose is tailor-made for holding up a pair of eyeglasses. Or cool shades. Why doesn’t Tracy ever where shades? I’m thinking those ones that were popular a few years ago that didn’t have lenses but just slits in white plastic. Odd they didn’t stay around for long…

I’ll bet Chester Gould would be saying “now why didn’t I think of that”? (He thought of most everything else technological.)

While this story, much like many others over the last few years…started out with promise (RIP Rabbit)…it has rapidly gone downhill at breakneck speeds with wild suppositions and illogical attempts at murder, and incredibly vague “clues” that have somehow materialized into bizarre nighttime surveillance and “pinning the tail on the yeti” so to speak.

Sam’s a little impatient! “It’s been TWO HOURS! Can’t we wrap this up yet?” And Tracy obliges with the first moving vehicle we ee.

No problem using a clearly marked truck, right Yeti?