Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 26, 2020

Good morning™, schedulers!

He needs to pay more attention to his driving than he does to staying on schedule. He’s going to be very unhappy when he notices the meteorite missing and he can’t blame on Rabbit or Daisy anymore. (I notice he now admits that the marked truck was a liability.)

Good morning™, inept door lockers !

Vehicle doors don’t just pop open unless they weren’t shut properly. Guess ol’ blue hair is going to have to use the dart gun on himself.

“Gee Willikers Batman, how stupid can you be?”

" Are you referring to that dastardly villain Yeti, my young singing bird?"

“No Batman, I’m talking about the whole story!”

“Ah, I see, in other words my young colorful kid, you think the whole is equally as bad as the sum of it’s parts!”

“Batman, you’re weird!”

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy…

In such a hurry you forgot to secure the back door Yeti?

Wotta maroon.

Sure…….let’s drive around like a 2:09 am drunk, so as not to attract attention…..

There’s stupid and there’s Stooopid like Yeti’s outfit!

“Daisy! Jump out there put that back in! Daisy? DAISY?!"

Good morning™, unlucky loot losers!

First, Yeti loses his bumbling henchman in the sewers. Now, he loses his million-dollar payload dropped in the street. What does he lose next: just his freedom… or his life?

I’ll ask the obvious question: what is so important about the schedule?

Of course, on the plus side, when he’s pulled over, there won’t be any stolen property in the back of the van.

Definitely has the feel of a Minute Mystery. Okay, a Minute and a Half Mystery. Either way, this is looking more and more like “stick a fork in it” – done!

If I came upon a meteorite like that, it would not seem at all valuable, but a road hazard that needs to be kicked to the curb.

Next comes a street sweeper to pick up the usual debris.

Even if he’s in a hurry I can’t think why he’s driving up onto the sidewalk. He either can’t drive or he can’t see. Daisy was driving earlier.

Is this where he gets a ticket for littering?

Here it would be potholes!

Oh hey, a rare rock in the middle of the street.

When the moon is full all the crazies come out, and it is full!!! And ole’ Blue-boy is crazy!!!

Um, are we forgetting something, Yeti?

THIS is the guy who killed one of his henchmen for incompetence? Earlier he wasn’t at all worried about driving his marked van. And he’s not worried in the least about the cops finding Daisy.

Why put the rock in the back of the van? Why not just bring it to the front seat? He had to go there to drive anyway.

GENIUS!

He knew the truck was a red flag, and he still used it? That makes no sense. But goes with the fact the drone saw van while it was driving and Sam and Tracy magically knew it was being used by criminals went out to intercept before it had even parked. Did Yeti and Daisy park, crawl through sewer, rob museum, crawl back through sewer (well, Yeti at least), in under five seconds, or is Tracy’s city a hundred miles across that Tracy and Sam haven’t arrived? Won’t even comment on way size of meteor seems to change… Er, except saying I won’t comment is commenting.

Really? We’re descending into total slapstick now?

A subtle clue that perhaps somebody will find.

Great images again today , thanks .

OOPS! All that careful planning…

Good thing that arrow is pointing out that the meteorite fell out 9f the back of the truck otherwise I would’ve thought that the truck had a rather large bowel movement lol

And not even a passing nod to a friggin NATIONAL HOLIDAY hih?

Great work team…. I swear to God you’re all Democrats (smh)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE (even you wacky Canucks! Lol)

Double face-palm, anyone?

Amateur…

I’m loving this.

Reminds of the time back in 1981 when $1M fell out of the back of a Purolator truck on a Philly street. Turned Joey Coyle into a celebrity. Briefly. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://billypenn.com/2017/02/24/anniversary-of-a-philly-legend-the-guy-who-found-1-million-on-the-street/&ved=2ahUKEwihi6WywaDtAhUMQzABHSU0APQQFjABegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw2XeAKCPEdyiacX4HSfDZI-&cshid=1606404337766

Oh I get it now…the meteorite will cause some mutations, which will give Tracy a new set of super-villains! LOL j/k

Yeti is not stupid. He IS arrogant and heartless. His focus is on the big picture. He has always had flunkies to handle the details. Now, with both of his associates either dead or injured and alone, he is a bit of a fish out of water.

I’m liking this tale. This has all of the trappings of a Gould story: weird heartless villain, grisly poisonings with dart guns, horrible murders, Tracy using his gadgets, odd coincidences, panicky villain, and arrows pointing out important plot points (even if it is obvious—Gould used to point out the Two-way Wrist Radio when you could obviously see that was what Tracy was using).

I could see the meteorite bouncing out as one of those strange coincidences that Gould would write and no villain (smart or dumb or any reader, for that matter) could foresee an accidental event like this. But as Gould knew, accidents happen.

Sort of like Itchy, generally a pretty smart guy, killing all of his henchmen so he wouldn’t have to split Shaky’s fortune, trying to get away too quickly, running into a cow on the road, crashing into a field where his car caught fire, escaping from the burning car but accidentally forgetting to take the Kewpie doll in the seat next to him which is stuffed with Shaky’s fortune, the one thing he has committed all of his murderous crimes and heinous torture to acquire.

…Or, Posie Ermine’s hat containing plans for his next heist in the lining, accidentally falling out of the window, being thrown in a dumpster by a street sweeper, being found by a carriage driver and put on his horse, and the ridiculous farcical chase to retrieve the hat by both Tracy and Posie was nothing but one wild coincidence after another.

…Or, Flattop Jr. trying to hide out but his drawings, secretly entered in an art contest by Skinny, the drawings winning first place making him famous when he wants to lay low.

…Or, on and on and on with many, many coincidences in Gould stories.

this is turning into Laurel & Hardy

NEXT sidekick/henchman? I’m thinking Gilligan! ;)

Bumper Stickers That Will Lead To Yeti’s Conviction:

IF THIS VAN IS METEORITE ROCKIN’, DONT BOTHER KNOCKIN’

GAS, GRASS OR METEORITE – NOBODY RIDES FOR FREE

THIS VAN STOPS FOR RED LIGHTS AND METEORITES

All the planning which went into carrying out this theft and Yeti never heard of locking the doors of a vehicle? Talk about a Ripley’s Believe It or Not panel from the newspapers and a scene from That’s Incredible, this beats any plots I have seen in Tracy land up to now.

Rear door tends to open when hitting a curve….chances are there have been a recall on this make and model of van. Does Yeti ever go through his mail? Dealership would have repaired it at no cost.

If he’d decide on which glasses to wear, he’d be a better driver.

Stick to ice chests and water bottles, Yeti.

C’mon Yeti, you’re a master poison guy….Poison somebody!

He’s kind of the master of disaster.

Well, that was awkward!

Looks like Yeti’s reckless driving and poor steering, hitting and tipping over that curb so that the truck’s rear door conveniently popped open and the meteorite jumped out, will upset his closely-timed plan and give Tracy and Sam a chance to complete a successful pursuit from the museum via directions radioed in by Riger. Since this story runs through all next week, I’d guess there be a brief foot-chase and struggle before Yeti is captured or killed….

I get the impression that Yeti’s sidekicks should be wearing red uniforms. Ooops, wrong franchise.

is the meteorite going to fall down the open manhole cover and brain daisy (so to speak)!

He should have made sure the latch wasn’t sprung. Haste makes waste.

Funny how they always make that one fatal mistake ..

So which part of the schedule is this?