Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 04, 2020

”Truer Words Were Seldom Spoke.” ✨

I thought Spidey was gonna get him!

“How dare you leave us to face the music, Yeti!”

Another oof?

Some one guessed it correctly about the giant spider the other day.

Hope they don’t miss seeing the spider themselves.

Good morning™, death by Boris !

How can a hulking strapping lad like Yeti not get advantage ?  Tomorrow, the wrap up with sideways mention of how Daisy was found wandering in a disoriented haze and is at the hospital for treatment while Yeti is slated for burial in pauper’s field.

Gould justice…..done in by his own evil devices….in this case a deadly spider.

To a spider the size of an adult bowling ball I can easily see us as food.

Now where did that giant spider come from?

We know where he came from. What we don’t know is how he got loose.

“He’ll be long gone before we can break in.”

Understatement, big time.

I mentioned a couple of days ago the “Davey Mylar/Mr. Crime” story line and how Panda, a criminal, fell into a fish tank full of barracudas, meant for Dick Tracy and Lt. Teevo , a crooked cop, was eaten by a carnivorous plant…

And don’t forget Ghost Pepper falling into a tank with a gigantic Portugese Man O War…

I thought that Yet I would meet the same fate…

I meant : “Yeti”…

Good morning™, everyone!

Well, I finished a computer programming course with an “at-home” exam that went about 10 hours beyond what the teacher intended. I sent it in before midnight and made supper. New course starts tomorrow.

As for Yeti, the best laid plans of mice and men… as they say. I just noticed that he bumped the cage with his shoulder and his satchel in frame 1 and I think that’s how the spider got let out.

Yeti is about having a bad yet final moment of Arachnophobia.

Destroyed by one of your specimens, you didn’t plan everything, did you yeti?

Well, that really bites…

Somebody call Warbucks Worldwide. We’re gonna have to borrow a “YIIIIIIII!!!!” here…

Tragic end.

Black Widow on HGH & TESTOSTERONE 2000??

Well, one more event to the saga of Yeti and Clyde:

Clyde bites Yeti, who collapses and crushes Clyde!

I keep a pet Black Jumping Spider.

I found it as a tiny hatchling this Fall as colder temperatures that might kill it were arriving.

It is now about an eighth of an inch long and will jump onto my finger if I need to take it out of its enclosure to tidy up. I’ve made a little fruit fly trap to catch food for it, and three of the little pests are currently buzzing around the cage.

Watching it hunt/stalk/subdue/feed is almost as addictive as watching birds at the feeder.

More evidence to me that he can’t see. First the van, now he’s bumping into things. He needs to take those little Ozzy Osbourne sunglasses off.

Biggest tarantula type spider is the Goliath bird-eater tarantula(Theraphosa blondi) maybe maximum size about 8 to 9 inches and that’s unusual not a giant! Not really at all venomous. Give you a bite like the times on a fork that’s about it.

Y’all are assuming that the spider wants to kill him. Maybe it just wants to give Yeti a hug.

“He’ll be long gone before we can break in.”

You got that right, Tracy!

You mean “everybody”?

I guess we can assume that this genetically altered spider won’t do for Yeti what a different genetically altered spider did for a couple of guys named Parker, and, Morales.

What a tangled web…

I love the ways the eight eyes are drawn on the spider, Great visual!

“DADDY!”

Irony biting in 3… 2… 1…

While things look bad for Yeti in the last panel we also need to remember he developed the giant spiders, has worked with them for years, and is dressed to handle them – including the gloves… Although time constraints to finish the strip may make Yeti forget all this.

And now here’s how things would end with another week tacked onto the end that comes up tomorrow.

The lock on the barrier has a simple attached mechanism to release the lock in, say, 90 seconds. As Yeti exits his happy room, he attaches a trip wire across the mouth of the stairway down to the sewers.

This is attached to explosives he’s added to improve the overall decor. The idea being that Tracy, when he enters, will see the stairs but miss the tripwire in the miasma. He exits into the sewer, toting his formulas, some samples of his product, and a large jar of his latest hybrid spiders.

Of course, Sam , a couple of steps behind Tracy, DOES trip the wire and set off the explosives. Additional officers (sent at Riger’s recommendation, arrive see a good part of the factory go up. They assume the worse.

However, Tracy and Sam are just far enough ahead of the blast to escape. This somewhat annoys Yeti. A heated chase ensues. And the end has to so with slippery footing and the jar of about 50 small but potent spiders.

Thanks for no cries of “KILL THE WRITER!!!” ;)

Oh, yeah. He’ll be gone.

I was waiting for him the get into the sewers and encounter the injured Daisy whom he left behind coming to get his revenge

The hammers are back and the fingers are on the triggers , plus Yeti is face to face with the BIG Spider . It looks like it is payback time for what he did to the Rabbit and Daisy . Is Daisy still in the pit ? And just get images again today .

Deus Ex Arachnid.

Oh, so the spider gets Yeti, not Tracy.

That Yeti really is a klutz. First he ran over a curb, losing the meteorite. Now he knocked over a cage, releasing a deadly spider.

“Quick, Henry, the Flit!”

Story is wrapping up….but what about the space rock??

DT: You gotta a magnet, Sam? I wanna see if this is regular steel or stainless steel. Magnets won’t stick to stainless. I know because my grill is stainless.

SAM: Yeah. Those are the best. But, ummm, why do you care about that.

DT: Just curious. That’s the hallmark of a good detective – curiosity.

How big is that spider?

My wife hates spiders. I offered to get her some cottage cheese and a cushioned stool.

What? No two-way wrist steel cutting laser?

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

One of our villains has terribly injured himself in a sewer while the other is about to be killed by his own giant spider, which he keeps captive for venom-milking purposes. How sad is Dick going to be that he doesn’t get to shoot anybody? Maybe he’ll shoot the spider, but his heart won’t really be in it.

“Yet I * forgot about this deadly spider which needs all the fire in the worlddddd…”see what I did there?

Ole Eight Eyes is back!

So, Spiders don’t care about who feed its?

Dick is correct.

While making his getaway, Yeti bumps against a case containing one of his spiders. The glass breaks, spider escapes. Poisons Yeti….well as someone I knew while serving in the Air Force said….that’s all she wrote.

What about the perfume gig, and I still don’t know why the meteorite was stolen. And finally..whaddabout Daisy? Rushed story, I guess by Comics design. Another decent character wasted.

Ok, since it seems that this is all over but the wrap up I’m gonna throw my criticism out there….

YOU FRIGGIN’ KILLED RABBIT!!!!!!!

There…. I said it! I hope you’re happy!

I gotta say tho, aside from Donnie’s minit not-so-mystery offering…this is the best story we’ve gotten in a long time.

Was it short? Yeah, but understandable considering the circumstances.

Was it convoluted? Yes, but again considering the circumstances you did manage to hit all the “important issues”.

Was it well thought out/plotted/executed? Again, considering the circumstances I’d say yes but didn’t “transfer” properly to the strip itself which can hardly be blamed on the writer.

Were the characters interesting and engaging? Again, I’d say yes… it would have been better if you were given more time to flesh them out properly but you did a good job…especially having Daisy being known to the MCU was a nice touch.

The main thing that made me scratch my head…and I’m certain others have agreed, was the introduction of the meteorite angle. Logically, it made sense that Yeti needed an influx of cash to carry his poisoning plot, but it just came out of left field.

Again, I’m certain that if you had more time it would have been expanded upon better but due to the constraints…

Overall, I’d give it a 7 out of 10

But theres one thing that bothers me more than anything else about this story…..

YOU FRIGGIN’ KILLED RABBIT!!!!!!!!!

RUH ROH!

Called it! Death by giant spider!

Yeti, please tell Lucifer he owes me $$$$$$$ for the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup, & the NBA finals.

“Send the spider to the Yeti”

That is one poorly made cage and it should have been at least a cube. Mr. 8-Eyes sees some prey. I wonder where one that size comes from? We have too little oxygen for them to grow that large, 21% . You would need at least 30% oxygen for that size to be livable. Maybe it escaped from Skull island.§ The would need some contact tracing to find who brought it in and from whence it came.

§ Skull Island is one of several islands used by some ancient civilization as biological stations including Colossa and Totenkopf too. All show remains of said civilization at least 100,000 years old and very advanced if you can believe the stories and myths.

“Long gone” is more precisely right than you might imagine, Tracy!

Clumsy Yeti has unleashed the spiders! —Hi, Clyde! We’re pals, right? …0UCH!

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