Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 11, 2021

What’s with the tech? ✨

Undercover op!

Good morning™, balloon droppers!

If you can’t trust Tiger Lilly to get back your balloon, you have to do it yourself? I think that’s an electric shaver in his hand in panel 1, isn’t it?

What is he planning with the official-looking utilities jacket? Is that some new electronic gizmo? I don’t think it’s the police scanner. I’m not sure what is just to the left of the nearest bag. My first guess is tranquillizer darts, but I’m really not sure.

Good morning™, startled villains !

The tech has me wondering too. That is a serious looking gas bottle, like the kind the welding shop sells. Sounds like this is “mister big” on the phone telling Pouch his dropped-off-to man better get the goods. I didn’t hear an or else but I would venture it is implied. This guy must have a line of patience but it could snap like a rat trap if results aren’t forth coming.

Next panel: “Are you eating a burrito? Who is this? Tracy? GET OFF MY PHONE!”

Boy, this is a lot more of Pouch than we’ve seen in a very long time. Good to have a little more insight into his racket.

Inverted mirroring in panel 2.

Those “lightening bolts” in panel one are his cell phone ringing!

I bet he wished it was his mother calling hin?

With that head turn in P1, which actor does he remind anyone of? Not Telly Savalas, but a go to charactor-actor for just an episode mostly.

Pouch wears a bathrobe with fur trimming. Does he have a feminine side to his personality?

If he’s going to visit Bedwell in disguise, how will he conceal his pouch?

Will the police arrive to accompany the social worker at the exact time Pouch arrives to try and retrieve old bluey? Crowmeus is right that Pouch has a face that’s easy to recognize – will the former fat man join Tiger in the old root cellar? Would that be a safer place to be than outside facing the wrath of whoever wants old bluey? Tune in tomorrow, same bat time, same bat channel.

Waiting for Pouch to pull off that rubber mask of a face to reveal Tom Cruise with the Mission Impossible theme playing.

The mirror image is inverted.

Good to see continuity in the height of the helium tank. The ole “Mama Bear”. She holds enough gas to get you through the day, but not so heavy to slow a “legitimate businessman” down.

Looks like Pouch is preparing to don an Inspector Clouseau-like disguise to penetrate 1312 Bedwell… but can he leap into action before Tracy & Sam invite him over to HQ for a nice chat?

OMG those ears! They look like fins! Ewww!

1-MEL T. FACE: A guy with Alopecia has no need for an electric shaver. I should put it on E-Bay. Worst Christmas gift a dad ever got. OWWW! My hip! That reminds me…

2-…Put me through to HR. Hello HR? My disability check hasn’t arrived this month. I didn’t sacrifice my hip doing inspections for CITYWIDE UTILITIES just to be treated like this!!! Whadya mean, your records show that I never returned the city’s equipment? I most certainly did! Why would I keep that junk???

The blue ballon will return to the strip….but for how long?

The mirror might really be old…. it only reflects in black and white :)

Nice outfit, but Zsa-Zsa called, she wants it back. Pouch finally comes out of the closet. And BTW those tanks? nothing sinister , he blows up balloons with them. Great call on that electric shaver Neil. I thought it was a vibrator.

Wonder what happened to the blue balloon?

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Presumably we are seeing Pouch still in his motel safehouse. So he has as much gear with him as he can haul in that old green machine, plus whatever might have been stashed there in advance. As he shaves, his cellphone rings/buzzes, and while he begs off for more time (I think this makes the third time; certainly at least the second), we see on the bed his two courier bags, one full of electronic gear of some sort, and a Citywide Utilities jacket that may be part of his disguise as he plans to infiltrate The 1312. His plan is not yet clear, but it seems to be rather elaborate. Whether it will work and he will retrieve the Famous Blue Balloon is iffy at best.

Suspense is building….

Yo…what’s up with the bathrobe? Is that fur he’s wearing? Don’t tell me this dude is a cross-dresser.

Pouch must be staying at Motel 6. Their ads do say they keep the lights on.

What’s in the balloon is information.   Why doesn’t he just print out another copy?