Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 24, 2021

That’s a lot to absorb … ✨

Good morning™, rounder-uppers!

Well, Ty isn’t a whole lot of help, but it seems that Lizz is confused between the basement and the root cellar, so it’s not just the readers here. Is he saying that Aquarius thought that Tiger Lilly was dangerous to anyone within reach? All the “he’s” and “him’s” are a little ambiguous.

It looks like Auntie Bellum has a hotel room with a view across the water. I still don’t trust Oscar, and I doubt that he’s working on “fixing” Peggy’s house.

Good morning™, revealers and schemers !

Ty is doing a lot better with answers than Tiger Lilly (Bill killer) will.

It’s pretty obvious that team Tracy needs Help to reach The End of this Long and Winding Road of a story. Do you want to know a secret? Just Because I Will Wait doesn’t mean my brain isn’t going Helter Skelter as I make myself Let it Be.

Not enough ’’action’’ in this strip,takes too long to get going,and not enough Tracy doing the ‘’work.’’ Too slow!

Meanwhile back at the “Pierview”!

Emphasis on the paranoid. Aquarius had no idea that Tiger had killed Bill. Aquarius believed (and rightly so) that he was being followed because he had the blue balloon that Pouch had not wanted to sell.

Looks like Ty is trying to sell Tiger’s cellar detention as a case of self-defense— but will Lizz buy it?

Basically Ty just sang that Aquarius was leading the pushers

so if he was dangerous, why keep him locked up>? why not just call the police? uh…ooops

Welcome, To The Greatest Story Ever Told!

Completely lost at this point…..

1-DOLL FACE: Ok Motorhead. If you sign this confession that says you are responsible for every crime in Tracyville for the last 5 years, you can go home (and I can clear our books!)

2-MOTORHEAD: Really? DOLL: Sure! As Sam is my witness! (where “Home” is defined as the nearest cell)

MOTORHEAD: What?

DOLL: What?

3-BIGG JR: I picked the Pierview for your stay, Auntie, because I plan to give you a long roll down the short pier later.

AUNTIE: What?

BIGG JR: What?

Ty is at a disadvantage….he’s got nothing to trade with Liz and Sam. Time for another song " Don’t know nothing much about where Aquarius is, don’t know nothing much about his family’s high class biz, don’t know much about these in’s and out’s, don’t know much about a thing called clout, but I do know, but I do know I’m gonna take the weight, but I do know my best years are at stake…what a wonderful world it’s for me"….

Don’t know about “Greatest Story Ever Told” but it sure is the Longest. I think the boys hired a Tolstoy relative to author this scrambler.

Dude, that flesh-colored beard is all the rage. I think you’ve started a new fashion trend.

Seems as though big Muscle Guy Ty has a brain, too, since he is singing a coherent song to the lovely Lizz Worthington. But how much of his tale will she buy?

Meanwhile (in a sudden switch within panel 3), at the medium-rise though swanky Pierview (which may be more a residential hotel than one catering to short-term transient guests), Peggy Bellum is fretful but conned by devious Oskar (BTW, it is hard to be sure, but I think The Pierview is likely to be be in the seven storey range, judging by the height of the waterside entrance, with double banks of windows per storey). At least Oskar is holding Peggy in the kind of elegant surroundings to which she is (or once was) accustomed….

Ty is singing like a canary.

Just like some of us commentators, even team Tracy was mistaken over where Tiger Lilly was being held prisoner. One more sign this storyline is over-long & over-plotted.