Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 22, 2022

and the talking heads have it…

“Chekhov’s Petals.” ✨

Geez, look at all the 2s in today’s date. Two-Face is probably going to celebrate.

Tracy looks good in P2.

Good morning™, all!

Tracy is mind-reading again! Why does he always know what Sam is thinking?

It’s a nice variety of views and angles for yet another dialogue scene.

See if Briar Rose has escaped!

Tracy loosens his tie and undoes the top button of his shirt. Sam does neither. Sam doesn’t go informal. You might think it’d be Dick who’d be formal all the time.

Sam: The killer is Rosie Thorne ! :)

Good morning™, petal pushers !

Sam is onto something but what ?  Some think Rosie Thorne and I think Briar Rose is doing her best to keep a distant distance from all this cops and robbers business. I bet some are just dying to see Bribery’s hand in this.

Sam’s poses today remind me of Jughead, HA!

Oh, come on, guys! I really don’t think the rose petals did it.

Roses are hardly Yeti’s style. So who’s killing the great chefs of Europe?

“It’s too weird to be a coincidence!”

A line which should never be spoken in a Dick Tracy comic strip, given the fantastic coincidences that are ubiquitous. Sam should go out to a new deli for Reuben (or New Delhi for a samosa) and Yeti will probably walk in for take-away while he’s at the counter.

Cool artwork today by Pleger.Tracy and Sam seem to find a break in the case.Let’s see where all this goes…I am curious.

well, it was Valentine’s Day last week

1-SAM: HEY TRACY – DO MY PITS STINK?

2-DT: Not from here. But don’t come any closer…

3-SAM: YA WANNA KNOW WHY THEY DON’T? DT: No.

SAM: BECAUSE, I’m wearing a plastic undershirt that has tight elastic around the neck, wrists and waist! It’s genius! No stench can escape! AND I’m saving a fortune on deodorant and laundry detergent!

DT: I think the elastic around your neck is too tight. Or maybe just not tight enough.

SAM: Well, you’ve hit on one of the drawbacks – I am a little lightheaded. The other is that my hands are numb. That’s why I dropped my gun at that crime scene the other day.

DT: Oh. I thought you were just confused when you told the perp to “DROP IT”.

SAM: Yeah. That too. DT: Well, at least you don’t stink.

SAM: Huh? OH. Uh yeah…

Witness Karate Master Sam about to sproooooiiiing into action in panel three.

Sam’s bow tie may be a clip on, loosing it is not easy.

Why no TV-on-a-pole showing Yeti’s picture?

The Chief was amazingly tolerant that Tracy had already initiated his plan (making sure the Moran killing was pushed by the media in an attempt to jar whoever’s lurking out there).

Then again, before things heat up on Saturday, look for a strip name change to SAM, SUPER SLEUTH.

So…maybe not.

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“What’s these matzuh balls?”

Texan JOE E.BROWN wanders into a kosher deli

THE TENDERFOOT—1932

Ape should ride on TOP of the car,like Mugg The Police Dog does.

Okay, experts. Has there ever been a character named Mister Sinister in the strip? I’ll be crushed if there has been.

February 19,2022.

A cargo ship carrying luxury cars from Germany to The United States—-including 1,100 Porsches—-caught fire at sea.All 22 crew members were forced to abandon ship and wererescued by the Portuguese Navy.

The 650 foot long ship was abandoned at sea and was “burning from one end to the other”.

Possible cause of fire?Lithium batteries overheating in electric cars among the shipment.

Diet Smith should seriously try to wean himself off lithium as a power source.

Either that or get used to a squad of one-armed/handed detectives.

What bothers me about the crime scene is the invoices that Sam pocketed, evidence surreptitiously removed.

Something about the closeups in this strip made me realize what the rest of you probably noticed a long time ago—Sam no longer chews a toothpick 24/7. When did that happen?

Er, didn’t Tracy say in Sunday’s strip he had a plan? What was the plan? Go back to sitting around the office, hoping Sam had a light bulb moment?

Sam not wearing green? What gives?

Impressive rendering of Tracy in panel 2. Not much else to say while the detectives ponder rose petals. I wouldn’t necessarily leap from petals to persons….