Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 13, 2022

Good morning™, everybody!

Coffyhead still has those face scratches, so it wasn’t a shadow, as some people yesterday thought it was. He’s surrounded but he did give up pretty quickly. Bronko looks to be alive still, so that’s good.

What a sad ending.

Good morning™, rat collectors !

Was Coffy so preoccupied that Tracy could get the drop on him so easily ?  _Real_™ crooks would be twitchy paranoid. ..And screw up some other way.

Love the panorama view in p.1. I have been to/worked in places with a “people door” right adjoining the bay door. I like the heavy shadowing around where Sam is coming in. P.2; Nice depiction of Sam "swift"’s fast draw; you could tell he moved some air. Great points on his eyebrows. :-)

The figure only in shadow looks slim to me. Could it be Tonsils?

Let’s see…..

Attempted murder, felonious assault, assault with a deadly weapon, resisting arrest, narcotics dealing, fraud….yep, looks like Coffyhead is facing a long stretch in THE BIG HOUSE.

Earlier this week, someone mentioned how the Dalton gang met their Waterloo in Coffeyville, Kansas (of all places) (and a place that I’m familiar with)

Anymore these days, the commentary is more worthwhile than the strip!

Sam- “Hey Tracy, help me load this furniture into the back of this truck.”

“Don’t worry Tracy, I plugged him!”

I wonder what all the shooting was about before Tracy broke in?! Looks like Bronko is unscathed!

He should have stayed in the coffee business

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY – Dot View makes an appearance. I prefer Shelly’s version over Joe’s.

It’s Mr. Freeze?!? LOL j/k

“Peewee Herman?! What’re YOU doing in here?”

At least today’s action at least LOOKS like sound police tactics.

Why do these guys always run around with their fingers on the trigger? like Dustin Hoffman once said, “Bad form, Jack”.

I think the person in the darkness is the female TV host!

Fitting title for today’s strip…“Bring ’em back alive”.

Yikes! Friday the 13th falls on a Friday this month!

MOVIE QUOTE—

“I would like you to check my motor.It whistles”.

“I don’t blame it”.

Ann-Margret&Elvis Presley—VIVA LAS VEGAS—1964

Not to mention a few truckloads of drugs are on the premises,enough to hang Coffy figuratively;if not sadly literally.

And Dot and Tonsils 2 get to break the news story on t heir show—-are they allowed to say “Nyahh,nyahh,nyahh” besides?

I’m also glad that Bronko might be ok! I guess we won’t know until the shadowy figure is fully revealed, though – and that might happen in the very next strip OR, not until later on when things are being wrapped up, right? Whenever it happens, I’m looking forward to finding out!

And so Coffyhead is poured back into badguy obscurity (where he should’a stayed all along). Who’s up next, Spinner ReCord?

L Silverman fragmented about 22 hours ago

@Gweedo it’s legal here Murray

Tracy might be using frangible ammunition.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frangible_bullet

From the lack of bad stuff going on today I would call what Tracy was using non fungible ammunition.

While we’re on t he subject of coffee,remember Pruneface and how he poisoned the coffee on the shelves in Tracy’s hometown(just for spite,he coulda gone anywhere);and rendered hundreds of people temporarily blind—-including Tracy’s wife Tess.

It was based on an actual product-poisoning incident that took place at the same time.

OFF TOPIC: Negotiating with an artist in Japan for a cover piece on a new project. Fingers crossed.

The strip the other day showed smoke coming from the barrel of Coffyhead’s gun, indicating it had recently been fired, & there have been plenty of sound effects indicating a gun battle in a tight confined space. Yet today it seems everyone is relatively unscathed, & Coffyhead seems to be surrendering after putting up a fight. Go figure.

1-DT:* DROP IT LIKE IT’S HOT, COFFEE HEAD! COFFEE: I call my gun Maxwell House ‘cause it’s good to the last drop! Sometimes I call it Trou because I drop it like I drop trou. Sometimes I call it A Deuce because I…

DT: SHUT UP ALREADY! SAM: My Sammy Sense is tingling like something is back here. Donuts maybe…

2-SCHWINGGGG!!! HANDS UP! YOU LIKE THAT SMOOTH MOVE? THEY DON’T CALL ME EX-LAX FOR NUTHIN! STUDMAN: Uhhhh, sure?

3- DT:* WHY ARE YOU BLUSHING, COFFEE? Because I caught you red handed? COFFEE: Yes. I’m so embarrassed.

Presumably, the person Sam is swiftly leveling down on is Bronko, whom I take to be “Stuntman Mike” in his CI persona. Otherwise, someone else has to have snuck in or been in all along without any chance of us, the readers, knowing about it. And I am very surprised that with all the gunfire of the last two days, a minimum of four shots fired that we saw/heard, no one seems at this point to have been hit at all (unless Bronko turns out to be wounded once we see him more clearly)!

Looks like a soft ending to the sag of Coffyhead, and rather ho hum .Is that all there is? (As asked by Miss Peggy Lee: https://tinyurl.com/3hn738uz )

Last-minute observation. The container on the far left of the first frame seems to say “WAD—” I wonder what that is. The sack we saw before said “FIBER FILL.”