Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 23, 2022

Good morning™, everyone!

“Guilty!” We can end this right now. Just kidding.

So, she is a sculptor and also an architect. As for for Mr. Jett, he’s a hypochondriac. I’m not sure what that tells us, but Tracy thinks everything is good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_water

Good morning™, Paulisaint purgers !

Does Mr. Jett’s water contain e-coli and other ‘tasty’ tidbits ?  The lady looks credible and Mr. J. (see what i did ?) might be pitied for his misguided ‘medical knowledge’.

Taze him! That’ll kill the germs. Right?

I bet Mr Jett will be busy decomposing

So far the only mystery is why a sculptor & architect is a curator for an exhibition of ancient indigenous cultural artifacts.

I’ve seen prunes that look better than Mr. Jett…

Ah, he won’t sap and impurify his precious bodily fluids.

In case anyone missed the reference, Christpher Wren designed Saint Paul’s cathedral in London, along with a lot of other important buildings, especially replacing those (like the previous cathedral) destroyed in the Great Fire of London which happened in 1666.

We still haven’t met Anita….

The mystery might be who or what is poisoning Mr Jett since the item seems secure.

Panel 3: best Tracy pic of the story so far.

EWWWWW! Purged all over the Pieta, which was on loan!!!!!

Am I the only one who googled “Paulisaint” and found a shooting in Tallahassee?

Tracy, those wee famous last words. Of course something is going to happen. ANd, you’ll play the part of detective who announces his solve in the midst of a group of suspects.

As a hockey coach put it when one of his players had a bout of food poisoning, I’d say Mr Jett currently has an upper body injury that will later into one in the lower body.

Have not seen Anita Bath yet…what are the chances that she’ll make Sam’s aunt look like a beauty pageant contestant?

Mr. Jett comes off as what some would call “squirrely”. Plus an elite snob.

This story needs a character named Donnie Smellswell. He will of course wear a lot of cologne.

It’s not the Raw Water so much as the frequent Raw Dogging.

3rd panel. A close up of a pondering Dick Tracy…..neat!

TELEVISION QUOTE—

BAD GUY:“I can shoot this gun without making a hole in my pocket”

JIMMY OLSEN:“How can you do that?”

BAD GUY:“Because I’ve already got a hole in my pocket from the last time I used it”.

THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN—-“Jimmy The Kid”

Agree with others—Panel 3 is quite superior.Now when does the grappling hook sneak down from th e ceiling and lift the statueupward?

And we’ve got a health nut.Emphasis on “nut”.

There are also the industrial contaminants to consider too.

I’d like to see Perfume Plenty come back.First,because she’severybody’s favorite ditz.

Second,it would be an artistic challenge.With all the “odor squiggles” surrounding her,she’d be as tough to draw as Shaky or TV Wiggles.

And Gould did her at the tail end of his career,when he was in his late 70’s.

And Gould did her at the tail end of his career,when he was in his late 70’s.

for the sake of good taste, I shall refrain from my usual obligatory commentary as to that statement…

HMM! The uploader isn’t taking the Comment I’ve written for today. And I don’t have time to go through it word-by-word to see if there is a specific culprit-word preventing the upload….

Tracy questions Wren while Basil Jett turns even cough! cough! greener in the face. Either he is not so acculturated to his “raw water” or (perhaps) he has been poisoned deliberately by someone.

Wren has the chops to carry out a heist of the Froyne, but that may just be a red herring. I am increasingly curious as to why we have not yet met Anita Bath, the third curator for this exhibit; is she just “offstage awaiting her entry cue,” or is she lying dead somewhere on the premises, a victim of the criminal?

Don’t be over-confident, Detective Tracy!