Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 16, 2023

He’s reading the entertainment section.

Good morning™, everyone!

I see that the hunting goes in two directions now. The only problem is that the bad guys have the upper hand.

Mr. Zeck?

ZZZZzzzz,,,Yes Duncan?

Are you awake?

Not really Duncan, I’m trying to get through reading the Dick Tracy strip!

Ok Mr. Zeck, go back to sleep!

Thank you Dunc,,,,ZZZZzzzzz

I know KG is getting a thrill from today’s action packed episode of:

“As The World Snores!”

Good morning™, Evil doers !

Dirty work is afoot. Is that Luthor, at 68 ?

and my snoring maintains a steady rythm at this point…

wake me when something pertinent develops…

Shouldn’t that headline be: “Bank Failed”?

I keep imagining these two as actors playing Michael J. Anthony and John Beresford Tipton in a reboot of “The Millionaire.”

I remember the Zeck story going down differently. Parallel universe: it’s the only possible explanation. I keep having to tell myself that while reading books and comics and watching movies, tv shows and the news.

“Oh, and Mr. Zeck? We are expecting the sun to rise in the east tomorrow.”

Zeck sighs, “I need a better class of stooges. Should I offer more money?”

I think I’ve figured it out, the bad guys wanted to rob a bank so they wanted Wolfe out of the picture. They weren’t worried about the police.

Zeck is going to have Archie followed? In the Nero Wolfe mysteries, Archie can always spot a tail, at least while in NYC. Can he still spot one, while in Chicago?

Jean-Luc looks better in his uniform.

And very slowly the story goes……………..

1-DUNCAN HINES: Hey boss. Sorry to bother you while you’re “working” smirk

2-ZECKERBURG: Yeah, yeah, whadaya want? I’m busy.

DUNCAN: The Sports Section – just while I drop the kids off at the pool. Also, I can see in the mirror behind you that that spot that was on your forehead earlier has moved to the back of your head. AND it’s gotten bigger! You might wanna have that looked into…

It might be exciting if Tracy detects this tail being put on him and Goodwin and has a little action with them.

The guys shadowing Archie

“Who’s the other guy in the canary coat?”

“Never saw him before.Ignore him,he isn’t part of the plan”

MOVIE QUOTE—

“You’re breathin’,honey. Can’t ask you to do more than that”

Barbara Hale to Larry Parks—JOLSON SINGS AGAIN—1949

if this was the Kentucky Derby and it was a race between ‘Molasses’ and ‘Wolfehunt’, I’d put my bet down on ‘Molasses’ to win … ‘Molasses’ would clearly reach the finish line in record time, as ‘Wolfehunt’ stumbled at the gate’…

If Bookie Joe—1935— had only waited 80 years he’d be a legitimate tycoon.

Contrary to popular opinion (as exemplified in numerous comments above), I am so far satisfied with the pace of this arc. Every day, a little progress is made in detection or in exposition, and we inch in upon and learn about Zeck and his flunkies and what they hope to achieve by holding and psychologically tormenting Nero Wolfe.

Shelley’s art is rich and varied, never boring, while Mike’s story so far, is easy enough to follow. (Again: I hope he doesn’t get sidetracked at any point!)

I suspect that Zeck’s plan, to have Goodwin tailed, will backfire. Arnold seems to be unaware, or foolishly unconcerned, that Tracyville’s preeminent police detective is accompanying Goodwin. Between the two of them, I think any two-bit tail will be plucked!

To think Tracy is telling Sam all this in flashback.

Why do these guys have Wolfe in that room? Are they therapists who happen to wear suits? The renowned Nero Wolfe must have suffered from nervous exhaustion and needed some quality “me time”.

That newspaper headline, "Bankrobber Jailed, " keeps popping up! Maybe it has something to do with this story?