Do my eyes deceive me, Tracy came to Diet’s residence in a unmarked car? Maybe it is his own private vehicle, although when I read the strip through the years, I never Tracy driving his own car. He and Tess might be a one car family. She might use it more than he does.
Apparently we hit the end of the conversation between Austin and Tracy. (That reminds me – there was once a teenage tennis sensation named Tracy Austin LOL)
“Pretty sure I never put in an order for a 60-foor pink bunny lawn gnome, Tracy. I’d remember something like that. Unless it was back-ordered form the ‘60s. Don’t recall much of that period. Wild times, detective. Wild times.”
Some time has passed. Tracy is on the job apparently done with what must have turned out to be an inconsequential conversation with Adam, and Diet has changed out of his robe and into a suit, and has cleaned up the mess he made yesterday.
1-DOIT: TRACY? What are you doing here?? DT: You called in a medical emergency. Knowing that it was probably just you overreacting to some imagined malady, they just sent me.
2-DOIT: Yes. It turns out Skim Milk isn’t deadly. Who knew? But there’s something on the lawn I need you to see.
3-DT: You mean Tess? Nude sunbathing on your lawn? DOIT: What? Oh. I thought Clifford The Big Red Dog had taken a Big Brown Dump in my yard. AAIIIIEEEE! IT’S MOVING!
Golly, citizens! It’s time for show-and-tell. What is on Diet’s lawn that provokes such a reaction? The “lost” space coupe would certainly be an interesting possibility, maybe with some techno-babble to explain how a temporal distortion (or the like) had brought it back, complete with Drs. Zy Ghote and S. Tim Sail.
But this, alas, seems improbable. I can’t imagine what else would have prompted Diet Smith’s reaction nor Tracy’s remarks in panel 3….
Brian Premium Member over 1 year ago
“I thought those were kind of politically incorrect these days. Amusing though.”
Neil Wick over 1 year ago
Good morning™, everyone!
There’s something out on the lawn. Is it real? (or is it Memorex?) Keeping us in suspense still until we can see for ourselves.
firestrike1 over 1 year ago
wow, that was fast…
did Dick call Barry Allen and ask for a lift to the Smith residence?…
firestrike1 over 1 year ago
wow, how trim, lean and mean and mobile and agile Dick seems in comparison to our resident millionaire (or BILLIONAIRE?) chubster…
sugordon over 1 year ago
I suppose this means the conversation between Tracy and Adam Austin is over
DaJellyBelly over 1 year ago
Why am I thinking of a Space Coupe?
GoComicsGo! over 1 year ago
So I was right? ;P
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray over 1 year ago
Good morning™, stupefied gents !
They have a subtle look of awe in their eyes. Did someone drop in one of those leftover flying garbage cans ?
I know. They were all destroyed, just going out on a spindly twig with this.
IvanB.Cohen over 1 year ago
Surely, if the object is a lawn ornament Diet would have remembered purchasing it. Ah, he probably delegated that task to a staff member.
IvanB.Cohen over 1 year ago
Whatever the thing is, I don’t get this Tracy for your eyes only bit. Lizz and Sam can’t be counted on anymore to keep secrets?
IvanB.Cohen over 1 year ago
Do my eyes deceive me, Tracy came to Diet’s residence in a unmarked car? Maybe it is his own private vehicle, although when I read the strip through the years, I never Tracy driving his own car. He and Tess might be a one car family. She might use it more than he does.
Mark Jeffrey Premium Member over 1 year ago
Those movement lines in panel 3 seem to indicate Dick has pulled back from what he sees. Mild shock or big surprise? Hence the joking?
Sporteric11 over 1 year ago
You’re the detective Tracy so you tell me !
The Reader Premium Member over 1 year ago
No, it’s an artificial lawn ornament.
LawrenceS over 1 year ago
But why did Tracy need to come alone – emphasis original?
Knightman Premium Member over 1 year ago
UFO!!! Ugly Fountain Object!!!
WestofthePecan Premium Member over 1 year ago
Has our missing time traveler reappeared?
Mongo over 1 year ago
The wandering Space Coupe?
Chris over 1 year ago
I don’t know if it’s an ornament… Tracy don’t seem too bothered by it, wonder why Diet is. :\
tcayer over 1 year ago
That darn neighbor’s dog!
prrdh over 1 year ago
“What’s so important that I had to end my conversation with an author at a book signing and change from casual to work clothes?”
Don Bagert Premium Member over 1 year ago
Apparently we hit the end of the conversation between Austin and Tracy. (That reminds me – there was once a teenage tennis sensation named Tracy Austin LOL)
Wichita1.0 over 1 year ago
“Pretty sure I never put in an order for a 60-foor pink bunny lawn gnome, Tracy. I’d remember something like that. Unless it was back-ordered form the ‘60s. Don’t recall much of that period. Wild times, detective. Wild times.”
General Trelane (Ret.) Premium Member over 1 year ago
z z z z z z z z . . .
Batster over 1 year ago
Another priceless wall sculpture in panel 2: ‘The Happy Bananas’, by Chiquita Del Monte.
MuddyUSA Premium Member over 1 year ago
Perhaps an alien space ship!
jim_pem over 1 year ago
Some time has passed. Tracy is on the job apparently done with what must have turned out to be an inconsequential conversation with Adam, and Diet has changed out of his robe and into a suit, and has cleaned up the mess he made yesterday.
mokspr Premium Member over 1 year ago
Someone dumped the mortal remains of hitchBot over Diet’s front wall.
Jonathan K. and the Elusive Dream Girl over 1 year ago
It’s Chick Tracy’s newest mode of transportation: the Space Coop.
General Trelane (Ret.) Premium Member over 1 year ago
This strip jumps around like a mad grasshopper .
firestrike1 over 1 year ago
maybe it’s the inconsequentially over-rated, intensely inept and overblown blowhard nannybot that’s on the lawn that some fear while others don’t…
perosnally, I am known to mock said bot…
MOCKMOCKMOCK…
and for good measure, a ‘NYYYYAAAAHHHH’ thrown into that bit of righteous and well-deserved mockery…
oakie817 over 1 year ago
ka-flamingo
Another Take over 1 year ago
1-DOIT: TRACY? What are you doing here?? DT: You called in a medical emergency. Knowing that it was probably just you overreacting to some imagined malady, they just sent me.
2-DOIT: Yes. It turns out Skim Milk isn’t deadly. Who knew? But there’s something on the lawn I need you to see.
3-DT: You mean Tess? Nude sunbathing on your lawn? DOIT: What? Oh. I thought Clifford The Big Red Dog had taken a Big Brown Dump in my yard. AAIIIIEEEE! IT’S MOVING!
DT: CALM DOWN! IT’S JUST TESS I TELL YOU!
tsull2121 over 1 year ago
Giant escargot?
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 1 year ago
A U.A.P.?
Wichita1.0 over 1 year ago
“First 90-foot statue of Don Knotts in a tutu and juggling fish Ive seen this week.”
Sisyphos over 1 year ago
Golly, citizens! It’s time for show-and-tell. What is on Diet’s lawn that provokes such a reaction? The “lost” space coupe would certainly be an interesting possibility, maybe with some techno-babble to explain how a temporal distortion (or the like) had brought it back, complete with Drs. Zy Ghote and S. Tim Sail.
But this, alas, seems improbable. I can’t imagine what else would have prompted Diet Smith’s reaction nor Tracy’s remarks in panel 3….