Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 04, 2023

After nipping out for a quick dye-job, the blood-spatter chick is on the job. Wait! I saw documentary about this. She’s a serial killer!! Get her Tracy!

Tracyville PD seems to have their own female Dexter Morgan blood-splatter specialist…

Good morning™, prime suspects !

I bet they all cover each others hiney. ……. Or start playing the pointing fingers game.

Great action today!!

Fantastic story movement!!!

Jaw dropping revelations!!!

Like a caffeine enriched shot of espresso!!!

Like a night on Gweedo’s farm!!!

Like a Firestrike Ex-Lax induced fantasy!!!

Who could ask for anything more!!!

The above posted for the benefit of the mighty Ashmael!

Why is Phil Nichevo still wearing his batting glove inside the locker room? For that matter, why is his right hand shaped like his left hand? And why is Tracy just getting around now to asking who found the body?

Coach: “When I came in, they were all still kicking the body.”

Good morning™, everyone!

The spatter with blows coming from left to right is a significant clue, I think. It indicates a left-hander.

4 players… It was a murder Grand Slam !!!

Tracy smiling panel one? Must be happy he found a clue!

Phil NIchevo, Phil Demain, our phil-in writer seems phlagrantly phond of phlooding this story with Phils— and he hasn’t named the manager yet, so watch out for a triple play!

Aquaman looks like he just got out of the water.

Anyone know if the manager was once known as “Lefty” Watt?

The clues continue! Finding out at this stage that all four found him at the same time is fun, often a short mystery story will essentially begin with the revelation that all of the suspects walked into an office or whatnot at the same time and found the victim already deceased. So finding out later rather than at the beginning is a fun change!

I liked Mike’s art work a lot…

AHA! I see one was caught RED-HANDED!!!!!

Is it me, or does Oscar Watt today look like Shemar Moore of Criminal Minds and S.W.A.T.?

the plot thickens

Elementary, my dear Wickson!!

Yeah, this is exactly what I said at the beginning

ARRRRGH! WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE WEBSITE. I KEEP GETTING ANCIENT LIKES AND 404 ERROR MESSAGES!

IF this ends up being a Murder On The Orient Express ripoff, I’LL PLAY THE ROGER DALTRY SCREAM FROM WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN UNTIL THE SPEAKERS BLOW!!!

What’s happened to General Trelane? I haven’t seen him here in a few days.

1-BROWN EYED GIRL: Hey. You got blood on your jacket sleeve. DT: That’s ketchup. I forgot to sit a minimum of 10 feet away from Sam during lunch.

2-…Say. Where were you when the murder occurred, Mr. Manager?

3-SKIP: Call me Skip. The four prime suspects were playing dice and using me as the “curb” to bounce them off of. They got pretty mad when the dice kept getting stuck in my fat rolls.

So far, the various clues, including today’s detection of blood splatter by the FORENSICS tech chick, all point to a left-handed perp. Nothing new about that. The discovery of the body of Vernon Simpson by all four players we’ve met, at the same time, is new, but questionable as a clue. What might be a clue is (in panel 3) the spots of some sort we now see on Demain’s left profile and head (that were not there when we first met him): blood splatter, or just water drops? I think Nichevko’s red batting glove still being on his right hand is at most a red herring. Curiouser and curiouser, though is that the manager is still nameless this far into the Minit Mystery. Is this a Meaningful Thing or just a Meaningless Oversight?

I sure mis Wilford Brimley.