Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 03, 2023

Wow, my idea of skipping a day sure has paid off,,,big time!!!

The action today is amazing!!

Dick slams a report in his creased hands!

Sam sits his rear on a table!!

Lizz puts BOTH hands on her curvy hips!!!

Lee manages not to drop her cup of coffee!!!!

Heart, don’t fail me now!!!!!

Good morning™, all!

.. and the troops are sent out into battle. I think I like to see Tracy taking charge like this, but I wonder what he will be doing while they all out in the field.

Dick frustrated and now demanding some further investigative work and results?…

is Dick becoming exasperated as much as we are in how long this investigation has been taking?…

panel 1 indicates that Dick is THROUGH pussy-footing around now…

Sam heard, “Go get a sandwich.” He’s on it.

Dick is so proud of himself in P3.

How it really is!!!!!

Dick’s fascination with the fabulous Ms. Libris spills over as he shouts out, " Let’s try to develop something!"

Lizz is annoyed that Dick didn’t offer her a cup of coffee.

Lee is worried about dinner tonight getting ruined, again!

Sam, confused about everything being said simply decides to order his lunch, a pastrami sandwich

Good morning™, whip crackin’ bosses !

“I give the orders around here !  It sure feels good to be in charge again. All this endless coffee chat has reduced my manhood to where I am nearly as “de-nutted” as that fruitcake fire guy and Tess can’t have that. A nice action talking heads today. :-)

Where is the action ? Why not just call the local bookie ? I am so bored !!!

I’m not sure exactly how many days it has been since the Caxton murder, but it sure seems late that he hasn’t asked for CCTV footage until now.

But I’m reminded of British crime drama “Vera.” This is the point where Vera would always end with “What are you all still here for? Get on with it! Chop-chop!”

See Dick Tracy, chief of detectives, delegate assignments. It is in today’s strip. Got to have something to tell Chief Patton. Don’t want to be on the receiving end of budget cuts.

Eh too bad they all has joins the dark side.

Wouldn’t looking for area camera footage around a murder scene be one of the very FIRST things an investigation would do? That’s certainly how it goes in the UK, mind you they have far more camera coverage than most countries as the local residents often demand it. Of course few of those cameras get watching in real time, but AI is emerging as a way to do that and highlight anything “interesting” to a human observer.

The top coat is beginning to crack a little, and the grass has increased by about two inches

“Sam, see if find and CCTV from the area near the Caxton residence on the night of the murder.”

“Uh, Tracy? Should we have been doing that anyway? All the police departments on 48 Hours have that as their routine response. Why are you waiting for days before suggesting it?”

“Give me a break Sam, This is the first case where we’ve used DNA and luminol. We may solve this through detective work rather than coincidence.”

“But wasn’t your talk with Ms Libris–”

“Don’t go there, Sam. C’mon, let’s try and be detectives.”

In panel one, Tracy has the script for the next eight months. “Eight more months? Yikes. Tell you what, let’s improvise.”

Am I the only one who reacted with, “Wait, actual police work?”

Patience, Grasshopper. Wax on, wax off…

ACTION! Owwie! Bet THAT hurt!

SAM: Tracy! Tracy! Someone tore the last riveting page out of my THREE BUNNIE WUNNNIES book and scrawled ’You’ll never get me, coppers!’ on it with purple crayon! Th-they know where we are!

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Do serious antique book collectors do restoration and repair? I know comic book collectors tend to eschew that as some kind of “cheating.”

Things are heating up .

SAM: That CCTV footage showed nothing about X. Libris, but I got some good shots of Lee and her girlfriend coming out of the lesbial bar next door. Lizz and the Chief were seen kissing and walking hand in hand and Junior was seens painting moustaches on all of the signs posted around the area.

P4: Tracy tells simian Sam to go ape on the killer, not on his desk….

Today,November 3rd,is supposed to be “Love Your Lawyer Day”

Good luck rounding up volunteers.

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“If you hit me in the nuts again, you little creep…..”

Outsize wrestler to Herve Villechaize—THE ONE AND ONLY—1978

Okay,anybody remember the Pallette Brothers story from 1963.World-famous artists and “respectable citizens” actually running a narcotics ring.

Talk to Diet Smith or some other rich person. Announce a valuable something or other as “bait” the killer can’t resist—then hide in t he dark and wait.

1-DT: SMACK! This roach problem has gotten out of control. Turn off the lights to lure them out and then get ready to STOMP!

2-…DAMIT LIZ! Your high heels won’t be effective in this op! Why can’t you wear Army Boots like Lee?

3-SAM: I’ll…uh…set up here and be a spotter for you. OH! LIGHTS ON! EWWWW! LOOK AT ‘EM!!! DT: You big baby! Every deli kitchen probably has more roaches than this. SAM: Really? swoon THUD!

DT: There’s a couple roaches on Sam’s face – GET ‘EM LEE! LEE: ON IT! STOMP!

Love the silhouettes in panel 2!

Tracy is moving into action, & he didn’t need a phone from the mayor to do it!

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Good Plan!

Tracy finally called, “ACTION”!

Holy Tracyville, crimebusters! Tracy is acting as though he were the Chief of Detectives or Head of the Major Crimes Unit!

Oh, wait. He is! Compliments to Tracy on getting his team to haul lard and dig down for further leads!

This actually seems like a damme detective story! (I’ll only say sotto voce that maybe these steps should have been taken well before now….)

And, for the record, the art is staying strong!