Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 25, 2023

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Q. “What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?”

A. Chicago

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Sam,,, this whole freaking story is strange!!!

Good morning™, everyone!

The last video was probably Xaviera Libris. This one is definitely her, and it’s the same case, so that means they both are. (I’m saying this from Sam’s perspective. We readers know that both of them are her.

Sorry, but a story 100% dialog, 0% action is not going to be successful, as this current story shows.

will it be Sam who breaks the case?…

will Sam get his five seconds of fame in the spotlight?…

will Sam no longer wear the mantle of a dimbulb?…

is this Sam’s moment to shine?…

or will the light bulb above Sam’s head burn out and then it’s lights out?…

Maybe Sam should have taken that coffee break. He’s starting to talk to himself, a sign his heavy workload is causing exhaustion & maybe a mental breakdown. Or maybe somebody should have clued the writer in that there are such things as thought balloons in comic strips.

“Dear Mike, please allow me to be the next guest writer. I promise you that my story;

”Dick Tracy Meets the Evil Dr. Goatface!“

Unless a Shelley Zombie can provide a logical explanation as to why Sam switched his watch from his left hand to his right hand, it appears a big blunder was made by her.

However, in her defense, it’s got to be just as hard for her to stay awake during this snoozefest as it is for us.

See me had tolds ya long itself Goldilocks was the killer crook.

Now waitsaminute. Was not Manutis been murdered about eleven months ago? Who on earth is keeps all CCTV video footages that long back? What a plot hole eh.

Night-Gaunt49 appreciates the good thoughts from the group.

From 11/23/23

Going through and deleting dead phone contacts while extending holiday wishes to others I managed to get Night-Gaunt49 on.

He is (still) in hospital from a below-the-right-knee amputation and is going through rehab. Anyone who cares to “keep him some company” send your inquiry to me (at the profile) and I will send you his number. Not posting it here as it leaves potential for SPAM calls.

Good morning™, confident baffled coppers !

Sam’s got a dilly of a pickle there but he’ll work it out just to show Tracy he’s still got it !

The lady in the ‘movie’ can no way be mistaken for book store guy.

I say again….that long case is a short sword.

Once again a criminal makes a fatal error….not noting where there are security cameras recording everything occurring in the area.

Two tommyguns!

Like an episode of “See No Evil” on the Investigate Discovery channel!

Look’s like it could hold a special build rifle, such as in “The day of the Jackal” by Frederick Forsyth.

And, besides the memory storage issue already mentioned and commented on, how precisely do they know the date of the death of Manutius? Was that a sign-in for anyone entering the Institute or just the library at the Institute? It was long enough ago I can’t recall (and given the inconsistencies in the storyline I’m not sure I’m interested in going back to review). I’m still pondering the fact that Libris took hours cleaning up the crime scene at the Institute with no one noticing and that the police thought the discovery of two small drops of blood, outside the office where the murder took place eleven months earlier, must be related to the murder.

“Ms Libris, so happy to see you. I’m wondering why the secrecy in this meeting?”

She smiled, “Well, considering the value of the books I will be donating to your library I don’t want any potential thieves to hear about the transfer. No one knows I’m here, correct?”

“Ah, I understand. This is a totally private meeting. Could I inquire about the two cases you’re carrying?”

“Oh, I always have these two with me. One is, obviously, a security case in case I stumble on a rare book or manuscript. The other is my sword case. Let me assemble it and show you.”

(A lot of killers try for a weapon that is easy to conceal.)

The identity of the character in the hooded cloak, whom we first saw in the CCTV footage yesterday, is now confirmed by a more direct and clear frame to be indeed Xaviera Libris (as we knew or at least suspected all along), carrying, Sam surmises, the small case for a book and a long narrow case, which he knows is not for a tommygun (shades of the Prohibition Era violin cases!), but for what else he can’t think. Is he unaware of her background information, that she was an Olympic alternate fencer at Choate, not to mention that he is investigating a series of murders all committed by a sharp bladed weapon? She must be psychotically obsessive indeed if she needs to use her old fencing sword (foil? épée?) or a similar souvenir weapon ( 18th century “small sword”?) to commit her murders.

There is now no doubt whatsoever that Xaviera Libris is the murderer. Again, the story structure parallels the Columbo TV paradigm, with the identity of the perp known from the outset and interest being in how the master detective brings the perp to justice. Oh, and one more thing, sir: I like this….

I suspect the long case is for an epee like weapon. Pehaps a short epee itself with the safety ball at the end removed and the point sharpened.

….“NOT a Tommy Gun”………wrong shape, I think……..

Did she show up at the institute after hours? Sure, looks like she had the facility and the streets to herself.

After years of playing a secondary role to Tracy, Sam could be the one who solves this case. He does have a plumb assignment…watching all those video tapes.

Doesn’t Sam look kind of sinister in Panel 1?

I think….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzsnoozs…….

A long, thin murder weapon? Possibly a unicorn horn?

OHHHHH! Of course! This is the much-requested MY LITTLE PONY CROSSOVER! Why didn’t I see it before? Frustrated at having read every blessed book in Ponyland, Twilight Sparkle has ventured forth to kill and collect with ruthless (if tokenly cute) abandon! SOON, she shall have ALL the books, plus one or two Jughead Specials (the ones featuring Big Ethel as Vanna ‘Pageturner’ Blight. Those were such classics!).

Nest week? Gargamel joins forces with The Joker to pare own the rank of those ever-annoying Smurfs! Guest shot by Peter Potamus.

BE HERE! Or…be…elsewhere…

it’s her flute

1-SAM: I’ve never watched an adult movie that took this long to get to the good stuff…

2- …Can’t wait to see what kind of toys she’s carrying…

3-… What the… just hour after hour of that staircase scene! Where’s the Rate This Movie option? ZERO STARS! Pity too. The chick looked kind of hot. Probably had nothing on under that coat. And the toys she was carrying meant there wouldn’t be any dudes to confuse me about which one of the actors was really turning me on…or make me feel bad about my own “equipment”…

Perhaps the long case is a sword of some sort, such as either an epee or a fencing saber?

It’s a pool cue case, she’s late for her spot on The Hustler, part 3, Daughter of Fast Eddie. See, totally harmless

It’s probably already been said, but it’s a broken down pool cue. Xaviera worked her way through college hustling pool.

Killer stabs people. Sam sees probable killer with a case about the size of a sword. Sam wonders what it could possibly be.

We wonder what’s gotten into the MCU that they can’t put together such obvious clues.

Presumably, as everyone knows, it surely must be a stiletto, letter-opener, or similar weapon in the long box? And, separately, altho it’s nice to see Sam get a mention occasionally, people who wear bow ties these days are little suspicious in my humble opinion, eggsept on formal occasions.

And in Panel 2, a Sherlock Holmesian fog envelops Tracy’s city

What the goats on Gweedo’s farm think about this current story!

https://youtube.Com/shorts/NaIrB-6XxNI?si=QSjAFZkPjeaPO0nl

Goat Joke of the Day!”(To continue until there’s one honest to goodness panel of real, slam bam ACTION!)

to help you survive the latest episode of; “As the Worm Inches Along!”

Q. “Where did the goat go to get his hair trimmed?

A. The baaaa-ber

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