Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 29, 2023

“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. “How do you keep a goat from charging?

A. You take his credit card away!

Same goat time, same goat channel!

Good morning™, everyone!

This is a great reminder and reinforcer for those readers who missed the strip about the triangular cross-section, or have forgotten that detail. This is exactly what Mike Curtis needs to do more of so we do not miss important details. They don’t yet know that Ms. Libris’s Olympic sport was fencing, but they are accumulating clues that will lead them in that direction.

Surely MCU knows that shanks can be made from anything. Oh, terrific, the perpetrator is a cross between a convict and a surgeon. Quick! Somebody lock up the scalpels.

Would’ve nice if they indicated/introduce us to the expert in p3 yesterday.

Good morning™, sl-o-o-w-w-w-w-ly  peeling onion layers !

Clue sifting is getting heavy. How’s that for action ?

To make a long story short he got the “point”!

Okay, I held my figurative tongue yesterday with the x-ray, but if they’re going to repeat it I’m going to ask what the Heck is going on. That is a front view of the thorax – notice the sternum. What is the open area on the right area where the ribs are missing? And what kind of angle is that for the narrow shape which, one assumes, is supposed to represent the wound? Our killer is supposed to have punctured the heart by thrusting the blade between the ribs. The x-ray seems to show the blade coming up under the ribs. Except, of course, that the ribs are missing in that area.

Sorry, this story is so incredibly boring that I must have missed the part where it was stated that Madonna’s an Olympic fencer. Not for nothing but…the Olympics are broadcast on a handful of networks and watched in one or two homes…you’d THINK that something as important to the story as that would have been mentioned more

Any chance of the killer being Putty Puss, who has been shown to know fencing (or at least some skill using a sword)?

You all miss the obvious answer! The murder weapon was a lovingly shaped wedge of frozen pastrami. And isn’t Sm conspicuously absent today? Maybe running for the border? Could it be that he’s engineered each and every crime over the last decade to make the MCU look good (and justify his pay and job)?

“An Expert’s Work.” That nugget of knowledge should pique Dick’s interest .

If one seeks instant gratification never realizing the true value of a comic, good book, face to face discussion, or a long movie, may I suggest moving your anonymous bullying and unappreciative anonymity over to a more recognized social media platform for instant gratification and bullying, Facebook. Some grow, while others regress…

Wow, Tracy not wearing yellow.

1-DT: Wait…so Backroom Guy was stabbed with a Triangle. Have you checked with the Tracyville Symphony Orchestra? Are any Triangles missing? Could the Triangle player be…

2-LEE: I DIDN’T SAY THAT (dimbulb) To repeat, Dr. Stoner said…

3-…something about a penguin on an ice flow and how penguins can’t fly and did I want to join him for a burger and fry.

SAM: I’M IN! DT: Go back to sleep, Sam.

Maybe it was a Klingon using a batlift .

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“I just fell 40 feet on my head, didn’t I? of course I’m all right!”

Jack Mullaney—-TICKLE ME—1965

We haven’t had a stabbing expert since 3-D Magee in 1953

Enough with the talk—on to 24 hour surveillance

This storyline makes no sense and is stupid and boring. I’m only sticking around for when Warbucks shows up again. Gould must be spinning in his grave at how crummy his strip has become.

‘Daddy’ is in Honduras at the moment, fleeing an IRS audit. He will played by giant spite in a bald wig. The plot involves cornering the market on flies…

In all seriousness, Warbucks’ HQ is currently in Mexico, a country that’s getting wilder by the day.

It was a running joke/topic in the Harold Gray days that a guy who loved the USA so much had his business everywhere BUT the USA.

Now that’s he’s officially adopted Annie, maybe it’s time he made the move.And I like the “friendly ri valry” Curtis hints at between Warbucks&Diet Smith

OT: Fence replaces, as is the siding on the house. No more jackhammering, no nailgunning, no nailing.It’ so…QUIET now.

TOO quiet.

Slowly, the Team Work is getting to the point….