Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 08, 2023

it took this long for Dick, but we got it long ago…

Good morning™, all!

Maybe I was giving a spoiler when I first mentioned where that quotation came from. I didn’t know it was going to be a mystery to Tracy for this long.

They are still spelling “Xaviera” wrong. At least they are consistent, I suppose.

Good morning™, past sweet innocence !

What made her go bad ?  Did she ever think that someday she would spend the remainder of her life behind bars or to come out on parole as a withered old hag ?  What a way to waste your life. …A bullet would be quicker.

Just another amateur athlete who decided to turn pro.

Did you know that Neil Diamond got through college on a fencing scholarship?

She smiling? Obviously this a fake photo.

“At the very end of the poem, I will hit you with my blade.” Does this mean we’re approaching the end of this story?

The guy’s bubble is about to get busted. Owen probably admires his colleague even though she dissed him in front of Tracy at the restaurant.

The lady must be having fencing flashbacks why would she carry it around like that? Maybe she gives private lessons for the upkeep of her collection.

IMDb tells me Jose Ferrer receive the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Cyrano de Bergerac (1950). I highly recommend it.

Gotta love the drawing of Tracy’s deformed left hand! Did he stick it in the MCU coffee grinder at work?

Ziggy and all the Sheldroids are working overtime trying to defend this disaster!

Tracy had to ASK? Wouldn’t the paper have listed her sport?

She is about to learn that crime doesn’t épée.

So…I would’ve posted an update on my doctor’s appointment yesterday when I got home, but truthfully I wasn’t in the mood. Not good news. I had thought that the two GINORMOUS chunks that passed back in May was the end of pain, no bleeds, nothing…I looked at the xrays and tho I’m no expert I didnt see dr had me do an ultrasound exam before he saw me (ultrasound is done in office) and the tech asked if I ever had any surgeries, like gallstones or anything (which seemed a weird thing to ask) so I pressed her as to why, after the exam was done, and she said it’s a routine question she has to ask (sounded fishy to me) <>

Interestingly he has a photo in there.

That last panel is French for “better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick”.

“Yes, some of the fences she erected are still here. She stank at stone walls, though.”

X is not wearing the triangle earrings from the October 6 yearbook picture.

Yep, it appears that Owen has had a crush on Xaviera since his high school days. There were little clues all along…

I can read French, so is that her motto?

When will this end………………

I got my Armchair Detective badge in the mail yesterday . Watch out villains a real detective is on the job now . Thanks and a tip of the hat to Mark Willman .

I got a fence what needs fixin’. Think she’s available to take a look at it?

MOVIE QUOTE—

“You haven’t lived in this town very long, have you?”

“Does anybody?”

Hugo Haas&Bob Hope—-THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATE—1944

That’s French for “You’re going up the river”

Is anyone nearby who can come pick me off the floor??? WHAT AN UNEXPECTED REVELATION!!!

Oh…. /s

Sam’s off duty for Yom Kippur, so Lizz gets to cross swords with the killer. I’ll hold her coat.

Oh. My. What. A. Surprise. Twist.

1-DT: Owen? What’s this gunk all over the picture of Xaveria? It’s like dried glue!

2-OWEN: Uh…I’m sure I don’t know what you’re talking about. Put that back!

3-DT: You know her pretty well. In this picture – is she wearing a cup or does she have a naturally big package? OWEN: I’ve spent years trying to learn the answer to that very question. sigh

……picky, picky, PICK-EEEEEE!! (Kind of surprised that you didn’t crack on X-Libris in P3!)………

need to peruse the members of the fencing team…

There’ll be a twist.. The book binder shop owner possibly?

Shall be absent until Tuesday next—having a front tooth replaced.I’m giving up almond toffee.

And remember kids—-if he weights 467 pounds and has bushy hair,that AIN’T SAnta Claus!!

FYI: Google “yuba city swordfight” and you’ll find stories about a real-life swordfight in Yuba City, California in 2018.

First fencerette I recall in a DeeTee story; longstanding male fence glass ceiling SHATTERED>>or is “run through” more apropos?? No doubt the dauntless detective will, er~~“FOIL” this vixen soon!

The Truth Is Out There!

Now You Know!

(As if most of us didn’t already know.)

Xaviera, a blonde hottie in her Choate days, was a fencing master! (Nice photo.)

And Desmond, showing off his Choate education, tosses in a line from Edmond Rostand’s 1897 "Cyrano de Bergerac’; the French is commonly Englished as “And then, as I end the refrain, thrust home!” (The play is written in couplets.)

Can we be done with this story REAL SOON!!!?