Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 13, 2024

in panel three, Dick is back to looking as if his head is elongated again…

Good morning™, everyone!

Boris: “Curses! Foiled again!”

So it seems that Tracy is replacing Harold and Winifred? Sounds like he wants them to report back to Boris. Should be interesting.

and Sirob is looking a mean prick in that panel…

“It’s not you’d get killed and your baby left an orphan.”

“I haven’t had the baby yet!”

“Haven’t you? I heard you had. No matter.”

Good morning™, Raging Crooks !

Boris done lost this one and since Tracy wont be picking him up the story will go off in a different direction now. So much anger, so much fury. Too bad, sucker ! LOL !

Arrest them and give them a deal, to testify against Boris. Explain that it was a sting operation to get him. Don’t leave out Natasha either.

“You mean the Grays were working undercover to save me from a kidnapping plot?”

“Actually, Warbucks, the Grays were working undercover to gather evidence proving you’ve been selling substandard weapons to the Defense Department at inflated prices & paying millions in kick-backs & bribes!”

“Tracy must have surprised my driver”. Does Boris have E.S.P. or did a little birdie tell him this?

I have no idea what is going on.

All this back and forth over Warbucks…he must be the equivalent of a wishbone. Whoever gets him, has their wish fulfilled.

I forgot that the U.S. was on Daylight Saving Time starting this past weekend, so this came out an earlier that I thought. Australia goes off Daylight Saving Time on April 7th.

It’s a bit contrived and rushed explanation IMO.

Why were the Grays assigned to watch Warbucks? BreathlessMahoney77 had a good suggestion – they were actually there to investigate Warbucks for fraud in government contracts. Does the FBI assign agents to watch/protect the head of every company that has government contacts? Did the FBI have a clue Boris was after Warbucks? In which case it might make sense to assign agents… But why is the FBI replacing the Grays with Tracy? And didn’t Trainer think it a little risky to assign a pregnant agent? And isn’t it lucky that Boris contacted them with a business proposal after they’d gone undercover with Warbucks? I mean, that’s as lucky as Sam walking into a new deli at the exact moment a crime is happening.

And what exactly is Boris up to, what is his motivation? He is being labeled a terrorist rather than simply a criminal. Terrorists usually have some sort of agenda. What is his? What will he accomplish by kidnapping Warbucks? How are his goals better achieved by kidnapping Warbucks than by, say for example, killing him? Is he looking for a ransom? For what? And if it’s for $$$ in his own pocket he is a criminal and not a terrorist.

There’s a saying, “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” What about a land where only one guy has pupils?

it’s 8 am, do you know where your driver is?

Oh come on, Boris, it’s only been 12 hours. Maybe they’re stuck in traffic. Or they stopped for a quick medical procedure.

This is supposed to be like 12 years ago, right? That means Boris COULD just call the driver.

MOVIE QUOTE——

“DRY SOCKS!!”

Just about every cast member—-FIXED BAYONETS—1951

Lay off the potatoes Winny .

“’l’ll get a magic market, in with some pupils — maybe make you cross-eyed —and he’ll never recognize you1”

Okay,if Tracy shaves his head will he look enough like Warbucks to take his place?

Trailer was absent from t he strip from 1941 until 1979, when Collins brought him back for Bernard Breakdown kidnap case.

Vitamin Flintheart wasn’t the only old-timer Collins pulled out of the nursing home

Go ahead, Boris. Say it.

“Curses! Foiled again!”

1-BORIS: COME ON SEVEN! DADDY NEEDS NEW BULLETS FOR HIS GUN!

2-DT: Uh…I knew all along that they were FBI Agents. Yeah. I just went into my karate stance when they drew their water pistols – which I, uh, also spotted as fake – to look cool!

3-HAROLD: We were assigned here because Horse Trailer, our butt kissing boss, was punishing us for making him look stupid. So he made us Undercover House Cleaners.

DT: Hmmmm. So…did I just about blow off your Uber Driver’s head? WINNIE: Yes but we got another on the way so LEAVE HIM ALONE!

DT: I can’t promise that…

dam-nation, that is one hairy, meaty and ham-handed fist that Sirob is fistfully and fitfully clenching…

Tracy: I don’t know… I bet you can you can brazen it out with Boris.

[umpteen strips later]

Tracy: [standing over Harold and Winifred’s corpses] Huh… I guess I was wrong.

Have they found J.Preston Slime yet?

Jimmy Hoffa is now known as Preston Cement…

and he’s not even in Witness Protection…