Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 24, 2024

what is Gabe tossing at Drivel?…

looks like a LEGO piece in panel two…

Good morning™, everyone!

Hot lead or cold lead hits you in the face just as hard!

“When you want to shoot you shoot you don’t talk” says Tuco in the good the bad and the ugly

Bordo better show he has some balls or his girlfriend may be toast.

Does this mean Duivel’s really his type?

So he did have a contingency plan, although as noted not much use against the “shoot first and taunt you later” types.

So cold lead faster than speeding bullet or she the slowest slowpoke gun drawer in town? And she already hads it drawn too.

Good morning™, Lead Heads !

Ms Dribble might regret not being fast. MCU will get there before she gets hurt, beyond the bruises from a flying object.

On July 18, Ms Duivel was left handed. Today she’s right handed. She must be ambidextrous.

That’s going to leave an impression……

Wow, the power of the press!

Gabriel versus the Devil? But who’s sin has the bigger consequence?

“If you’re gonna shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.” – Tuco

Pen is mightier than sword.

Linotype mightier than gun.

Timing is very off here. A trigger pull should have been faster than a throw.

It would be a nice Gouldian touch if the slug hit her in such a way that the type leaves a readable impression on her face, depending of course on what exactly Gabe typed out just before she and Borden arrived.

He threw that pretty accurately. Maybe he should be signed for the baseball team.

Hmm…I thought that perhaps Gabriel and Van Duivel had already met. Is the theory that Gabriel is a renegade angel and Van Duivel a free-lance demon a viable one?

That’s going to leave a mark.

When it comes to reporting on baseball scandals, the Teddy Roosevelt lookalike is a real slugger. Got her right in the left eye with some cold lead. That’ll spell trouble, eh? However, throwing type at someone might be justified.

Just stand there looking while Sydney chucks lead type at you. I just lost all respect for her.

UNNNH……..does that mean ouch?

1- BIG N PLENTY: I know you wouldn’t SHOOT YOUR GRANDFATHER! SALLY SIDEPIECE: lowers gun Grandpa? Is that you???

2- BIG N PLENTY: SUCKAAA!!! TAKE THAT!

3- SALLY SIDEPIECE: Owweeee! That smarted! And I got OUTsmarted! By my Grandpa of all people! GET HIM BORDO! Bordo? Where’d you go? BIG N PLENTY: I’m not your grandpa, dumdum. And yeah – where’d he go with my dough?

BORDO: two blocks away I hope Sally wins that battle! Then I’ll still have my money AND my fun! If not, I’m in no worse position than before. My secretary has already proven that she’s willing to take Sally’s place on my desk…

I just noticed that GC has solved the problem they were having with empty space at the top of the screen. YAY

As Tuco said, “When you have to shoot, shoot don’t talk”, loved that movie.

About now Tracy and comany will come bursting through the door to interupt the slug-fest

“Lights out, baby!”

- NFL Blitz video game.

Where’s Vengey’s cartoon ?

In my school we had two linotype machines, and one ludlow. The ludlow worked very similar to the linotype except that the type characters were larger than the slug.

Hurry up, Tracy. The plot is going south very quickly.

How did Captain Boomerang get into this?