Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 16, 2024

the dreaded pointed finger points again…

get the point?

Finally! A smile!

Tracy really enjoyed that boogy he picked in the first panel!

LOL! There’s joy in Erichuckyville!

“Megavain” Diet Smith?

Good morning™, all!

The old “divide and conquer” strategy again. I think that Two Fox Plaza is the key.

Good morning™, Marching Orders !

Tracy’s commanding presence lends gravity to his words. Is that a sneer in P. 3. ?

LOL…

loving all the side glances that Dick is getting from the team in panel two…

as if they all think that Dick is a nut…

P3 – Charles Ettinger: “I know you’re complaining about the finger.”

The “team” looks absolutely thrilled with their assignments.

And who might that be?!

Excellent art today, good job!

Um… My understanding is that homicide is part of an MCU. Some PDs don’t have a division they call an MCU, but in those that do (to the best of my knowledge) it includes the detectives working homicide. The Tracyville MCU handles stolen board games (that’s major?) but needs to call the homicide division about a murder?

How about something like, “Lee, see if forensics has come up with anything new,” or “Lee, see if the coroner has found an explanation for the erratic behavior before the murder.”

Sigh… Once upon a time, and very long ago it was, Tracy would even peer into a microscope himself to remind readers than police used something called science and not simply coincidence to solve crimes.

(I was taught a before a consonant sound, an before a vowel sound. So a mouse, an MCU.)

While nothing is happening, it is a good time to take a vacation. I will be out of the country all next week and don’t know when I’ll be able to get an internet connection. I’m leaving this morning on a cruise with two of my wife’s cousins and their husbands, 3 couples. We are cruising to Puerto Rico, St. Martins, and the Eastern Caribbean. See you all in a week. I don’t think I’ll miss much here.

The only thing Sam hears is stroganoff…

Nov 14 strip background looks like they are meeting in a hallway or the men’s bathroom. Todays background in the first panel looks like they still are

One fox, two fox

Red fox, blue fox.

“Talk to homicide?” Aren’t THEY homicide?

Tracy knows a couple of foxes?

3 dour people and 1 guy smiling can only mean one thing-

No Vengey Tale today ?

1-DT:* Ok. Ima count to 3 and when I turn around, you’d all better be standing at attention! 1…

2-:*…2…

3-:* ..3! EXCELLENT! Now Sam – How many fingers am I holding up? SAM: Uhhhh, one? DT: And if I SAY I’m holding up two, how many? SAM: Two…? DT: Liz – do you and Lee agree that I’m hold up two if I say it’s two? LIZ & LEE: SIR, YES SIR! DT: It appears that I’ve assembled a competent and loyal cabi…team. DIS-MISSED!

the guy at One Fox Plaza

“Mr. McFeely! He covers the whole area around their HQ, and I’m SURE he’s read letters before delivering them to the CEO! Just a guess, from that Rolls Royce postal carrier and the mink-lined mailman hat.”

MOMENTA LATER, Tracy’s finger went off, putting a tragic end to a nest of rare Pottsylvanian bats that were nesting about the ceiling.

Two words, Tracy: SAFETY and ON.

Naruto?

Lizz: How does he do it?

Sam: It helps if you’ve been on the force since the Great Depression…

“I know someone who may be helpful about 2 Fox Plaza.” Well, that rules the writer out …

Tracy and Sam have discovered “Just for Men”. Forever young.

AND SOMEONE FIND HE KEY TO THE DOOR SO I CAN GET MY COAT!

Ok if I can find the link to the message board again I will be working on the much overdue next chapter of my dick tracy story

It seems obvious that Curtis has ceded authority for this strip to Mr. Pseudo Chandler, aka Eric Costello. From earlier examples this means Saga length, boring stories with no interesting villains, suspense, or use of long standing characters, Mr. Toler is correct; he’ll miss nothing. just like a soap opera which you can avoid for 6 months and immediately pick up where one leaves off. The strip has gone over the horizon I’m afraid. But 90+ years ain’t bad.

Part 8 of my second dick tracy story has FINALLY been posted (tho I forgot to mark it as part 8, so check under part 7 to find it)..after almost a 2 year gap! Sorry about that, work and everything else got in the did coming up with a suitable name for mayor Armstrong’s nephew…but I came up with it… AND along with Armstrong’s nephew, I ALSO introduced THREE other new characters who will have a role in this…and upcoming, stories…one is based on a real life radio personality around my area

Heres the link

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Who is Dick going to talk about the development? Diet? Oliver Warbucks?