Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 20, 2024

and the plot thickens…

yeah, like gumbo or quicksand…

Skewed ideas that bombs make all problems “blow” away.

Good morning™, Porous Borders !

He walked in with all the other border jumpers.  The top down view gives me the feeling I am about to go SPLAT !

“Hmmmm…. a terrorist bomber …. a large clock …. I just don’t see the connection, Lizz.”

This story has less movement than Firestrike after he eats his pudding.

Good morning™, everyone!

So, it seems that Sprengstoff might have been working for someone, but whether he was working for Daddy “I’ve never heard of him” Totten is still up in the air. It seems that Sprengstoff may have been up to no good, but we still don’t really know what crime he may have been planning. It’s a bit of a weird plot.

I wonder what is the extremist group she is referring to?

Which makes the question of who terminated Sprengstoff all the more mysterious. If he was planning something someone stopped him but who….and why?

Extremist group? What extremist group? Does they not has a name? This writer is always breengs half baked theengs and drags very little story material for too long. And more talking and no details of what on earth going on. It like some half baked minute mysterys which gets dragged on for longer. According to him a little macguffin is go a long way eh. Better gets different guest writer me say.

“Allo, zis is Jacques Cousteau…day 3,592 approaches and my team and I have yet to find anyzing intelligent in zis location….but still, we search…zere MUST be somezing here with at least ONE functioning brain cell! We will not give up hope!”

I gave Liz the benefit of the doubt yesterday when she called Dick away from his site visit to say, “I’ve got something important to show you!” I suggested maybe it was true. Maybe she did have something important to show Tracy.

But we got bupkis on the 10 scale of importance. “The victim, who we already knew blew up banks and was a freelance saboteur was a suspect in a truck bombing two months ago in Sweden and we’re still clueless about how he got in the country.”

She couldn’t have told him that over the phone?

And how about Tracy assigns some of the MCU crew to investigating the terrorist group – who might wanted to have eliminated Sprengstoff as a potential witness against them? Bet he won’t. Bet he wants to send them up the clock tower for no logical reason… I apologize the the absent Ray and others who remind me I shouldn’t be looking for logic.

I think we need to talk to Fritz!

Lizz is comma-tose again today— two too many of ’em in her P1 palaver.

Lizz looks good in panel 2 today, but, in my opinion, Tracy is looking less and less like classic Tracy.

Exactly how does one plant a truck bomb? Curious gardeners want to know.

I can believe that ICE missed that terrorist coming into the country. They’re too busy preparing for Trump’s mass deportation of all undocumented.

Enter the mystery-shrouded (CFOPG) Citizens For Only Purple Gumballs, long on the terrorist alert, and a twisted tale of revenge, deadly food coloring and supernatural trimmings! Cameos by Mike Nomad, Krazy Kat and Mary ‘Busybody’ Worth!

1- DT: WHO PUT TODAY’S MEETING MATERIAL ON TOP OF THE BREAKROOM REFRIGERATOR??? LIZZ: I did…

2- : …I wanted to keep you on your toes! You know – because you have to reach way up there to get the… DT: Yeah. Funny…NOW GET IT DOWN! LIZZ: Fine… geez

3- : …I just had my nails pulled out to take my mind off this case. Whadaya think? DT: Looks great – did it work? Never mind – who’s drawing pictures of semi trucks and putting them in with the evidence we have on this case???

SAM: Me. Liz said she heard I had a “Big Rig” which made me wanna draw… DT: Awww for the love of…. MEETING ADJOURNED!

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“You can’t go wrong hanging politicians”

Laird Cregar—THE BLACK SWAN—1942

What,no nail polish??

Great shot of Lizz in Panel 2——keep it in future reference.

Long live Fleming Stone

Probably flew into one of our airports and then just overstayed his visa, like a large majority of undocumented residents do.

I’d like to see “The Brain” brought back—-Gould himself left a possible “out” on his death in January 1975

Stockholm? Are they saying that Sprengstoff is Swedish? I’ve already said that the name is in fact the Norwegian word for “explosives,” and someone said that it’s German too, but I’m not sure that it is Swedish. Though Norwegian and Swedish are usually so similar that we have no trouble understanding each other.

Nice watch, Liz.