Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 09, 2025

you AREN’T but WE ARE…

Good morning™, everyone!

Hand-to-hand combat incoming? I wonder.

One man "dumb"olition squad.

Is the first panel Mike, trying to get Eric away from his typewriter?

Just askin’

I like how the Colonel keeps coming up with more stuff the longer he talks. “I hope I’m wrong. Also, he taught this course in planting bombs in clock towers. Not sure if that’s relevant.”

[Unnamed Reader – 14b4ce] ordered a sniffer about 10 hours ago

Time for Mugg to make a long-needed reappearance and sniff out the bomb

Mugg has retired and gone into witless perteckshin and is now living a carefree life of idle doggery, under his new identity; Marmaduke.

Good morning™, Terrible Teachers !

I swear he’d like t’ twist that man’s head off but he will restrain his worst feature until the clock tower bomb(?) can be “brought to life”, with a warmup on Spring-heel.

It’s time to call in “Chick Tracy” to place kick that bomb off that clock tower & end this thing.

Um, I believe usual police procedure is NOT to tell someone exactly what they are looking for in terms of information, for fear it will influence the memory of the person being questioned – and will cause a big FLAMING issue when the defense attorney makes the accusation in court that the police were steering the witness. Liz would have called and asked to speak to the CO about Jr. time in the military. Now his, “I am hoping, Detectives, and I’m hoping I’m wrong about this, but I can’t be sure I am,” sounds like they’ve described the murder of Springy in detail and he’s about to blurt out, “Hey, that’s exactly how Jr. would do it.”

When is B.O. Plenty arriving to straighten this all out? (I am kind of lost)!

Ok, at this point Dick needs to be on the phone with the FBI and DHS. No argument, no discussion. Not doing so ends up turning bad headlines to nightmare headlines.

As I predicted, last Friday’s announcement of the clock lighting ceremony ‘early next week’ was by TST (Tracy Standard Time), not RST (Reader Standard Time)….

Tracy looks very interested in panel 2!

omg, a soldier is trained to fight? what a shocker

TELEVISION QUOTE

“It is better to light a candle than to curse Doris Day”

Arte Johnson—ROWAN&MARTIN’S LAUGH-IN

Okay,we’re getting a big hint that getting the cuffs on this guy may not be an easy task.

Does his clueless father even KNOW his son was in t he Army??I’m looking back at all the warning signs Daddy is ignoring

More talking heads. Time for action. BO needs to come in with his stopming boots like he did with Tiger Lily. Tracy and the MCU have been glued to their office seats and can do nothing but chat.

1- COLONEL CLINC: WAIT! I thought I was done talking but I just remembered something else! DT: Will this guy ever shutup? COLONEL CLINC: Totten considered himself a Sleep Therapist. …

2- : …He was always helping the guys in the platoon nod off – even when they didn’t want to! He was dedicated to a good 8 hour snooze for his men.

3- : …Sadly, the General pulled a surprise inspection on a day Totten had put half his men to sleep. THAT was the last straw – NOT the “camo” image of me reading perno on the toilet as I said two days ago. I MEAN A FEW MINUTES AGO! This conversation just FEELS like it’s gone on for days. Thank goodness we’re done now…oh. WAIT!

This has been going on so long, I don’t remember who they’re talking to or about!