Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 25, 2025

Slowest escape dash EVER!

nothing of importance today except a speeding prowl car…

is that supposed to be Junior lurking away in broad daylight off the stage in panel two?…

Good morning™, everyone!

Fred Totten, Jr., sneaks off, stage right, while Tracy races to the scene.

Verbose "sham"bome.

About to be busted!

Tracy on the job!

An exciting explosion tomorrow, perhaps?

What’s not to like?

Atta boy, Eric!!!!

Remember the prozzie in the lectern in “Police Academy”? Just saying.

KABLOOEY! Or not.

It’s too bad the MCU doesn’t have some sort of communications equipment … maybe installed in their cars or even something they could even wear on their wrists … so they could communicate with one another over distances & issue like, warnings of immediate danger, instead of driving like maniacs endangering the population at large. maybe, someday…

Ray Toler declared about 2 hours ago

@iggyman

Diet Smith should reduce all of its technology into a ring.

Apple will get there before he does.

Good morning™, Hot Wheels !

The cop looking guy in gray in P.1. actually looks a little worried. Tracy is going hell bent for leather !  I hope there are no 90 year old ladies in the crosswalk.

And then he grabbed her. And then he tied her up. And then a train started coming And then. And then….

“. . . but I did want to spoil my dinner!”

Nobody has anything to say about this???

All this drama, and still not an ounce of evidence. Tracy was investigating a murder, then jumps to the tower being bombed. Not atom of evidence of anything, but we all know he’s right. He’s running on pure ESP here. When the bomb experts can’t find any evidence Tracy instantly knows the explosive that will be used, even though the formula was never written down and was lost 80 years ago. And everyone else believes him implicitly. No one asks, “Any evidence?” Everyone in Tracy’s world knows his ESP is always correct.

Meanwhile, Tracy still doesn’t have enough evidence for the murder itself to get a warrant for Jr’s arrest. That won’t stop him from stopping the explosion he pulled out of thin air.

Well done, great art!

MCU-7? Tracy’s car should be MCU-1 !

See Dick race to the motor pool! See Dick drive really, really fast! Drive, Dick, drive! See Dick’s jaw set in determination! See Dick’s steely gaze! See the flashing light clear away traffic! Look at the gawking pedestrians! Gawk, pedestrians, gawk! See Dick heading for the city limits before things go totally south. See Dick replace Opus the Penguin in his new home, BLOOM COUNTY, come Monday.

What riveting dialogue .

I think he meant to say, “I didn’t want to spoil my dinner.”

1- GUV: Thank you for inviting me to this Roast Of Chief Patton! The money we’ll raise here tonight will benefit a good cause – The Chief Patton Home For The Criminally Inept – SPACE LIMITED TO MEMBERS OF THE MCU WHO – BASED ON THEIR JOB PERFORMANCE LATELY ARE INDEED "CRIMINALLY INEPT! AM I RIGHT???? HAR HAR HAR!

2- CROWD: Crickets FRED JR: This guy sux. The audience would probably thank me for blowing them up if they weren’t…blown up

3- DT: OUTTA THE WAY! I’M LATE FOR THE CHIEF PATTON ROAST! MOVE IT! Better practice my opening remark:

CHIEF PATTON IS SO OLD (pause for audience to ask “how old is he”) … SO OLD THAT M.C. HAMMER’S PARACHUTE PANTS USED TO GIVE HIM WOOD BECAUSE THEY REMINDED HIM OF THE BLOOMERS THE HOOKERS WORE WHEN HE FIRST JOINED THE FORCE! THE CHIEF IS SO OLD HE THOUGHT LIBERACE WAS JUST “HAPPY”!

Years ago, I was in a band – Procto Scarem. One day, I worked up an instrumental with me on organ, drums and bass and played it for the boys. I called it A Whiter Shade Of Hail as there had just been a hailstorm. ANYWAY, they gave me the boot, changed the name of the song, put lyrics to it and got famous. Sad but untrue. Anyway – here’s “proof” of my story:

Https://Youtu.be/2EgRE61Tgm4

Come on baby, light my fire….

You know that is Duck ztracy driving the police car in last panel…..his yellow coat and hat are visible…..great art work!!