Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 02, 2025

Junior hatched an evil plan. Trained to harm and kill

Found that slaughter suited him. So much blood to spill.

Sabotage left incomplete. The missing bomb he found

Father backed the Two Fox deal. He’ll burn it to the ground.

Consternation. Detonation threatened by the fiend

Sees Tracy as puerile. No insights shall be gleaned

From talking sense to a sick mind. Lee stealthily approaches

Wiring here on the ground. On sick plot she encroaches.

and here we go with the villain rant…

He made a “killing” by reading archival accounts of “holocaustic” proportions.

Good morning™, everyone!

Tracy is being jejune, but Totten Junior has become addicted to killing people. It’s not even a political move for him. It’s a pretty elaborate process to get his dad to invest in the project, just so Junior could find the unexploded bomb.

Good morning™, Psycho Killers !

This guy’s got a whole suspension bridge worth of bolts loose to the point of falling out. P.3. Tracy looks radioactive. The way Junior is talking there wont be a suicide but I loathe to think where that bomb winds up.

crazy nutjob look in panel three… nice… conveys the animal crackers mentality of Jun….

save the state the expense of putting this scumbag on trial, as he might walk out a free man through the most outrageous and ridiculous of means…

Jun is enjoying his rant too much…

See, Dick still can’t get up!

who is that lurking in the shadows behind Dick?…

Junior sure does talk a lot

The “talking killer” trope!

Suspense! Will she disconnect the switch cable at that junction box? Probably not.

Looks like Lee might save the day, which is good because Junior evidently is a kill-crazy lunatic.

Also nice of Junior to confirm my theory about the terrorist getting terminated for not keeping a low profile.

What’s the shelf life of xylon anyway?

To parahrase the immortal Tuco …l If you’re going to explode a bomb, explode a bomb. Don’t talk!

Last panel is awesome!

Art is impressive, today. Writing is indeed better too. Notice the very last panel, well done expression of a psychopath

I’ve said before it requires a special personality to actually /enjoy/ killing, causing pain and suffering. (sighs) It’d be nice if there was a way to cull this, out of the human species, but it requires geniuses to develop that too, and I’m just this dumb hillbilly gal-child.

Why does Dick wears yellow coat and hat? they attract attention and detectives are not supposed to attract attention to stay safe.

Of course one of the characteristics about Xylon is that it is highly unstable. Not unstable in the manner of nitroglycerine that can easily go off, unstable in the way it evaporates / dissipates. The bomb would have lost all explosive power decades ago…

Jr. obviously didn’t test it to see if it still worked.