Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 29, 2025

“LET’S GO!”

“If only I had an epee!”

Reciprocity is not just some “farce” to be reckoned with.

Good morning™, all!

The full MCU team, plus backup! Good job. They’ll have him “cornered” at the top.

Stairway to heaven.

Good morning™, Crunched Foot fixers !

P.1. I can hear the clanky-clunk of Junior’s shoes on those metal stairs.  P.2. Tracy massages a sore foot. Did Lizz get pushed through that door way ?  P.3. “Patton” directs traffic. Actually he looks like yore standard issue garden variety see-oh-pee, despite Revenger’s erronoeous call out.  (I can see that firefarts aint the only one gittin’ at my ‘secret sauce’.)

Question of the day: Was it his right foot or his left foot that was slammed onto by the door yesterday?

More action today, great!

Spiral staircase, must be the tower!

I wonder if Tracy will run into Jimmy Stewart on those stairs.

I truly believe the fellow w going up the stairs has a rendezvous with the clock. Will he be holding on to one of hands like Charlie Chaplin did in the movie?

How much more time until he fall off that steenky old tower?

Is the bad guy going to fall off the stairs like that rare book lady?

Holy VIctor Hugo! Off to the bell tower!

And so, Our Hero bravely hops up 2,006 steps, arriving in roughly an hour. By that time, the felonious fiend has disassembled the clock works and built a stylish ’50s TARDIS coupe with fuzzy dice and fins you could hang a battleship from, and long since escaped.

Rumor has it he’s now vacationing in Aruba. Or running a candy shop in NANCY. He’s the D.B. Cooper of comics.

TRACY: Nerts! That’s my good bowling foot!"

Junior is going to manually trigger the bomb !

right follow me at a distance so i can go one on one with the suspected terrorist rather than taking him down like other police do

MOVIE QUOTE

“It was a wonderful party——my date left with someone else. I had a lot of fun, do you have any Seconal?”

Teri Garr—TOOTSIE—1982

When Junior blows that bomb, the clock tower will take off like a rocket and go into Earth’s orbit where anyone with a telescope can look up and find the correct time.

His left foot, if one looks carefully. And his long coat is yellow, which is what was hanging down over his shoe. Welcome to the Dick Tracy Critical Comic Crew, what difference does it make? I feel like I’m in a rerun of Siskel & Ebert every morning. Go ahead, banish me from the tribe…I don’t care. I just wish my morning fix of Dick Tracy without the unrelenting dissection.

If Tracy manages to quietly talk Junior out of detonating t he bomb,I’m going to be terribly disappointed.

Is there a flagpole with a sharp point in the house?

1- FRED JR: How’d I get in my friend Libris’ library? I’m so confused – WHERE ARE THE BOOKS???

2- DT: OWWW! OWWW! OWWW! Call HQ, Lizzo! LIZZO: For backup? DT: No dummy! To put me in for a Purple Heart and for whatever citations for Valor this town has for brave cops like me!

3- CROSSING GUARD: OK CHILDREN – come on across. NO RUNNING! STOP THAT! I’VE GOT A GUN! I’LL USE IT IF I HAVE TO!

in panel two, Dick is about to use his shoe phone to make contact with Chief Patton to update him as to the status of his temporarily-stalled hot foot pursuit of the suspect…

his two-way got damaged in the chase and is rendered inoperable and ineffective…

Unless Tracy’s foot is constructed backwards, it had to be the right foot shown yesterday. the left would have the top showing instead of the sole and heel.

Now he plans to put that foot someplace nice and warm. (strictly to soothe the pain of course).

Ah…the villain climbs up sprial-shaped stairs during the chase, just as with Libris. I wonder how Charles likes drawing them!

If the villain falls down those metal stairs,that’s gonna hurt

And down below,three men arrive to fix the doorbell….

Totten’s tearin’ on up Ye Olde Reliable Spiral Staircase…watcha wanna bet he jumps through the clock-face to a grisly…..demise?

Wave bye-bye, officer! Bye-bye!

Up the down staircase!