Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 07, 2025

12 panels, 4 days of no dialog??

Is this Dick Tracy or Henry?

Waaayy too much.

Hey Sam, need a “hand”?

They need to “build” a better “deathtrap”.

The Pastrami Lovers Association members aren’t going to appreciate how their president, Sam Catchem is being depicted as impotent!

Oh how they’ll laugh it up when they find that the bomb is a dud.

OH NOOooo! Not again! Poor Sam! Same eye.

They’re all getting their ases kicked.

~ Good morning™, Clobbered Coppers !

I like Lizz’s cam-phone pose, like she is filming the event. Sam’s gonna need some big pastrami slices for those boo-boos. Maybe Lee can pick some up while she’s out ?  I will Never accuse Sam of not putting his back into it.

Why didn’t Lee tell Lizz that she disconnected the trigger?

What did Lizz do to pss her off for Lee not to tell her?

Looks like Sam got thrown into the clock works, will that disable the bomb. or is he just killing time?!

I like the “POW”, sort of like the Batman TV show!

Sam got clocked again. Those hands may come in handy.

Good morning™, everyone! (I finally showed up.)

Lizz is still holding the trigger tight and Sam got clocked. (Yes, I know BigDaveGlass beat me to it on the “clocked” reference, but I think it’s worth repeating.

So…

The big bomb is setting out on a trestles in the (amazingly large) room inside the tower. Perhaps it isn’t a tower. It may be a TARDIS whose chameleon circuit is functioning properly.

Was it sitting out there in the open when the bomb experts made their surprise inspection, but never having heard of Xylon they were too stupid to wonder, “Hey, could this thing be a bomb?”

Did Jr have it hidden away (He KNEW there would be a surprise inspection) and the bomb inspectors missed something this size? (Remember, the formula for Xylon bombs was never written down, he found it in the tower… So it must have been well hidden if no one noticed it from 1942 until now.) If he had it well hidden, why did Jr bring it out to set it up on the trestles? How did Jr. bring it out, the thing must weigh hundreds of pounds? (And can we ask how the Nazis managed to smuggle a bomb that size into a factory engaged in war production? Did they bribe some worker with a really BIG lunch box to bring it in one piece at a time?)

Those wondering yesterday if Jr is really the Hulk might be correct.

Funny thing is…if you read Lizz’s bio on the dick tracy wiki it says she is a proficient hand to hand fighter, knowledgeable in jui jujitsu etc…but here shes relegated to literally, a button pusher…I’d imagine that out of ALL of them, lizz would not only put up the best fight, but would have the best chance of winning