Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 12, 2025

wow, one panel spread… still unecessaary…

Good morning™, all!

The terrorist being stopped is big news, as everything to do with Dick Tracy is.

Papa Totten: “Excellent, free front page exposure for the development! Good work Junior. Junior? Where did that lad get off to?”

Sizzle to Fizzle.

End of story.

Just until the next “disaster” rolls in.

TracyVille must exist in a time warp. It’s the only major American city in the 2020s with both Nazi terrorists & a daily newspaper.

Good morning™, Panel Wasters !

I’m sure there will be plenty of ideas as to how this space could be put to better use today.   Let ‘er rip, Y’all !

I wonder what Two-Fox Plaza is going to be like?!

Three more days til a new story…and six more months til THAT one ends (bleak outlooks are all I got…leave me alone lol)

It took several days of panels without dialogue to usher in this story. Perhaps we will exit with several days without dialogue. Considering the story went downhill as soon as characters began to speak perhaps that wouldn’t be a bad thing. Plus ça Change, Plus C’est La Même Chose

The Daily Terror Thwarted? Now THAT is how you name a newspaper!

I’m still not sure exactly what happened throughout this story. The extended fight scene, reminiscent of the Batman 60s TV series, was not well done. I actually ended up forgetting what the story was all about. What did Pruneface have to do with this story? Nothing. Was any character interesting? No. I miss Chet Gould’s ability to create a likeable villain, somebody to whom the reader could relate. Sure, Shaky was a bad guy, but his love for Snowflake was genuine.

How hard was today’s strip ? NOT

That’d be Sid Terror, the ultra-radical garbageman who sought to thwart justice by smearing the road out of town with eau de pastrami, thus halving the force’s detective squad.

Or, scroll down and it’s about the Chief’s ingrown toenail finally being treated with some new miracle surgery. Though the aftereffects of the radiation treatment and subsequent mutant rampage are only vaguely referenced, including in the followup story ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD MYSTERIOUSLY VANISHES, LEAVING ONLY RUBBLE.

The mayor, of course, touts this as progress, saying “Hey! Who ELSE is going to create a wonderous new mile-wide vacant lot at no expense?”

Tomorrow? The gasp-evoking debut of OUT OF AIR MAN! YES! The invisible evildoer and all-around wicked guy who is NEVER SEEN, as he strides the streets blatantly jay walking,and committing no discernible crimes.

After a month of this suspense, it turns out to have been a new radio fantasy by Boresome ‘Overaged Whiz Kid’ Welles, and the ‘perp’ that has had Tracy running in ever-widening ellipsoids for weeks is merely an errant breeze (though you’ll never convince Silly Sam of that. He still sleeps hiding under the covers.).

Kind of like the end of MONSTER A-GO GO, where there WAS no monster, et.

No! seriously! They made a BAD sci-fi flick where we’re told at the end that nothing we’ve seen happened. Talk about your whopper jawed ending!

Oooh, a thwarting!

MOVIE QUOTE—-“Beethoven lost his hearing, but he kept right on punching!”

James Cagney—CITY FOR CONQUEST—1940

And so concludes our broadcast day .

Slightly incomplete headline—-should have mentioned WHO was the terrorist—-Junior is complaining they photographed his bad side. Not that he had a good one…..

lets grab a marker and draw him looking really depressed. :D

Story below the fold of the Alternative Facts For The Current Times Daily

Byline: Kellyanne Conway

War hero and hunk supreme Fred Totten Jr today risked his life to thwart the bombing of a Mall grand opening that was attended by hundreds of thousands of people – a number that came close to (but in NO WAY EQUALED OR SURPASSED) the number of attendees who typically show up for all public appearances by our Grand And Glorious Leader. Fred explained that the bomb was made by his beloved, Conservative, Great Uncle Walther and that he couldn’t tolerate the thought of losing a touchstone to his wonderful family history to a pile of rubble and dead bodies.

Anonymous sources (the Governor and Chief Patton) have identified the suspect who triggered the bomb as an alternative lifestyle, probable border jumping member of the MCU (Lee Ebony). The suspect (Lee Ebony) is expected to be detained at an unnamed location (Guantanamo) until proven guilty on Monday.

Literally crawling along….

Elsewhere on the Obituary Page: RIP JUAN

So I did.

Next…

How about this headline: “Catchem Lays Hand On Terrorist”.

This panel needs dialogue over: “Think he’ll be convicted?” “Doubt it. Mad as a hatter.”

Front page spread!

And remember to buy Root Creme Wig Oil, The Breakfast of Champions!

Firestrike, what do you want a centerfold? One month Tracy, next one Sam?!

So are we never gonna find out what the “rookie mistake” was? Boo!