Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 15, 2025

the true and inner nutjob has emerged…

Ohhh, I’m scared.

Sniffing too much coke will always make a hole in your nose.

Good morning™, everyone!

As a final act, he has created a skull and crossbones somehow (with his fingernails?) and reverted to his ancestral name. Very creepy. I think this is where we say goodbye Mr. Totten Jr.

excellent single panel by Charles depicting nutboy…

Another, one panel day. A regular Stretch Armstrong story.

If they won’t do “it”, perhaps he will.

~ Good morning™, Blood Lusters !

Can’t say I like where I think this is going…

THE END!!! As many surmised, the closure is riddled with unexplained loose ends. Looks like the depraved Junior is trying to open his skull with his bloodied fingernails.

“This not the end of this storyline. It is not even the beginning of the end. It is not even the end of the beginning.”

I’ll be kind and say it’s a Joker homage. But you know what I really mean.

Oh, I so hope Mike is back tomorrow – and we don’t get stuck with a new, or rerun Minit Mystery…There is that prison storyline that was set up months ago…

I suppose they wouldn’t let him have a Waffen-SS cap badge with the skull and crossbones badge on it.

What a imbeceel. It not even look like Hakenkreuz. Now he gonna be branded with wrong symbol all his life. Ha ha ha.

Wow! Great image! Lookout!

And that kiddies is why you don’t pick your nose.

It took seventeen long, arduous, tortuous, mind numbing, non-senical months for us to actually get to this point. …and now that were here, Friedrich FINALLY looks like a bonafide threat, too little too late however…still though, he did prove to be physically superior to the ENTIRE MCU, plus the newly scarred forehead is somewhat imposing (I got the mutilated face thing right yesterday lol) i just wish didnt take THIS LONG to get here. anyone remember when it started,, I want to read it straight thru to see if it reads better

“But, you can call me ‘Big Ninny’.”

Well, maybe they can get the VA to admit the military totally messed up on how they handled Jr.’s PTSD and get them to pay for the treatments.

What, no swastika?

Nazi SS skull & crossbones cap insignia was known as the “tottenkopf”~~

Hiya Freddy.

A swastika wouldn’t be PC?

Pretty impressive to carve a skull-and-crossbones in your forehead without a mirror.

dude… you’re both creepy and scary looking. :{

This guy will no doubt be a welcome addition to any confinement center.

“Dang it! You’ve been into my cherry pie stash AGAIN, you delusional freak!!!”

One of those fingernails need trimming.

To totally misquote Yogi Berra, ‘He ain’t dead yet until the last puppy refuses his Alpo!" Watch for the character to migrate into a major co-starring role in LUANN!

Mrs. General passed away last night just before midnight .

So the wound he suffered in the airborne division led to an unhealthy reconnection with his family’s Nazi past. Did Sam ‘clock’ him in the head, and did that send him completely around the bend?

Jr is suffering from Capgras syndrome or dissociative identity disorder (DID), neither of which is caused by PTSD. OTOH the trauma that caused the PTSD can be a risk factor in triggering either of these issues.

My suspicion is that there will be no diagnosis offered in the strip and Eric’s research was watching some movie or television program

He’s more of an Elon.

1- FRED: I posit that Evil, like Energy, cannot be destroyed. That it can only change forms. I offer myself as proof! Great Uncle Walther died but his spirit of Evil lives on in ME! I’d like to write my thesis on that theory, Doctor – just as soon as I can have a sharp object like a pencil. Or a knife. heh. heh. HA. HAAA! HAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAA

So he’s named after Franz Liszt’s 1838 work for solo piano and orchestra, most notable for being based on the Gregorian plainchant melody Dies irae as well as for its stylistic innovations. Didn’t think he was that cultured…

Your friendly neighborhood Nazi.

At least EC had enough class as to not have Tater Tot do a Charlie Manson on his forehead

Good grief as if this hasn’t run long enough. Can we please move along.

Not the best story. But I like the end.

Embarrassingly he’s etched it in back to front, which is quite common for those who use a mirror/reflection who put things and words on their foreheads.

So, is he saying that he believes that his dead uncle is his father and vice versa? Does he believe it on his own, or did someone earwig him into believing it while he was under the influence of drugs, either military issue or medical issued for PTSD?The bloody skull on his forehead reminds me of Charles Manson and some 1880-1890s photos of Kaiser Wilhelm in a uniform with a big silver skull on the front of the hat. Talk about a spooky prediction of the SS headgear.

Totentanz – Dance of the Dead.

That guy shouldn’t be in a mental hospital, he should be in the electric chair (or facing a firing squad, for the classics)

I suspect this guy might become a new recurring villain in the strip after he breaks out or is broken out be somebody else. It would give the writer(s) the opportunity for some fanatic WW2-sabotage type stories in a modern setting. That was a mainstay during the war years, and still could have some mileage in it.

Even other crooks would give this guy a wide berth.

My name for him is “Bratwurstbrain”.

Have faith—the inmate in the next cell thinks he’s Sgt.Frank Rock