Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 19, 2025

Tribune Towers?… LOL…

I feel bad for her. Constipation is a terrible thing!

Is Tracy sitting on the desk? He looks like chief Sitting Stiff!

The Coroner is "Morgue"ified.

WTF is panel 3? Is it an additional arc to the story?

Who snatched the stiff?!

Oh, I get it. Tell this story at an even greater glacial pace than last one, throw in a few Minit Mystery reprints, & the story’s climax when they catch the body snatcher will make a great Halloween week of strips.

And what is it with that final exclamation?

Good morning™, Veiled Syndicate Haters !

Is Carlos making his disdain for bad writing known ? :-o LOL !   Despite the oversize clowny bowtie, Sam is looking good and professional.

Ewwwww … Here comes an alliterative Perry White.

Who is that in the third panel….and what kind of statement is that she’s screaming???

I take it this is the boss of the Kidnapping Corpse Caper Corporation?

And who is this?

It hit me yesterday while replying to a post by Don Bagert, Why in the H3ll is the MCU working this?

The identity of the body is unknown. That isn’t the job of the MCU, it’s the job of Dr. Hart.

The cause of death isn’t known. That isn’t the job of the MCU, it’s the job of Dr. Hart.

Get off you a$$ lady and do your job.

The only crime we know it a badly botched attempt to steal a body. That is currently the biggest crime in Tracyville? The MCU is supposed to stop all investigations and look for what could be a college prank? No murders? No kidnappings? No bank robberies?

Oh, Dr. Hart? You might hire some firm to run a security check on your building. That isn’t the job of the MCU either. And hire people capable of wondering about why big, honking strips of tape are plastered over the lock of a door to a room that should be secure.

Some whiney woman who isn’t doing her job demands the police drop everything and do what she wants? I’m not 100% positive but wonder if this comes close to interfering with officers in the performance of their duties.

States would assign the level of criminality, and the penalty if there is a conviction, for the attempted theft of a corpse. Interfering with officers can get you an obstruction of justice or disorderly persons offense and can result in jail time. I suspect, however, she’s simply being a Witch and would be let off with a warning.

Apparently it is the biggest crime in Tracyville if the masses have nothing else to be upset about.

Is that lizz standing on dr strange’s cloak of levitation? Judging by the headphones….I mean earrings…it could be

Is that a guy or girl or what ?

Now is she refering to the Tribune Tower that was turned into apartments a whie back, or the one which was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871?

Is she related to Captain Haddock?

….everything begins with a “T” during this …rant?…….in P numero 3……..Woo Gosh!!!!???…Oh! AND a partridge in a pear tree?…….

Sam looks rough , tough and buff . I like this Sam !

MOVIE QUOTE

JOY—“Have I ever steered you wrong before?”

SADNESS—“Yes,many times”.

INSIDE OUT 2—-2024

Okay—-Blowtop’s family has been thoroughly accounted for.

So right now I’m under the impression that Bernard Breakdown has a sister.

Don’t bother her,she can’t cope

10,000 tottering Tribune Towers? Is that the Mayor, the S.A., or who? (And, the residents of the Tribune Tower condos hope it doesn’t totter.)

That last panel… Could this be a new villain who will (or can) only say things beginning with the letter T? (I would say voiceless alveolar plosive, but “thousand” doesn’t fit. It could have been a legitimate speech defect.)

Good essay and analysis of Dick Tracy’s history and the new comics review.

Https://Www.Youtube.Com/watch?v=EtHCj7nI7mE

1- DT: Sam… sigh What have I told you about watching perno on MCU computers?!? ONE, you’re here to work and TWO, our crack I.T. staff doesn’t care for your preferences. At least watch something they would also enjoy while monitoring your activities!

2- SAM: Huh? There’s no perno in the Tracyville Times – see? Unless you’re into necrophilia… DT: Well…you’ve seen Tess and how “cold” she can be…

MEANWHILE

3- JACKIE CHAN: TEN THOUSAND TOTTERING TRI…DARN A SOCK! Mr. Vitamin give me shot on stage. Must plactice diction! TEN THOUSAND TITTERING TEETS. NO NO NO! AGAIN!!!

Who told the newspaper?

Umm…. WHAT?

Ten Thousand Tumbling Tribune Towers Tottering Towards a Trembling Trump, Tippy-Tapping To a Tune And Talking To a Tuna

Sorry, not meant to be a political comment. It just started with the letter T, is all.

It took me a while to figure out Sam’s chair.

Kind of expected a nicely jarring shift to new storyline.

Kind of expected a nicely jarring shift to usher in a new storyline. So, is this going to e the creation of a Jokerish baddie who’ll stick around for some extended period of time>

“Ten Thousand Tottering Tribune Towers!!!” Oh the language in today’s strip!

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Today’s Dick Tracy really has a lot to say about contemporary journalism. Sam reacts with irritation and impatience to Dick’s attempt to explain the corpsenapping background to him: “Yeah, yeah, yeah,” he says, thrusting a broadsheet into Dick’s face. “I know all that, I read about it in our constitutionally protected free press, ever heard of it?” But in the final panel, a local citizen refers to “tottering Tribune towers,” a reference to the fact that Chicago’s largest newspaper was forced into bankruptcy by vulture capitalists and is now part of a hedge-fund-owned chain that’s increasingly starved of resources. (The tower in this case is metaphorical, as the real one was sold and converted to condos in 2018.)

Tribune Towers?? What is she Babel-ing about?

MeANwhile, at Mc Dougal’s House of Horrors…..

I’ve nOt been able to make heads nor tails of this strip for well over a month now. And yet I persist, in hopes of a good story…

Costello seems to be the Elon Musk of comics. No one knows who hired him and he FUBARS every story he touches. Sad

is that her take on “Great Caesars’ Ghost”?

Where is Neal?

I had an honorary uncle, good friend of my parents’, who was the lead technician at the medical school’s Anatomy department—he was in charge of the cadavers that the students took apart for education.

He had some letterhead printed up: Knox, Burke, and Hare: We make mummies out of paupers.