Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 06, 2025

the deceased seems to be the missing sergeant…

Good morning™, all!

Well, it’s food, but not particularly impressive. Who is the sergeant?

Lost in “Grace”.

St. Jean Baptiste Church appears to be in NY that I could find.

Good morning™, Missing NCOs !

Don’t look now but I think the sarge has gone AWOL, permanently !  Poor guy. Great first panel scene and the little bit looking up angle.

~ Well he was well dressed and nicely laid out. He wore rags in life but gets a fine ‘dignified’ send off.

The driver of that green car is going to have a heck of a time getting out!

Those gentlemen serving food on the food line should be wearing gloves. I worked for many years as a community outreach coordinator at the Bowery Mission, and we’d get in a ton of trouble if we didn’t have gloves and a hair net on.

A tramp, as I said before. A sad way for a veteran to end. I’m guessing he had bigger feet than our anti-hero, hence the bare feet. No cause of death yet. I hope it was natural. Although I doubt it.

If the unknown man was a vetern is it possible his fingerprints are on file?

Maybe a Sergeant sort of like the Salvation Army?

Very well drawn, today!

Anyone else ever volunteered to serve meals at one of these? I’ve helped at couple and none of us ever had those stiff white jackets. To me this is about as realistic as showing a server with two heads, but maybe I’ve only volunteered at low end places where no reservations were needed for a meal. Or maybe the artist wasn’t sure what would make visual sense to the readers (if so, it didn’t work for me).

Is it just me, has anyone else noticed recently that the voice balloons haven’t been drawn coming from correct characters speaking or that they’re drawn clearly enough to who is speaking?

The second and third panels for example, I think it’s meant a question being asked in P2 by one person and answered in P3 by another person.

Remember not to get hooked on who Sergeant could be, we already got bamboozled at the beginning of the story.

TELEVISION QUOTE—

“This is Hans Conreid for FRACTURED FLICKERS> I’ll be back next week.And the week after that, and the week after that”

“I can’t break the filthy habit”

Okay,“Sargeant” may just be a “street name” for a local homeless person,rather than actual military.

We’re going back to when Steve The Tramp was re-introducedby COllins and he got mixed up in a racket where homeless people were being kidnapped and murdered to harvest their organs.

1- : Lovely piano music played by former Late Show band leader, Jon Batiste, entertains the ticket holders who purchased pricey Dinner And A Show tickets.

2- NONDESCRIPT SERVER #1: I wonder if Travis is with her tonight?

3- NONDESCRIPT SERVER #2: Ugh. Poor basterd’s probably heard Fortnight a million times by now so I doubt it. You’d think these Swifties would demand better food for $5,000 a seat tickets.

NONDESCRIPT SERVER #1: Nah. These guys are the contingent of Swifty Fans who follow her tour just to perv on her and who hope for a costume malfunction during the show. Odd thing – most of them are stone deaf!

NONDESCRIPT SERVER #2: That makes sense…

Dude in panel three looks like the black sheep of the Tracy family.

…..guy presently being served says: “No problemo amigo! I’ll take his share!”………..

And, somehow, I’m having a little trouble with the, “Oh dear …” It just doesn’t feel right to me in the setting. Maybe a, “Hey, has anyone seen the Sergeant lately?” would sound more natural to me. The only people I hear use “Oh dear” are little old ladies and people being sarcastic.

So the mysterious corpose was a former Sargent?