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

that is one wide-sized individual…

almost Wilson Fisk—sized…

“Crabble” rousers.

Good morning™, everyone!

Well, I suppose Horace was hoping to disappear off the face of the Earth, and it seems to be working so far.

I’m going to guess that his Claire bear isn’t his wife.

Good morning™, Bristling Bosses !

If the scheme goes through bossman will be so sorry he was angry with Horace in the first place or shocked that the seemingly ‘60s sitcom looking ’gentleman’ would pull such an act. I don’t know what kind of red you call lackey’s shirt but it is stunning. Like !

Did Horace have a smartphone number? Or in Tracyverse they are stuck with cord phones? At least they have emails!

Who’s the big guy?

This must be the BIG boss?!

If your CFO pulls a disappearing act you should be responding in hours, not days or weeks.

What is with that guy’s expression in the last panel? Why is he apparently using his full strength to YANK the phone off the hook? Why am I complaining about the art style?

Nice pocket protector on the sleestack. Another corded phone. And ties – who wears ties anymore (except Tracy and Sam – it’s part of their characters)? I tell you, we’ve gone back in time to at least the 1990s.

…well, HERE we go again: ain’t the guy in silhouette, there, Frank Mellish from Liberty Meadows?

…..I know, I KNOW….but in silhouette, ’ol lavender-shirt DOES look like Frank!!

(two highly questionable minutes later) “Sooo, babe. Separate beds or single?”

MOVIE QUOTE

NURSE—-“We should get undressed and lie down”

PATIENT—-“We?”—What a nauseating thought!

Elsa Lanchester and Charles Laughton—-WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION—1957(Married in real life)

Love the art—the guy who looks like a villain in panel 1 becomes harmless in panel 2

Now where’s the “profit” in this scam?Collecting life insurance on a phony death?

It’s been mentioned in the past that Mike Curtis likes to tell his stories in “two-day increments,” that is, we’ll spend two days at a time on any given scene, starting on Monday.

But every day this week, it’s been a different scene, every single day.

In the middle panel the guy looks like the old band leader professor Kay Kyser…….

1-BOSSMAN: Get in here, Principle! You’re the new Treasurer – I’m not pussyfootin’ around with Ace anymore!

2-PETER PRINCIPLE: But I don’t know anything about the job, Mr Bossman!

3-BOSSMAN: That’s why, according to The Big Book Of Big Business Observations, you’re the perfect man for the job! Why, I wouldn’t be CEO if a guy had to know anything about the job! I’ll let H.R. know…ummmm. Your first order of business as Treasurer is to let H.R. know that you’re the new Treasurer, Principle! I think this “talky thing” might be broke… Maybe just send them a note up the pneumatic tube?

Who is Horace? And what sort of work does he actually do? Where does the morgue fit in? Person found in the park with no shoes…quite a number of dots to connect. Okay, Mike and Charles go to it.

Just call me Round Man – Wide Load Ahead

Well,I won’t be back until Monday—-but I don’t think I’ll miss much—-the grownups will spend the whole weekend trying to get the three nephews out of the closet they’ve accidentally locked themselves into.

And remember to try Root Creme Wig Oil, the Breakfast of Champions!!

Checking in with his boss.