Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 24, 2025

let the ESP kick in, Dick…

To find “Jimmy Hoffa”.

I see Dick’s gone back to the white coffee CUP! What a pity. The blue coffee CUP really brought excitement to the joint!

Good morning™, all!

Am I right in assuming that the business trip is entirely fictitious? Anyway, where is Horace? As far I’m aware, we readers don’t know yet. I’m assuming that he plans to permanently leave the country.

Horace is dead, right?!

Good morning™, Talking Heads !

But the change of positions from P.1. to P. 2. are good for a minimum-modicum of ‘action’. Looks like our Lee has gone from slim to Svelte. With the office locked down they have a better chance of finding “something” to help them along.

I thought Horace was on vacation? You can this storyline is a loser … not even the writer cares about keeping the details straight…

I hope this story-line eventually goes somewhere … in the next month or so.

Um… He didn’t tell his boss where he was going on vacation. His wife says he didn’t tell her where he was going on vacation.

So, how is Lee supposed to find out where he went on vacation?

Horace wanted people to think he took his vacation by dying in the city park?

And, in case not telling anyone where you were going, how long you’d be away, or how to contact you, isn’t enough you supposedly make a call from Shangri-La asking the wife to send the nephews in to clean everything you ever touched from the office?

And these bozos hope the police won’t find any of that suspicious? Why do we think the nephews are the only morons in the family?

Anyone have a clue why there is police tape over the door to the office Horace cleaned out? I mean, the nephews took out everything they could carry except for the business card for a dentist. Did Sam leave it there for Tracy to find? The police should have dusted it for fingerprints to compare with the corpse and been done with it.

Seems kinda slow for an action comic strip. I have lost track as to what exactly the crime is.

“They asked me if I had Prince Albert in a can. Better check the cells. If this leaks to the papers, it could look bad. Just remember out motto here at the MCU…’It’s Sam’s Fault.’!”

“Horace is Horace of course of course”!

This is an all inclusive strip stilldamatt, we dont refer to changes in hue anymore…they will now be called DEI CUPS…ANY cup will do the job, whether its qualified for it or not

MOVIE QUOTE

“Youngman, that vase is worth seven thousand dollars. if you had broken it, that is the amount you would have to pay. PLUS YOUR LIFE!!”

Hans Conreid to Jerry Lewis—-THE PATSY—1964

HEY LOOK! It’s the elevator from the Big Bang Theory!

1- DT: I hate having to deliver bad news. That’s why I do it so badly.

2- LEE: I’ll say. She didn’t even seem to have a clue as to why she was needed at the morgue. Be more specific next time – pretend you’re talking to Sam. Just spell it out verrrrry slooooowly. DT: No can do. I might slip and call the bereaved a moron or idiot or dolt or simpleton or …. LEE: OK, OK! I get it!

3- DT: Did you know that that moron even crosses the police tape that clearly reads: DO NOT CROSS

LEE: eye roll Ummm, yeah – HE’S the dum-dum… DT: Yep!

I’m getting echoes of the “wheelchair widow” in the Oodles story from 1955. Mrs.Vulcan——the mourning widow who was fooling no one

If Horace left his travel schedule with the office, Tracy and MCU might have something to work with.

OT: Got my second job offer from an AI design studio today. No thanks. (annoyed eye roll)

A guy might be better off only reading this once a week . This is slower than the twelve days of Christmas even for Eric .

That organized desk is a sure sign of a cluttered mind

Wait a minute, Claire just told Tracy that he out of town on business?? Which is it, business or vacation??

How can somebody “turn up missing?”

The biggest crime being perpetrated here is the hijacking of this once great trip by The Masked Bandit named Costello