Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 23, 2016

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    Pequod  about 8 years ago

    Selfy has a bag of cash

    Look to see ill-gotten stash

    Now he aims to pack and dash

    His vanity his curse.

    Sam and Tracy at the door

    Question the abhorrent boor

    Selfy’s cool exists no more

    Things go from bad to worse.

    Bellowthon, she was found dead

    Overheard, harsh words she said

    Now Detectives seeing red

    Narcissism so perverse.

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    avenger09  about 8 years ago
    As Bellowthon checked into the city morgue

    Growing stiffer as each minute went by

    Selfy’s glee grew enormously huge

    As his wealth went soaring towards the sky

    With neither the slightest hint of regret or remorse

    He embraced all his ill gotten cash

    To his eternal dismay he left wide open the way

    Leading potentially to a dinner of prison hash

    No matter the end of this tale of great greed

    The fact is no one truly ever wins

    Jail, death and biased attacks

    Will always be part of our sins!

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    Good morning, and in case I don’t ever see ya again, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!

    ¯\(ツ)

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  about 8 years ago

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    Good morning all!

    a good start for the week! Two great poems. My birthday week!

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    AnyFace  about 8 years ago

    Is this the wrap-up …?

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    22ph  about 8 years ago

    What can I say, DT’s poets Pequod and avenger09 said it all. Great work, the two of you

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    22ph  about 8 years ago

    Selfy is caught in the act…. of stashing the cash. Now where is the weapon

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    Neil Wick  about 8 years ago

    I like the name of his business, Self Image. It definitely fits.

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    Neil Wick  about 8 years ago

    Besides the fact that they don’t know that Bellowthon is missing money, they also don’t know how Coffee Grounds was poisoned a tiny wound behind his knee. There are no grounds (pardon the put) to arrest Selfy for that, either. All they really know is that Selfy told Tracy that he left after Coffee “showed him the door.” See Selfy’s statement on the October 13 strip: http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2016/10/22

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    Jonathan K. and the Elusive Dream Girl  about 8 years ago

    And a good morning to Gweedo, Anyface, 22ph, DaJellyBelly, Neil Wick and all Tracy fans.

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    Jonathan K. and the Elusive Dream Girl  about 8 years ago

    So Selfy wants to use the cash donations to sponsor a type of “memorial bill.” In honor of the late Lois Bellowthon.

    Most likely we haven’t heard the last of the push for anti-Lunarian legislation.

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    willy007  about 8 years ago

    And good morning to all of yuz!

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    Sisyphos  about 8 years ago

    Looks to me as though Selfy has been caught in flagrante delicto, so to speak. All that cash is going to call for some ‘splainin’! Selfy may be a smooth image-maker, but he’ll have a hard time talking his way out of this one. And if he goes for the poison selfie-stick…; well, Tracy’s heavy trenchcoat has saved him before (think of the Reichenbach Falls falls). An attempted violent escape would not be prudent….

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    60sFan  about 8 years ago

    I realize Selfy’s comments are vague. But how could he know Bellowthon had discovered his embezzlement scheme unless he met with her? If he did meet with her and she was unharmed when he left, why did he lie to Bellowthon’s assistant? He pretty much officially outed himself today as the murderer in my opinion.

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    crobinson019  about 8 years ago

    Caught with the goodies?

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    frankt0001  about 8 years ago

    It should be pretty telling to Tracy and Sam that their person of interest is stashing big wads of cash in a satchel just as they arrive.

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    Chris Sherlock  about 8 years ago

    Good morning, all! Many thanks, Pequod and av, for your poems today!

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    abdullahbaba999  about 8 years ago

    You Said it All PQ..

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    Ray Toler  about 8 years ago

    A double header of poetry today headlining the board. Great work from all our poets.

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    Pequod  about 8 years ago

    Sam has an open door policy. He is all warmed up, but receives a cool reception. Selfy’s road trip is interrupted. One more self-indulgent self-portrait, even as his face looks out from every corner of the room. “Self Image,” indeed. So self-satisfied, smug and sneering. So insufferable. Good to see his selfie stick is not in hand.

     

    Thanks to Vista Bill, Gweedo, 22ph, Neil Wick, Jonathan K., Night-Gaunt49, blunebottle, Willy007, JPuzzleWhiz, Chris Sherlock, abdullahbaba999 and Ray Toler for the kind words. Much appreciated.

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    Don Bagert Premium Member about 8 years ago

    Look at that bare-chested pic on the far left of row 2 – ROFL!

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    Can't Sleep  about 8 years ago

    Pretty sloppy of Selfy, leaving that door open. Why anybody could just walk right in.

    Now, if only they could look at the pictures on his smartphone, I’m sure there’s one of him with his late employer.

    Smart guys like him like to show how smart they are. Problem is, none of us are as smart as we like to think we are.

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    Ken in Ohio  about 8 years ago

    If I remember right, Selfy took a shot of himself leaving Bellowthon’s office – I wonder if smart-phone devices like that time and date stamp the photos. If so, once the Coroner settles time of death, that might be enough to trap him into some sort of admission.

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    barry.jacobs  about 8 years ago

    And here’s the motive I was wondering about

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    stuart  about 8 years ago

    Sam should grab all the cash under Civil Asset Forfeiture. All they have to do is say they thought Selfie might be a drug dealer and verify that 1 in 4 of those bills has traces of cocaine. Then they can keep half for their department!

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