Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 16, 2019

Good morning™, kitchen runners!

“Quick! Out the back way!” Actually, though, that won’t work, because Tracy is in hot pursuit.

It’s the finals of the 100-meter dash in the Tracyville Olympics

Holy flying salad!

We shall see if he is stopped or not. I am thinking maybe or it will be very close.

Good morning™, people plows !

At least Tracy wont have to be the one doing the crashing as he follows in Bar’s wake.

I think Joe will be waiting for him at the back door.

Book him Danno!

The inking on the dailies has been superlative lately.

On Sunday Dick’s 2 way wristwatch clearly shows the time as 6:55 and today the kitchen clock clearly shows 7:55.

Did Joe and Dick take a nap in the car?

Did they do a little shopping before going into the restaurant?

Did they drive into a temporal anomaly?

The case of the missing hour might make a good mini- mystery.

Tossed salad anyone???

Exciting!

Is that glass stuck on his coat?

Cue the Yackety Sax music.

It looks like this dinner is on Tracy!

First the waiter, now the kitchen – I have a new comics term for this: Food arrest!

BTW, Tracy’s dry cleaning bills must be crazy expensive…

“FOOD FIGHT OR FLIGHT!”

well there goes whatever the restaurant had prepared for tonight diners.

Barnabus is missing an opportunity. Look at all the slippery things he could be knocking down behind him in Tracy’s path.

1-DT: HALT! You don’t want to add a Dine And Dash charge to the Assault On A Police Officer charge!2-BARN: I’m not beating the bill officer. The food here gives me the ‘runs’! HA! DT: I’m adding Impersonating A Comedian to the list of charges for that!

Where’s Sam when you need him?

Cue “Yakety Sax” :) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcq_xLi2NGo

Is Sam waiting outside the back door to catch ’em?

I predicted that this week would be mostly 2-panel strips to finish filling out the story but I like the action.

Sam’s running for the border at Taco Bell, meanwhile Dicko is wrapped up in the old “run through the kitchen” episode. Expect Joe to give the perp the the old arm across the neck hit in the back alley. Then, maybe they’ll have to come up with some proof that Tar is the killer.

Sam’s off this week for Passover !

now that’s what i call a “tossed” salad!

Wheres Ghost Pepper and Pierre when you need them?!?

I see a clothesline from Joe when Barney-Boy runs out the back door

“This is for all the times you slagged the Bills, Tar!”

Great recreation of the classic kitchen chase scene from “Freebie and the Bean”.

See Dick. See Dick run. Run Dick, run!

ka-salad

Classic “chase through the kitchen” scene, found in so many adventure/action movies. Tracy is closing on Bar Tar. Bar Tar is closing on Mighty Joe Sampson, who awaits outside in the back alley ….

One or two more days of chase. Another day of corralling Barnabas. A day or two to bring him in and put him in the Slam. That seems to leave a week for The Further Adventures of Bonnie Braids Tracy and Handsome Joe Sampson….