Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 15, 2020

Fritz Ann ain’t messin’ around!

I see everything but a warrant – what does she have probable cause for?

Good morning™, guys!

Fritz Ann is quick! I guess that’s how she arrived on the scene so fast from her office.

From the way she’s dressed to the way she’s acting, I think Fritz Ann’s FBI superiors must have ordered her to the scene at the last minute while she was on her way to dinner at a swanky restaurant that is very hard to get reservations for. Right now she is all about “Oh, hell no! Ain’t NOBODY gonna keep me from my chardonnay and shrimp cocktail! Back-up, shmack-up — I am pullin’ rank and pullin’ the plug on this amateur-hour abduction bs RIGHT THE F NOW! I got places to be and people to see. And besides, I really gotta pee…”

Totally confused. Yesterday was meet-and-greet with Aunt Fritzy. Today, it’s go-get-em-girl day. So much for Tracy leading the team.

Or, I guess, the groundhog has just seen his shadow and we now have six more weeks of Dethany!

A Bad Ass G-Woman with a G Spot that’s itching for some gun action!!!

How did she get from the roof top to the warehouse so quickly?

I think she and Coney have history.

Cue the theme song, “The FBI, tonight starring Fritz Ann Dietrich”!

Great art today, Dethany is cute and Fritz Ann is impressive!

This is a Federal Investigation….Hands up!!! I think a shoot-out is about to happen!!!

Okay. No vest, no back-ups, just her – you’d think she was Dick Tracy!

not a team player

Scully! …..what’d you do with Mulder?

1-DETH: Over there! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Wait. Is it a nasty woman?

2-DT: Nah. Marlayna just took advantage of the little standing nap we all took at the same time to go get her gun and badge, freshen her makeup, have a coffee and roust a citizen.

SAM: While we were napping – did anyone dream the location of my prowl car?

DT: JUST SHADDAP ABOUT THAT CAR ALREADY!!! You act like you’re the only one who has ever lost a prowl car! Or a badge. Or a gun. Or some handcuffs. Or a prisoner. GET OVER IT.

From the archives…

Neil Wick gave advance warning 1 day ago

“Raids in this strip usually take a few days.”

Giving everyone time to flush their stash.

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Ray Toler revealed about 15 hours ago

@Neil Wick

I don’t dress like Eugene and go out in public….(only in private)

What other lurid vices do you partake in, sir ? ;-) ;-D

Good morning™, raiders of the lost art !

…The lost art of doing things at a far less than glacial pace. That warehouse is a big building. Do you think they will try to escape out the opposite side ?  Heroes like Tracy would never think to “surrounds zis camp viss a ring of steel”, thus giving opportunity for escape.

Just call the police station and tell them a black man is making off with a carton of cigarettes paid for with a counterfeit bill and they’ll have the whole force over there in a whirlwind of flashing lights and street phone photographers.

Holy Toledo! How did Fritz Ann get down from where Tracy and all the others are (panel 2, upper left background) to the warehouse door so fast?! And why is she recklessly lonewolfing it even worse than Tracy so often does? Does she have a Death Wish? Will the clumsy Coney Gang overwhelm her before the MCU can come to her rescue? Could this be the End of Fritz Ann Dietrich?

All the people commenting on the warrant issue seemed to have missed a key point – unless she is the freaking Flash or the writers goofed that is NOT FBI agent Detrich!

Yesterday Detrich was right next to Tracy and there seemed to be five people on the stakeout: Tracy, Sam, Dethany, Detrich, and an unnamed uniform. And in the background there are five people.

Is being in a hurry how Dietrich became an inspector in the FBI? As for a warrant, with Trump’s FBI it’s warrant, we don’t need no stinkin’ warrant. (Except when they have the gall to actually investigate him, his businesses, or, his friends.)

This was posted to the Facebook Dick Tracy Group. I thought there might be some people here who would enjoy it.

https://youtu.be/m1ELNweuB14

I hope Guy doesn’t turn to butter before he’s rescued.

Is Dethany pointing at Fritz Ann? Or the warehouse door (with Guy stumbling out, discovered loot falling out his pockets) over thataway?

A preview of tomorrows strip;

DT: “Oh ffffff!”

Sam: “Told you she’s a crazy b-”

Okay…so how long has Dethany been saying “Look over there”? It’d have to be long enough for Fritz Ann to get to the warehouse door which, since apparently they’re now on a rooftop, would take more than a few minutes. Unless, of course, she’s developed the ability to teleport. Ah, logic…

I would not want to be in front of Fritzi’s gun about now.

Is everybody trying to stay in his and her own lane? FBI agent was just talking to Tracy and Sam. How does she break away from them and go off by herself? Howdy could shoot through the door and hit her….provided he can hit the side of a barn.

Looks like Fritzie stole half of Sam’s mask from yesterday. BTW, great insight Neil

OK this is bad. I know it’s supposed o be dramatic but my mind went all loony tunes here and at the order “Open up” I envision gunfire coming out as they ‘open up’ a la Yosemite Sam or Daffy Duck.

I wonder if she tried knocking?

Did Fritzy even try the door to see if it was open? Did she knock and was refused entry? Or, does she always just go in guns blazing? Perhaps she should just use her Flash powers to rush in and tie them all up before they can see her. Really, unbelievable!

Coney and his gang are pretty lousy villains and really small time hoods on the same calibre as Shaky or even lower. To have good villains in a detective strip, you first need well-planned, logical crimes, a plan for evasion from the law, and a defined motive for their actions. This petty, penny-ante type of criminal is not worth the time of the city’s most prestigious crime unit.

What an illogical, Scooby-Doo-type story!

She always did tend to Jump the Gun.

Yeah sorry but… corpsina is NOT pointing to the door Fritzy is at…..she’s pointing to a door around the corner from fritzy..as if someone is gonna get the drop on her.

Besides, fritz Ann was right with them when corpsina said “tracy look” so, yeah…that shoots THAT argument straight to hell