Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 14, 2021

Pouch prepares disguise and wares. Helium tank on wheels.

Make a move where hippies groove. Delay on shady deals.

It’s Tiger’s mess. Who would have guessed? Dispatched with lethal hands

Placed Pouch in a hole deep, ignoring his commands.

Aquarius, he has a plan. Ty’s ordered to the park

Time to settle scores with Pouch, so be there after dark.

Look to see a video cam. What has been recorded?

Ted Tellum must tell ‘em toot sweet. Truth must not be hoarded.

Well that’s a bit of left turn. What did he see?

Nice build up to a showdown and thanks for the cam guy’s ID. I thought this was a new story preview.

“No, not again !”  He needs to fortify that bird feeder against squirrel thievery.

Like !

Good morning™, secret unseen witnesses !

Either he is seeing yet another bird food snatch by that pesky raccoon or the squirrels have defeated his latest failed deterrent mechanism.

He could be witnessing shady human activity but nothing serious as his semi nonchalant quirky expression appears to indicate.

Good morning™, wildlife lovers!

All sort of weird things show up on wildlife cameras, but I wonder what could have appeared on Ted Tellum’s wildlife camera that he has seen before but didn’t like. Could it maybe be one of the fugitives from our story?

(His laptop computer defies the rules of perspective in the bottom left panel. The artists on this strip are fantastic, but they are not so good with rectangular things that should have vanishing points on the horizon.)

Toss up.

Preview of new story?

Preview of Pouch’s fate?

Next panel: “It’s the paparazzi again… they just won’t let me forget my former life as Howdy Doody…”

Forget Auntie Bellum. This is Auntie Climax.

Hmmmm.. What’s next?!

Damn raccoon ate the camera. Again.

Those of us who were counting on some action today, as Pouch, and the police armed with a social worker descend on the old house where Tiger is held prisoner… Well, we lose.

Umm… Awfully big espresso cup for espresso. More likely a latte or cappuccino. That much espresso? As The Expresso Song puts it:

One shot, I’m waking up–

Two shots, out of bed–

Three shots, I’m wide awake–

Four shots, I’m dead.

I got the impression we were looking at Fallingwater a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935.

Another body dumped into the river.

Do people do illegal activity regularly in your yard, dude?

It’s nice to see a Tracy’s Hall of Fame that doesn’t have an “End of Watch” statement.

They already found Dollar Bills body. Who is this?

For a second I thought, Junior comb his hair or something?

…guess the view of the river just got a ’lil less….relaxing………..

Groot?

maybe he was adding a new wifi card into its slot…

Holy Crap, just what the story needed a raccoon!

1-doh dee doh

2-UGLY JUNIOR: Ahhh, brisk air and a coffee based product on a Sunday morning. It doesn’t get better than this. Well, that’s enough of that…

3-Let’s see what my neighbors got up to last night…

4-It’s so funny that people out here don’t believe curtains are needed because the neighbors are so far away. Too bad for them my camera isn’t!

5-OOOOH! THEY SO NASTY! OMG! THEY’RE DOING THAT WHILE LISTENING TO CARDI B’s “WAP”* This video is going into the NEIGHBOR HALL OF FAME! My website oughta collect enough dough from this one to cover that bigger kitchen I want! Stupid Frank Lloyd could never conceive of a world where people who could afford his houses couldn’t also afford a cook who would be willing to work out of a closet-sized space

Pretty sure I’m completely lost at this point.

God Bless You Officer Tyler White.

Happy Valentines Day my friends.

Any time I’m out hiking and come across a wildlife camera I make sure to moon it.

I can hardly wait via the characters in this story line to see the dots connect. Joe and Mike…stay the course.

With the recycling of this strip’s characters, it’s probably Wormy coming back for another radio gig. Wow ADD authors on the loose. Unfathomable

From the looks of that house Tellum has a good insurance company (if memory serves the last time we saw him his house was being destroyed).

For those trying to understand the “again” reference.

https://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2011/08/19

Darn it, Bigfoot!

CandleJack coming for my soul!!!

OMG – It’s YETI!

Neil, your Picky Wicky is showing up as usual, but still enjoy all your comments.

Thanks to Pequod (way up above) for reminding me who this guy is: Ted Tellum. On first reading this strip late last night (more precisely, very early this morning) I could not identify who the ginger was, other than to think he looked a little like Junior Tracy. Well, now we have him “in the city” (first full panel after the title/HoF/throwaway sequence) but in a fairly isolated woodsy and riverine location (see my Reply to Dean, above), with an outdoors camera recording raccoons and murders (and I don’t mean a lot of crows): I think what he is seeing on the laptop of the camera’s weekly fill must be the dumping of Dollar Bill by Tiger Lilly (“not again” in the last panel referring to his old house and adventure in the Jimmy Choo Shooz affair—a perfectly natural reaction for someone who thought he had got away from all those bad memories). If, as expected, he informs the police (Tracy), this will help make a case that will convince a judge (either for warrant to search The 1312 now or during trial later)….

Oh-oh! It appears that someone’s been caught on camera.

Ted Tellum is Junior’s real biological father.

Wasnt this idiot washed away with Jimmy choo shooz?