Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 05, 2021

“This says cigar sales are down 5%. No way!”

Must be a big investor?

Good morning™, everyone!

Ms. Rose is getting antsy at being confined and she’s blaming it on Dick Tracy. Does she eat Chinese food for breakfast or is that just empty containers from the night before. I guess she’s still waiting for breakfast.

I like the angle on her head in the last panel.

Ok, Some very interesting shadow placements today. LOL!

It seems Shelley’s got a thing for black ink !!

I wonder what her businesses are

If she’s a Tracy villain, why does she look so… normal?

I was right: the Apparatus building has apartments for its members who need a hideout. She’s got a bed, a bathroom and a desk with a laptop. She has her food delivered or else cooked on the premises. She has everything but freedom.

Swank accommodations and room service! Sign me up for Apparatus Prison!

Good morning™, cranky kingpins !

When do the wheels of escape plots start turning ?  No way can she stay here indefinitely. avenger’s shadows are very well placed. Her mad face in Ps. 1&3 are nicely and realistically done.

Loving the artwork today……

she’s gonna sneak out and get caught……

Ugly ol moll in 1 and 3 ain’t she?

Looks like Agnes Moorehead in 3.

I wonder what her “businesses” are?

Poor thing. That situation seems so boring and frustrating.

Briar Rose gives Rose Trellis a run for her money as a micromanager

And a desk lamp! Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

Nelson was right to distrust the numbers. Is Rose? Underlings so swift to steal reveal a lack of fear. Could they know something restricted Rose does not? She’s keeping her nails sharp, though not as sharp as Purdy Fallar (1968).

1-SUKIE: …4,5. Good. All there.

2-…Why do I always wanna start singing Christmas songs when I look inna mirror?

3-…Maybe these Dear John letters shouldn’t really all start with “Dear John”? Awh, what the hell – they’ll probably get the idea. Ten more and I’m FREE!

Rose; doesn’t that safe house have a kitchen? If you don’t like what they bring you for meals. Give a runner a grocery list, and, tell the runner to go to an Apparatus owned grocery store.Don’t forget the “personal” items. Might as well make the runner uncomfortable.

This week’s revelations are that, apparently, Rose is a hardened criminal on her own. Someone speculated earlier this week that Tracy thinks she might be the one who killed Elliot. After this week, that appears far less unlikely than before.

She is a “Rose” so red hair for petals and green clothes for the stem. Be careful of the thorns though :)

“I don’t trust the reports I’m getting, so how can I tell how my businesses are really doing”. Gee whiz, didn’t Briar Rose have a system in place to vet her employees? Don’t tell me….in her absence….somebody is cooking the books.

The Apparatus does not have a lot of amenities in their humble dwelling. But Wi Fi exists so Briar Rose can catch up on current events, send out and receive e-mails and play solitaire. Maybe a 32 inch flat screen tv is also in the room.

Wonder what accommodations for Mumbles would look like? Then on the other hand there are no all points bulletin out for him.

Hey,Rose,What you’re doing now will be good practice for the real thing.

Chinese takeout?Styrofoam hamburger containers?Boy,what a bunch of cheapskates The Apparatus is.

Boy, Ivan sure likes to see his name.

Briar is a really spunky crime boss and I’m finding that endearing. She’s also sharp enough to not swallow everything she’s being fed, there must be something fishy about those reports. Lots of takeout containers and cups, it seems the Apparatus doesn’t have an on-site kitchen. If I was running a massive criminal enterprise, I’d want my own kitchen on-site, stocked with only the best, with a great chef like Richard Bohringer… ;D

I sense that a “prison” break is in the offing.

She may be a villain…but she is one fine, determined Irish Lass!!! Erin Go Bragh!!!

MOVIE QUOTE

“The struggle will go on,Watson.Until greed and cruelty is washedfrom every last one of us”

Basil Rathbone—SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE PEARL OF DEATH—1944

Ms Rose has a choice: Apparatus Prison or put on that lovely red shirt they just delivered. (Trekkies will get that reference.)

Just another day in the life of the Evil Princess, Briar Rose.

How many styrofoam hamburgers and fries have you been served, Milady?

(I still think she’s involved in prostitution, running a string of Tracyville’s seediest brothels. She doesn’t trust the individual house managers, with good reason.)

Is it me or did her shirt sleeves grow in length?

My goodness – that’s the mob’s version of the Working Girl!!