Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 06, 2021

Now that’s dedication to an aesthetic. Smoking a cigar without removing the mask.

Double cross

Good morning™, everyone!

I’d say that Briar Rose is in big trouble now! It does sound like they are planning to kill her before handing her over to Tracy. It wouldn’t be the first killing for the Ace of Spades.

I get it. Ace is Diabolik

Interesting how the smoke from the cigars in Tracyville all come out from one side only!

The train is begining to shake! Is derailment far behind???

Apparatus HQ must have lots of cigars handy. Everyone in today’s strip is smoking one. I think when Apparatus members are shown they usually are smoking a cigar although one guy in today’s strip seems to favor a cigarette. lol

Good morning™, last day on Earth !

Girl inna heapa trouble. At least they could have done is made her last days luxurious and grand. Waiting for her Spidey sense to start tingling which will induce strong motivation to get moving for the exit. If she makes it to Tracy alive the Bush beans™ wont spill they’ll tumble. I still want to know her purpose in seeing Tracy and then Smith.

She went to Tracy first to get him off guard.

It didn’t work, he got suspicious instead.

As for Smith, maybe she was in on stunt Eliot was trying to pull.

What’s with that guy in the middle in the first panel? What’s he holding?

I was right: Rose’s face is on the evening news. If the TV stations in Tracyville are anything like Southern California, there are like 6 or so different channels running the news at different times each weekday, all day long and in newspapers and online. People will be very familiar with Briar Rose’s face in a short time.

Leaving Rose “in no condition to talk” might mean that they beat her till she can’t talk or write. None of this would be shown, naturally, just discreetly mentioned in dialogue. It depends on how cruel the Apparatus is.

Briar Rose had better watch it!

Why kill her? Why not just let her talk to the police? They don’t have any evidence. In fact, as far as I’ve been able to follow this story, she hasn’t even done anything felonious related to this time drone conspiracy. This (doomed to backfire) snuff-out can only make things worse.

I’m making a prediction: I think Doubleup is going to foil this. He’s been shown to be listening in on the conversations, and he did seem like he had something of a redemption arc going.

Frankly a body gives a whole lot more forensic evidence to the police than letting her retire in the south of France, and is the poorer option. And The Apparatus knows Briar had nothing to do with the explosion, so while the explosion shut off their access to the time top (which kept them from making more money) they didn’t lose one cent out of pocket and can’t blame her, no matter how the police twist what appears an obvious accident to ‘routine homicide’.

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Ace had better be careful, though. Briar may decide that she wants his job, and make her move first.

….yeah, we call in Anthony Fremont to wish her mouth away…….a guarantee that she “won’t talk”!…….even give her that “Bimbo’s Initiation” cartoon (Max Fleischer productions) to watch while she’s busy “not talking”……..

“Person of Interest” – hmm…where have I heard that term recently?

“We’ll make her mime her confession! Should be a real hoot. ‘N after that, we book her into The Improv. Could net us a nice little bit o’ coin!”

Apparatus Member #5 (off panel): Hey, wait a minute – why don’t we just send her to another country that has no extradition treaty with the U.S. and Tracy can’t get her? Ace of Spades: Look, newbie, we’re villains, remember? (Besides, she’s smoking all my cigars…)

Hey, I think those are the same guys that planned the JFK assassination!

Digging the first panel today. Nice smoke action.

Obliviously a iPhone, dummy!

1- DENTHEAD: Why’s it so dark in here? PHONE GUY: Yeah. I gotta use my phone’s flashlight just to see what color tie I got on. WISE GUY: You forget to pay the light bill or somethin?

2- RATFACE: The lights are on. The cigar smoke is just blotting them out. DENTHEAD: Open a window then!

RATFACE: What? All that smoke billowing out would get the Fire Department here faster than you can draw down a Gran Corona !

WISE GUY: I wish you’d get hit by a Gran Torino RATFACE: WHAT WAS THAT?

WISE GUY: Nothin’ boss.

RATFACE: That’s what I thought…

I know! I know!

The Ace is Robert, the friendly robber and family man from Simpli-Safe!

An Alternate Another Take. It’s a contest to see which one amuses and which one loses. (I’m prepared for a 0 – 0 Like tie…)

1-SENATOR DENTHEAD: I like our meetings. They don’t let us smoke in the Senate chambers. SENATOR BEAUREGARD T. TULWILLIGER: Yeah, and while we don’t have to pay attention to anything, they DON’T let us play games on the phone. SENATOR T. BAKKYSTATE: Any orders on how we should vote on something, Boss?

2-RATFACE: Yeah. Vote in favor of that Defund The Police thing. It sounds like it’ll make my life easier.

SENATOR T. BAKKYSTATE: WHAT? WE CAN’T! SENATOR TERWILLIGER: WE’LL GET CRUCIFIED IN THE NEXT ELECTION!

SENATOR DENTHEAD: And besides, it doesn’t really mean what it sounds like.

RATFACE: It doesn’t? Oh. Well then, introduce a bill that will let me write off the money I use to buy politicians. You know, so long as they’re named in my Tax Return.

SENATOR DENTHEAD: Uhhh, hold on now. Actually, we should defund the police because, uh, they, uh…we’ll think a something…

Briar Rose is being made the scapegoat why their “good fortune” got wiped out. Nobody misses Eliot after all he was the tech guy. Nah….he wouldn’t be going into business for himself. Besides the Apparatus has seen he was a casualty.

Thanks for all of the well wishes. I am out of the hospital. Operation on my leg was successful. I now have a metal plate with seven screws holding my leg together.

I have a temporary cast currently. In two weeks, the Doctor will evaluate if I can have a walking cast. Following that, I will have something I had not heard of—a removable cast that can be taken off at night or in the bath and then be strapped back onto your leg. This is only utilized in the final stages of healing.

Got lots of therapy in hospital. I was taught to walk using a walker and hopping on the non-broken leg which was only dislocated but not broken. They don’t suggest crutches much any more, apparently and the doorways in my house are not wide enough for a wheelchair.

Until I visit the Doctor in 2 weeks, I am pretty much immobile. I cannot go upstairs to my bedroom but fortunately, we have a small single-bed bedroom on the 1st floor. Our house has a high porch to get in (8 steps) so I sat on the first step and bounced my butt up one step at a time until I reached the top, then pulled myself up using the porch post. My wife brought out an old rolling office chair and I am scooting around inside by riding that. I will probably be in a cast of some sort until after Christmas.

The moral of the story is: Don’t help your wife unload groceries up the back stairs—You will discover that it can be a slippery slope.

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The committee has voted to deliver Ms Rose’s red shirt to her personally!

I still don’t understand why an outfit so paranoid about security as the Apparatus (whose members even were masks when they’re only around each other) would allow a high ranking member Like Brier Rose first go meet Tracy face-to-face & then go to Diet Smith Industries while they are engaged in the heist of the century. I just hope Mike doesn’t;t bump her off too soon. She’e one of the more interesting characters to appear in the strip lately.

that should be: “even wear masks”.

Things are looking bleak for Briar Rose, to say the least. She is in the hands of the Apparatus, and if they heed Ace, she’s headed for serious trouble!

We have learned from her record that Briar Rose is smart and pro-active. There’s a chance that she might be able to turn the tables on them.

I thought The New Ace and Briar Rose were a “kissy poo couple”.Loyalty has a short shelf life when you’re in organized crime.