Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 25, 2022

“Anything? You don’t say. Heh.”

They still do not know Constance is Ferret

Don’t get your hopes up Tracy!

Panel 2 has a nice use of shadow. I’m starting to really take notice of the it in this current story.

Is that the Batmobile Tracy and Sam are getting into?

Anything for a price eh?

Typical of a career criminal…..

Good morning™, car crasher nabbers !

I like the action moves in P. 1. and P. 2. and the pause pose in P. 3 while Tracy relates the, taken lasciviously by some filth minded posters (you know who you are) in here, dirty reveal on Constance. The name “Constance” is rather uncommon and so like its inclusion here.

Good morning™, everyone!

Despite the fears of Mark yesterday, it looks like “Poplar” is spelled correctly. Sounds like a chase might be coming up.

I really admire and appreciate Pleger’s artwork today. Spunky!

l got an email from here the other day saying one of these comic strips is now a tv series. I can only hope Tracy gets to have the same one day.

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Money makes the world go Round, and Ox makes the car go round

WOW! Errors were fixed! (happy)

Um, on February 18th & 19th there was no mention they knew the killer of Rabbit. The body was found in another city, which said it the killing had happened in Tracy-ville. (We won’t ask how they knew that.) Clearly the body had been identified. But we are not told his killer was identified, or his employer (who turns out to have been the same guy: Yeti). In this strip the police know that Rabbit was both employed by Yeti and killed by Yeti. How did they find this out? There was no evidence they knew this a week ago. Let’s imagine Liz found this out while Tracy and Sam were drinking coffee. How in the heck does this tell them Constance is working for Yeti? Another gigantic leap of faith?

“Anything? Hey, I need to stop at the ATM on the way.”

Money, what always moves the world and makes us forget everything else, who was the one who said blood is thick, but money is thicker?

Tremendous art as the boys transition from office to the street. Let’s roll!

Just noticed that Sam’s green jacket and pants should be visible in the 2nd panel and they aren’t except for a small glimpse on the bottom.

To guest writer: Get on with the story all ready!

Can’t be>>BAT~tery run down due to gizmo overload!

There it is. She has no interest in revenge, apparently. It’s all about the money. At her level of intelligence, I guess Yeti was the best option she had.

1-DT: Let’s see now – we both put on our suit coats; I cinched up my tie; we’re putting on our cold weather coats…TIME! Fifteen minutes!

2-SAM: That’s pretty good! Think we’ll get to those Hit-n-Run perps before SWAT does?

DT: Timing is everything…

3-…We don’t want to get there so soon that we might have to get involved in the arrest and we don’t want to get there so late that the TV crews found someone else to interview. But don’t worry, Sam. I got this down to a science.

OK – CHECK YOUR FLY AND LET’S ROLL!

The city government in Tracy land must be cheap. They cannot afford a fleet of unmarked vehicles for its detectives? When I watched tv shows like Kojak, Hunter plus Law & Order…their detectives have unmarked cars. Tracy and Sam might as well trade in their civilian clothes for police uniforms.

Maybe it’s just…but wouldn’t Tracy and Sam been better off until Ferret and Ape reached their destination? Who is to say the place Ferret and Ape are headed to is on Poplar Street. How do Tracy and Sam justify the gas mileage? Oh wait a minute, they have “seniority” they don’t have to turn in any trip tickets to the Vehicles Maintenance Department.

MOVIE QUOTE—

“Good evening,ladies and gentlemen.”“That ought to prove I’m not rude!”

Oscar Levant—ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS—1948

Panel 3—now THAT is DIck Tracy!!

Meanwhile,Ape and Ferret run out of gas halfway through a car wash.

Shelley’s original b/w rendering shows a great balance of ink and white space.

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Nice hats today, but I still miss the faux bows.

Looks like 198.23… got a quote book for Christmas. Good to see Sam and Dick leave the office. Hope they have sunscreen because it’s been awhile since they’ve zventured outside

Roger, Riger.

Please bring back the Gouldian phrase “Non Compis Mentis!”

If Ape&Ferret don’t deserve it,nobody ever will.

Small article in the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS today about a guy who was arrested burglarizing the locker room at a police precinct.A&F have apparently started a school.

Tough, gritty, seasoned. That’s our Dick Tracy (panel 3)!

Today’s sequence makes it seem a little more reasonable for the MCU to be going after the Little Red Kia, given that Tracy (and Sam) do know that Constance “Ferrret” Dooley is the driver and do know of her link to Yeti through the late, unfortunate Tom “Rabbit” Dooley. But they seem still to be unaware of her link and Ape’s (through Yeti) to the Moran and other gangland boss murders. But the net is tightening inexorably….

Well, sailing into the final to weeks. Thanks to Mike and Shelley for this shot.