Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 01, 2022

Well that was unexpected

He’s fallen in the…WAH-tah!

Taking a plunge? ✨

Good morning™, everyone!

Well, that was a getaway that didn’t get too far. Trivia note: remember that the name of this character was inspired by the name of the man who engineered the installation of the sewers in the City of London, so of course he tries to make his way through the sewers.

A fitting end for Lurch!

A grateful ending in a day.

Good morning freedom seekers !

He already is free but with a possible hangup. His plaintive cries will be heard by the officers as he wallows in a deepish hole he can’t easily climb out of.

it’s the giant spider from the last Yeti story behind that door…-

It’s all right, Daisy broke his fall.

Let me recap a few things real quick. Up to this point, Basil Jett (who according to Wren is the brains behind this plan) was able to do (or secretly arrange) the following:

- Gain all the knowledge, skills, and experience of a museum curator

- Gain full knowledge and control over all security measures in the museum where he works (including additional measures added by Dick Tracy and whomever else) without being detected (henceforth “W/OBD”)

- Make contacts with buyers willing to pay massive amounts of money for hot stolen antiquities W/OBD

- Create near-perfect replicas of all the antiquities he intended to steal W/OBD

- Acquire massive amounts of fentanyl W/OBD

- Create a brand new nonlethal reformulated version of a dangerous knockout gas

- Transport his fake antiquities to the museum W/OBD, apparently without a vehicle

- Deploy his custom gas to immediately and simultaneously knock out every single cop and security guard in the museum W/OBD

- Disable or subvert all the security in place to detect or prevent theft in the museum and then steal and replace all the desired antiquities W/OBD

- Transport the stolen antiquities to a secure location W/OBD, apparently without a vehicle

- Divert immediate law enforcement suspicions

Basil supposedly managed to do all of that, and then his plan afterwards was to:

- Panic when the police didn’t immediately just shrug and give up after a cursory glance at the crime scene

- Put the hefty Froyne of Layven into a crate and hand-carry it out onto the streets

- Walk aimlessly on foot carrying the crate because apparently he is without a vehicle

- Panic even more at the prospect of being seen walking around carrying a suspicious crate

- Wander blindly into the sewers to escape the nonexistent police pursuit

- Suffer an immediate absurd and possibly fatal self-defeating mishap

This is incredibly ridiculous storytelling. The real “minit mystery” is why it was published.

That sewer entry was just flush with opportunity…

Basil’s 1st. ( and last ) step was a doozy…

Talk about your raw water. Doesn’t get much rawer than that.

And away go troubles, down the drain!

Is Mole involved im whatever happened to Jett?

Did he just commit sewercide?

I think that Daisy in there ?

Guess he ran into an alligator.

Oh shhhh…..

Welp, he done step in it. He ain’t coming in, smellin’ like a rose (giggles)

Ah yes, the large door leading to a sewer system large enough to drive a semi through. (Lorry to any who speak Brit.) Every building in Tracyville has one. A guest appearance by a giant spider coming up?

At least he likes his water raw.

Jett was just eaten by an alligator washed up by Hurricane Ian !!!

(☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞

Is this the crappy ending?!

Screams as the Sewer Crocodiles have their way with Basil…

….tsk, tsk……..now he’s down in the underworld with the rest of the poop…….poor Basil…I knew him not well…….

that didn’t sound good. :{

All this story he’s been talking about raw water. I had no idea what it was, finally looked it up today.

Turns out we’ve been drinking raw water for most of 20 years. We live in the country, city water doesn’t make it to our house. When we built it I had a well put in. It’s about 200 feet deep and brings up the sweetest water you’ve ever drank.

The only problem is when we lose power we lose water. The solar panels go in later this month.

Famous “last words”?

Hope he does not sink the Tidey-Bowl man’s little boat!

You know all those baby alligators that eventually get flushed down the toilet at the urging of parents? Well…

My sentiments exactly…AIEEE!!! This story has been in the sewer from the start.

This is a case of the trash taking out the trash.

“YETI? IS THAT YOU?!?!!!!!!”

Sewer later, Wally Gator!

nobody flush!!

America’s favorite new rock band!THE SEPTIC SIX!

1) Yeti from Dick Tracy…2) The Lizard from Spider-Man…3) Clayface from Batman…4) Trash Heap from Fragglerock…5) Killer Crock from Batman…6) Spot from The Munsters…

PS—This joke’s so bad, it positively stinks…LOL!

JETT: Oooh. Must be the room where the seamstresses mend ancient tapestries. I’ll hide amongst the sewing machines until the heat is off…

Does this end with a splosh?

There’s sweets for the sweet, and there’s corruption for the corrupt.

Whatever he is carrying must be really precious…frankly I would have had the box on a hand truck. The guy gets wet and his ill gotten gains sink like a stone. To top off matters, he probably does not have a change of clothes. He ends up sneezing and trembling.

“Aieee” Jett came across the remains of Yenti. Talk about close-encounters.

What a waste of two weeks. Sadder and sadder how this strip has deteriorated as it approaches 90 years.

DISTURBINGLY OFF TOPIC: NY HAD OBTAINED THE RIGHTS TO TARZAN, AND INTENDS TO ‘REINVENT’ THE CHARACTER.

Welllllllll, it just so happens I have the reinvention right HERE:

Tarzan is Vinnie, a tough MMA cab driver from da Bronx who dabbles in the fine art of needlepoint in between dealing out vigilante justice to jaywalkers and contract killers alike. He operates out of a secret lair he calls the Cab Cave, ‘aided’ by small but extremely caustic sidekick Jake, aka Da Dispatcher.

However, there is internal pressure, and all Jake essentially does is repeatedly let the air out of Vinnie’s sweet ride and then shrug and cam it ‘gots ta be dose dang fairies an’ pixies again Dang the heck Out o’ dem’.

Vinnie was raised by a family of feral field mice, and can speak fluent ’squeak. This will be a crucially unimportant part of the the plot, which ’involves a band of renegade penguins smuggling eskimos to a ruthless butler-and-maid staffing service in Pottsylvania.

“Caviar, sir? A canape? Blubber?”

So, panel 4 does not bode well for the thieving curator, Basil Jett. His Great Sewer Escape has instead become an unexpected drop and splash. Weighed down by the golden Froyne of Layven (and its packing crate, etc.), it appears that the sanctimonious and allergy-prone Jett has had an unwanted bath in sewage. Ugh! Is the Froyne lost? Will it be recovered? Will Jett be recovered alive?

Will Wren be apprehended by the MCU or other TDP officers, or will she be waiting, lonely and hapless, in Paris? And what of Anita Bath? There is a lot to be dealt with in Sunday’s final installment….

What about slow and graceful Minuet Mysteries? ;) :p