Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 31, 2023

suspects are everywhere and the vic is looking like a scumbag more and more…

Good morning™, everyone!

Two more suspects. Edward Nuremoh (“homerun” spelled backwards) was a character in a 1939 Dick Tracy story.

And, not unexpectedly, Hoo’s on first.

Another day, two more suspects.

Neil must be ecstatic!

To repeat what I said yesterday,

ZZZzzzz

Snozefest territory!

Today’s strip gets one goathead, only because it’s about baseball.

Good morning™, suspects gallery additions !

StillDeMain Looks to be removed from all this who killed Vern kerfluffle. Unless he is a closet psycho he appears to go his own way. (But it’s always the quiet ones, ay ?)

Idk, kinda liked what he did with nuremoh’s name

ell, of the 4 suspects so far, 2 appear to be right handed, 2 appear to be left handed, & Simpson was killed with blows to his right side. Also, of the 4, only Demain wasn’t given a personal reason for hating Simpson, maybe we’ll learn Simpson said something bad about Nuremoh or about Demain’s “hero worship” of Nuermoh. Simpson seems to have had every other prejudice in the book.

With the red cap, he must be North Korean so his dictator President Kim Jong Un ordered the hit !!!

Hoo seems to be the only left-hander. Also, “Hoo’s on first?”.

So we are going to get a suspect(s) a day?

In an almost surprise twist it will turn out to be the manager, who is suggesting other possible suspects, is the killer. Like everyone else he hated ol’ Vern and the damage he was doing to the team’s morale, but the owner liked Vern and ordered the manager to keep him.

Hoo’s on First? Watt’s Managing? Idunno is on third? And I wouldn’t want to pitch against Nuremoh!

Specifically mentioned that Demain is a lefty….sounds rather peculiar doesnt it? Why wouldn’t he just say “our closer” instead of “our lefty closer”…I’ve already deduced that the killer is a lefty, and this odd denomination from the coach points to the closer… now we just need a motive…which I’m speculating to be the victim spouted derogatory comments about nuremoh and it set off demain… a “crime of passion” to be sure, but still a crime…and the closer gets to spend time “in the pen”

Is that supposed to be a bobblehead or a Funko Pop of Nuremoh?

Vernon seems like he was a real piece of work! Hoo-Jin also appears to have had a very legitimate beef with Vernon – I’m looking forward to finding out how Phils’ hero worship is a beef between himself and Vernon! BUT ALSO! That bobblehead of Edward is ADORABLE!!

Demain looks disturbed.

Really enjoy the artwork. The coach reminds me of Wilford Brimley in the Natural.

MOVIE QUOTE—

“D o you think I ENJOY slaughtering civilians?”

Humphrey Bogart—-SIROCCO—1951

This is the former 198.23.5.11

And the entrance of Edward Nuremoh,Tess’ former husband(if only briefly) brings a new angle into this. In the 1939 story, he was unmasked as a murderer BECAUSE HE WAS LEFT HANDED!!

He only played one season in the bigs(although he hit .350) so the hero worship has to come from someplace besides statistics.And that ain’t good.

And if the real Nuremoh had lived to serve time, that harridan Mother of his should have split it 50-50 with him.

Hoo da man? No. Phil DeMain.

All of them being Left handed must be a clue.

“Hoo Jin-Seng”……..like “Ginseng”? Hoo boy, THAT a good one..!!!?…….OOPS!!……

1-SAM: Good. We’ll look into Nichevo and Watt. POPS: WAIT! There’s more! SAM: Great…

2-POPS: The Korean first baseman didn’t like Vern’s pickoff throws because the ball was always covered in spit. Vern loved throwing the spitter…

3-…And our lefty closer worshipped Ed Nuremoh. SAM: So what? POPS: So, that’s someone else you can look into before you figure out it must’ve been me. SAM: Yeah. OK.

Hoo did he send?

“Hoo, do that hoodoo that you do so well!”

I’ve run a madman’s race….I’ve reaped the harvest.

You can never forgive me.But you CAN forget me!

Yes,forget this mad, crawling thing that only looks like a man…..

And that is NOT Vitamin Flintheart talking.

I think Brett the Butler did it

OT (BURPING): For my birthday, I tried Bionic Burger’s new jalapeno cheese balls for lunch today. No NEARLY ‘hot’ enough.

Now we’ve got two left-handed prospects (so to speak). Hoo-jin Sen, the Korean first baseman, is shown left-handed in panel 2 and was the target of (if we may deduce Manager’s meaning) ethnic slurs by “good ol’ Vern,” while lefty closer (rara avis in terra) Phil Demain is an ardent fan of Ed Nuremoh, which Manager implies is motive for disliking Simpson (who was not a fan?) and redrum.

Still more evidence is needed, but as of today I’d bet the closer is the killer, if betting were legal in this sport….

A real collector would never use a historic relic from his collection as a murder weapon. Can’t risk damaging it. So I’m calling it impossible for Phil to be the killer. It wouldn’t make sense.

Sense, of course, not being required in the strip. But we still have another week, which also suggests Phil is not the answer.

Okay, let’s see, we got Hoo’s on first, Watt’s on second, Tomorrow (Demain) pitching, and I Don’t Care (Nichevo) is the shortstop…

I have to admit, Eric Costello (!) is clever with the names here.