Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 21, 2025

How reveling that a comment about Tracy farting yesterday got the most response. You can’t make that up.

yep, Daddy caught with his pants down…

Did Lee interrupt Sam? He looks pretty ticked off at her.

A plot “unraveled” by any others.

So … Sprengstoff could afford an expensive trans-Atlantic plane ticket, but not come up with two dollars or whatever for subway fare. Makes about as much sense as anything else in this train wreck of a story,

Neil’s late with my copy paste greeting.

_A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do…

Good morning™, Unpleasant Truths !

It’s aaall coming out now. Tracy looks relaxed, now that his biggass problem is fixed.

Good morning™, all! (Sorry, Gweedo)

So they now have a murder suspect to follow up on, as long as they can keep him from blowing everyone else up.

I remain very impressed with the Art Work in the strip — I mean the nonverbal stuff — like the triangular shapes, and diagonal geometries and the general rendering of all the players in the scenes.

Meanwhile, back at the clock tower!

The art work is fantastic as always.

But we still have a pile of imponderables.

• Why had Sprengstoff come to the US?

• Why was Springy carrying a fake Totten ID card?

• And, if Jr. had given him the fake ID, why?

• The real Totten employee had already been picked up the TA. Impossible coincidence.

• Why did Jr. think he needed to kill Springy?

• How did Jr. know Springy would ask to use the toilet?

• How did Jr. know where the controls were for the CCTV?

• How did Jr. know the guard would be criminally negligent in his surveillance?

(Trust me, I’ve got more questions than the strip has answers.)

Why is Tracy talking like Paladin in P3?

Laminectomy today at 12:30 MST. Looking forward to getting some feeling back in my legs and feet. Prayers and thoughts are appreciated. Y

MOVIE QUOTE

“Taxi!! Follow that funeral!!”

Sir Richard Attenborough—BROTHERS-IN-LAW—1957

Anyone else getting pop-up pages claiming a Trojan virus pulling you away from the TRACY page? Been happening for two days, and I know it’s untrue.

Next week, a new city filled with new crimes and baddies arises from the scorched, blasted ashes: Samtown!

1- LEE: Hey! Fungoo! How do you like my Italian hand gestures, Sam? SAM: Dang it! Now I want a big plate of gabagool! LEE: Mangiare! Atsa all you ever think about! Get outta here you bum!

2- FRED SR: While the so-called evidence you have against my son is circumstantial at best, I’ll testify for you. I’ll even claim he confessed to me. Anything to end this. Besides – he won’t be able to push me aside and take over the business from inside a prison cell!

3- DT: Looks like I’ve cracked another case! BUT…I wonder why he brought over an explosives expert only to end up killing him in such a risky environment when he could’ve bailed him out and killed him safely somewhere and made the body disappear in a concrete footer at one of your construction sites? Oh well. Don’t borrow trouble Ma Tracy always said.

LIZZO: Where am I? Why am I here?

The pace of this story is painful

I’ve been away a week,using up 2024 vacation days. The MCU apparently hoping Junior’s father is the one most likely to talk some sense into him. I’d rate that hope as below 50-50

Hope Firestrike has a FireplACE.aCCORDING TO Papers,Chicago in middle of deep freeze

It’s about time we got around to why the Tater Tot was around when Springy bought the big one

Panel 3—Lizz’s head shape is a Flattop -shape

Loose ends are beginning to get tied up.

DICK TRACY Madcave #6 stank to high heaven

OT: Really depressed tonight, and I went out to get the mail and shook for abut 10 minutes after I got back inside. Major cabin fever, and I’m in one of my lethargic moods on finishing to projects. I need something else to challenge me, but on ideas at the moment.