Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 26, 2025

Dignitaries, luminaries, and the curious

Unaware that this affair could be disastrous.

Governor shall light it up. The button’s in his hand

Could be carnage horrible. Not what has been planned.

Look to see brave Dick Tracy arriving on the scene

Hoping to protect the crowd from violence most obscene.

Is he in time to stop this crime, thwarting detonation?

The MCU knows what to do. They act sans hesitation.

the most action in WEEKS…

A lot of “discord” about this.

Dick Tracy saves the day!

As it should be.

Great illustrations!

Improving storytelling.

Not too shabby.

Well done crew. I’m not going to make light of this. Excellent job.

Good morning™, everyone!

Stopped him just inches from hitting that button. This seems to be the climax, as far as the bomb goes. Now, they have to stop Totten Junior from getting away.

iggyman one upped me about 19 hours ago

I don’t know, Diets pretty smart! I don’t see an Apple space coupe!

Apple electronics company wasn’t even “born yet”. …But if they had been…

… And then along came Jones…

Good morning™, Fleeing Suspects !

Every man for himself says the runaway bad guy. When out of the car, on a dead run, Sam is Tracy’s siren. Tracy’s P.2. ensemble and striking pose would make any fashionista gush.

Will the bystanders grab him?

Alfred Hitchcock famously said, “The bomb must never go off”. This quote refers to the importance of providing relief to an audience, and is part of his theory on suspense.

So ….. the bomb wasn’t attached to a remote control device, but was wired up, so Tracy pulled both cut the chord & pulled it out …. simultaneously. & Jr. seems to be the first federal government employee in history who never heard of back-up systems & redundancies. The art, however, is great today, it’s hard to convey motion in a static medium but Charles really excels at it.

Curses, foiled again!

Great action today!

I got nothing. Well, nothing new. If this is the end I’ve already complained about all the gaping plot holes and inanities. Will wait to post my list of unresolved issues, anachronisms, and plot holes in case Eric attempts to resolve any of them.

Totten Junior resembles a young Trump

Is that Lizz getting pushed aside in panel 3?

Wouldnt a simple “hey pat, pull the plug it’s a bomb” over the 2 way wrist radio have worked just as well…..AND QUICKER than waiting for tracy to show up?

Now that this bomb-threat folderol has been resolved, we can get back to the main thread of the plot: the new green market at Two Fox Plaza! Will there be an olive bar? How are the peaches? Don’t forget your reusable bags!

ENTIRELY DIFFERENT OT: Pleasant surprise, finding two new chapters of the current audiobook uploaded for my review. I particularly liked the 34th, chapter, Blue Chocolate, which I’ve put up on my FB page. So far, I’d subjected the leads to an engineered balloon crash, a fight with an undead guardian staged on a rotating and wildly tipping platform, a flight of lethal black butterflies and giant, the lead being, temporarily blinded, lethal flying drones, carnivorous arctic moles, and a few other woes. All largely culled from my daily commutes to my last job.

We’ll overlook the ‘painful ingrown toe nail’ peril. Too harrowing!

Anyway, as a break in pace, I shifted back to their home city, T’Zo, where their two adopted daughters (a small cyclops and a painfully impetuous harpy) arr proving an armful. SO, what better (if woefully conceived) distraction than to prepare chocolate for the planned wedding?

Very happy with this chapter. Only one wrong word that I caught, and one small omission. (the theft of the Washington Monument and its replacement by a gigantic marshmallow). Okay, TWO. There was a word left out. Still, verbal chicken feed.

Given the cabin fewer of the last week, with only a photo shoot of lion dancers in the near future, it was a welcome listen.

OMG! Tracy foils the plan to blow them al us with a detonating tie! Or extension cord! Or…festive ribbon?!?!

phew, just in time. :D

1- GUVORNATOR: Anybody ever see that movie with Cameron Diaz – The Box where if she presses a button she gets a million bucks but someone somewhere dies? She doesn’t look very Mexican does she? Maybe that’s her married name. Anyway, here goes! Daddy needs a million bucks! HA HA! Just kidding! I can get a million bucks just by signing my name to a piece of legislation that…

2- SAM: LOOK OUT! MOVE IT! THIS MAN IS HAVING A HALLUCINATION THAT HE’S TRYING TO GUARD MICHAEL JORDAN GOING TO THE HOOP!!!

3- GUVORNATOR: YIKES – AN OBVIOUS NUTTER! The governor went that way points that way

4- DT: mistaking the Governor’s Security Man for Michael Jordan YOU’RE TOO OLD FOR THIS MAN’S GAME, JORDAN! HANG UP YOUR NIKES!

5- SAM: LOOK TRACY! OVER THERE! MICHAEL PASSED THE BALL TO LARRY BIRD! SWITCH! DT: I GOT HIM! SAM: TIME OUT! Will someone get Tracy his special white warm-up jacket – the one with all the straps?

Jim_Pem mentioned yesterday:

It would be great if they could have some kind of aerial reconnaissance, like a drone or something.

My response:

Tracy already has the tool for aerial reconnaissance:

Https://Gocomics.Com/dicktracy/2016/02/05

What was his plan if it worked? Kind of obvious…

GAAAAAWWWLEE, in the “good old days” they used an “On/Off” switch mounted on a wall (generally to the right hand side of a doorway…) to turn the lights on or off…..who KNOWS what a ‘lil ol push-button stationed on a podium’ll DO, these days!?

Should have upgraded to wireless.

Bless those brave Policemen in OK!

The Mad Bomber?

How much of an explosion was planned if Jr. is standing 30 feet from the governor when he went to push the button?

Junior: “Darn, I was the required eight feet away that I calculated would the safe distance from the most powerful bomb since WWII!”

Es ist vorbei

“It is a special delivery package, a bomb. Were you expecting one?”

Peter Sellers—REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER—1978

Okay,all the cops are up on the podium and Junior Bomber running the other way—-so the cops have to fight their way through the crowd a second time.

Is there a hero in the audience?

And we have one really bewildered Governor wondering what the limburger is going on….