Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 15, 2014

What happened since yesterday?!

I’m sorry…What WAS your comment?

Now we get into the real detective work! That’s what Dick Tracy is all about. I actually like this sequence better than the Moon Maid story where it wasn’t clear to the police if anyone was a criminal until almost at the end.

Will they find someone surprising in the trash bins?

More like tossing the evidence into a living garbage disposal (Lena) will make it disappear. Maybe Nitrate was stupid enough to toss Mycroft’s clothes in the dumpster…..

Wait until he finds out that they will have to search for their evidence not in garbage bins but in piles of hyena dung.

I’m very glad it’s them looking there and not me! Oh Miles, we hardly knew ye.

Right after Miles was killed. Silver commented that his spotted coat was ruined. Maybe he disposed of it in the dumpster? Or maybe that phony film was tossed?

Bones?

Good norning everyone…

Dick and Sam are in for a real surprise!

Good Morning Vista Bill. Personally I like the procedural

Lena seemed VERY hungry yesterday.

Hmm. “Nobody’s home” (Sam). —Are we really sure about that? Have you searched the entire interior of the Lyric Theater yet? The trash is a logical place to search, if you have any idea what to look for. But Mycroft is an unknown: if you found, say, a shoe, how would you know if it were his or not?

Where are all of the other cops to help them with the search? Or, can’t they get other “helpers” because they don’t want to be exposed to second had smoke!

I wonder what, exactly, Fritz Ann told them that enabled them to get a warrant to search Silver’s abode. I thought the FBI’s info was about Miles Mycroft?

I might have missed something. Unless Tracy and Sam are reading this strip, just HOW did they turn their attention to Mycroft’s disappearance? Did someone off-page turn in a missing person report on a missing thug? They ought to be concentrating on the scam; not Miles. What was the basis for the judge to sign a Search Warrant? Certainly not Miles Mycroft’s disappearance from the underworld.

Methinks they will find a broken Sprocket

There’s not necessarily any report of Miles being missing, but they have Vitamin and Mary’s testimony that Miles was in the fake film. They just need evidence of that and the film was likely filmed in the theatre.

It’s anyone’s guess as to whether or not “nobody’s home” because Silver and Sprocket left together or if Silver split on his own and Sprocket…well…you know.

Been reading Tracy since the ’40’s, although the strip isstill a shadow of its former self, I enjoy the art and allegorical names, keeping in mind it’s the best the authorscan do in spite of editorial restrictions.

Been reading Dick Tracy since the 1940’s, and in spite of the strip being a shadow of its former self, I still enjoy theallegorical names and odd characters in spite of tighteditorial control.

37th! I hope I can one day be number one like you Chris. Hopefully I have something to say! S.I.T.O.A.N.C.N.M.I.

I don’t think Sprocket got eaten. Lena ain’t that hungry. Matter-of-fact, SDM told me Lena whispered to him, when asked about eating Sprocket, “You think I’m crazy?”

Trash bins? Sounds like uniform work!