Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 05, 2016

.Good morning guys! Enjoy the holiday!

Gweedo was quick to bid me a good morning and offer this,BMBG has the latest from Swaziland or would that be Switzerland ?!-————————————————————————————————-.Good morning Gweedo! I’m lost!.Does anyone know how to read a compass! Gweedo? Neil Wick, JPuzzleWhiz?

Nun’Ya Bidness suggested,Maybe you need one of these…-————————————————————————.Cool! I like what I see, m’lady!

NEWS ITEM: Rumored appearance of the long lost detective, Sherlock Holmes…(Man, this is dragging out….)

News on the wire! Reports of +Springheel Jack the Ripper+ third week of night terrors in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Police baffled and helpless. Read the byline by reporter Carl Kolchak.

Tracy has shown up again in Switzerland. We already knew that, though Sam and Lizz definitely look surprised at the news.

More importantly, we learn that Rikki has the Vampire Fantastique connected to the Internet (or some kind of computer-hacked network so that she can control the city traffic cameras and keep them from tracking her.

If you’ll remember, she did the video rerouting trick when she and Abner were back at the Murder Mansion. She’s very adept at technical connections.

Good day, Vista Bill and the rest of the Radio Rangers!Looks like Rikki has hacked Bill’s computers to keep one step ahead of the BMBG crack team of investigative reporters!

Meanwhile, back at Police HQ, Chief Patton is kind enough to inform the crack MCU (although today it seems to be back to “MCS”) lead detectives that there is significant news from Switzerland. I guess all their electronic gizmos do not include a short-wave radio to pick up Swiss transmissions.How about us, Chief? We’d like to know the Swiss news, too….

Pat seems too happy for it to be bad news.

I think that Abner won’t be found – at least, in this episode.

For those of you who may have missed it, yesterday the humor site Cracked.com issued an article on the cliffhanger ending of the Annie strip and how it was resolved years later in Dick Tracy.Read it here.In the comments I did my best to talk up Tracy and pointed out its recent Harvey awards and nominations.

Hard to do fourWhen the year was a boreNo need to feel ashamedWhen you still lead the gameTime to start a new streakThe competitions hopes are bleakThe year ahead should be greatRetrieving Harvey’s absolutely our fate!

What name will Dick use to sign the Conan first editions???

—You should be interested in the latest news bulletin from Switzerland!—What’s that?—It’s a small, central-European country famous for banking and watches. But that’s not important right now…

Looks like Sam’s trying to kick his nasty toothpick habit! Next he’ll start sucking his thumb!LOL!

Conan Doyle doesn’t seem like such a Barbarian,