Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 08, 2018

Deer ex Machina!

Poor Bambi :-(

Good morning™, holders of keys!

Ghost is coming up to a straightaway!

can’t imagine a sudden stop is going to be too pleasant for Tracy either, especially if Pepper revs it first..

Ha! Yesterday I predicted a quick crossover with Bullwinkle stopping the car and Rocky saving Tracy. Wasn’t quite Bullwinkle, but pretty close!

Order up! One Sweatbox ending!

My brain just went “Look out, Buck” in Twikki’s voice

I see a deer in the headlights moment coming up.

Maybe Ghost will get “antlered”… Also, 200-300+ pounds of venison coming through the windshield won’t tickle either !

Oh, deer !

WOW…..now I’m really impressed…..Tracy managed to get hold of the handcuff key? What a guy…..

Can’t reach the cuffs with the key? Why not? Is your left arm & hand shorter than your right?

Tracy is about to open the Fortress of Solitude!!! I hope he has the right key :)

And on a small aside, I see that the GoComics app no longer works. Sigh. My subscription lasts until August, but I’ll have to think long and hard about whether it’s worth renewing it.

Moon Gov? Liking the Bullwinkel reference. What about the moon twins Gidney and Cloyd?

being on the horns of a dilemma and being saved by the owner of the horns. Oh what will happen next?

New menu item at Peppers: Spicy venison.

I hope that’s not Donner or Blitzen!

Oh no ! Tracy is having a cross-over with Mark Trail !!!!

Wasn’t the thing he was cuffed to open at the top and smaller than the cuffs? It could be very difficult to pull the cuffs off of it while being dragged, but not nearly as hard getting a key out of your pocket and unlocking it.

Most of my fellow Tracy Fans this morning seem to feel that the deer is going to figure into the action in some way, and you’re probably right. But, my first thought when I saw the third panel was that was Joe’s way of depicting action without actually showing it. Like, the deer is at the side of the road, simply observing the car speeding by. The dramatic contrast between the serene forest setting and the villainous activity taking place near the woods. Joe’s version of one of Chester Gould’s famous silent panels, which were usually filled with meaning. Maybe it is all of those things?

“Do’h!”

“A deer!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPrI8db74kA

(This one’s not female, though.)

The deer is thinking “Dick Tracy’s in trouble?! Time to leap into action!”

This is so preposterous!

This is an ending I know I won’t enjoy.

Maybe Ghost brakes for wildlife. Regardless, the abrupt stop should spell some bodily trauma for Tracy.

How about that “deer in the headlights” look in panel 3?

Bambi to the rescue!

But hark! A noble whitetail deer! He’ll not fail, I bet ya! ;-)

A winding road I frequently travel skirts the Forest Preserves on one side and a country club on the other, and deer are regularly seen. One has to restrain the temptation to speed along! Luckily for Tracy, Ghost seems to lack any restraint….

Man has entered the forest….

I’ll buy that for a buck.