Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 28, 2020

Gotcha…

Good morning™, returnees!

Now that he’s spotted the drone, he obviously can’t go back for the rock. He’d better change to Plan B, if he has one. I have a feeling that his carefully synchronized schedule didn’t allow for this situation.

“Stop, hey, what’s that sound?”

https://youtu.be/vRdMa5U8M-0

BUSTED!

Good morning™, exposed scummies !

Game over !  time to “get out of Denver better go”.

I bet he wishes he had a gun right now.

Good one Neil!

Then again there’s the stalker’s favorite:

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

Turn yourself in, Yeti, and hope it’s the Law and not the Police

Called it. Now Yeti’s only option will be to make tracks- hopefully faster than that drone can fly. Or out of its range, which is pretty likely.

Spotted doing what?No meteorite = no evidence.

(In response to fredville above)

As far as being in that district, there is no law against him being there. Even if he is a perfume manufacturer and has no customers there.

Not even sure if Commissioner Gordon thinks the meteorite is in danger. No connection between him and the dart that barely missed Bat – er – Tracy.

And no trace of Daisy.

I’d say, Yeti is in pretty good shape if all he does is pack it up and goes home.

This is educational. I didn’t realize drones made an audible sound. IMO, today’s strip is hilarious.

Coulda been worse, coulda been a pigeon. Then you’d REALLY be spotted! ;D

The light looks like a fan, is it time for “it” to hit the fan?

Why do I get the feeling that the job was a made to order and the customer has the same employee dealing philosophy as he does?

Looks like his rock done rolled away

For those who think no rock means no case, Yeti has again acquired a brain (the implications were he had one originally, we simply haven’t seen it in the current storyline) and knows the drone is not there by random chance. He doesn’t know how much it has recorded, but enough for a conviction. He will race away and be killed in the ensuing accident (seems the most common Tracy lesson: speed kills). And the whole nerve toxin and perfume intro, along with the spiders, was wasted. Tracy trying to find the source of the poison – and Yeti insisting it was done by a rival company to discredit him would have made an interesting storyline.

you’re busted buddy.

Click! Mug shot…

The police will soon be searching for a missing drone

By this point, Tracy and Sam have already followed the drone operator’s info and picked up the rock, and fished Daisy out of the sewer (two seen going in, one seen coming out…). There should be a half dozen police cars arriving just in time for Sunday’s strip!

Quick – call a lawyer! Argue privacy rights!

Whistle, whistle, nothing to see here. What? Meteorite? How unusual. No, sorry officer, I have NO idea what you’re talking about. Daisy? Daisy Who? Well, I do know a Daisy, but I fired him long ago. I didn’t trust him, he seemed up to no good, not a good sort at all, if you know what I mean. Yes, I take pictures with a lot of people, that means nothing.

I have about 5 favorite pages.This is one.

“Stop children, what’s that sound?”

His only hope is that the henchman that he left for dead rises, comes out and happens upon the meteorite as he stumbles back to the shop.

“NO! I’ve been spotted! In the driveway of my florist shop in my florist van!”

This strip should be called Drone Tracy because the drone is doing all the crimefighting.

Spotted? Nah, you still look pasty to me.

Hang on everybody! I submit that Yeti can now “innocently” find an interesting rock in the street. No law against that.

“I just needed a paperweight, officer! Whadaya mean, this is a meteorite???” Yeti

Of course, there is the question of whether any evidence gathered by the drone, at this point, can be admitted into evidence. Probable cause, unreasonable search, and all that.

Ohhhh, BURN! ;)

What’s the charge?? Illegal parking, jaywalking?

If we are doing old protest songs I’ll go with this one by the Kingston Trio. It is strange how much it is just the same now as when they wrote it in 1959. The Merry Minuet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z26XJbnpeA

“How could this happen to nice guy like me?!”

A drone with camera and a facial recognition program at the precinct linked to the criminal data base could I.D. him. Computers can aid crime fighting greatly. The wider the data base the greater the chance of finding out who this Ye-ti person may be.

Unless Yeti has already figured out exactly where and how he lost the meteorite, “going back” simply will not help, as there is far too much ground to surveil and too little time.

And now Skynet has him in its sights! Things just are not going Yeti’s way; when a crazed, megalomaniacal plan falls apart, the wreckage is really messy….

Shoot it down!

Your screwed ‘’master mind’’!

smile yeti, you are in cop camera