Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 16, 2021

Awww…look at the raccoon! So cute!

Good morning™, cam watchers!

So, I guess Ted Tellum lives in the Tall Oaks Riverfront Area? Maybe it’s near “Pouch’s park.” The cam image is 8:37 and we were told that the murder happened around 6:00, so Tiger Lilly took a bit of time, maybe, before deciding what to do with the body. So, they can see that it’s Tiger Lilly, but they don’t have a positive ID on the body. I guess this is the first indication that Tiger Lilly was involved in the case.

I’m pretty sure that Tracy’s suit jacket should not be yellow! Sometimes I wonder if GoComics is trying to ruin the strip.

Well, whoever called it yesterday, congratulations!

It was the raccoon!

So, Sunday, we were looking at Junior.

I dunno. To me, it looked kinda like one of Cony’s henchman.

Also, this really throws a wrench into our timeline – suggesting that the murder is less than 24 hours old? Honestly, how often are these cameras checked? And if a day was missed, what reason would we have to go back and check?

Unless this is not a “nature cam” but a police cam – and there was reason to check that particular day and time.

(I find this detail a bit confusing)

Good morning™, wildlife show offs !

Since that is Tellum’s trail cam he probably is not above putting out corn for the deer which our ’coon buddy appears to be happy with discovering said morsels and is having himself a gay old time at the buffet. If only Lilly had seen the camera he might promptly go over and disable it or at least pull its card. In his current situation it is possible that he wont be making it to court, or anywhere else ever again.

Does Pouch keep his alibi stories numbered for just such emergencies ?

Next panel: “So Rocky Raccoon is back and he’s recruited Tiger Lilly. Sam, better call Little Orphan Annie, we’re going to need backup.”

The masked guy in the first frame looks mighty suspicious.

It looks like Riger is a regular cast member now. He was introduced during the Yeti story written by Mark Barnard.

https://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2020/11/15

Resolution on this is trail cam is incredible. And it was probably done after dark as well. A lot of the cams have infrared, but that doesn’t show color. I’d have been happier with a blurry image and Tracy musing, “That looks like Tiger Lilly… Sam, see if he’s out of prison.” High resolution night images on a trail cam, with color, are up there with magnetic space coups going to the moon.

It’s always the raccoons. They’ve been running this city’s underground for years.

Neil Wick about 6 hours ago

Sometimes I wonder if GoComics is trying to ruin the strip.

Wow, I’ve never seen you so down and cynical Neil. I actually feel bad that you’re feeling this way.

Hang in there buddy, I’m sure they’ll right the good ship Tracy!

Uh… Shouldn’t Tiger be kneeling by the body BEFORE he carries it away? I guess Rigger isn’t fast forwarding after all.

I see Junior is wearing Nite-Glo freckles, just like Tiger a few weeks ago. Must be a new Tracyville fad….

Well. I sure hope they save his life so they can put him in jail!

Trail cams are pretty low-resolution, typically. Not much would be revealed by “zooming”.

Note: The raccoon can not be counted as even a cameo character!

Trail cams usually give us Black & White footage

This trail camera provides a very detailed picture since it is 8:30 pm and it would be dark and make facial recognition impossible…

But, anything can happen in a cartoon strip… /sarcasm

1-DT: HEY! Look at YouTube videos on your own time! We probably got a case to work. Maybe…

2-…WAIT! HA! Look at that guy tandem skiing WITHOUT SKIS! SO COOL!

3-OH MAN! HE’S GOING TO USE HIS BUDDY AS A SLED NOW! And here I thought those “ride the handrail” skateboard fails where the dude crushes his nuts were hilarious! Put a “LIKE” on that one!

Dollar Bill was an interesting character, sad to see him “rubbed out”!

That’s a really good camera to pick up such detail.

Neil: It ain’t Go Comics, this strip has been FUBARRED for a couple years. Try and keep up, there’s a lot more wrong than color issues

Might be a good time for Tiger Lilly to leave town for awhile.

Panel 2: the Dick Tracy_/_Over the Hedge crossover we’ve always wanted.

Raccoon classic: Jacob Two-Two and the Furry Felon https://tinyurl.com/ya3lpvec

Meanwhile, in Tracyville’s MCU, Ted Tellum’s trail cam has revealed that Tiger Lilly dumped the body of “Dollar Bill” Dolan into the river. Now all we need is to tie Tiger Lilly to Pouch and the case busts wide open! I think the final action sequence cannot be too far off….

“Not again!” Is what you might recall Ted saying about someone disposing of a body in front of his trail cam. Maybe it’s time to move.