Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 30, 2021

“Just as I thought, the whole thing was faked.”

Welp, guess I guessed wrong yesterday. ✨

Why not go to Dallas 1963?

It looks like those of us who said that number was longitude were right. Washington D.C. is on the 77th parallel. We even know when.

You gotta wonder why no one in the theatre saw the drone.

Sorta morbid on Diet’s part to want to see a Presidential assassination.

Good morning™, everyone!

Jonathan K. guessed correctly yesterday that Diet’s drone was heading to Ford’s Theater. Here’s the Google Maps page for 38.8967, -77.0258:

https://goo.gl/maps/bwnmwdZmSNVKXNu5A

UPS dude is the snitch!

Goggleman is daydreaming of sticking Diet’s cigar where the drone won’t go!

I wonder who is the guy in the brown uniform. Surely Smith isn’t letting the janitors into the control room. Or the UPS guy.

If I recall, didn’t Smith start this arc, bragging how the time drone had appeared in art from the middle ages, or something like that?

If so, hasn’t the time drone already started changing the future (by changing the past)?

Good morning™, time watchers !

Can they send it to the future for it to watch them, in the past, sending it ?  Looking at your present self from the future and thus have you watching yourself working the Drone™, would be a mind bender for sure.

Was it a good show that night?

Now we can finally find out if the play was any good.

I’m not surprised; I’ve heard “Our American Cousin” is a really funny play, so I can understand why Diet would want to see an early production of it.

The shooting was well witnessed—the question is whether they caught Booth in that barn in Maryland

Now that we’ve looked in on just about every villain in the strip, let’s get back to the MacGuffin…

We’re assuming Friday night, 14 April. Can the drone lock the door to the loge?

I think that thing, hovering up in the rafters, would have been noticed.

If Diet gets any more puffed up about his time toy, he’s going to pop; as Red Skelton used to say, “You’re proud’a that, aint’cha?”

Diet is going back to MARCH 1865. He just wants to see one of the other plays.

I guess Lincoln’s assassination isn’t controversial like Kennedy’s.

“I never heard how the play ended!”

1-DOIT JR: Ya want I should dust the Time Thingy, Dad?

DOIT: Yeah but don’t use your undies as a dust cloth this time. Ugh. And I thought you’d bought brown ones to match your uniform…

2-DOIT JR: Just tryin’ to save us some money on supplies, Dad. OOOH! It’s one a those First Person Shooter Video Games! Good shot Dad! Right in the back of the old melon! Lemme play, lemme play! But I want a machine gun with two bandeleros of bullets. Oh. Make me have one of those funny tall hats too. Hmmmm. You know what…

DOIT: No son. You can’t change your janitor cap for a stovepipe hat.

DOIT JR: You never go with any of my ideas! Just wait till you kick off and I’m in charge!

SCIENCE GUY: HEY! YOU SAID I’D BE IN CHARGE, DAD!!!

DOIT: Whatever. I’ll be dead. Fight it out…

Well there goes the space time continuum. Nice job Colonel Cigarface.

Aha! One of these characters shown today is the “inside” person assisting Ace of Spades.

Does Diet know for a fact it went to Ford’s Theater? Where is the proof?

“The footage is a little jumpy when the drone accidentally bumps into Booth, causing him to mess up his intended warning shot.”

And sooner or later, the drone WON’T return from it’s trip, captured by the Ace of Spades? That would take the “mole” to do….perhaps the guy in the brown shirt?

You can just feel the division of labor at Smith Industries. Suits and unis.

How did it get inside?

https://youtu.be/iQ0XRXaxTWM?t=35

“Goggles” monitors the supercomputer that enables control of the very complex Time Drone. The Ordinary Worker (in work uniform) is just a sounding board for Diet’s boast of success and reveal of when/where it went. (Or, could he also be Ace’s undercover informant?)

How the Time Drone works is beyond the ken of us commoners commenting on comics!

….we learn thus that it wasn’t Booth, it was his even evil-er twin, Buford…………

“Well, I’ll be! Drone confirms it! They had Raisenettes back then!”