Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 09, 2022

He can see rose petals but he can’t see a friggin’ car full of bad guys come rolling in!

Wow, now THIS is a long conversation. From the field all the way to the office.

Does this mean the return of Mr. Bribery?

(As in, why the heck not? No such thing as a crook that can’t be recycled!)

Maybe they taped an episode of The Bachelor there.

Good morning™, flowery finds !

Speculation of Bribery being behind this sounds credible and if it is him why were we not notified of his release ? Did he escape ?

Sam is looking at the invoices he picked up. He’s not trying to hide what he’s doing, either. Does Tracy know and not care? Just what’s going on?

Mr. Bribery?

Can’t be….he’s rotting away in a maximum security prison.

Unless of course he’s escaped and no one seems to be worried about it.

Good morning™, everyone!

Poison and roses suggests a connection with Yeti, whose poison is largely derived from plants. The big question is who from Yeti’s organization could have committed the murder. Somehow, I don’t see how it would be Ferret.

Hey, Canadians! How is the truck drivers’ protest affecting y’all?

You learn a lot about human nature watching sports. Perhaps the world’s greatest alpine skier, man or woman, Mikaela Schifrin, made a critical error twice in separate races that knocked her out of competition both times. Lesson learned: even the greatest make mistakes; no one is perfect. Even Tom Brady lost Super Bowls. With that being the case, we shouldn’t expect any fictional character to be perfect either. It just isn’t believable.

Hmmm… perhaps Daisy has a sibling named Rose that is executing an elaborate vendetta against the man who left him to die. If so, I hope for Tracy’s sake that the plan doesn’t involve their elderly Uncle Stinkweed.

Roses aren’t in bloom at this time of year

It’s a miracle! Rose petals fell from the sky!

I guess the writers saw American Beauty.

It’s Venus from Mythtickle……..

In a couple of the things I’ve written I’ve had my detectives complain that fictional detectives have it too easy. There are always a thousand little oddities around any scene, yet Peter Wimsey (or Gervase Fenn, or whoever is the protagonist) will immediately seize on the one tiny fact – a sweet potato in a bag of russets – that counts and reconstruct the whole elaborate plot. I’ve had cases go cold, or my protagonist spend days of examining leads that appear to be steaming piles of nothing to discover that they are, indeed, totally irrelevant. A dropped daisy solves the last one. Rose petals for this one? At least it wasn’t the old matchbook that has the name of the nightclub where the criminal can be found. How many movies/stories/television programs had that solve the mystery?

Mr. Bribery!!!

So the drone operator missed the car in the driveway with Ferret and Ape inside but saw some rose petals, pretty poor writing so far

Did Rocky Caroll get the toothpick chewing gag for Leon Vance from seeing Sam do it, here on Tracy?

I am Mr. Shoot ’Em Down

I leave hearts on the ground

My love is a weapon

And yes, I use it well

Then I let the rose petals cover up the bullet shells

—Madonna, “Revolver”

You all’ve spoiled the surprising ending, in which a hulking man with giggling fists rides in on a unicorn an thwacks Yet a good one! Darnitall.

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I am loving this art. This is working really well for me.

1-SAM: OOOH! $500 billed to Chief Patton for “Services Rendered”. Do I use this for blackmail, try to collect it or make the Chief happy by telling him that he doesn’t have to pay it? Decisions, decisions…

2-MORTIS: We’re the same age, Tracy, but your hair is jet black. I suspect… DT: Good genes if you wanna keep your job, tech boy.

3-MORTIS: Of course. Anyway, could you go back to the murder scene and pick up some rose petals I saw on the driveway? It’s almost Valentine’s Day and I want to…I dunno…put them in my underwear? OH, who am I kidding? Lulu Belle would never find them there…sniff…How do you and Tess keep the flames burning, Dick?

DT: Huh? Like anybody else, we throw more logs on the fire. What a dumb question.

MORTIS: So you’re saying that you always keep it “hot”? Hmmm.

DT: Well, yeah. The cold makes my rheumatiz act up and I don’t like paying for air conditioning in the summer.

MORTIS: What? DT: What?

The rose.the favorite flower of “Mr.Swivelneck” with the crocodile smile

DMITROI—-

Please drop the block.I can work on at least a half-doze of the new postings from the late 1970;s.

Would also like to do minor crooks from RUGHEAD story—Ig;John Medick;etc.

Hmm…dropped rose petals…was somebody saying he loves me…he loves me not or she loves me….she loves me not.

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“And your parents thought I’d never amount to anything!”

Tim Allen—THE SANTA CLAUSE—1994

Maybe Tracy and Sam should check florist shops, chances are that a booming business was done selling bouquets of roses.

Sam’s eyes looks like he spotted something.

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Rose petals, eh? Hmmm. I see the light! Bette MIdler is the killer! It fits! Heels, and Moran financed her bad remake of a bad movie, and she’s out for revenge! I wrote it all wrong! (wails, earning ‘that’ look form wife)

The killer is Bobby Vinton.

If I didn’t know better, I’d think that Mr. Bribery had something to do with this. “Little rose, little rose.”

aNOTHER PROOF THAT THIS STRIP IS SET IN cHICAGO.

In the 1957 Morin Plenty story(BO’S Dad),he and Tracy hada fancy meal out at “The Pump Handle Room”;a riff onTHE PUMP ROOM;a famous Chicago celebrity hangout on the North Side.

Zuzu’s petals! I’m back again! CLARENCE!!

Sure glad the detectives are focusing on really important things like footprints & rose petals instead of the unimportant extraneous stuff like boxes of deadly poison left at the crime scene.

Ahh, the Rose Petals Mystery! “Near the circular drive” (see locator-arrow in panel 3) suggests they could have tossed out of a car window, or perhaps blown out of a car by a gust of wind as someone (someone wearing women’s heeled shoes?) drove off.

Not that that helps me much toward a solution of the Moran Murder….