Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 15, 2022

Good morning, devious drivers!

It looks like she’s making a run for it down Louis Lane. There’s really a lot of water on those roads!

The police car is pointed the wrong way to give chase quickly, so Ape and Ferret might get away from it.

… and thus, events begin to spiral out of control. ✨

Hey! How long has it been since we had a car chase?

Surprised it is not called “Lois” lane.

Good morning™, quick slip artists !

I am more convinced than ever if a new writer is in the offing, Mark is the man to carry the DT torch. Some gut wrenching action in P. 1. :-)

Yeahhh…unless she’s Jason Statham or Jason Bourne, she’s not losing them. The best Ferret can hope for after hitting that cop car is that she and Ape get taken in alive and not dead. I can see her making a plea deal and giving up the goods on Yeti to save herself.

A preview of tomorrow’s car chase!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ETruidd5lQ

Nice strip today. No real issues to point out AND as a bonus we finally get to see the reason for yesterday’s window wiper!

“You think you’re an intellectual, don’t you, Ape?”

You could not beat this pair with a full house!

you can’t outrun a radio

I was right yesterday, when I thought I was kidding. In today’s (15 February) strip, we see that indeed, Ape snapped his seat belt, or at least that it was never buckled. He turns all the way around to look out the rear windshield, and the seat belt is clearly drawn as trailing over his right shoulder, connected to nothing. Is this foreshadowing? Is Ape going to be injured in the inevitable crash?

Pull over! This is Lt Frank Drebin, of Police Squad! Sargent Gabor. Get ready to get out and slap ’em!

Uh-oh, everyone knows Louis Lane is a dead end street.

That’s the ticket! They’ll never see the black paint that way…

Ah. Running from the cops in a car. And here I though Ferret was the brains of the operations.

I saw the death for these two idiots.

Is this the first time a Kia Soul has been featured in a comic strip?

Because fleeing from the police always works.

isn’t that gasoline alley?

Watch out for black ice. It gets fleeing criminals every time.

There’s is such a thing as a radio, used to for communicate things like a “red suv, plate no. xxx xxx just hit me, now headed down Louis Lane.” (Louis Lane. I presume everybody got the implied joke there.)

1-APE: HA! You spun that cop car around like it was your dancing partner!

FERRET: NO – YOU DID! And now they wanna tap dance all over MY head!

2-APE: That’s some pretty good criminal banter coming from the likes of us.

FERRET: Yeah well, you got batter for brains so that makes sense!

APE: I said “banter”.

FERRET: Oh. Well, we knew we couldn’t keep it going for long. Hey! The Peugeot never made that noise before. Maybe I better test the brakes… uh oh

The side street being a dead end might hustle the story along a bit

A thought crossed my mind….nah….it couldn’t be…that Ape might be a distant relative of Big Moose from Archie Comics.

Confession, though I find I’m warming to Ferret, these two could spend YEARS trying to understand Who’s On First’. Not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier.

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“What if the temperature drops below freezing?”

“We do not think such nasty thoughts,Mr.Craig”

Jill Bennett&Alan Ladd—HELL BELOW ZERO—1954

I say,whoa!Stop you chaps,wait for me!

Hold everything,whoaOh,please,stop!!

Nice art—-we see that weather is rather hazardous for ahigh speed chase.

I really like these two. Henchmen are not normally that funny!

I am loving the way cars are being drawn lately!

I DO pull up short of the two henchmen in SUPERSONIC MAN (a bad Euro superhero flick from s1979) in which Our Hero turns a thug’s gun into a banana (Yeah, I know!). Then he explains “I hate bananas” and jumps onto his pal’s shoulders and rides him off-camera.

ALTERNATE ENDING: They ultimately get caught when they hang a u-turn and leave a ‘sorry we hit your car’ note under the patrol car’s windshield wiper. Yeti has a hissy fit and focuses on raising a stable of racing spiders (actually a gag form my audition as a horror host for the local ABC affiliate). Not the hissy fit. The spiders.

The radio is faster than a car.

I notice that the Harold Gray/LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE reprints have stalled at 1953.

Have they called the whole thing off?

The problem with this plot turn is that it seems contrived … not organic to the story itself, arising out of plot & character, but thrown in to just add some action & pseudo-suspense. Just saying.

Ape is the man!

https://tinyurl.com/ya4uyltn

Ferret is in full Panic Mode. Can her little red Kia escape down Louis Lane, or is that the road to downfall and disaster? If Ferret and and Ape are lucky, the Tracyville PD will get them before Yeti does….