Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 17, 2022

That’s one word for it. ✨

Good morning™, all!

So, I guess the license plate was registered in her name? And, apparently, she is “known to police.”

She looks like she just saw her dog run over by a steamroller. Driver’s license photo all right.

As if the patrol officer couldn’t run the tag number themselves on the laptop in their cruiser. Sheesh.

Sam is turning into the Thing!

Dick’s face is a Halloween mask!

Sam’s wrist is bent weirdly!

Also, I cannot stand one more day of that blue background!

Good morning™, toasted rodents !

She will survive Yeti’s wrath after all. Meanwhile the gangland style or is it “execution style”, slayings continue unabated.

Sam: “Yeah, can she even talk with those teeth?”

Looks like Ferret has a long history…

Will she weasel her way out of this?

Very pleasing art work today.

I’ll have to agree—Why is Tracy doing Scut work? Shouldn’t Traffic be running that call?

“What’s interesting, Tracy?” inquired Sam.

“The address on her driver’s license.”

“Why?”

“It lists her as living in the sewer.”

Why is the head detective personally running the plate from a minor traffic incident, hours later? Does this story take place in a small town in 1970? Any cop could run the plate from her car computer in 2022.

Same question as others asked yesterday, why would a hit and run of a police car go to MCU?

“Hm. Her face looks somewhat deformed. So she must be one of my villains.”

Why is our head of detectives personally running a license plate? Is it 1970 in a small town? Regular street cops can run plates, and certainly Sam could have done it. Why are detectives even involved in a minor traffic accident with no injuries, anyway?

She looks like she just sat on something cold.

“Sam? Have you been visiting the Date A Sidekick lonely hearts dating site on my computer AGAIN?!????!!!”

Honestly, Ferret is kinda cute for a less-than-intelligent thug.

Again, seems like a waste of the Major Crimes Unit’s time and effort.

1-SAM: I just took a call – some chick wanted me to give you her name and number. Do you want… DT: GIMME THAT!

2-DT: OK, let’s see if she deserves to be in the Tracy Hall Of Shame…

*3-…WOOF! When did she escape the dog pound? I wouldn’t touch her with your…

SAM: Mind if I give her a call then?

DT: Knock yourself out! HA! That’s what Bill Cosby used to tell his dates when he was too tired to do it himself! Hey! Be sure take her to one of those coffee shops that allow dogs, Sam! Or go out for breakfast for dog biscuits and gravy. Look out – she looks like a biter! Door slams Just don’t … Sam?

Seems funny that the head of Major Crimes would be the guy to run a license for a hit and run

So Yeti is so cheap he won’t even provide a company car?

“This is interesting”. Chances are that records has: her address, probably that she is self-employed, no spouse, no children, no pets. Oh wait a minute didn’t she have a sibling who used to be employed by Yeti?

“Tracy?”

“Yes?”

“I’ve heard some cities have the DMV records automated with computer, so that officers can access the information on car registration right from their patrol cars.”

Dick smiled, “You’ve been reading the funny papers. That’s science-fiction, Sam. No, in our real world we may have people living on the moon, but to run a vehicle number the head of the MCU has to type it onto his computer.”

Ferret and Ape made their getaway but not quick enough. Through the pouring rain, police officer was able to get her tag number. Might be a good idea for her and Ape to lay low for a while. Contact Yeti on their progress or lack of via cell phones.

MOVIE QUOTE—-“Excuse me,what was the question?”

“I was distracted by the half-masticated cow”.

Michael Caine to Sandra Bullock—“MISS CONGENIALITY”—2000

Interesting, all right: Alvin, Simon & Theodore have a sister they don’t likely talk about…….

Oh,Lordy.She looks worse on the screen than she does in person.Now THAT is a “Grotesque!”

I ran across a website that lists the Top 10 Dick Tracy villains,and Mr.Bribery wasn’t on it.

They will be hearing from his highly unethical lawyers.

Since he and Sam haven’t really faced a decent villain or had a decent adventure in years, they now occupy their time chasing traffic violators.

@198.23.5.11 That website is interesting. Notice none encompass the last 30 years. TV Wiggles, Shoulders, and Influence should have made the cut.

Okay, it’s time to quash a growing rumor before it hits the tabloids.

I admit Daisy reminded me of, say, Ham Brooks’ shady half-brother when I worked him up. Okay. Maybe I have an evil subconscious (which would explain all the vanishing cookies and my repeatedly blaming the dog we don’t have).

However, Ape is NOT the anti-Monk Mayfair. With Ape, chemistry would amount to pouring a glass of water, then beamingly announce, “Hey! I invented water.” And get an irritated poke with a Buick from Ferret.

Seriously, no connection beyond the dark, grim environs of the back of my tiny mind. I respect copyright.

I always though the idea for Monk Mayfair came from a Eugene O’Neill play called “THE HAIRY APE”.

William Bendix brought it to the screen in 1944.

Is that company reproducing the Doc Savage pulps(and THE SHADOW) still doing it?

I think Ferret is kinda cute. Well, except for those teeth.

IN Panel 2, I think it should be “I’ll run it through records”.

Luckily, the officer got the license plate number (rarely if ever called “tag” in my experience). And Ferret has a dossier on file with the cops. Hmm I wonder what she was charged with or convicted of in the past. And, not a very flattering mug shot; makes her look kinda witless, almost as she seems in fact to be….

Interesting how?