Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 14, 2022

That should draw some attention. ✨

Dumb and Dumber, Dick Tracy’s strip version

Ape’s appetite is the ruination of their escape plans!

Good morning™, everyone!

You don’t think the police will notice that someone sideswiped their cruiser?

Lenny’s Pancake House (https://www.lennyspancakehouse.com/) seems to be a singular restaurant in Myrtle Beach, but it seems to be branching out in this strip.

Of all the people they bumped into Tracy and Sam.

Good morning™, Lucky Strikes !

Ferret and Ape’s lucky day may have arrived. If they are on a wanted list their criming days are over and so is the likelihood of them getting kilt. One thing’s for sure; they will be tied up for some time while this mess gets sorted which only gives the killer more time to “go through the list” of customers. They could all be kaput by the time these two are back on their way. Do you think they will get a ticket for uninsured vehicle, at the least ?

HAHAHAHAHA!!! Hilarious strip today, both in artwork and writing! The expression on Ferret’s and Ape’s faces in that second panel is classic Looney Tunes! And I love in the first panel how her wish that Ape would shut up is a thought instead of being spoken. It makes it that much funnier!

Does Rip Haywire frequent Lenny’s?

I completely agree with L Silverman that this has turned into LooneyTunesville.

That is not what I look forward to in a Dick Tracy comic.

As I said yesterday, these two have zero brains and luck is even worse, crashing into a police car? I can’t wait to hear what they say to the cops on patrol.

Looks like this case will resolve itself when Yeti attempts to “permanently pink slip” his pratfall prone pair of supporting players while they’re still in police custody — only to run snack dab into Tracy’s erstwhile PR stunt. Based on today’s fantastic comedic stylings, I’m hoping the affair features a non-stop barrage of flying cream pies.

D’oh!

“I was in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time.”

Yes!

Seriously? Just like this?

Well, Yeti’s waiting for them to return…..so going to jail will save their lives, and squealing on Yeti a possibility……

I do not think Ape will get any Valentines today!

“Quick, Ape, load the spider venom injection gun!”

“Tell me about the Pancakes, George.”

The art on this one looks weird to me. Ape leans way to his left, apparently snapping his shoulder belt, and yanks Ferret toward him? Why is she suddenly leaning way to her right? And it was a violent yank, because her hair is streaming behind her, to her left.

And this causes the car to make a 90 degree left turn? Is Ape so heavy that when he leans to the side, the entire car and other passenger shift to compensate?

You fools! You ran over the small, verbose lizard. There goes YOUR insurance claim!

Laurel and Hardy attempt a life of crime…

um, whoops… :{

I’m still waiting for this story to make sense

Oof. Feels like me driving idiotic drunk passengers home on rideshare last night

This strip today gave me a much needed chickle!

What are the odds they hit a police car?

Happy Anniversary of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre to all of my Tracy friends:

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BOOK QUOTE—-

“One imagines a mastermind as some grand and sinister figure of evil”

“It’s not like that at all.Evil is not something superhuman.

It’s something less than human.Your criminal is someone who wants to be important.But who will never be important.

Because he’ll always be less than a man".

Agatha Christie—-THE PALE HORSE—1961

Did they just sideswipe a police car?DID THEY JUST SIDESWIPE A POLICE CAR??

My mind is racing back to who I think were the dumbest Tracy villains of all time.

COnfidence Dolan&Sandy Maguire from 1933 are still in the lead.

With Uncle Punky from 1963 breathing down their necks.

Very interesting….since February 8th when Ferret and Ape was shown in their vehicle…it is raining. Yet there are no drops on their windshield. Are they doing the speed limit? Will this be a bump and run? I can hardly wait for tomorrow’s episode.

“Ooh! There’s a Lenny’s Pancake House”! What we have here is a case of “distracted driving”. Lenny’s must be the equivalent of IHOP (International House of Pancakes) in Tracy land.

Ferret hydroplaned into the police car. Since Tracy and Sam are back at headquarters, one can probably rule them as being the other passengers. With a rain slick street I doubt those officers can do a U-turn and take up pursuit.

I’ll give Ferret and Ape their “props”…at least they are shown wearing seat belts and shoulder harnesses.

The big guy could pass for Marvel’s Ox…probably just as smart.

The kids have done it now!

Ah yes, the dumb criminal mistake of doing a minor crime while trying to do major crime.

Meanwhile,B.O. Plenty gives Gertie a new scrub bucket for Valentine’s Day.He is currently wearing it.

Why is a police car stopped on the road facing in the opposite direction ?

1-APE: And then Dad left when I was 3. I don’t remember him but Mom said I wasn’t missing anything. Say – do you think these skinny Peugeot seatbelts would really save us in an accident…

2-…LET’S TEST THEM!

FERRET: YOU IDIOT! AHHHHHHH!!!!

3-CRASH!

APE: Hey! They worked! Let’s get back to the sewer. Ferret? Ferret? FERRET?!?

I would have preferred another MinuteMystery reprint to what we have now.

DUMB DA BUM BUM!

I guess even in a hard-boiled crime story, there’s room for a little slapstick sideswipe of a squad car! Child-like Ape (that’s the polite way of alluding to his mental deficiencies) obscures Ferret’s view as she’s driving, with disastrous results.

What happens next? I’’m pretty sure the cop(s) in that squad car will not be happy; neither will Ferret, nor most of all Ape, who is hungry, dammit!

One is not like the others.

I’m sorry but the third panel looks like it came from a different comic all together compared to the first two.

I just love panel 2—Ape’s huge hand in the foreground, the expressions on both faces.

…the ’distraction" coulda been worse, Ferret: Ape might have eyeballed The Banana Man tooling around in that goofy car of his….Ooo! Ooooo!! OOOOOOOOOOOH!!!

Life often comes down these moments.