Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 21, 2022

Oops, there is an eavesdropper by the door!

Ferret has claws for fingers in panel 3.

Ferret looks like Red Hiding Hood with that red poncho.

In that first panel, Ape and Ferret look like they’re in an ad for Grit!

Good morning™, everyone!

Ferret apparently has a way to make money off of this? I really wonder what that could be. I’m assuming this is a “side scheme” that Yeti is not supposed to find out about.

(Brilliant deduction that someone is targeting Yeti’s clients. Wouldn’t she have already figured that out when Moran came to harm?)

Where’s Neil with my copy/paste “TM” mark ?

Good morning™, conning connivers !

These guys are getting a mite greedy for their own good but what the heck by the time Yeti finds out the jig will be up. That fella, presumably a yet to be victim, eyes them suspiciously.

A recap;Yesterday I posted a silly poem.

L Silverman commented that I should leave the poem writing to Pequod.

Although I knew he was joking I felt the need to convey my opinion that Pequod presents recaps, not poems.

I was then called the following by some of my fellow posters, including Pequod.

Hater

Pathetic

Joyless

Hurtful

Belittler

I also received fatherly advice that I should shut up.

Excuse me, could someone show me in the comment policy section where it says you must be a lover of Pequod’s writings in order to post comments???

For having the audacity to say I don’t like his style I’m treated worst than a Canadian trucker???

Astonishing!

If I shrug my shoulders and shake my head anymore I’ll turn into a Dick Tracy bobblehead!

Thanks for the laughs.

Either Ferret or Ape failed math in school.

Ape says there’s 8 still alive but Ferret says 3 out of 10 are DEAD.

No wonder Yeti is itching to terminate those two screwballs.

These 2 are too cartoonish for this strip. They belong in Broom Hilda.

Ferret looks like an angel when she’s not showing her teeth but looks frightening when she starts showing her front teeth.

Well, tailing them should lead to Yeti……He’s a boring villain…wish he DOES end up spider food this time….

Ferrets face in last panel aaah!

When are they going to ditch the car?

Told you they were too stupid/afraid of Yeti to steal another car!

Textbook.

1-APE: Mark that guy down as a 7…I mean 8. He really rocks that receding hairline. FERRET: Got it!

2-APE: Do you really think this In-Person Dating Evaluation plan will take over from those online versions? It seems like a lot of work.

FERRET: True but no one can post an old picture or a picture of someone else so you know what you’re getting.

3-APE: Does it matter that the people we’re checking out don’t even know that they’ll be in the FERRET DATING NEWSLETTER ? That last guy seemed happily married…

FERRET: Yeah, well that won’t last when he see’s who I got him hooked up with – ME!

APE: But you’re the only female we’ve looked into. So far, it’s just been rich, old men.

FERRET: And now you know how this ultimately gets monetized!

APE: No I don’t. FERRET: Moron…

Ah yes, Broom Hilda. Now there’s a strip that moves.

Do all of Yeti’s clients employ butlers? The one shown here is definitely giving Ferret and Ape the side eye.

Yeti gave them the assignment to find his customers, who are they looking to sell the list to? Aha! Playing both sides has risks, it would behoove Ferret and Ape to re-evaluate what was proposed. Else neither one will survive to spend “some coin”.

I see it is still raining. Sewers should be filling up about now. Flood warnings in Tracyville.

Inner Party Member O’Brien: “How many fingers are you holding up, Ape?” Ape: “Duhh, one. two twee foyuh. five. six. seven. eight!” O’Brien: “And if the Party says they are not eight but NINE, then how many?” Ape: Duhhh?!!! Let me start over and count dem again!"

Coward.

Stupid follows stupid.

Wouldn’t it be easier, & more secure, for Yeti to check out on his clients by calling them on the phone or exchanging messages on social media? Just asking.

And a YAY!! for Ape being able to count.

Awww.. .they make such a cute larcenous couple…

Ape seems incrementally larger with his every appearance! At this point, it’s a marvel that he fits into Constance’s Kia.

Be that as it may, some of the “other gang bosses” survive, and that’s Good News to bring back to Yeti, if Constance “Ferret” dares. But it seems her little mind has some money-making side venture brewing. Probably not a Good Idea, for oh, so many reasons (reactions from Yeti, Tracy, and any mark involved, that she and Ape can’t handle)….

And at the end of t his story,Yeti marries Gale Sondergaard and they live happily ever after.

MOVIE QUOTE—-“No matter how horrible things are,they can always get worse”

Barbara Stanwyck—EXECUTIVE SUITE—1954