Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 23, 2022

Does Daisy have a revenge-seeking sister?

Wow, what a super De duper strip today!!! Other than Sam’s coffee cup missing the MCU logo and Tracy’s obvious use of hair dye everything’s perfect!!!

Good morning™, everyone!

More mind-reading by Tracy. For those who have been missing those funky-shaped monitors, there you go!

Riger will save us from the rest of this conversation. Before avenger09 even says something, I do agree that the shape of Sam’s mug is not the same in the two panels where it appears (too tall and narrow in the first panel).

All these guys do is drink coffee! At the very least, make these guys pay for their coffee instead of getting it for free!

Good morning™, talking Daisy chains !

The contrast of Sam’s bow tie and black shirt is stunning today.

Dick Tracy with the Widow’s Peak.

Maybe it’s Earl Stanley Gardner.

Is that a confirmation that Daisy did not die in the sewer?

It must be Rose Dugan who dropped those rose petals. It runs in the family.

so we have a copycat killer?

The gears of justice grind slowwwwly but surely….

Daisy. here looks a bit like he’s going for a LOVE BOAT cameo frame. “Yeah, I’m all that!” Love it.

RIGER: Darn it, Tracy! You parked in my spot again!!

TRACY: But you don’t have a CAR!

RIGER: That’s beside the point! Next thing, you’re going to eat that week old, green pastrami at the deli I never touch!

TRACY: (burp)

By the way, look for a little friction between Sam and Riger in a couple of days. I wanted to do a tiny bit of character work, so I have Sam favoring old fashioned police work over relying too much on hi-tech.

Could we be seeing the return of Mr Bribary?

“Invasion of the Shape~Shifting Mugs” has BEGUN!!

“Riger just happens to be paging me with something that by the sheerest of coincidence bears on the conversation we’re having.”

That image of Daisy Dugan, I don’t think it something being display on one of odd shaped monitors, but rather, a memory. And, that cup Sam’s holding in panel 1, looks it’s for one of those fancy coffee drinks, than being for regular office coffee.

The language of flowers:

Wild rose: Pleasure and pain

White rose: Innocence

Yellow rose: Jealousy

Red rose: I love you

Dark crimson rose: Mourning

Pink rose: Happiness

Daisy: I love you truly

1-DT: You look like some weird kid sitting in a college political science class, Sam. Ya know what…

2-…that reminds me of a professor I had back in college. It feels like it was a 100 years ago that I was in college…

3-SAM: Hey! Our Magic Monitor picked up your thoughts and displayed them! Isn’t that Poirot?

DT: Why yes it is! He was my Criminology Professor at the Sorbonne! He taught me everything I know about crime solving.

SAM: Yeah, yeah, whatever. Now think of Tess in the nude. You know, just to see if the Magic Monitor is really picking up and displaying your thoughts…

DT: strain I’m trying! It’s been awhile…

SAM: Hang on… MOM! TRACY! YOU PERV! DT: Whoa! Just like I remember her!

Roger, Riger. Pager, Riger.

Do these guys ever leave the office? Jeez, stop talkin’ and start chalkin’

Show me a rose and I’ll show you a girl named Sam…..show me a rose,or leave me alone.

MOVIE QUOTE

“You look good in red”

Lawrence Tierney—DILLINGER—1945

This Daisy Dugan, is he trespassing on Yeti’s turf? Maybe Tracy and Sam are grasping at straws.

The problem here is that Tracy and Sam now seem to know more than they should, according to the last story where Daisy appeared.

The only time Daisy crossed paths with either of them was when they (Tracy and Daisy) were both in the perfume shop together. Daisy bumped into Tracy, but it was just a commonplace occurrence, and Tracy thought nothing of it. Daisy panicked when he realized Tracy was a cop, and waited outside with the poison dart gun, fired at Tracy from a distance where Tracy did not even see him, and then left. Tracy found the lapel flower on the ground, true, but had no way of knowing whose it had been. Then Daisy broke something while on the caper with Yeti, and Yeti left him in the sewer. How do our cops even know anything about him, not to mention appearing to have a full dossier on him?

Daisy seems to be sporting a dapper derby today.

Meanwhile,at Diet Smith Industries,they’ve finally repaired all thevending machines.First things first,

They originally had Yeti’s lifeless body

They did? When? They sure never showed that, to my recollection. And how does a lifeless body “escape”?

While our detectives cogitate without any certainty, Riger has come up with something, probably from review of more of the drone footage. Has he found a recording of the Constance Kia, and of Ape and Ferret herself near the Moran Mansion? Would that constitute any kind of break for the MCU guys? Or has he spotted a furtive woman fleeing the grounds (the mysterious assassin)? Or someone’s car spewing rose petals over the driveway?

Stay ’tooned….