Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 04, 2022

“Ape, if there’s ever been a time in your life you were able the shut the F up, make that time NOW!”

Good morning™, everyone!

It’s Rose, as many of us figured, and she looks like a mean one. While everyone is distracted, do you suppose Ape and Ferret can get involved? Ape looks worried.

Good morning™, about to be robbed avengers !

So next we’ll see Tracy and Sam behind the henchies ?  I hope Rose gets one off before this whole thing comes crashing down. Ape wonders if he’ll get paid. A dead boss is a non paying boss.

Snow…Yeti, get it? Yuck-yuck-yuck!

Rose is as mean as the gun she’s holding.

Mark creates some clever and snazzy plots twists and Shelley’s drafts are lively, elegant and and full of zing! Way cool!

Ape ‘n Ferret are visible in panel 1, in the background. Ferret’s cloak is purple instead of red.

Tracy and Sam are watching from a distance and listening to the conversation while waiting for the cavalry to arrive.

So who’s going to go full Revvy? Ferret or Rose?

At the moment it appears to be Rose.

Does anyone else here think Rose looks a bit like Joan Crawford?

Well, well, this is going to get very interesting!

“Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.”

Wow, well drawn today! Ape’s expression last panel!

Shelley , has done a super , great job today . It is hard to pick out a favorite in todays cartoon . The first image with the mirror is just out of this world . And Yeti is depicted so cool in the second panel , ! WOW ! This one is a real dandy for sure .

Ferret looked at Yeti, Daisy, and Rose and noticed that the sewers in Tracyville have a dress code. She is warning Ape that they are underdressed.

well, look who came to his rescue… and if I remember right, Tracy and Sam aren’t too far behind either.

rose? daisy? does he have other sisters named Hyacinthe ?

Loyal Fans Enjoy!!! Yesterday’s panels and today’s panel one today!!! – Doesn’t get much than this in today’s mediocre culture!!! Thanks Pleger and Curtis!!

It would be a boring story to do what might happen in real life: walk in a shoot Yeti without a conversation. If I were a vengeful crook who knew the business, I wouldn’t have offed his client base to begin with, but rather simply taken the business and run with it. So what else is going on here? If I were a smart crook, I would have cased the joint, tailed the henchmen, posted a guard, and sent a hit man instead of getting my own hands dirty.

All that to say, I wonder if Daisy and Rose have plans to keep Yeti alive for some other purpose.

1-DAISY: “Look behind me” you say? Oldest trick in the book, Al. You must be desperate to try that one.

2-AL: Fine. Then you won’t mind if I tell them how to get me out of this predicament. Ape! Ferret! Make a loud noise and when Rose turns in surprise, I’ll dart her with enough spider venom to fell a horse! Ok… NOW!

3-FERRET: Shhh

DAISY: Oh just give it up, man! It’s pathetic!

AL: Ape? Ferret? I’m sorry if I’ve ever been short with you. Ummm, I’ll double your salary. No, no. TRIPLE IT! Uh oh…

MOVIE QUOTE—“Say,is it my imagination or is it getting crowded in here?”

Groucho—A NIGHT AT THE OPERA—1935

Yeti might have some spare change in his pockets, so he’d ‘pay’ in a way. They might work cheaply.

OWWW! Pulled an ‘Ape’ today: slammed the dishwasher door on my finger. Well, at least I know the nerves in it work!

The scariest “Rose” I ever saw was Ethel Merman.But this one is a close second.

Seriously,one look at Rose and I want her to survive for future use.

Ape and Ferret hang back and will fight the winner.Or Ferret will fight the winner and Ape will fight the dead loser.

Sam and Tracy will arrive late,with a pushbroom.

DMITRIO—

How can I “discuss” the Wiki/fandom block with you if I’m also blocked from discussing it with you?

You must be a Joseph Heller fan..Once again,please remove the block.I would like to do some of the “small fry” in Rughead’sgang—John Medick;Ig;and Sid Jonah

“It was unfortunate, Daisy…” This guy does not sound too broken up over Daisy’s misfortune.

Rose is the most popular name for a girl in Tracyville. Everything’s coming up Roses.

I think Ferret will handle this. Is she reaching for something under her cape?

Yeti sees his associates

Quit talking and pull the damn trigger already. I don’t remember Flattop standing around yapping when someone needed shooting.

Ok everyone…it’s ready!

Chapter Four of “TROUBLE IN PARADISE?” is up and ready for y’all to read!

As promised, there’s some interesting background on our two new Tracy Team members Eiko O’Malley and Lotus Blossom PLUS the introduction of a bunch of new characters AND a cameo appearance from a character not seen in a while in the actual Tracy strip (if memory serves)

Here’s the link!

https://thedicktracycrimestoppers.createaforum.com/general-discussion/

When Rod Steiger made AL CAPONE in 1959,capone’s surviving relatives had the gall to sue the studio for defamation.

The suit was laughed out of court,but it shows up what different worlds some people live in.Highly recommend the film,which is 90% historically accurate.But they gave Jake Lingle a phony name.

Rose looks like a pull the trigger till the magazine is empty kind of woman.

Can Yeti see Ferret and Ape in P2 and that’s why he’s calm and smiling?

Yeti’s business shrinkage is the least of his worries, as it turns out!

We learn that Daisy’s sister is indeed named Rose, as so many have suspected/expected. And like Daisy, so nick-named because he always keeps a daisy in his lapel, Rose sports a rose on her burgundy-rose outfit. We see her face close-up for the first time, too, and she is one hard looking lady, clearly enough not hesitant to spray hot lead all over Yeti’s HQ, and of course Yeti, too, if she doesn’t miss with that inaccurate, high-rate-of-fire machine pistol (whatever its make, Steyr, MAC, Uzi, or yet some other).

Meanwhile, lurking in the background, Ferret shushes a very worried-looking Ape (he’s big, but not inherently violent; on a personal note, I had a fraternity brother in college much like that: a very big heavyweight wrestler on the varsity team, he was as gentle a man as one could imagine when not grappling).

Now, all that we lack is the arrival of Tracy and Sam, to complicate this already tangled Showdown in the Sewer!

So Daisy & Rose are between Ape & Ferret and Yeti. Wonder what he’s expecting them to do, now that he’s seen them.

Though they should know they’re around – Yeti was getting pretty loud hollering for them just as D & R showed up.