Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 09, 2022

Good morning™, everyone!

Well, I see that Rose is still active, for those who were wondering yesterday, but it looks to me like Daisy has been hit by Yeti’s dart. Rose has done a number on Yeti’s workbench, but I’m not sure about the condition of Yeti, himself.

“You call that auto-fire?! I’ll show you auto-fire!!”

Wow, that’s some sister Daisy’s got!

Good morning™, Mad gunners !

Rose is menacing but will those “warning shots” have taken away time to actually do damage to Yeti before Tracy can plant one in her ?  For live or dead Rose will not enjoy her life as a disabled person living in the big house.

Isn’t that a great outfit Rose is wearing? Did Shelley design it?

Yeti was a bad shot and so is Daisy. It will turn out that on Tracy and Sam are the only ones good at shooting. Show them Sure Shot Sam !

Rose was aiming at Yeti and all she hit was the table. She probably obeyed Tracy’s order to lower your weapons. :)

Rose’s Weapon firing master at the Assassins Finishing School For Young Ladies in Switzerland will not be happy that she is firing with only one hand on the weapon.

I think you are right.

Yeti gravitates towards cowardice. Dick Tracy gravitates towards bravery. I am eager to see Tracy catch up to that old sonofasasquatch.

Looks like Rose has gotten at least 8 shots off. I doubt Yeti can have avoided them all.

“I ordered assassins. All I got was Stormtroopers. I want a refund.”

Er, we know that Yeti keeps a LOT of toxic stuff around for making his special poisons. With all that gunfire damage, I wouldn’t want to be breathing (or splashed) in that room right now.

I get the impression that everyone was diving around the room trying not to get shot.

If Rose shot high, that could be because she’s not used to the recoil of a fully automatic burst lifting the barrel.

Tomorrow is Tracy and Sam’s turn to shoot someone or everyone :)

Why are villians all such lousy shots?

That’s an unfortunate thorn on Rose’s posterior

I guess writing in gun fire sounds like POW and BLAM would’ve turned this into the old Batman TV show.

And the man in the back said, “Everyone attack!” and it turned into a barroom blitz… (Sweet, 1973)

1-ROSE: The man I fell in love with the instant I saw him is trying to kill my brother but clearly trying to miss me. I can’t allow him to hurt my brother again…

2-… But I love them both dearly. I know just what to do…

3-… I’ll just scare him. Maybe throw a few splinters at him. RUN MY DARLING!

AL: THAT CRAZY BEE-ATCH IS TRYING TO KILL ME! I SHOULD A GUNNED HER FIRST! OUCH OUCH OUCH! TWEEZERS! I NEED TWEEZERS!

Mark Barnard is the John Cage of comic strip writers.

there’s holes everywhere now!

Must have been trained by Star Wars Imperial soldiers. They can’t hit anything!

All of that poison mixing together and drenching Yeti could cause an unexpected reaction. I fear Yeti may turn into…“The Flash,” The Fastest Sasquatch Alive; and who, disguised as Slowpoke Rodriguez, fights a never ending battle for lies, injustice, and the way of the sewer!

What is the story with these darts today? It looks like Daisy got pinged by one. And either Ferret or Ape picked up one off of the floor to throw at Rose. As for Yeti…all this firepower…and no ricochets hit him?

When the “calvary” does arrive, how are the ambulance personnel going to get the casualties and wounded out of this underground hide-out?

Tracy and Sam must have ducked under a table to dodge the gun shots.

And there she goes. Get him, Rose! It appears that Yeti’s plants are dead fish dead unless a new start can be saved from the remnants. As Neil said above, Daisy may have been hit by a dart. The poor guy has already suffered because of Yeti. At the risk of thinking vicious thoughts… someone needs to put a bullet or a dart into Yeti before he escapes again. It looks like he’s beating a hasty retreat.

“Bullets flying everywhere! People start to scream!”

MOVIE QUOTE—“If you hear a loud noise,it’ll be Mr.Ketchum dying”.

Jack Elam—RIO LOBO—1970

Shhh…quiet!!You’ll wake up The Mole.

Yeti ducks under a thick table.Daisy hits the floor.Rose is the only “standing target”—-but she’s not shooting at the cops.

Decisions,decisions…who does Tracy ventilate first?

HOW does the ONE guy who did NOT have a gun pulled manage to get rounds off AND get MISSED by the return fire? And WHAT are the two coppers doing as all this is going down?

Wow that’s some dart gun

Still missing from WIKI/FANDOM is that “Archival” guy.Not that his ego couldn’t stand the bruising….

Also missing is Max Collins’ last villain,SNAKE EYES.hewas Odds Zonn done right.

Won’t you all be surprised when we take a break in the morning for two days’ Talking Heads to debate the workings of Yeti’s gun, various poisons and alternative endings? Then the last day will basically be:

PANEL ONE: Tight facial shot of Sam.

SAM: “WOW! Wasn’t that great, Tracy?”

PANEL TWO: Ultra close shot of Tracy’s eyes as he winces.

TRACY: “Yes, Sam. Too bad the lights in the sewer went out and everyone missed it.”

PANEL THREE: Mental image balloon of Sam sitting on the curb, removing his socks, with a dialog overlay.

SAM: “Well, I could reenact it with sock puppets…”

What happened to, “Bang!! Bang!! Bang Bang!!”?

A world without sound effects. No crickets!! No birds!!. I’ll add them – “chirp!”; “tweet”. Now I can sleep. “ZZZZZZZZ!!”

Oh, my, my! The classic splatter of hot lead from the wildly inaccurate but fast, full automatic machine pistol! Rose may or may not have hit Yeti with that furious burst. In panel 3, a couple of those spots on his back may or may not represent bullet entries (or just be debris from the shattered table/desk). This Rose has thorns!

Fine Action Art….

A toe-to-toe shoot out. Haven’t seen one since Dead Heat in 1988.