Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 27, 2022

Not Sue!

Good morning™, everybody!

Depending on how he intends to cut Paul and Sue “out of the picture,” this could be an even more serious crime. He was rumoured to have killed someone in California before coming to Tracy’s city the first time.

No bad deed left unpunished.

I hope Paul survives. We need someone who drinks anything other than coffee.

Fart is the epitome of a weasel.

Good morning™, crookiest crooks !

He may have to do them in to make covering his trail out more absolute. Not like Paul and Sue should get anything after all it is dirty money.

what a dog… not only screwing over his accomplice but double-dealing Sue yet again… what a slimy scumbag…

Faking the provenance is a major felony, in every American state. A good detective will not be fooled. Dekko will be caught. Even if the forger fakes the chemical tests of the works paint, he can’t fake Leonardo’s fingerprints in the actual portraits paint and other trademark workmanship. But chain of custody is key. And real research there will reveal the hoax.

Neil’s spellcheck program here is not the best one.

After he threw Sue Reel under the bus the last time, it’s a miracle he’s still breathing and now he’s going to do it again, and hose Paul as well. I guess he thinks nobody would ever consider revenge. It might not be Tracy popping a cap in him this time.

The latest Leonardo to be found is considered by many art historians as having a murky past and inception. It may not even be a Leonardo at all. Further forensic investigation of the work is necessary to determine the work’s authenticity.

What’s with the checkboard in panel one? I know that’s supposed to be the sunlight shining in the room but what would cause that design. Doubt it’s the light coming through a window.Also, what’s it reflecting off of? It’s definitely behind the sofa. The air?

Oil paints do not dry that quickly.

Of course, right now Dekko’s accomplice in Europe may be planning to “cut him out of the picture” first.

What’s that old saying….“no honor among thieves”?

Looks like Art Dekko is planning the ultimate double-cross…..but what will that entail? Merely selling them out to the law….or something a lot more permanent?

Exactly how is Dekko going to cut them out of the picture? They know all about his antics, will he “rub them out”?!

That will put a hole in the painting!

Hmmm… Legal question. To the best of my knowledge it is not illegal to make a painting and sign it Picasso, or Rubens, or van Gogh as long as it is for yourself and you make no claim it is an authentic work of the artist whose name you signed. Dekko knows a lost da Vinci would far more likely be discovered in Europe than the US and is preparing his fake provenance there… So, leaving the cells aside for the moment, has Dekko committed a crime that Tracy can arrest him for? Should the sale of the painting be done in Europe I think the crime will be one for the country where the sale takes place (and the country where the fraudulent provenance was created).

Kind of wonder why he even brought Sue into the picture in the first place. She’s only a loose end because he told her his plan even though she doesn’t contribute to it at all.

No Honor among thieves…Though if he Screws over Paul, Paul may snitch

Oooh! I like this nasty turn of events. There’s no loyalty among thieves.

Being a paragon of virtue makes career CROOKERY challenging, I would guess.

that could possibly result in problems for him…spoiler alert

Is he from the Art Dekko district of Miami ? Sounds like he is from the Banana Republic of Miami where exMLB pitcher Livan Hernandez did his buisness negotiations with a golf club to the head of his opposition!!!

If he’s planning on offing his cash cow, he must plan this as being his last crime of this kind.

I KNEW IT,I KNEW IT!!

Once a backstabber,always a backstabber!!

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“You be there on Christmas Eve with the money,.Or comeChristmas Morning you’ll find your head in your stocking”.

Fred Clark to Bob Hope—-THE LEMON DrOP KID—1951

SPOCK: If I appear distracted, it is because of what I have seen. I am close to experiencing an unaccustomed emotion.

MCCOY: I’ll drink to that. What emotion?

SPOCK: Envy. None of these da Vinci paintings has ever been catalogued or reproduced. They are unknown works, all apparently authentic to the last brush stroke and use of materials. As undiscovered da Vinci’s, they would be priceless.

KIRK: Would be? You mean you think they’re fakes?

SPOCK: Most strange. A man of Flint’s obvious wealth and impeccable taste scarcely needs to hang fakes. Yet my tricorder analysis indicates that the canvas and pigments used are of contemporary origin.

(“Requiem for Methuselah,” Star Trek TOS)

It occurs to me to wonder if Sue is Scottish.

Art has forgotten the injunction, “Do not bind the mouths of the kine who tread the grain,” especially since his cohorts have the power (while living, or with a letter left with a friend or lawyer) to blow his scheme apart. (I hope that Paul is documenting with photos his production of the painting.)

Remember that 3 can keep a secret, but only if 2 of them are dead.

I repeat….Christmas Eve is also Dick&Tess’ wedding anniversary——their 73rd.

Gould always stopped the action to point this out.Also with Sparkle Plenty’s birthday

Annnnnnnnnnd…here comes the “++”!

Everyone in the “Big House”, the “Cop Shop”, or Hollywood knows that the easiest way to split the loot is to “Divide by One”. (Coming to a theater near you, just in time for OSCARS- I WISH.)

Everyone in the “Big House”, the “Cop Shop”, or Hollywood knows that the easiest way to split the loot is to “Divide by One”. (Coming to a theater near you, just in time for OSCARS- I WISH.)

So he thinks he won’t need him again? Short sighted.

WOW! I’m one of the 10 best Christmas Dads in Christmas movies. Read down to "Rob McCallister (6th entry down)

https://collider.com/best-movie-holiday-dads/

Devious Dekko, that little rat, has a dirt nap in mind for Paulie the Artist and Sue Reel, I suspect. What a creep! His oily hairdo alone is enough to make him seem slippery, and his private thoughts confirm his evil intent.

Unless Art has a foolproof to get a sure sale, he’ll be right back where he started.

Now I know who he reminds me of, In the new Charlies Angels movie, one of th villians the threee girls fight, same hair do. I think he was also the Father in back to the future!