Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 23, 2023

He lied to us

We must discuss

For Anders may soon die.

I am no lamb

Our shady scam

Serves up sweet slice of pie.

Yet now’s the time

To cease our crime

We know the time is nigh.

Let’s close this game

Cleanse our sad shame

If not I must ask why.

“Let’s take this candy wrapper back to the station for questioning.”

“It’s a granola wrapper, dummy.”

Good morning™, everyone!

I’m not sure that Sam should be picking up evidence with his bare hands.

So will Sam and Tracy turn up Madsen’s body, or will Sabrina be tasked with disposing of it? Or maybe even Sprocket!

Peter Pan Sam can sniff out any clue if it concerns food!

Tracy’s wrist genie is amazing! Not only does it show movies and serves as a flashlight, it even auto tunes his voice on MCU karaoke nights!

It does everything except what firestrikes natural “wrist genie” does!

Looks like they need to unionize! Obviously management lied and killed a worker !

Gosh,can this story move any slower???

Good morning™, down and dirty detectives !

Great abandoned commercial/industrial scene renderings. Our Gal Shel delivers ! :-) :-)

“Keep your voice down, Sabrina, & check the job applications in the H.R. files. See if anyone listed “killer & disposer of bodies” under employment history." “There’s one, the new girl, who never wears shoes.” “Good. Send her in.”

Whose fingerprints are on the candy wrapper? Second question how “cold” is the trail being that Tracy and Sam are just arriving to the scene. Gives another meaning to the term " a day late and a dollar short".

Great Art today……

And since I don’t see any poorly colored wrinkly hand cover thingees… Sam just compromised evidence

Temporarily leaving stuff there required a big spike in electrical use?

No honor among thieves— what a concept!

Starting to think that Sabrina is a bigger crook than we were led to believe.

Keep it down Sabrina, Madsen might hear you, and, then there goes my plans to double cross him, before her double crosses us.

Well, me again, until the last two panels. The wrapper would be irrelevant except as comic relief, as the warehouse is a false lead.

Are we on a merry go round? Shelley’s art continues to impress!

1-DT: I’m tellin’ ya as your realtor, you can’t go wrong. Picture this area as your living room – 100…no 200 INCH Projection TV on the wall!

2-…You’ll wanna put in a hundred grand over asking if you expect to get it. SAM: I dunno…WAIT!

3-…A wrapper from a KOSHER KRUNCHY BAR – my favorite. IT’S A SIGN!

4-DT: There you go! Let’s go “wrapper” this up back at the office – heh heh. You won’t be disappointed! CHA-CHING!

5-SABRA: MADSEN LIED AND PEOPLE DIED! Well, maybe. We don’t know if he died. I personally think it’s a trick concocted by Dick Tracy. AUDIE: You need to go to the hospital and confirm it.

SABRA: THAT’S WHAT TRACY WANTS YA DUMMY! AUDIE: OH! I get it. So you’re saying that I should go? SABRA: Aye Caramba Yeah, sure. Just give me time to clear out anything here that can be traced back to me…

Outstanding Artwork Today!

Several Armchair Detectives have expressed their admiration for todays art and they are right . This is really good comic art that Shelley Pleger is doing . Really good .

We’ve apparently gotten away from Audie’s schizophrenia. He hasn’t heard a voice since his first couple of appearances.

I’m negotiating with Studio Ghibli for an all-feline film based on this plotline. Oh, right. Sam is a bug-eyed chihuhu (until they realize the bow tie is on too tight and is cusing this).

OT: A little ticked, as I had someone record my final bit it the local comedy club before it folded. Did my 7 Wonders of Bachelorhood and some new material based on practical wife living with a writer. The audio did not come put

Though the continual rush of the ventilator and the eerie, very distant laughter were ‘interesting’. sounded like the dread Dormamu liked my stuff, from his distant arcane universe. Probably a bachelor.

You would think after all his years on the force, Sam would know better than to pick up a possible clue bare handed

I am a member of SAG-AFTRA, the actor’s union. I am ON STRIKE!

I have been notified by SAG-AFTRA not to attend any CostumeCons. Do not wear furry costumes or costumes reflecting any film, TV, or streaming character, whether or not you originally played the role. Do not serve on any panel at a convention where costumed characters promoting or representing Hollywood films are present. Do not promote any film, whether you have appeared in it or not.

This strike is against the major Hollywood studios who promote heavily at Cons. Independent productions can apply and receive a waiver and actors may still work for independent productions with waivers.

I wonder if those rules apply to constantly reading about all of the FurryCons, ComicCons, or Antique Games Con, etc. in this strip?

I’m in no hurry.

I wonder if those rules apply to constantly reading about all of the FurryCons, ComicCons, or Antique Games Con, etc. in this strip?

if this is so, then any and all convention-related content within the Dick Tracy strip must stop, cease and desist from this moment forward, as to not place Mr. Toler in a precarious position within the SAG-AFTRA union as well as the GoComics Dick Tracy community here…

any all all connections with furry costumed cosplayers shall be discontinued at this point until the strike has been settled amicably between all parties…

Mr. Toler shall not and SHOULD not be placed in an uncomfortable, untenable and unnecessary position by having to continually be perusing every so often the non-adventures of hare-brained critters roaming about the convention wasteland with absolutely no purpose except to look like dam-ned fools with peculiar odors wafting off their sweat-permeated costumes, much like most science-fiction conventioneers do when they don’t change their clothing or wash their costumes… so the idiotic, inept and imbelilic PTB here must and SHALL notify their scripter/scripters to terminate ALL mention of such convention activities and institute it as their new policy to be strictly enforced so as not to have Mr. Toler accidentally and unintentionally cross that picket line until all issues have been resolved to everyone’s satisfaction…

so do it for Mr. Toler, as he is a highly esteemed member of SAG-AFTRA as well as the community here…

and for god’s sake, do it for all of us, the members of the GoComics collective, as well…

we don’t need or WANT that schitt…

I WOULD have said ‘the HIGHLY ESTEEMED members of the GoComics collective’, but those of you who are NOT, KNOW who you are… LMAO…

so… make it so…

and… engage…

(oops, sorry, I was unintentionally chanelling my inner Picard there… )

I like the lighting and staging in panel #1.

And, thanks to not wearing exam gloves, Sam’s got his fingerprints on the wrapper – good show, partner!

Sabrina is furious! And surely the guy realizes she is right but does not want to panic the other personnel. It would behoove him to be strapped when meeting Madsen again.

Sabrina needs a calmative: she is in full panic mode, fearing that their (her’s and Audie’s) little scam is about to explode if the shooter, Mad Madsen, comes gunning for them, or if the cops get too close for comfort.

Meanwhile, Sam and Tracy continue to sniff around the seemingly-abandoned warehouse, looking for any clues—and Sam promptly contaminates the one they do find, the “practically new” candy bar wrapper (okay, technically granola bar, as the wrapper says)! Bad partner, Sam, bad! _Always put on the sterile latex (vel sim.) glove(s) first! Don’t you watch TV crime shows like CSI?

And if Sabrina doesn’t tone it down a notch or two, Everybody Knows! https://tinyurl.com/mrmpx59t

The only light in that creepy warehouse seems to be coming from Dick&Sam’s wrist gadgets.

As the old saying goes—“This looks like a good place for a murder”