Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 09, 2023

Good morning™, everyone!

Just when she was about to check the men’s restroom (!?), “Susan” spot a glow coming from the server room. I suppose she is suggesting that nobody should normally be there.

Does the brown-haired guy in the first panel look like he has a green face on your monitor? He does on mine.

jeez, for someone who should be beating her feet outta there post haste pronto, she sure is being nosy and dicking around there when it’s not even her concern…

yeah, Sprocket’s gonna get nailed by Dick… LOL…

Who is the guy with the green skin? An alien? A member of the Serpent People? Whaat he’s doing there?

Thank you everyone for your prayers and kind words of encouragement yesterday. My wife’s surgery was a success. Hopefully after some rest she’ll be as good as new.

Oh, oh! I’m guessing a hostage situation with Madsen holding Susan hostage.

Please miss, get out of the building, forget about the light!

Gee, Susan’s hand is bigger than her waist!

Anyone want to bet that glow precedes a bomb meant to take out the servers and eliminate evidence the cops might get?

Sprocket better start looking for her “sock it to ’em” wrench.

One one the workers had transferred over from the phone bank location at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Russia. He has that healthy green glow from that cheap rental space.

I do not have the green skin guy, I feel left out!

Someone in the server room, or the lights were simply left on? Of course it is much easier to show us light from around the doorway than Susan hearing some sort of sound.

(Unless you put in some of the BAM or POW effects of the camp era of Batman.)

Curiosity will get you killed, Sprocket!

uh, in most places when there’s a raid the cops know to have a few guys outside the back door. though considering procedures in tracy town…

Curiosity kills, Sprocket. You’d best get outta there while you can…

Is that Audie wiping the computers, to make it harder for Tracy’s people to discover the real purpose of the phone room? (Finally completing the investigation of the phone fraud complaint from how long ago?)

Um, “Susan”, you weren’t asked to check the server room – maybe there was a reason for that?

Sprocket hears police raid and isn’t already two states away ?

Like yesterday, Sprocket is calm. She also doesn’t hesitate to help despite the danger of her getting caught by Tracy and Sam.

I’d follow her into any room.

Come to find out, this is where Audie’s voices have been coming from the whole time.

“Check the restrooms” – This has to be the slowest raid in police history.

Okay,this is the former 198,23,5,11—-finally getting back in under his REAL name.

My employers tried to add some files to my computer long distance and only succeeded infreezing the computer totally;and when we got it half-fixed I’d been shut out(this thing is supposed to AUTOMATICALLY renew!)

So,now you know who I really am. I don’t have a police record and there’s no reward money offered for me,so lose those thoughts.

I was trying to get back in under “rootcreamwigoil”, the hair tonic used from coast to coast by sophisticated murderers.

MOVIE QUOTE:

MOE: “If we’re discovered,we’re lost!”

CURLY: “You’re crazy! If we’re discovered, we’re found!”

BACK FROM THE FRONT—1943

MEANWHILE, at the movie theater…

1-SABRA: You ruined the screening of SOFT BUNS & HARD NIGHTS for everyone!

2-CHAINRING: I was certain I smelled smoke! Wait for me. I gotta pee. SABRA: THAT’S THE MEN’S ROOM! CHAINRING: I know – tee hee. That movie warmed me up…

3-…HANG ON! – The Projector Room – IT’S ON FIRE! I WAS RIGHT TO YELL ‘FIRE’ IN A CROWDED THEATER! I’M A HERO! cough, choke

Okay, Sprocket’s friendship with Susan is causing her to drag her feet a little at a crucial time——we’ll see if she pays for that.

Sunday strip—-the shooting victim and his stitches apologize to Tracy for lying to him. People who lie to Dick Tracy usually DON’T get rewarded for it.

Enough of connecting Sam Catchem with pastrami. He’s a “corned beef and swiss” man through and through.

I’m trying to t hink SProcket would make a very problematic hostage, to put it mildly.She’ll show off the judo tricks she learned from Lizz.

Something else—I t hink the “Comment counter” is way off

Does anyone else have GoComics suddenly close with an antivirus add replacing it? So annoying. I believe GoComics has programmed that to happen.

That looks interesting.

I hope the person isn’t a professional with a silenced pistol to shoot her between the eyes.

As the panicky staff of the phone racket stampede towards the familiar main exit, “Susan” (Sprocket Nitrate) acts on Sabrina’s directive to check the restrooms. But, as she is about to conclude that assignment (panel 2, “All clear.”), she notes a light emanating from the Server Room and surmises someone is in there. Is she right about that? If so, who might it be? Audie, trying to destroy potential evidence? Or, the cops already (having somehow breached the Server Room from outside)? Or, some unknown third party?

But the overarching question of the day is, shouldn’t Sprocket, more than anyone else in their petty parts in the scheme, be the one to flee ASAP, given that there could be heat on her?!