Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 18, 2023

it took him this long to determine and come to that conclusion?…

Here’s today’s

“Goat Joke of the Day!”

to help you survive the latest episode of;

“As the Worm Inches Along!”

What do you call a lazy goat?

Billy Idle!

Tune in tomorrow,

Same goat time, same goat channel!

Good morning™, everybody!

Five people dead. I had kind of forgotten about “the collector” across the state line. It’s taken a while for Tracy to come to the conclusion that there is a serial killer. I kind of thought that when there were only two bodies.

Tracy looks shocked that Sam actually stood awake during the whole briefing!

(The following lie is presented for the benefit of those who can’t take someone expressing disappointment. WE CARE!)

WOW, AM I IMPRESSED WITH TODAY’S ACTION AND STORY MOVEMENT!!!

WORLD’S GREATEST DETECTIVE!

Good morning™, Serious Serialists !

Look out !!!  Tracy means bizniss now. Let the steamroller roll, we got us a multiple killer all wrapped up in one person. I hope Sam gets to do something besides deadpan dialog.

Well, for you complainers, they are going to plan some action. They’ll need some Powerpoint slides, Gantt charts, and a waterfall schedule. So within a week or so we should have some. Wait, there’s the Thanksgiving break. Mid-December for sure.

Well, at least the strip contains the WORD action!

It’s a start!

Hopefully, before 2024 it’ll contain some ACTUALLY action!

Tracy makes the obvious conclusion…..now how to trap this fiendish mad dog killer?

No, each of those books stands on its own.

I like this story…..what’s the rush? It’s a comic, not a movie….

Good visuals again today!

Last panel, a little difficult to turn your hand around that way as Tracy is doing!

It took five bodies to drop before MCU realized a serial killer is on the loose? Better late than never.

A stabbing serial killer eh. Not tell me killer wear black clothes and gloves too. Obviously this story “inspired” from one of em bad giallo but minus all the sleaze.

Five deaths, and only two of them have names.

I sometimes believe you twits would ENJOY two weeks of nothing but Dick Tracy beating down bad guys…

I believe we have a serial killer on our hands … ya’ think? Go get em’. ☜⁠ ⁠(⁠↼⁠_⁠↼⁠)

It took tracy SEVEN THOUSAND WEEKS to determine that this is a serial killer? Jessica Fletcher would have had this solved in two days, Scooby Doo in under an hour

I said serial killer last week! Of course the Snail Man may have taken some time to deliver.

Zzz…

“Elementary, my dear Tracy…..”

DT shouldn’t point that at Sam. It might go off.

X Libris doesn’t have issues…she has entire bound volumes.

Serial Killer? They better warn Captain Crunch

You’re just NOW figuring this out?!

More like an Obsessed Collector, there have been many in History.

KNEW IT ALL ALONG! IT’S CAPN’ CRUNCH, and Tracy just can’t SPELL!!

Will this be Tracy’s first use of a whiteboard? LOL Fortunately, it looks like the marker is not yellow.

Will this be Tracy’s first use of a whiteboard? LOL Fortunately, it looks like the marker is not yellow :)

Fortunately, Shelley didn’t have Sam raise his hand, showing all five fingers LOL

So… it took FIVE murders to inspire action? Four was just under the cut?

TRACY: “Let’s see…we can connect the Backroom Guy, Caxton, and the Collector with Libris. That leaves the courier and Manutius…Too bad we don’t have anything like a LOGBOOK to placed Libris at Pfister the last day Manutius apparently can be identified as alive…”

Spoiler alert: With the only known connection to 6 victims, it’s obvious the killer is Lee.

1- SAM: So that’s… blah blah blah LEE: Good thing we got Sam around to keep score snark LIZ: Yeah. We might miss charging the killer with one or more of the murders without him – har har…

2- DT: That’s great, Sam. Why don’t you write that on the whiteboard and then we won’t have to hear you talk until the count changes? SAM: But chalk won’t show up on that.

DT: Oh my friggin’ head…

he just worked this out? seriously dick, the brain has gone time to head for the beach.

Jeez, thanks for the recap. This coulda’ passed as the first day of the story!

tony the tiger and cap’n crunch have been killed

If Dick Tracy believes that….I do too!

Could it be that the super uptight book collector lady is our killer? All signs obviously point to YES!

I’m not a professional criminologist, but I’m not sure Libris qualifies as a “serial killer” … she doesn’t seem to kill just for the sake of killing, but kills to further her criminal activities, which seems to have something to do with rare books & manuscripts. Hard to believe we’re like 3 months into this story, & we’re still trying to figure out what the crimes are.

Ya think?

About that Shakespeare folio…I wonder if Tracy knows someone in the theater business that might be of help? ;-)

Ye gods! Tracy has figured out at last what most of us recognized long ago! Five (or should it be six?) dead in this case means we’ve got us a Serial Killer on our hands! Sure, there is a connection to rare books or manuscripts (which could point to someone) that seems to motivate the killer but five (or six) dead are still five (or six) dead. This is still a Serial Killer. And, yes, the Serial Killer does have a predilection for stabby things as Weapon of Choice (which also could point to the same someone).

Now, if only Tracy and his band of peerless crime solvers could put even just these clues together, someone might be declared at a minimum a Person of Interest.

Ya’ll know of whom I speak, XL?

“Goat Joke of the Day!”(To continue until there’s one honest to goodness panel of real, slam bam ACTION!)

to help you survive the latest episode of;“As the Worm Inches Along!”

Q. What do you call a goat that can play the piano really well?

A. Billy Joel.

Tune in tomorrow,

Same goat time, same goat channel!