Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 11, 2024

“If the oven glove don’t fit, you must order out!”

does the Bosco case have a connection to the Pertwee case?…

are they interconnected to one another somehow?…

Good morning™, everybody!

Well, at least Tess reads her news online on her cell phone, unlike Dick who mostly reads news on paper. It looks like Bosco is the one who ordered the hit on Tess.

I see that the Tracy family has an Instant Pot. It’s those little details that keep things more up to date (like the cellphone news app.)

Tess looks different today.

Bosco! Chocolaty-est chocolate flavor.

Tracy’s right arm is shrinking before our eyes!

I guess Shelley was distracted by yesterday’s strip, all the emotions and anguish!

Dang, Tracy’s got a hairy arm!

That’s it!!!!

It’s the Yoo Hoo people putting the hit on Tess!!!

Good morning™, talkers to (future) dead people !

Get a good look at her, Dick, as she may not be around much longer. We can be sure that whatever Tracy has “in the oven” will come out ‘alive’ and be heartily ‘adopted’ by Dicky’s tummy, even if the scene changes before we see what the hot mitt pulls out.

Ahh, the complications! Dick is working the Throughton Murder (done somehow by Fata Morgana, apparently with a contact-poison) and The Tracy Agency (P.I.‘s Tess Tracy and Johnny Adonis) has “made a lot of headway” in the Bosco Case We don’t yet know what the Bosco case is, at all, but it seems to be what prompted someone (Bosco him/herself?) to hire FM to off Tess Trueheart-Tracy….

It should prove interesting to see the interweaving of these related themes as the arc unfolds….

“Yes, Tess, I have a hunch the autopsy will show that Throughton’s death wasn’t the result of natural causes, but he was murdered. And we have no leads. His last 24 hours were perfectly normal, nothing out of the ordinary. He stayed In his hotel room all day, except when he went out to see a magic show where he was selected at random out of an audience of several hundred people to get sawn in half, by a magician who the records show has a history of being in cities the exact same time of many suspicious deaths and may have had a connection to Abner Cadaver. Yeah, the MCU’s really stuck on this one…”

Tess has the body of Seven of Nine !

The Tracy Agency made headway on the Bosco case, so is it someone from their side or the Pertwee camp who brought in Fata?

The Tracys are really looking sharp today!

It blows my mind as to why the key witness was not covered like mustard. Did the guy at least give a written deposition? Oh, never mind, not admissible in court. Who is the district attorney in Tracy land? I have never seen this character. Oh, I can hear it now, the police department did not have the budget for witness protection.

Help me out somebody, who is Bosco?

So, the city is sub-contracting police work to Tess & Co.? Sounds like nepotism too me.

Still, I feel the irrepressible urge to put on a red boxing glove and punch you in the nose.

Somebody’s been swiping Chocolate Milk? Horrors!

Bosco gives you iron and sunshine vitamin D

Throughton’s nose looks like a wiener .

Eh so how did he die anyways? You coulda gives we audience more than just two panels a day instead of without much progress.

“Yep, pretty well nailed the lid on that ‘poisoned milk’ caper! It was the colored milk mustaches that broke the case wide open!”

NOTE: For anyone under 50 , look up ‘Bosco’.

Tess is investigating the Salesians?

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“A girl is swimming in San Pedro Bay without any clothes on!”

“Well, send the fashion editor to cover it!”

Purnell Pratt&Ben Lyon—-I COVER THE WATERFRONT—1933

A rare peaceful moment at home. It won’t last/

1-TESS: I can’t believe you lost a key witness in a big case! Well don’t think for a second that you’ll coast on my income after you get canned! “Pull you weight or pull up your stakes” is my motto. And because you’re so dumb, I’ll tell you that that means “If you can’t pay, you can’t play – in my garden”. Or “No dough – no blow” Or “Johnny is already wearing your jockey shorts and there’s barely enough room in front"

2-DT: Why do you have to emasculate me like that? sniff Now if you’ll excuse me, I have your dinner in the oven and I don’t want it to burn…

Gotta love it when the artists go out of the way to make Tess look as voluptuous as possible. Nice work! Reminds me of the curve-filled Tracy strips of old!

Stop talkin’ and start chalkin’ let’s move things along

The Doctor Who references cannot be ignored!