Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 20, 2024

not MY interest…

Interesting, Veddy Interesting!

Time for Tracy to administer the cavity search!!!

He’s so happy, you can hear the snap of the glove!

Good morning™, everyone!

Tracy suddenly spots something suspicious. To be continued…

Dee’s day-by-day rendering of Dick is always inconsistent…

I don’t think she has a real grasp of and feel for Dick…

I wonder if there’s a tea strainer built into the teapot and that was laced with the poison?

It’s an assassin’s teapot.

Good morning™, Squirming Suspects !

Dee does a very good rendering of a man sweating bullets. Will Tracy get to unleash a few of his own ?  And if he does we’ll see a fiery flash and a downed bloodless person because no one bleeds anymore. He will just miraculously expire. Maybe we’ll get to see a tagged toe as he is being carried away, if we’re lucky.

As said above. It’s an assassin’s teapot…

https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=qp_nkqOmmSE

Is that bone china?

Ah the old trick teapot trick eh.

Oh… It’s a radio! A moment of silent confusion on my part (no coffee yet). At a fast glance I thought the officer in panel two was wearing a uniform from Judge Dredd.

Dick’s question about insurance is a good one, business partners will insure each other’s lives to protect the investment in the corporation. We’re back to cui bono?

Thurston Howell the Fifth has lost it all ? And where is Grandmummy Lovey ?

Are each of his lives insured? How many lives does this guy have? Is he a Time Lord? What a plot twist!

Those are some shiny rubber gloves Tracy has. (Who uses white rubber gloves?)

Latex gloves. Finally. Better late than never. What about Sam? Is he latex gloved up? Remember Sam handled the candy wrapper paper with his bare mitts in a previous story a couple months ago.

Watch out for that ‘officer’ stealing the evidence, Tracy. The hands!CLEARLY an alien smurf!

I contacted Sisyphos last night by text and received a reply. He says he is reading the strip every day but according to him, “…my time management. I just don’t seem to be able to carve out enough time for commenting on my GC selection of strips…I am still reading, just not commenting for now…”

Is Tracy about to pour Palmer a cup? Is this a Vizzini moment with the Man in Black or has Tracy switched something safe with the evidence in order to make Palmer think Tracy is putting poison in front of him?

MOVIE QUOTE

“First war profiteer like bird. Look for big fat worm”

Sidney Toler—CHARLIE CHAN IN CITY IN DARKNESS—1939

You could probably sell all those items to Tuesday Chick.

Well,at least I liked Panel One and the “Bob Hope schnozz”.

Make me a tongue sandwich—I can’t find one since the Carnegie Deli closed.

The 2024 Aston-Martin DB12 Car—-purchase price $245,000.00(The James Bond car)

A little expensive on a cop’s salary.

But maybe Tracy can have someone give it to him for free i n return for testing out the car’s gadgets.

(sigh) . . . . it isn’t over yet .

If it is an assassin’s teapot could there be a worse possible way to kill Borgia? I mean, it would be the equivalent of shooting him through the heart and then remain holding the smoking gun. They brought Popski one set of dishes? All the teapots in the Borgia & Palmer collection are assassin’s teapots? Palmer really believed no one was going to notice the unique feature of the teapot and add 1+1? I’ve not given up the poison antacid tablet theory.

1-PERPSKI: Clumsily?!?! How da-dare you! I’m afflicted with palsy, I have a bad eye and I stutter. Maybe you would like to go to the orphanage and make fun of the kids!

2-DT: WHOA! Is any of that communicable??? I’ll glove up just in case. Try to breathe away from me. Oh. Thanks, honey. I’ll take it from here…

3-… Hey! What’s this button? PERPSKI: Uh… you pr-press it if you want to add mi-milk to your tea. DT: I don’t. PERPSKI: I MEANT PRESS IT IF YOU DON’T WANT MILK!

DT: Geez. Make up your mind. You don’t know your own product very well. How ‘bout you – you want milk in yours? PERPSKI: I DON’T KNOW – I’M SO CON-CONFUSED NOW!

OH NO! The husband in the Baby Blues comic is making tea for his wife! Tomorrow those kids will have a new, hot mother!!!

(Maybe I shouldn’t read Tracy first every morning…)

(sigh) I keep hoping each current story will reveal Sam as a Skrull infiltration agent.

“I can’t understand why our business is failing. Our plates featuring pictures of starving children – to remind people of the problems of world hunger – didn’t sell. This line – with the skull and crossbones to remind people to eat health -y haven’t sold. And advance orders for the plates that look like vomit on them – to warn people against the dangers of over-eating at a zero.”

This is a snooze fest

Tracy found a handle flipper……

I don’t remember George Bush ever wearing a monocle.

That’s a lovely tea set. Do they sell them at Wal-Mart?

It appears that “Momski” (from February 15) shouldn’t have been holding the teapot without gloves!

Cell one, looks much like Bob Hope…