Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 22, 2024

I think Bordy may have grown a pair and is up to something, he’s gonna pull a complete unexpected…

gonna be a free-for-all, I think…

Is Tubby standing or sitting in panel 3? Hard to tell.

I suspect Bordy might be working with the police. Time will tell. Hopefully soon enough for a Sunday wrap up.

There might not be a VengyTale today. Not much to work with.

I’ll give it a twirl later.

The woman is on her way to “snuff” Mr. Linotype also known as “Old School”. Tracy and MCU headed there also. Rendezvous after 8:00pm. Watch synchronizing time…action starts tomorrow.

Shady business eh fatso.

I thought Gabriel only dealt in cryptocurrency. Then again, why expect narrative consistency now?

Good morning™, everyone!

Well, I guess it’s good for Borden that he’s on time, but Gabriel is literally in his element, surrounded by all his typesetting machines, so he definitely has the upper hand.

What is this jerk up to? I kinda hope the hat woman puts a plug in him.

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I think the victim should pull out a gun and end this story!

Showdown at the Triple T

I really like the 1990 Dick Tracy movie with Warren Beatty. And I also enjoy the Daffy Duck short inspired by Dick Tracy.

This is a great comic strip. I love reading whenever I get the chance. I so look forward to what’s going to happen next.

The suspense in today’s strip is getting to me!

“So, I take it my daughter LIzzie didn’t arrive earlier to settle things?”

OT: I Had been adopting an animation pilot script I wrote ‘way back but which was nosed out in stage two, into a new book, but I’m giving up on it. I want to get back to P.I. material. In particular, finishing FISH FRY — the follow-up to FISH OUT OF WATER. Got as far as clarifying points on the arsonist before I got sidetracked by another project.

That, or YETI’S STYLISH COOKBOOK OF ELEGANT LAST MEALS FOR THE MASSES (hold the very large spider garnish).

Everyone keeps calling him Col. Sanders. I get more of a Sydney Greenstreet vibe.

Well, here is Mr. Luddite, greedy as ever and all set up and ready: for a bullet. But who will get to him first?

Great drawing – you can feel the tension rolling off the strip! Well done, Mr. Artist!

Good morning™, Plucked chickens !

Well not yet but soon. Porky’s got some gut on him. If he gets Tazed it could be curtains time. The timidity displayed by Mr. Borden does not indicate to me that he will be pulling any surprise moves at this time.

“Otherwise, I shall activate this switch, bringing my press to life, print your expose, collate it, bundle it, and disseminate it to my lackeys for distribution…”

Nice detail on printing equipment……hmmm, wearing a white suit in a printing place?

Today we see that 4T has a room full of Linotype machines! I had taken it for granted that it was a much smaller operation with just the one Linotype. We only saw Gabe dismiss the one operator, sending him home early – I thought the other guy was either a stone man or a press operator. (Stone man – the craftsman who assembles the type and engravings into page form, on a large table with a smooth top originally made of marble.)

Borden’s stammered ‘hello’ reminds me that we lost quietly hilarious comedy legend Bob Newhart late last week….

1- BORDO: Hmmm. As a man of wealth and taste, I USED to be able to just beckon a door to open and it would! This one appears to recognize my upcoming poverty though…

2- TUBBY ROOSEVELT: Welcome to the Linotype Graveyard – price of admission, FIVE MILLION IN CRYPTO! BWAAA HA HAAAA!

3-: …uh. Come to think of it, how’d you know to come to this room instead of to my office? BORDO: Someone left a note on your office door directing me here.

TUBBY ROOSEVELT: Oh. Good. I was worried that I might be squeezing somebody with supernatural powers or mind-reading abilities – most unadvisable! But speaking of – I BET YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT NOW, BOY! Put that Crypto here on my desk! Oh. Uh. My lap!

Oh. I don’t have one of those either…

I sense an unfortunate end for someone involving molten lead.

and welcome detective Tracy.

Well doggone it’s not enough that Borden agreed to this guy’s terms, does he have to “take a knee” as well? Why else would the guy be sitting in a chair? Oh yeah! He might have arthritis in both knees.

Borden’s hands are shaking because he got cramps from hurriedly writing down the serial numbers on 5 million bucks