Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 02, 2024

yes indeed, Dick, where ARE they at this very moment?…

Good morning™, Missing Clues !

Is beardo smiling ?  Tracy looks tougher than cement nails while Lizz is just bust-in out all over. Tracy looks like he could cry, with pieces to the puzzle still missing.

“I don’t know Dick, where are Rikki and Fata?”

Ooooo… Maybe we’ll get to see the “Angels” get busted too. They should considering they played an active roll on the blackmail to begin with. Get those beyatches!!

Good morning™, all!

Indeed. What did happen to our two angels? We are overdue for an update. Did Gabriel tell them to flee the city and wait for instructions? I think they were are the bus station the last we saw of them, waiting for an 8:00 p.m. bus.

Ongoing story next week with an interesting twist! A few old familiar characters show up.

Seems we may see Gabriel again in 4 years….maybe less with good behavior.

Also I see the Feds will give you a year in the slammer while my home state gives you up to 7 years in The Big House. Seems Gabriel got off kind of easy.

Not only do we get that classic Dragnet end of the episode shot of the criminal being processed, but we hear the sentence .. 4 years …. sometimes I surprise myself.

BTW – what happened with Borden and his side chick???

“Four years is not so bad. Then my angels will find me and return the crypto I gave them for safekeeping.”

Not sure how they can track “missing crypto” … as for the “confederates” — does the MCU really have incriminating evidence against them? They can always claim they were simply journalists, working on stories, & didn’t know Gabriel was using the info to blackmail the subjects. I hope this storyline won’t have more climaxes than “The Untouchables”. (The 1987 movie).

Maybe he will get out early for good behavior!

That first panel view of Gabe belongs in a Rogues Gallery!

Is it just me, or is the dialogue in P3 not typical of Dick once again?

Anyone else remember when Lizz used to be a fashionista and wear the trendy styles, heels, skirts, purses and caps and NOT look like a gas station attendant?

Mug shots are taken when you are brought into the station. The trial, conviction, and sentencing – as I mentioned yesterday – is a process that would take months at a minimum and probably more than a year…

So more than a year has passed and Tracy is finally going to do something about the missing angels and pseudo-$$$?

This is remarkably bass-ackwards.

Not tells me they is gets away with it too.

I hate to finish a puzzle and be missing pieces

Back on July 30 last panel had someone reaching for the criminal while cop looks startled and curses being yelled. Is that going to be just another loose end that the writer will never attempt to explain?

..those last 3 digits in Gabe’s membership #……hmmmmm…….

four years in pen for Gabriel, but where is this pen? At Gweedo’s goat farm?

BTW, has the name Pravuil (an angel from the acrophyl Second Book of Enoch) been discussed here yet? (I probably just missed it)

okay, sentence to four years… he’s smiling evilly. the war may not be over yet. :{

I assume there was a trial. So we’re jumped forward in time a few years?

So a man named after God’s scribe and his herald gets four years in the pen. I guess angelic names are not a guarantee of wisdom or goodness.

They have the crypto wallet but not the passwords, he just has to sit it out. Unless they get desperate and visit or write him to get the password.

It’s THE pen !!! I hate it when Eric drops an essential article of speech! It’s all I’ll be able to think about today! (And I was planning to ship a new laptop to Firestrike too. Oh well…)

Crypto? Isn’t that one of the Marx Brothers?

PANEL 4 – DT: I guess we’ll just never know. HEY SAM! IT’S LUNCHTIME SOMEWHERE!

For a very brief moment this morning, I had hope that this would segue into a follow-up story, much like Chester Gould used to do. Then I remembered that this story was written by a guest writer, and there have been comments here from someone who saw a preview of the next story. Hopes dashed!

1- GABRIELLA: OK. Look tough! Hmmm. It occurs to me that I could use this photo in a campaign ad for President…

2- LIZ Your shoulders are obscenely “mannish” today. Even Gariella looked fierce in his mugshot. Is everyone using steroids? DT: You should talk – look at the boyish, narrow hips you’ve developed lately? Whatever happened to “voluptuous”???

3- DT: …FRANKLY, I get tired of you and the other chicks around here changing your “look” to whatever “turns on” the latest couture courtier of Tracyville fashion !

LIZ: Does couture courtier mean “ARTIST”? DT: Maybe…

Is there a reason Colonel Sanders’s prison number had the sign of the AntiChrist ?

MOVIE QUOTE

“Give Meowrice my love. And then turn him inside out !”

Hermoine Gingold—GAY PURR-EE—1962

Tracy’s physique looks a little “off” in Panel 2.

Well,at least they caught SOMEBODY.

And didn’t this start with a murder? Oh, well.

I looooove how smug he looks in the first panel!

…..the “confederates”…..didn’t they, y’know, lose?

I thought there might be more to this story. Let’s see where it goes.

For a story people are saying sucks it sure gets gobs of posts !

inmate number P01135809.

Oh well…next case please.

@ Mike and Charles, no Vitamin, B.O. and Diet. Let them cool off on the sidelines.

OT GRIPE (thanks, Firefox): Wonderful. Second time in about ten days all my saved passwords vanished. Aaaaand, wouldn’t you now my password for GComic wasn’t on the list I’d made to transfer.

SO, slightly different profile name. Wichita 1.1

Four years?! That’s it?!

Tracy, the crypto is now Confederate money, which of course is worthless.

Eric you cheeky bugger! All I’ll say is to look up the Inmate Number.