Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 16, 2024

that is one sharp=lookin’ chin and nose on Dick today, even moreso than usual…

he’s gonna wind up with a self-inflicted paper cut if he ain’t careful…

and Dick’s face is looking a bit on the abnormals today…

yeah, Leo is one amazing ‘artist’…

THAT was called being ‘sarcastic’…

Good morning™, all!

So far, it’s just evidence that he was thinking of shooting himself. She had those protective booties on so that she wouldn’t leave footprints in the new floor wax.

“Confess, or I will stab you repeatedly with my chin!”

Good morning™, Bi-Lingual Tracys !

How is it Tracy understands ‘Consuela’ yet there is no indication anyone is interpreting the two of them to one another ?  Is Leo our graphics equivalent of MC, “MA” ?

“Mad Artist”

“I had to stop him from shooting himself and getting blood all over my nice clean floor. Bloodstains can never be cleaned up. Never!

I wonder why she didn’t try to talk to the man first, assuming that she didn’t?

Why is Dicky smiling in P.2. when this woman is clearly (sorta) distraught ? …And the bastardization of this venerable classic proceeds apace and with wreckful abandonment.

I’m sick and tired of those bloody minit “mysteries”, they are a mockery of what a true mystery should be. They make the previous story appear like a Chandler’s thriller by comparison. As for the strip, what can I say? Ten years ago it was more than decent for a legacy strip but the quality dwindled and now old DT fans like me are reading it for habit’s sake. But those minit misteries are really the pits.

That looks like an old Western 6 shooter!

Our Dick does look like a tribute to Fearless Fosdick from Lil Abner fame….

Well, the police definitely need to look at the gun for fingerprints. If there aren’t any it was murder.

so she didn’t actually SEE him pull the trigger

“He took out his gun…. and turned it over again and again in his hands.”— Wotta maroon, you’re supposed to spin the chamber, not the whole gun!

He turned it over and over because he couldn’t decide who to shoot—including himself. How do you say “Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe” in Spanish?

OOOOO! Foot condoms! She is a RACY old bird!

Okay, I haven’t been following too closely — I rarely do with the Minut Mysteries — but I’m throwing out a guess that the wet floor will be an important clue.

I just noticed that “Charlie Brown” vase, first seen on Tuesday.

MOVIE QUOTE—

“Does that make me a wh*re?”

“Only by Dictionary Definition”.

Mia Farrow&Woody Allen—SHADOWS AND FOG—1992

I still think that is a woman. The scarf tied around the neck is hiding the goozle. That is probably the real killer.

So… he was dancing with that firearm in his dance outfit? Maybe it was hurting his performance.

Celestine – “Milonga, you’re dancing like an ape again. Is that a gun or a hernia? Take it off so you can dance properly or I’m outta here.”

For somebody who’s worried, she seems to be taking her sweet time changing her shoes. And why change them at all?

Meanwhile,Bugs Bunny is hiding in Carmen Miranda’s headdress…..

1- MARY JUANA: Oooh. I geet such a thrill handling your “gun,” Senor!

2-: …But if you do not get your shoes off my buffed floor, I will keel you…too. DT: So cute! You remind me of Gramma Tracy! I gotta get over to the Cook County Super Max to see how she’s getting along…

3- MARY JUANA: My chihuahuas are barking. Excuse me while I sit and rub them a while – UNLESS you would like to do it, Senor? DT: Yeah – right. And then I’ll take a ride on your Flying Buffer ya old witch. MARY JUANA: Is that a “Si”?

DT: Sigh Si…

Bring back Celestine ad her fine looking bum……….

C,mon, how can you Not enjoy a strip where you can watch an old woman change her shoes!?!

oh look…it’s a Charlie Brown vase!

The killer was Daphne The Bull Fiddle Player.

He wouldn’t let her lead

I really wanted to know of Nitrate stopped farting, and if that helped him with his fellow inmates.

Does Dicko speak Spanish?

Time to start the Chekhov countdown.

Very responsible. :)