Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 19, 2024

panel one a weird-looking upward angle there…

No case is ever solved in a “timely” manner.

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But at least the audio comes though loud, clear and jarring. It is good that she said “calling Dick Tracy” as others with that device would likely hear the call, as they would on a car radio and you know if your name is not Tracy to just disregard until your name is called out. If you are a toddler P.1. Tracy is what you would see.

Shouldn’t Lizz say, “It’s troubling!”,

The distorted upward angle makes it look like he’s wearing a Bowler in P1.

Whew … I was getting worried there. It’s been a whole week since we’ve seen a cup of coffee in the strip.

Don’t worry. Be happy!

What has she found?

Meanwhile, back at the ranch….!

In panel 2 Tracy only has a radio wrist watch. Didn’t he have a tv wrist watch?

From down-top to top-down. Carlos Magnifico. A master of perspective.

Very large restoration of an old factory. They’ve worked on the lower levels to rent out space. Restoring the clock tower has no profit and is a low priority… if they plan to do it at all. And yet, with his ESP Tracy is laser focused on this element of the project and will be investigating it shortly. Nothing to suggest the tower has anything to do with anything, but Tracy knows it does.

I hate to complain about Tracy’s ESP ‘cause I find it a stupid crutch in a strip that was once concerned with police work, but I imagine that other readers are grateful because it moves the strip along faster if we aren’t shown Tracy pursuing a hundred dead ends before stumbling on a solution.

But I’m still a little curious why stripping the factory of metal for salvage left everything up in the clock tower.

OK, why would she bother calling and distracting Tracy to let him know that later, she will actually tell him something? That’s a very weird narrative device. Why not just cut to the station and her explaining?

Another nameless character goes off-panel. Maybe if he ever comes back, we’ll find out he is related to the nameless homicide detective LOL

Why no picture on the wrist gizmo ?

“Dick, it’s about that Saturday night a few months back…”

Computers, video surveillance, everyone hearing OSHA-approved hard hats, yet Tracy is wearing a wrist radio, not the 2024 mark whatever DS Industries Wrist Genie?

Thank God the new writers haven’t destroyed Dick Tracy. Have you people seen what the new writers have done to Mark Trail, Judge Parker, Mary Worth, and to a lesser degree Alley Oop?

movie quote—-“I think you’ve been just fine…..for a girl”.

Michael Anderson Jr. tries to compliment Hayley Mills—-IN SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS—1962

1- DT: OK…So I’ll close my eyes and point and you tell me when I’m pointing right at the killer of Bruce Springsprong and…hold on…

2- DT: Who’s this? Whadaya want? I was just about to solve the murder of …

3- LIZ: Oh sorry, Tracy – butt dial. I was literally sitting on my hand while reading People Magazine about John Krysinski being the “sexiest man” and… DT: WHAT?!?! That big-nosed, plain Jane Every Man is the Sexiest Man alive? NO WAY?!? HOW WAS I PASSED OVER…AGAIN?!?? I’M NOT GONNA…

LIZ: You know what they say – BIG NOSE, BIG HOSE!

DT: What? They do? So Sam… NO!!!!

Love panel One—-if that was the first look crooks had of Tracy,crime rate would drop 80%

“Tracy, your paperwork is breeding again, & Chief Patterson is having kittens!”

Oh goodness, Wick didn’t respond today. How will we get by without him explaining what we just read? Capt. Obvious, where are you?

And don’t forget to buy “Root Cream Wig Oil”,expertly recommended by Eldon Nodle,Lex Luthor,and Blofeld

“TRACY! GET back here! NOW! Sam’s run amok! It’s the old Deli-itis acting up again. He’s slathering everything with cole slaw, and he spritzed the whole IT department with celery tonic! Now, all the drones are relaying are old episodes of PEE WEE’S PLAYHOUSE! I-I think I’ll go mad any SECOND now!!”

No weird facial angles… check. Less coffee cups… check. No showing squiggly lines on wrist RADIO…. check. Anything else?