Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 16, 2019

Good morning™, shifty newspapermen !

These shameless self promoters make the BMBG guys look like rank amma-toors !

“Provocateur.”

We might have one or two among our ranks. ✨

As long it sells is this guys motto I’m guessing!!!

He probably becomes a killer whenever he removes his eyeglasses

I don’t see how he’s that different than some of the guys on ESPN

Is this a Spiderman crossover?

Certainly seems like we’re heading towards Yet Another rushed, tossed together ending.

Editor only knows the bottom line it seems.

Sensationalism sells, even in sports, looks like!

For all their moralizing, when the chips are down, it’s all about the money for big media, too.

This comic plot just wanders all along not with any direction.

No cover ads

Alternative Script: 1) So you say you dress poorly because you’re doing an undercover expose of Fashions In Baseball for our magazine “Glamourous Glamour”? 2) Yeah. I’m going to expose the real reason “Stirrup Pants” have all but disappeared from the game 3) Excellent my boy! You’re unfired!

His last name is “TAR”……….now spelled backwards……yep could be the serial killer I guess…..

Good ol’ “Barney Bastard.” Why, he wouldn’t harm a fly.

This is starting to feel like Mike’s veiled commentary re. his detractors. But glad to see Joe Sampson back & appreciate any story that shines a focus on Bonnie, one of the many underdeveloped characters within the Tracy clan.

if you can live with it….hmmm where could this go?

methinks barnabas might be the next victim instead of the killer.

the killer might be taking offense to barnabas’ column and target him for extinction next

I thought it was a take on “Born A Bastar*”….. But whadda I know, anyway….. 8^)

Maybe his name was “Bustard” and changed it.

Gee, Mr. Editor, ever hear the expression “click bait”?

Confirmation of a few things. Barnabas Tar is indeed a sports columnist, and specifically one who likes to incite (enflame, arouse, anger) his readers. And Old Smokey (who looks like a cross between Perry White and Diet Smith) is indeed the editor of The Daily. If this is The Tracyville Daily, then I suppose Tar started working for it only recently but is already having a positive impact on readership. Provocative columnists, sports or otherwise, tend to have that effect short-term but then begin to turn off fans. That might explain Tar’s job shift from Washington state to the bigger, Tracyville apple….