Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 01, 2021

Good morning™, everyone!

The prints prove it’s his hand. Is it common for businesses to keep fingerprint records of their employees!?

It’s good to see all four MCU people working hard on this. Why is Sterling’s palm the same colour as Lee’s skin? Strange! I do like Shelley’s art a lot, especially Sam’s hand in the last frame.

Sounds like the speculation from some yesterday might be right, that his arm got sent forward and the rest of him blowed up.

Good morning™, Goodnight, sweet Prints !

Maybe it is because We know he was a bad egg that he looks sleazy in this shot of him. I hope this story goes deep as it presents interesting concepts.

Could someone please pour Lizz a cup of MCU coffee, black? The poor girl can’t keep her eyes open, Tracy’s such a boring speaker!

LOL!!!

Looks like Lee Ebony, the MCU’s most underrated cop, is on the right track.

Well, Sam has visibly curly hair today.

Our heroes should be able to deduce that Sterling was doing unsanctioned work on the time drone by now. And of course they know something of the time drone’s capabilities. They should have some reasonable guess at least, and bring this information to Diet Smith as soon as he is in shape.

I wonder if we’ll see the time drone room as it is now. How much is left? I also hope we’re told just what it was that exploded. Why should a time machine explode? Eliot said it was unstable; how would that cause a detonation? Where did all the energy that exploded come from?

By the way, it was Eliot’s left hand we saw yesterday, but the image in today’s strip is of a right hand. Wow! I found it before avenger09 did!

Does the hand being found days after the blast mean that it was simply hidden or suddenly appeared?

A new mistery in the mistery.

“It wasn’t me, it was the one-armed man”

Astounding!!

Bits and pieces of Sterling are going to keep showing up over the next few days, aren’t they?

he could have been time traveled… makes sense I guess.

guess Sterling won’t be Diet’s right hand man anymore

1-DT: Lookit the size of this guy! Why his hand is 2 or 3 times the size of mine!!!

2-SAM: Ummm, Dick – that’s just a projection. That’s not his actual size…

DAUGHTER: Psst. I think Dad’s losing it

DT: Oh. Good. I wouldn’t want to go mano a mano against that monster. It would’ve made for an interesting new arch enemy though…I think I’d a called him the Big Brown Deuce You know, because he’s brown and twice the size of the rest of us. No matter! I’d drop the Big Brown Deuce without so much as a grunt of effort!

SAM: I think you’re right…

Maybe the reason why Sterling’s hand is undamaged and shows no signs of decay after a week buried in rubble is that the Big Temporal Kablooie has somehow placed it in a state of temporal stasis, and that it is now Frozen In Time.

Connect that with the fact that our new red-haired Person of Interest is named “Briar Rose”, which I sure others have noted is also the name of a certain Disney Princess…

I think Briar is going to find herself falling into an enchanted sleep for a hundred years.

Holy crap!

Sam’ sclera is blue. The MC continues his/her/their excellent work.

TODAY: “More remains have been found that may be his, but no test results yet”

YESTERDAY: “Sterling Eliot was at the heart of the explosion, so finding any discernable remains is frankly impossible”

MAKE UP YER DAMN MIND TRACY!!

Sounds to me like the legendary transporter malfunction. We need Scotty to straighten it out.

I’m loving this.

Who is in the morgue? Surely Sterling could not have switched name badges with someone else. From the way that blast was shown, he wouldn’t have had that kind of time for split second decisions.

Panel 2 shows the change in style.The BLANK background is different from what Staton would have done.

In A HIGH SECURITY spot like DSI,I’m sure it’s very common to fingerprint employees.Considering some ofthe boo-boos we’ve seen over the years,you might laughat the description “high security”.

Looks like MCU has a real mystery on their hands. ( again, my disclaimer…no pun intended)

Sterling made sure his palms got a nice tan at the beach in the days before his appointment with destiny…….

Okay. So Mike’s going to double-down on the sci-fi after all.

Not that this guarantees an appearance by Flattop.

But it does move the probability of it a little farther away from zero.

It’s Dr.Plain’s hand.Give it back.

I refer all you “Hand” theorists to a little, very scary 40s movie..The Beast with 5 Fingers starring Peter Lorre. It may not only give you folk something to do, but get a Hallowe’en vibe back

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“When I have half-a-dozen questions I can’t answer,I try to avoid asking new ones”

Scientist in THE BLACK SCORPION——1957

Just yesterday Tracy said finding anymore “discernible remains” of Eliot was “frankly impossible.” Now today he’s saying more of Eliot’s remains may have been found? Frankly, I was hoping the story would focus on tying up other loose ends, like the MCU following those leads about the Apparatus uncovering long lost treasure & loot, or more about Rose, before introducing yet another plot line that may not end up going anywhere.

Some places will electronically tag you so they know where you are in the building.

It’s Lee Ebony’s remark that is disturbing to me. If that perfectly preserved hand (whether left or right) only showed up days after the blast, is there some Temporal Event happening right now, even as we speak?! Could there be more of Sterling Eliot “coming together again,” like a latter-day Frankenstein Monster? That would be scary indeed!