Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 12, 2022

Yeti lets the darts fly. Duck and cover if there’s time

Ferret sprawls. Ape drops and crawls. An endgame for their crime.

Yeti thinks he’s Scarface. Pulls the trigger. Does not aim

Rose cuts loose on Yeti. She’s much better at this game.

“Drop your weapons! Grab the air! Now’s time for your surrender!”

Rose and Daisy give it up before they need a mender.

Ape is shot. Ferret is not. Now time to go to jail

Sewer slog for Yeti means there’s many ways to fail.

Slip away on his last day. Now Yeti’s leaking claret

Time to run. All fun is done. A poisoner sans merit.

Maybe he will …

… maybe he won’t. ✨

That’s a really haunting last image of Yeti. Both creepy and a little sad. So, wrapping up, plot-wise the story was just ehhhh. It was a Minit Mystery that was stretched to six weeks. But the story’s real strength was its characters. Ferret, Ape and Rose were memorable characters and F+A displayed real heart and personality that made the reader care about them. Kudos to Mark for that and kudos to Shelley for her amazing art. I was a little worried when Joe S left but Pleger has not only proven a worthy successor but dare I say it, even surpassed Joe.

Good morning™, Not dead ye(tis) !

He’ll need a long hike to get beyond where the police think anyone would go to finally surface. What bad guy doc will fix this buzzard up ?  He’ll go into cold storage like that time traveling guy whose hand showed up a bit late with the rest of him possibly going even further ahead in time.

Well I was wrong

Yeti isn’t gone

But hope is still alive

He may take a fatal dive

Or meet with Wally Gator

Who’ll eat him soon not later

He can keep them all well fed

The rats of Dr. Mordred

I just need him to go

His apperance is a no

That’s what you think, Tracy. Yeti is as slippery as a sewer eel. :)

Good morning™, everyone!

It doesn’t feel like an ending. It feels as unfinished as Yeti’s last story. Nevertheless, I’d like to once again thank Mark, who came through in the crunch with an enjoyable story and a lot of entertaining posts in the comments.

Looks like maybe Yeti caught a slug from that hail of lead Rose unleashed.

Hope they don’t hang her by her pretty neck…..

Tracy looks grim and has the air of a man with a mission in that second panel…..

Thanks to Mark Barnard for the story and Shelley Pleger for the art. I really enjoyed this story. I am not looking for perfection just something to enjoy reading everyday. Hoping to see Mark again for the continuation of the Yeti story.

Yeti might have gotten away but at least Rose did not miss! Yeti took a hit in the body.

If all the exits are blocked, sneak out an entrance!

Very powerful last panel, reminds me of swamp thing somehow….

Yeti does not look well….

Yeti was dead at the end of last arc from spider venom. He’s only wounded as this arc draws to a close. Perhaps at the end of the next arc he’ll get away by leaping a tall building with a single bound…

But, more seriously, one of the potentially better foes to come along in ages. I wish Mark had the time to develop things a little slower rather than the storyline feeling so rushed.

I really like Shelley’s cinematographic art. And the character’s are looking more on-model.

And that’s a wrap. Thanks for tolerating me guys. Be sure to spay your teeth, floss your household pets and start each day with a smile. It’s back to the usual Saturday morning grind and chores, here.

Dozens of bullets fired in a tight tunnel with 7 people crammed in and not one kill?

“Naw,” says Sam. “I think Yeti has slipped away again. At least you got your hat-bow back and I’ve got my fistful of invoices.”

Speaking of hats, due to all the St. Patrick’s Day parades and other events scheduled around Tracyville today, I can break out my Sam-style kelly green homburg and sport it through Thursday. Maybe I’ll run in to Sam catchin’ some corned beef and cabbage. Erin go bragh!

Love the Yeti image in the last panel. I would label it “Grim Determination”. We’ll see more of this guy.

….oh, he’ll “ace” this somehow: Hey, he’s a YETI! YETIS NEVER SAY DIE!! ….?!!!…oh, wait: THAT was Goonies!….still……….

The last panel tells me that some of Rose’s shots connected….Yeti’s staggering reminds me of Lee Marvin’s character in that 1964 movie, “The Killers”. He will “buy the farm” or “kick the bucket” heck of a way to go out. The police find his list of customers, unless he had the foresight to delete it. Ferret and Ape will tell what they know to get a better deal. Right now, the charge is leaving the scene of an accident. A fine, jail time and community service, these two will go straight.

he don’t look like he’s doing too well, so hopefully he’ll get caught before it’s too late.

All those bullets seem to have missed Yeti…or maybe?

Looks like Mike and Shelley aren’t QUITE done with Yeti, yet. Now whether he returns in this arc, or, a future one, remains to be seen.

If Swamp Thing and Solomon Grundy had a child…

1-SAM: THE DESK WAS RIGHT, DICK – HE’S GONE! ♫ ♪♪ I’d pay the devil to have caught him. HE’S GONE! ♫ ♪♪

DT: KNOCK OFF THE HALL AND OATES TRIBUTE!

2-DT: Your keen and heightened detective-trained senses appear to be correct, Sam. He’s go…escaped again. Now get down those tunnels after him!

BOTH: HA HA HA!

DT: C’mon. Let’s grab a bite. SAM: I GET TO PICK THE PLACE!

3-AL BINO: Time to consider what went wrong and what to do next as I know ain’t nobody coming after me – just like last time. First the FAILS:

1- Once again, I hired idiots. Don’t do that. 2- I left potentially vengeful people alive again. Including the original one – Daisy! Don’t do that. 3- I didn’t have an escape bag with clothes, money and medical stuff in my escape tunnel. Don’t fail to do that. Now…

SUCCESSES:* 1- I’m alive. Hmmm. That’s it. ANYWAY, I know that Pennywise is down here somewhere. I think he’d be willing to help me. (I’ve always wondered how he monetized the eating of little kids. I don’t really see the payday in that…)

Covering the entire sewer system? you’re assuming he wants to come out. He’s been living down there for years. Nighttime sharpens, heightens each sensation

Darkness stirs and wakes imagination

Silently the senses abandon their defences…

I wonder if Yeti’s spider is still living in the sewers and that Yet I will meet up with it ?

I also wonder if the Ace of Spades and Doubleup are still in the sewers as well… Haven’t seen them since Ace and Double escaped Tracy by entering the sewer/tunnel system…

Two thoughts:1. To DT: ya wanna bet?2. To Wichita/Mark: good job, thank you!

No surprise here. Yeti will be saved until the “Authors” run out of new ideas. Call it Marvelization of the Strip.

“He won’t escape this time” famous last words.

in the back of him in last panel…could that be The Shadow??!!

Taking bets on that, Sam.

Umm… What crimes did ape and ferret actually commit other than hit and run?

Do they have sewer gators in Tracyville?

Shades of the Spanish Moss monster from Kolchak!

Looks to me like he’s escaping right now.

A satisfying, if very open-ended, conclusion to Mark’s story! Wichita1.0 has managed a good piece of storytelling on short notice and with length-constraints, and Shelley has done a fabulous series of dramatic snapshots of the action. Today, as always, the art is fine, symmetrical in this case with astonished Sam in panel 1 balanced by problematic, clearly wounded Yeti in the lower sewer in panel 3, with an iconic Tracy and Sam in between (panel 2); I think her “Tracy” has improved considerably just over the course of this tale.

Congratulations both to author and to artist! I look forward to seeing Mark’s work here again some day….

From the way Yeti walks, I’d say he’s badly injured, so it’s in his best interest to surrender to save his life, unless he’d rather die in the sewers like the rat he is!

Boo.Hiss.razzberies.

This is DICK TRACY.Villains are supposed to swing from the yardarm.Even in sewers.

Great middle panel,though.

Is there a giant alligator in the house??