Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 25, 2023

“In fact, the owners were quite determined to hold on to them.”

Hi everyone, this is Gilby and Olivia. We just want to say “Thank You” for listening to the songs our G-Daddy wrote for us. He said it made him very happy, which is something the strip hasn’t done in ages!

As if anyone would answer “yes” to that question.

well, she said she didn’t get any offers of stolen volumes, so I guess that clears her and establishes HER innocence… LOL…

“For example, do you think this story has been exciting to you?”

“No, this story has not been exciting to me!”

Good morning™, everyone!

If she is the one who stole them, she is telling the truth that these volumes have not been offered to her.

Good morning™, earnest inquisitors !

“They weren’t offered to me they were taken from me !!!”   The stormy sea scene is fabulous, despite what Gran’pa revenger might say.v LOL !

The story is so boring, poor Shelley fell asleep and forgot to draw Tracy’s coat and hat!

Sorry Shelgroupies, there’s no way you can excuse the sloppiness of that blunder!

Panel 2 is appropriate since this snoozefest of a story is sinking fast! LOL!

Why would they be “offered” to ME? After all, I am the one who murdered for them, and I am not offering them to anyone.

Well, today Shelley got to reproduce a famous Rembrandt, “Storm On The Sea of Galilee,” one of 13 artworks stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston back in March of 1990. None of the stolen artwork was ever recovered, & to this day the empty frames of the stolen paintings remain on the walls. Where’s Banacek when you need him?

“Of course not. I took ’em fair and square.”

Now he made her mad.

Her reply leaves open the possibility that she stole them herself.

Because you is acquires thems yourself eh you sneaky medieval manuscripts collecting murderer you.

From what I saw via previous strips, it makes sense that she would already have what is on Tracy’s list. What gives? This lady has no staff to handle acquisitions?

Those paintings have yet to be found. At least the Mona Lisa was returned to the Louvre.

I really like panel 2!

Other than the Shakespeare folio was there enough of a description of the manuscripts for anyone to know exactly what was stolen?

But, if she is the thief/killer, she knows d@mn well they were not offered to her for sale.

Have they not been offered to her because she took them?

Tracy’s noggin is rather square in panel 1 innit?

Rembrandt’s The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633) is one of the paintings stolen in the infamous 1990 theft from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It is his only seascape. Even more valuable is The Concert by Vermeer, one of only 34 paintings attributed to him. Its value was estimated at $250 million in 2015. Theories abound as to the identity of the thieves, but the art works have never been recovered. The statute of limitations has expired. There remains to this day a $10 million reward for information leading to the art’s recovery. Still, the mystery endures.

“I took them myself, fair and square. No backsies.”

“These volumes were not offered to me…and since they weren’t, I took them anyway!”

Too bad about the misspelling of “Gardner” in panel 2. This is probably the only time we’ll see the name used in this story.

Aloft me hearties ! The gales threaten our good ship .

….D.T.‘s head in today’s excitin’ install……hey, I DON’T have to say it, right? Or….“draw you a picture?”…….

The Gardiner(Gardner) Heist is still big news in Boston, we still hear about it.

OT: To paraphrase RMN, “I am not a cook.” On top of a present, I decided to make the dinners for a week to give Terri time off. You know those cartoons in which the husband bring the wife breakfast in bed, then you seethe kitchen looks like WWIII?

(sniff) Pikers it’s going to take deep therapy for the house to recover its dignity. I’ve also deftly managed to lovingly screw up each meal so far.

Spaghetti? Is it REALLY supposed to be one solid and discolored mass that looks like it wants to devour New Jersey?

I SWEAR I cooked the Rice-a-Roni untli it was nearly un-crunchy, and I have no idea HOW the stirred-in meat GOT crunchy.

Don’t even ASK about the from-scratch turkey dinner last night. I’m dreading the leftovers for lunch.

And, joy, the week is only half over.

Whats wrong with hot dogs all week, I want to know?!?!?!?!!

They weren’t offered to her because she’s probably the one who stole them…

She stood up to answer………..to hasten the end of the conversation!

The daily strip formula is to recap some platen the first panel or so and by the end move the story forward. Because in the days of newspapers it was potentially someone’s first time seeing the strip or a reader may have missed a strip or two.

Have you not noticed, detective, that my no-nonsense, stern and superior manner acts like a shield against pretenders and amateurs who think they can make a fast buck off of me?

Tracy tries to pursue a line of questioning. But Xaviera may be too quick-witted and a few steps ahead of him. In panel 2, she tries the ploy of Distraction, citing the very real unsolved bur irrelevant Gardner Museum Theft (see https://tinyurl.Com/qbb2cwb ). Then, in panel 3, she gives a dissembling answer that may be technically true but not really the whole truth (e.g., "they have not been offered to me, because I stole them!). Tracy needs figuratively to regroup and hone his questioning if he is going to get anything of use out of Ms. Libris!

They never did solve that Boston her on that