Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 01, 2024

No sweat man!

Boy, that’s telling him Tracy!

My books are kept right here on this li’l ol’ MacBook Air.

Good morning™, Worried Wallys !

Why isn’t that guy dripping sweat ?  P.2. Tracy is visibly perturbed because he knows he’s getting the run around. “Karl’s” looking quite confident. Great conveyance of emotion in the characters, Shelley. :-)

yeah, more than ever in panel one, Bosco looks like Karl Malden…

all they need now is Michael Douglas and it’ll be the Streets of Tracyville…

Good morning™, all!

Yeah, Bosco was definitely prepared for this visit. What are the chances that the book at the accountant’s are accurate? Not very good, I don’t think.

Wow, the Bev is really bossy with Wally!

Shelley’s drawing Tracy a little on the chubby side.

Too much hanging out with his buddy Spirit?

Can someone please explain to me what’s going on?

Must be nice, so successful in business that he farms out his accounting to an off-site firm. They must do commendable work. There are no discrepancies between the Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payment ledgers.

Nah, they wouldn’t do that…have a paper trail of the hard copy contract to take Tess Tracy off the planet. They file their stuff in “the cloud”.

Wait until Dick puts on his old man glasses and sees that there’s nothing printed on either side.

Ah ha, the nervous guy yesterday is named Wally!

Criminal Mastermind Sam’s disguise as “Bosco” in panel 1 is nearly perfect. Tracy doesn’t have a clue who he is talking to!

I have to say as a sidenote, I’m glad Tracy stopped Fata before she got to Peter Davidson and Colin Baker.

If the MCU had been doing it’s job it would already know the name of the accounting firm…

Does anyone other than a Mom & Pop operation with a mom & pop over 70 still use paper ledgers? For security reasons you may use a dedicated computer without an internet connection to keep records (and have auto-save to backup to external hard-drive twice a day).

Is Tracy going to call on the accounting firm and find Bob Cratchit, dressed in Victorian era garb and sitting on a high stool writing entries in the ledger with a quill pen?

The gray guy has changed to normal colors today – his nickname must be “Chameleon” LOL

and do you usually keep a 2nd rate gunsel in your outter office?

Wally ? Where’s The Beaver ?

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“Hey, Chief, we found a body burned in the furnace”.

Cop to Humphrey Bogart—-THE ENFORCER—1951

Tracy has become the most trusting copper I’ve ever seen (he didn’t used to be so gullible). First he lets Fata perform her magic disappearing act instead of dragging her off to the PD to be questioned and now he’s going to take the word of this criminal doofus? I hope Tracy is just playing along and has a plan B that’s better than Fata’s.

THE BEAV (Well, he needed a name!): “Uh, Wally? You DID hide the meg bottle of poison earlier. RIGHT?”

WALLY: Woopsiedoodle! I’d…err…avoid the water cooler for a while if I were you. That ISN’T limeade!"

Bosco will not be pleased when he f inds out Wally and the other guy asked Tracy for his autograph on his way out.

Tomorrow—Tracy sneaks up behind Wally and yells “BOO!”

Wally’s a “Worry-Wart”, obviously. Can’t “keep a cool”………

1-BOXCAR: You’ll probably want to scrape up some DNA to confirm Shaky died in that explosion. Here…

2- …use this business card. DT: Your hands are HUGE! BOXCAR: Nah. I had the cards printed small to give that illusion. It impresses some of the chicks I hand ‘em out to. Same with the oversized shoes I wear.

3-SHAKY: WAS THAT AN EXPLOSION?!? THUGMAN: Yeah. Your car. Wait. I think you were supposed to be in it. Dang it! Boxcar is gonna be really pist. Could you go lay beside it and pretend you were blown clear? No? Dang it,

@avenger09 – I agree…his square chin hides the double chin?

GREAT MOMENTS FROM THE PAST

“Watch out! That running board’s covered with ice!”

“When i want the advice of a dumb cab driver…come here,you little—-SLIP!!

CRACK!!

Ah, but Tracyville employs excellent forensic accountants. Once they tear through Bosco’s books…