Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 15, 2024

Popski’s an idiot…

Eric, all I can say is; “Oy Vey!”

Hopefully, you’ll succeed in presenting a solid story by your 10th try! LOL!

Just checked the Dick Tracy TCA page, Shelley is still not listed as an artist.

If Shelley is gone, Ziggy will need medical treatment!

IMO quite obviously it’s the coating on the plate, malicious or not I don’t know.

Insurance scam where it’s a small non fatal dose or something non harmful but has the same symptoms as a lethal poison.

Good morning™, everyone!

All we really learned today was that there is a tea set to go along with the morbid plates. It’s going to take a little time to get to the point.

That china looks lovely.

Picasso would sometimes pay for a meal by quickly sketching a drawing on a napkin. Borgia is no Picasso.

Is there “Skulduggery” in the future here?

Why would anyone eats or dreenk from something that has death skull marked on em? Because it some pirates movie franchise promotions or something?

Good morning™, Dead Earthen wares !

He may not have money, so the two of them say, but that looks like actual china that the tableware is made of and in a place like Pop’s, a veritable Melmac paradise, that skullware is way high class.

And I repeat, have we had confirmation that any poisoning has taken place? A guy went into convulsions of some sort. I listed a half dozen things or more it could be, but Sam forces milk and mustard down his throat. I hate it when Tracy exhibits ESP, and if Borgia was poisoned – the least likely scenario for going into convulsions – I’ll howl that Sam has been given ESP.

But, in my heart of hearts, I’m desperately hoping it was a heart attack or something other than poison. Tracy is wasting his time at the moment. And when Borgia recovers he’s going to sue Sam for assault.

“What’s wrong with your faaaaaaaaace….”

The illustration of Momento Mori would be that of a skull, hourglass, and a flower in a “still life” type painting… Not a skull and crossbones…( Momento Mori in Latin means : Considering one’s mortality… )

These plates and other dinner ware may have a poison embedded in them…

And yes, Popski is an idiot…

We get it, he’s Jewish.

….the devil is in the details…..and the poison: ’twas in the pitcher?…….Oh YEAAAHHHHH!……..

yeah… this guys got interesting taste. maybe he should try doing that at a place where teenagers hang out more then adults. :\

He said “meshuggah” but someone thought he said “my sugar” and it was all downhill from there.

What a crummy story .

Is the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle?

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“Every time you open mouth, you put in more feet than centipede”

Sidney Toler—-THE JADE MASK—1945

Borgia has finally come to terms with the fact that his designs are worthless and no one wants to buy them. So he’s going to make money from lawsuits, starting with his ‘poisoning’ himself and extorting money from Popski ;-)

When I toured the Ernest Hemingway house in Key West,Florida—-in addition to about 4 dozen 6-toed cats, there was a completely unguarded ceramic vase by Picasso in an upstairs room.Picasso made it special for Ernie as a gift.

If you want to unload that dishaware,try THE PIRATE’S HOUSE in Savannah,Georgia

1-POOPSKI: Victimski wanted to load my jukebox with nothing but his band’s records but that would’ve upset my customers who only like klezmer music.

2-DT: YIKES! Who’s the old broad staring at me with the teapot? She’s giving me the creeps!

3-POOPSKI: I hired a hostess to go ‘round and refill customers’ teacups. She’s hovering until you finish yours. DT: But I didn’t have tea!

POOPSKI: Yeah. She has a little trouble with the fine details of the job. Just don’t make a fist. She’s burned a few hands mistaking them for teacups…

seems like an odd design (or warning!) for a restaurant to use…unless it has a pirate-theme

ya THINK?…

how would YOU like to be having a meal and when you’ve finally cleaned your plate and then you see THAT image on it?…

would that even MILDLY affect your digestive processes and make you ralph up the contents of the meal that you, mere moments ago, devoured and deposited into your stomach?…

So, the Minute Mystery is why they keep putting in Yiddish slang in the strip?

“Of course, you ran all the stuff through the dishwasher first, didn’t you? . . . . Didn’t you?”

Is Tracy suspecting the glaze on the plates might be toxic?

Popski can always sell all that to Abby Sciuto.

Is the name of the person in the last panel “Momski”? :)

So when are we going to find out who it is that got poisoned on Sunday?