Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 19, 2024

ugh… today’s art looks like the schitts…

a monocled eye-patch… looks ridiculous…

Now THIS is what a Dick Tracy story should be!

Action

Intrigue

Suspense

Amazing artwork

Humor

Myste,,,,,,,,,

Where am I???

Oh, I was dreaming.

Rats!

what the hell?… what IS that look on Dick in panel three?…

Even Tracy is struggling to stay awake at this point.

Good morning™, Sad Misshappen Detectives from another dimension !

Dick looks lugubrious due to his lack of progress while Palmer maintains a stolid, solid composure. Is the perfect crime in progress or is this guy really on the level ?

Good morning™, everyone!

We’ve established that Palmer poured the tea (clumsily). That makes him the #1 suspct at the moment.

Probably already suggested, but is Mr. Borgia’s first name Lucretia (Lucrecia)?

Interesting wordage here today “Clumsily didn’t break the pot, worse such luck”

and thank you Gweedo! for the card, it was appreciated :). I don’t hear back from either boy or girlfriend anymore, especially on the 14th.

And so the “mystery” is solved. Some mystery this was.

Who invited Popski to the interrogation?

That’s it. Palmer did it. Turn out the lights. The party’s over.

I saw this online. It looks like the place Fata Morgana got her eyepiece.

https://recyclenation.Com/2011/04/astonishing-recycling-steampunk-monocles/

“Worse such luck”? Who says that? I don’t speak Yiddish, is that a word-for-word translation of some High German colloquialism? In fact, where is Popski’s exaggerated accent in that panel? He didn’t speak telegraphically before. Is he dropping the shtick?

News about Shelley from The Daily Cartoonist:

http://tinyurl.Com/2ufad43z

This story has everything. A victim with the name of a famous user of poisons (Borgia). His partner Colonel Klink, who knows nothing, nothing! The couple from the (Molly) Goldberg radio show. And tea, an important component of an Arnold PALMER (get it)! All that’s missing is Sam’s sandwich……

I think the art is just fine. Don’t know what half of you are going on about.Action packed? It’s three panels .. how much action do you expect on a daily basis.I swear most of you moan and groan just to try and be “clever”.

You all have pointed out the rougher parts of the art today. I’ll note an element I find interesting, and those are the ghost lines suggesting a reflection on the window behind them. That’s kind of hard for the colorist to do, and leaving them the same color as the rest of the window is appropriate.

In terms of a police investigation, it would have been better if Popski had let Palmer answer that question. In fact, it’s typically better to not have interviewees listen in on each others’ interviews. You want to separate people and interview each one of them independently at the crime scene and then interrogate any of that need further questioning separately at the police station. Especially when there’s something as serious as a murder. This doesn’t make Tracy look like he knows what he’s doing.

1-DT: What kind of poison did you use? PERPSKI: Cya…uh…what are you talking about?

2-DT: HA! You almost fell for my clever interrogation technique! On a different topic…HOW DID YOU ADMINISTER THE POISON??? PERPSKI: I put it in his…

3-POOPSKI: I can only pray you have room for Jewish Apple Cake left over from Rosh Hashanah? So good it could raise the dead, bubala! DT: OY! So close…

Did Tracy pull his finger gun in Panel 2 or did he ask Palmer to pull his finger. Eric’s stories can be too complicated for me…

Pour one out for Shelley kiddies.

OT: Yeah! FINALLY finished with the last OTHERWORLD book. Except for (ugh) editing it to count the many times the ‘a’ key didn’t work. SUCH fun!

This was Shelley’s last Dick Tracy. And I have to agree with Batster above, she may have gave us and the strip a subtle goodbye in the last panel especially.

https://www.gocomics.Com/dicktracy/2024/02/10?ct=v&cti=2117175

Mr. Pleger, if by chance you are reading this. Could you please thank Shelley for what she has done on Dick Tracy and the enjoyment her art has bought us by bringing Dick Tracy alive during her tenure.

I hope for the best for the both of you in the future.

They tried poisoning the gefilte fish but even t he Jewish people wouldn’t eat them

MOVIE QUOTE—

“He’s in a bad mood. He got up on the wrong side of the gutter this morning!”—-Curly—YOU NATZY SPY—1940