Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 29, 2024

3 days of the ratmobile, all for nothing!

What a silly time filler.

“It’s like 200 copies of that flying mouse comic!”

Good morning™, all!

Jackpot! At least it seems to be. You don’t find many suitcases randomly buried in parks.

Good morning™, Dirty Diggers !

I am for someone holding them up. LOL !   Love that looking up shot.

Yeah, nobody’s gonna notice a couple of people digging up a big hole & carrying off a large suitcase in a public park in the middle of the day.

Love it that X marks the spot!

Too easy. I say red herring.

So once he carries the suitcase back to the car, she kills him. Or vice versa? (Well, tries to kill . . .)

Back to the 90’s cartoon villain.

Bet it’s just got another clue inside…..

Ahh, The Precious!

May explode if you open it.

Naah. It just some Twitter Files in there. Spot was marked X, see.

I don’t have time to list how silly this is. I’ll go back and read Sunday’s strip. BO Plenty makes more sense than this.

Where is Broadside?

I don’t know what bums me out more, that one of Galen’s fans grew up to be a bank robber, or that he defaced a good comic book when a Post-it note would have sufficed.

“Oh boy, it’s filled with vintage comic books!”

I’m sure the “Hatmobile” will be involved in a massive chase scene.

It was actually under a rock marked “X”?

It looks like it was buried lengthwise. That’s a heck of a dig.

and maybe the loot is there and maybe someone beat her to it and maybe there is a clue to the next location and maybe it’s just a mad mad mad mad mad mad world.

What do you want to bet it’s filled with dirty underwear?

Meanwhile, back at the Bat Cave…

Maybe Robin’s jock is in the suitcase? Or Batman’s utility belt….

Welp , that was easy .

‘WOW! Jimmy Hoffa! Who’d’ THUNK it?!"

“OMG! I-it’s Mortimer Snerd!”

….maybe the suitcase contains (only) the army uniform from the Spanish-American War that “Big Daddy’s” daddy left him as an inheritance? (you could mix THAT up in this story as convincingly as some of the other stuff we’ve seen here in the past few years…)

Please, oh please, oh please, let it be filled with old socks!

Anyone want to bet that the suitcase Croptop and Company uncovered is NOT Scardol’s loot?

With the spade on the other side of the guy from Croptop, what’s she going to use to whack him?

1-CLEANCUT: Wow. 3 clues – Go to the library, go to the park, find the rock with the “X”. My kid has gone to birthday parties that featured tougher “Treasure Hunts” than that.

2-BOWLING LEAGUE (from his position on the ground): From here I can see why they call you “Butter Face”. You got a smokin’ bod BUT HER FACE! CROPPIE: SMACK HIM WITH THE SHOVEL AGAIN AND MAKE IT COUNT THIS TIME!

3-CLEANCUT: Whoa! Louis Vuitton! Can I have it? CROPPIE: After I get the cash – I mean my half. Now toss Bowling League in the hole. Oh. And after that, hand me the shovel and close your eyes…

That suitcase is bigger than the hole!

If we know the Jones family, enjoy your last few minutes of life, buddy…

MOVIE QUOTE—-“I’m Captain Culpepper, of the Santa Rosita Police Department”

Spencer Tracy—-IT’S A MAD<MAD<MAD<MAD WORLD—1963

Croptop looking like a VERY menacing Biker chick in Panels 2 and 3—-but any real treasure hunt has MULTIPLE clues.

Given how bad this is I would not have been surprised if Croppie & Co. had found a big wooden sign on a post, tapped into to the ground, with the wording, “Scardahl’s loot buried here.”

Jimmy Hoffa’s remains!

Pantsy and the 1958 treasure hunt didn’t work out so well….

Maybe the money is hidden in the Hat-Cave?

“X never marks the spot” Dr. Henry Jones jr.

I’m guessing the money’s either rotted away or it’s been eaten by silverfish.

I’m glad Mike didn’t drag out the treasure hunt. This is something. It’s moving right now. I think Mike threw in the Hatmobile to remind us how bad he could actually write it. On the other hand, watch the Hatmobile be the setup for the next arc. Indeed, it not only can be worse, it will be worse.

This is way too simple.