Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 12, 2024

Good morning™, everyone!

This is Lizz. The Computer Forensics woman yesterday was clearly not Lizz. They are really taking a long time to connect the perpetrators with only vague clues.

Lizz seems to be channeling her inner Captain Janeway in panel 3

Good morning™, Sexy Sherlocks !

P.1. Quite the striking pose, Charley. (Did a woman help you draw that ?)  Her P.3. intense concentration is squeeking along like a rusty steel wheel on a rusty shaft.

“That’s right, Sam. No clue on who the blackmailer might be. So far our investigation has only turned up what we found on Pierce’s computer browsing history, a lot of searches on cryptocurrency & Tip Top Town Topix, the city’s biggest scandal sheet. We are back at square one!”

The popup ads are out of control!

Joseph Borden’s secretary and the linotype guy…are they in the blackmail racket? Unlike the first character who committed suicide, chances are that Borden won’t be scared into a shakedown.

The bitcoin, reappears!

I don’t know much about crypto, but how does the fact that he had a digital wallet full of it suggest blackmail? If it was blackmail, he hasn’t paid it. And, actually, why would you pay it and kill yourself? Did he think about paying it and change his mind?

Since Eric is in no hurry to name Gordon’s son, I hereby dub him ‘Hawk I. Pierce’….

Connect the dots, girl. TTTT

I’m starting to think that the “Guest” in Guest Writer is like the guest who crashes on your couch and won’t leave.

I’m sorry Charles, but I can’t get the thought of “ram horns” out of head when looking at Lizz’s hair.The use of shadow and heavy shadow, especially in p3 where it over shadowed her face unlike her hair in P1 is making the end point unnatural to me. Maybe soften up the lines and draw in some hair definition in the same I think you should do with Sam to show his curls.

What’s making her hair look worse is not your fault at all, it’s the colour that the MC chose for her. We should be thankful that they didn’t choose a variant of their favourite colour grey.

Sam Catchem is about to blow the lid off this turkey .

MOVIE QUOTE

“The knife-throwers of Hamburg are extremely accurate”.

Basil Rathbone—-SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE VOICE OF TERROR—1942

There is a very fine line between "determined"and “constipated”.

The blackmailers probably think they’re operating below everybody’s radar,and that nobody is after them at all.

Meanwhile, back at the old ballpark…..

Sam’s head seem out of proportion today

SAM THE GENIUS! On June 5th, Mr. Pierce ended Panel 3 with: “HE SAID HE WAS BEING BLACKMAILED” and Sam – incredibly – determined that HE WAS PROBABLY BEING BLACKMAILED!!!

1-SAM: I have determined that this is a simple case of suicide. He left a suicide note after all. And it couldn’t be easy having a freeloading 35 year old son hanging around. So…

2-…Mark it “SOLVED” and the board is cleared! LIZ: What about what Pierce’s kid told us about “blackmail” and what that chick on the computer told us about those Montezuma’s Revenge coins…

3-…I think something else is going on here but I just can’t quite put my finger on it. GRRRR! Oh well. We tried! Lunch? SAM: Always!

A very determined look on Lizz…..very!

Boy, will the excitement ever……..START

Try Blackmailing Blowtop…he’s probably got a few skeletons in his closet nobody knows about yet.