Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 20, 2019

Good morning™, drivers!

Always watch out for exploding cars!

This is exactly why you have to lock up Splitface in a max security prison – he is as homicideally crazy as your average ax murderer and doesn’t belong in a state hospital with porous security – from which he has stealthily escaped several times…

Good morning™, bomb technicians !

Very convenient that Cly found those “groceries”. Did he get them at Tractor Supply™ ?

Watching the beautiful falling snow through the window with no shade helps me to ignore the alarm clock that changes time and turns around on it’s own.

I wish I had this dude’s unlimited access to money, I can’t even afford a bag of potato chips!

First rule of bomb making – never stand around someone making a bomb.

Oh, boy. When Split Face said that, I had that comic strip flashback of what almost happened to Tracy back in the late 70’s…

Hmm…let’s see: is it time for Splitface to splitzville permanently? Could it be he’ll make a fatal mistake in his bomb making?

Wasn’t it a car bomb that killed the original Mysta Tracy?

We still haven’t seen any sign of his multiple personalities.

Wonder who’s car is gonna need some special attention from Splitface???

Everybody’s got to have a hobby.

Splitface is an old school bomber, an analog clock? Wind that baby up!

Hmm. Interesting. Will he attempt to bomb a prior character that is known… or someone new? I am looking forward to seeing the art work of the vehicle…. The drawing style here is very nice so I anticipate I will like the looks of vehicles too.

1-SHADY: Got the stuff you wanted Grandpa.

2-GRANDPA: Wonderful! It used to be tough to get dynamite back before they locked me away. How did you come by it so easily?

3-SHADY: Well, in spite of the National Dynamite Association’s financial influence with Congress it’s still pretty difficult. So these are highway flares. Looks just like dynamite and I could buy it at the hardware store with the other stuff you wanted!

GRANDPA: Sigh. Probably just as well the way my hands shake so much these days. Get rid of this Anarchist’s Cookbook would ya? I needed the large print version anyway.

How do you learn bomb making in the circus? Did H&H maybe share a cell with Kasinski?

Where did he pick up the dynamite? A hardware store?

Heard from Mike Curtis late last night.He’s heard back from his doctor. He does not have an aneurysm, after all. He does have a slightly enlarged blood vessel, but it is not life-threatening.What he has raised on the GoFundMe site so far shouldb e sufficient to meet his needs.All of Mike’s friends will have something to be very thankful for next week.

And the more sophisticated mechanism he can hide it under a simple bomb timer. That is they come they stop the obvious timer. But the bomb is still under a second timer. And if they don’t notice it fast enough “Boom!”.

Making a primitive car bomb for a Special Job implies that Splitface knows where and how to access his target’s car. But we still have no idea who that might be (sure, Tracy is probably on his list, but someone else might be numero uno).

Dynamite and an analogue timing device is so Old School! Wouldn’t a more up-to-date bomb use a lump of C4 and a digital timer/detonator? (Easily enough stolen from your nearest army base or National Guard armory.)

im thinking that since it was Sam in the close up the other day,and he was (i think) instrumental in taking down Tulza last time, that mr looneypants has a grudge against detective samuel… which would be a nice change from everyone wanting to off tracy and not any of his support team

Splitface cleverly deflects Clybourne’s observation about being able to make bombs. It can’t be that hard, right?