Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 15, 2019

No motive? Both the motive and the cause of death will come out at trial?

Oh, by the way, Good Morning

Olivia

Hysteria

Innocent, she simmers.

Francesca fine

As vintage wine

Models as a swimmer.

Now know enough

Slap on the cuffs

Kassie is going down.

Ice cubes did melt

Demise thus dealt

Detective of renown.

The Minit done

Outlandish fun?

We see crime does not pay.

Friday relieved

Yet also grieved

O’er murder done this day.

Only just sank in that this counts as a crossover story. ✨❤️✨

If Kassie Jou was guilty how come she waved her potassium in front of the detective’s face? I bet she didn’t keep her dietary supplement under lock and key. It would have been easy to frame her. I don’t see how you could possibly rule out suicide either, or even idiotic if-it’s-good-for-her-it’ll-be-good-for-me self-overdose. Ah well, that’s what lawyers are for.

Good morning™, powdered perps !

No real twists and turns to make for a compelling mystery. From now on I’ll try going with what looks so obvious. But alas, Ray’s trial will never be and so the motive will fade into the mist, and that’s the real “Mystery” ladies and Gents !

I like the first and the last panels!

Whoever mentioned the potassium angle was right on! I guess we will never know the motive!

Gee. I never saw this one coming.

And of course, her full name is Kassie Jou Butler.

And besides, you are over dressed.

When Neil Wick says it sucks, you failed horribly.

WTF? Was this a deadline wrap up?

Not even Hamilton Burger would try to prosecute this case.

Wow. Neil Wick is down on this. Houston we have a problem.

“As for motive, I imagine we’ll discover that later,”

Translation: They ran out of room in the panel, and time, to explain it.

Things like motive and means are figured out long before the DA agrees to issue an arrest warrant. I expect a lot of things will come out at this trial.

Not to mention that the amount of potassium required to deliver an immediate fatal overdose couldn’t be slipped into a single glass of water.

We know the motive : Showing 2 weeks of pretty girls in scanty clothing.The motive for the murder? Who cares!

A mini misery we’ve just endured

As Tracy said, “Please no more!”

’Tis sad to think of glory days

Remembering all the cheers and hoorays

When all we’ve got in the here and now

Are stories where all we can say is “Wow!”

I must confess

Unlike the rest

To feeling blessed

This wasn’t a mess

I quite enjoyed

The method employed

That helped avoid

A story destroyed

Well done!

Circumstantial at best. She did it just because the salts are hers? I “imagine” we’ll find a motive later? Not your best work Dick.

Again, not enough clues for readers.

I feel cheated. That daily minute-or-so of reading over the past two weeks could have been put to better use.

Where can you buy the invisible high heel shoes that Francesca and Olivia are wearing?

I looked up the symptoms of a potassium overdose and there’s a list of symptoms from feeling tire, to vomiting, and in some cases, death…

And such a death wouldn’t be quick or quiet like a death from Cyanide, etc.

Also, Clara should have tasted the potassium and stopped drinking it…

But, there would be no “minute mystery” ( read “two week” mystery… ) X-D

really? why??? inquiring minds want to know

So it WAS a salt!

A sad ending.

Bye-bye eye candy.

Feel like on of these mangas where the end is rushed and make no-sense because the publication has ended abruptly.

Well, I was slightly off…Friday did successfully frame Kassie (she must have known about her potassium deficiency) but she let Tracy point the finger at Kassie (since she and Tracy are friends, Friday assumed she wouldn’t be considered as a suspect). My understanding is that Friday Foster was an action-adventure strip, and not amateur detective stories. The motive is still that Friday Foster is now back from 45 years in limbo, ready to star in a revived strip! (Hey that sounds almost believable LOL)

Badly posed Barbie week is over Hooray!

Kassie Jou: “Why did I kill Clara Clearwater? I’ll tell you why! She stole the Edison Edible Underwear account from me, that’s why! She stole my lifelong dream, to model that line!”

I am curious as to why the character of Dexter was even introduced. Two wasted panels.

I am curious as to why a whole day was wasted on Friday’s “joke-a-day” camera puns.

Remove another day from the story for the 9/11 tribute. Figure in all of the 2-panel days over the 2-week period and this story was thinner than Grandma’s chicken soup.

Why Friday Foster? It could have been any photographer—man or woman. There was not enough of Friday Foster to even get a sense of her personality. Her strip has been defunct for 45 years and only old geeks remember it. So, what was the point?

Tracy’s slipping. Only 3 of the 4 models are standing in a , shall we say, ‘provacative’ manner in the first panel. Although I believe the corpse ‘assumed the position’. Gotta give Tracy a lot of credit for pulling that one.

Will miss all the vouging !!Maybe Sam can vogue in the coming week !!!!

Of course it was potassium salts. Potassium metal in air decomposes into an explosive oxide. Would have been obvious.

Other than the great series of crotch shots, this was two weeks of my life I will never get back. Gould family should sue. Sad

Love his sexy girls. His story, not so much.

If 1) the potassium was thick enough to leave a noticeable coating on the ice-cubes, and 2) the ice-cubes haven’t melted in this time, … I wonder why Clara would ever drink from that cup.

A little too predictable, but I agree with Ray Toler. No explanation and no motive. Not well done.

Let her break free and have Lt. Phillip Gerard search for her all over the country and in all different situations, as she screams " I am innocent" That might be exciting!

Motive? We don’t need no stinkin’ motive!

Means and opportunity—were available to anyone of the ladies, even if the potassium salts “belonged” to Kassie Jou! Of course, the mechanics of the murder are totally improbable: no one would have drunk enough potassium-coated ice cube melt-off to imbibe a lethal dose.

Magic ice cubes, by the way. First, they are not there. Then (today) they are.

This case is so badly botched that the D.A. will never bring it to trial. Kassie’s lawyer will have her cut loose and the charges dropped within a day or two. If she really did do it, she will get away with murder (as often happens in our RL Tracyville).

It was nice of the girls to pose for us the past two weeks. That’s all this MM had to offer….

If you’re going to have a murder mystery end one of the detectives is a professional photographer, shouldn’t photographic evidence be featured in the solution?I’ll say it again: Minute Mysteries were a good idea for a chance of pace that just isn’t working out. Time to retire it.

I like these Minit Mysteries.

It’s not surprising that Jorge Longaran had a successful career painting landscapes. His Friday Foster certainly possessed compelling topography.

This is a Lance Lawson level of dubiousness.

So the cartoonist can’t be arsed to come up with a motive? Sheesh!

That’s it?