Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 07, 2019

Shame on “By the Book” Tracy for not wearing a seatbelt.

I thought that was the Flash next to Tracy!

And the chase begins…

Good morning™, pursuers!

The chase is on! Lily is safely under arrest and the Howells are next. Tracy is headed out to cut them off at the pass (or something like that—there could be a pass). By the way, Illinois in the real world does not have a north-south highway called 167 and Wisconsin doesn’t, either.

The call to Tracy stated that the Howells “got through” – got through what? Anyway, it looks like the snow is starting to stick and accumulate – if the Howells try to make a run for it and a police chase ensues, it could get dicey for our two “master” criminals…

Good morning™, escape artist chasers !

Hwy 167 is endemic to the author’s home area.

“U.S. Route 167 runs for 500 miles (800 km)1 from Ash Flat, Arkansas at U.S. Route 62/US Route 412 to Abbeville, Louisiana at Louisiana Highway 14. It goes through the cities of Little Rock, Arkansas, Alexandria, Louisiana, and Lafayette, Louisiana.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_167

Cue the chase music!!!

Tracy’s department is so technologically advanced (thanks to Diet Smith.) Yet they’re still using sedan based interceptors, instead of SUV’s,especially with the “changeable” weather Tracyville experiences?

I love panel 3, the chase is on! I would say " Adam 12" but it does not snow in L.A.!

Maybe the Howells will be joining the Nitrates…

Great artwork of Frisk… You can see her pain of a mother’s betrayal….

This continues to read like a typical, fun Dick Tracy yarn of days gone by, and I’m liking it. One thing – GoComics’ colorist recently started painting the two-way wrist device yellow, which it never was before.

Tracy must be triple jointed with the way his elbow extends behind his head like that

1-PRIMM: You said you knew this town but we’ve been looking for hours for a seamstress to fix the cut you put in my coat.

DT: Do I dress like I know a seamstress? Or a tailor? Or a decent clothing store?

2-WATCHEE TALKEE: Just got a report of a fat lady pushing a station wagon full of non-taxed smokes into the Gas & Grub. Caller said it was the funniest thing he’s seen in weeks.

3-DT: MAYBE THEY’RE STILL THERE! Let’s take a break for a good laugh and then get back to business.

PRIMM: WAIT! YOU JUST PASSED A SEAMSTRESS SHOP!

DT: Laugh first, then coat! THIS IS TRACY! I’M IN ROUTE. WILL FORWARD PICS IF SHE’S STILL PUSHING! Over and out!

Wow, We get a geography lesson in where routes are. It’s a comic folk, ya know, not real, fiction, like A man can fly is fiction

Too much today! Lily’s arrest deserves a few panels at least, and the station wagon getting through the cordon deserves some visual coverage, too. After all the build-up and the diversions along the narrative way, now is not the time to start cutting corners!