Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 21, 2019

Good morning™, double victims!

The plot thickens, as they say. This could be more complicated than you might have thought.

Good morning™, temperamental explosive experts !

Nice detail on the disfigured face and the ramshackle look of the old building. So what two cars are known to park together ?

Sounds like Splitface’s gratitude towards Clybourne is a lot thinner than Clybourne would like…..

The Phantom must have poked him in his right eye!

So did Clybourne buy him the skull contact lens?

Explosive answer to Clybourne’s naive question…

OK, so what’s with the “pickle fork”? An automotive tool used to separate suspension parts. Can’t see how it could be used here.

OK, so what’s with the “pickle fork”? An automotive tool used to separate suspension parts. Can’t see how it could be used here.

I see death in his eyes!

That flashback is getting bigger, oh boy!

Panel 2 is the greatest today!

Must be at Tracy’s headquarters car lot!!!

“I HATED the ’59 Edsel!”

Ok fellahs, the death’s head skull in his eye. Is that a part of his disfigurement? A contact lens? An artistic gimmick? He was born that way and it turned him evil?

Two cars with one bomb? Is Splitface bargain hunting?

1-SHADY: CAREFUL GRANDPA! If you somehow manage to cut that wire with a pickle fork you’ll blow us sky high.

2-GRANDPA: WHAT! You said these were highway flares!

3-SHADY: Yeah. I just didn’t want you to feel nervous about working with dynamite. I gotta admit I don’t have a lot of confidence in your abilities. That’s why I put you in a condemned building. Didn’t want you blowing up anything nice.

GRANDPA: CONDEMNED! I’m probably breathing asbestos and lead paint flakes you moron. That stuff can kill ya!

SHADY: Yeah. Umm, maybe you should plan on exposing your enemies to that instead of messing around with explosives?

GRANDPA: FOOL. Don’t you know my backstory? I’m into gore and mayhem.

SHADY: Don’t forget circus robberies.

GRANDPA: Yeah! That idiot Willie Sutton thought banks had the money. HA! Nothing compared to a circus! And you can hide the stash of nickels without fear of them decaying, unlike that paper money. I’M A GENIUS! SHADY: Yeah you are Grandpa!

Does he have Tribbles on his head?

“Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?”

It would be both poetic and ironic if the bomb were to go off while Split Face is building it…

cutting costs

Two for the price of one! Splitface is a very economical would-be bomber!

What two would these Easy Targets be?

The answer awaits….