Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 03, 2020

Good morning™, planners!

I have a feeling that there really is at least one thing he didn’t plan for. Also, I think it would have been a great idea to keep his formulas on a flash drive or something. It’s rather sad when it’s all over and you think it isn’t.

~ Good morning™, over confident planners !

I don’t know what fumes he is running on but it can’t last.

Meanwhile a soaked limping Daisy emerges from an underground storm drain…

Planned for everything……except for losing the meteor, genius…..

“I planned for everything” are the second most common last words. Right behind “Hold my beer, and watch this.”

Clyde looks at Yeti and hisses “Do you want to play a game?”

Yeti smiles back: "Oh? They say a boy’s best friend is his spider … what do you want to play, Clyde?”

Clyde hisses back “Be afraid, be very afraid.”

Yeti snarls back: “Huh? Where are you Clyde? What do you want me to do?”

Clyde softly hisses: “I am over here … Come closer, I can’t hear you …”

Yeti sarcastically: “Yeah, they say that in space they can’t hear you scream!”

Clyde: “Master, you’ll have to come closer, I still can’t hear you … ”

Yeti: “Dang it Clyde! WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO ?”

Clyde: “DIE !”

In all those samples and formulas must be the recipe for a heckuva shampoo/conditioner combo. My mostly bald noggin has been very jealous of those magnificent Fabio-like flowing blue tresses…

Right now, he’s running on adrenalin and stupidity, in equal amounts. Cabinets full of paper files? Wrong decade for a quick getaway. Yeti, you shoulda stuck with the poisons.

So the plan for when it goes to….

Be careful to the Giant Spider, Yeti!

Yeti really is a stinky villain. Tracy is hot on his scent

Remember, “The Best laid plans, often go wrong!!!”

Prediction of something that might be interesting (so it may not happen). Before disappearing down the sewer (check my earlier rants to see what I think of that idea) Yeti will release the giant spiders to slow Tracy and Sam down.

After forcing the steel door open, “Uh, you go in first, Tracy.”

“No, you go in Sam.”

“I saw the spider. Hey, I saved you by shooting the gun out of his hand. Your turn.”

If Yeti really had planned for everything he’d even have a way to remotely open all the spider cages once he was in a safe location. This would actually allow him to escape and storyline to continue. More likely, if he tries to open one of the spider cages and get bitten for his efforts

Probably not everything if Tracy is involved.

Hopefully this idiot will step out onto the train tracks

If you have to take time to pack you have NOT planned the Perfect Get-Away.

Had he PLANNED for this, his papers would be in a folder ready to go, or on a thumb drive, or, maybe… even… a laptop!

Three days left. It’ll feel a little strange to not waking up to see another segment up and running. Well, I have a down-and-out PI embroiled in political shady dealings and murderto keep me warm. Back to the world of text writing.

What is Yeti carrying in the last panel? A spider cage?

He will die a horrible death with various types of poisons all at once. Right?

Meanwhile outside the steel door

KNOCK KNOCK

YETI: Who’s there?

DT: Ask not for whom the bell tolls, the bell tolls for.

YETI: Ask not for whom the bell tolls, the bell tolls for who?

DT: ASK NOT FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, THE BELL TOLLS FOR YOU! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

Meanwhile, as Yeti continues his delusional soliloquy, Sam is still taking a victory lap & Tracy is wondering if he can slice open the steel door with his chin….

Can someone here tell me if the Microsoft cloud is what it’s hyped up to be? How would one retrieve a file? Technology, technology, can the research and development labs be padlocked until I get a chance to master their latest bells and whistles before they come up with something else?

Yes, he has samples and formulas but none for another meteorite. What is left for him to steal and use the money for his research. Who would negotiate with a person that has such a high turn over in staff?

“Oh, and these documents. I will need those at tax time. Tracy is one thing, but I don’t want IRS trouble!”

An impossibly large spider. The largest were nearly the size of dogs and that was because of the high oxygen content 35% back 300 mya. Probably an intelligent alien someone captured cutting up a deer or cow after exsanguinated by it. (They don’t eat intelligent beings though they make exceptions of beings like Yetee here. They do sometimes run out of their food they bring it from Alpha Lyra and cause some animal mutilations.)

“Famous last words” if ever I heard them: “I’ve planned for everything.” Yeti is heading for a Great Fall….