Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 10, 2020

Good morning™, detectives!

Looks like Aquarius might be one of the cocaine kingpins in town (unless it’s Auntie Bellum, but I’m leaning towards Aquarius).

A sudden rise in cocaine sales this month? Well, it is the holidays. And Lizz is looking hawt! She could melt that snowstorm outside no problem!

Lee Ebony is back….always good to see….

I guess there will be no avoidance of the drug issue in this story.

Unless next week, we find out that the cocaine was candy after all!

Good morning™, snow sniffer dogs !

Time to root out some dope peddlers and users because we know they are the vilest slime. The ladies are looking mucho mujeres calientes.

Team Tracy is going to use a real life issue as a background for encountering Aquarius and company.

Good work guys, for a public awareness campaign.

Art looks really good today, well done guys!

Hey Tracy, did you close out the Yeti case and do you know poor Daisy’s still in the sewer?

Great artwork today. The new storyline plot seem good.

“If you wanna hang out, you’ve got to take her out, cocaine.” Also, “Driving that train, high on cocaine.”

Maybe he should put on his bright yellow overcoat and go undercover.

A narrative about drugs? Dust off a Black character, gussie her up and bring her onstage!

How do you chart cocaine sales? And if your snitches can report sales are up 12.7% couldn’t they also identify the new salesman they say is behind it? I mean, sales could be up because of supply and demand (someone is getting more of the stuff into town and honest capitalism – the law of supply and demand – is having dealers cut prices to get existing customers away from the competition). And I think someone already asked do we have more users, or just the same users buying more – what exactly is meant by sales being up? Does this also mean an uptick in the economy of Tracy City, those who like nose candy are able to afford more because business is improving?

I could see if there were a sudden number of overdose deaths from contaminated cocaine, or if the “word on the street” was about a new player, but citing sales figures is just weird. Aquarius can’t be the dealer; he had to go to Dollar Bill to get some for Cheesecake. Maybe Cheesecake’s habit is so bad, the sales figures have, uh, ‘shot up’ all because of her. Nah. But this is confusing.

Backdoor pay off .

Okay, first we had Aquarius letting the sunshine in, then Pouch peddling his beautiful balloons— so will Cheesecake fall in love with Bill and get the wedding bell blues?

Just occurred to me that somebody trying to move into the city’s drug sales would get a lot of attention from the already established firms – there would be a turf war with dead dealers all over town.

I just hope that when they do find the person who’s responsible for the uptake, they don’t wind up on the other side of an impenetrable steel door from him, and then just quit and go on to the next story.

Just dont pull an all-nighter with Sam, Tracy. After all, tonight is the first night of Chanukah, so he’ll want to be home to light the menorah.

1- CHIEF: Oh fellas? – Hey – what’s Tracy’s daughter doing in the squad room with confidential files in her hand?

2- DT: I hired her Chief. It’s a combination Crony Capitalism / Nepotism / Social Diversity move.

CHIEF: Where’d you get the money for that? DT: From our Bullet Budget. You may have noticed that I haven’t shot anyone in months. If this keeps up, me and the rest of the squad can sell our guns and put the money into something that will boost morale, like big bonuses.

SAM: I just shot my gun. And I’m not talking euphemistically just because Liz looks so hot if you know what I mean.

DT: SHADDUP SAM! Do you want a big bonus or not? SAM: Oh. Right. I probably could a used a Taser on Yeti. DT: We’re selling those too.

Deep Neil, Deep. More Cheesecake please, and BTW, where’s Joe Adonis?

I love seeing the whole team together. The Chief is giving them all orders on what to focus on. I’m hoping they all remain involved in this story.

Suddenly Dick Tracy moves to Oregon

If we get to see Dick Tracy vs Stringer Bell…

From the “tips” we got says Chief Patton. Well forget the C.I. (Criminal Informant) role Pouch, Major Crimes Unit already had somebody. Calling in a question, who is going to infiltrate Candyman and Auntie Bellum’s “enterprise”? Tracy, Sam, Lizz, Lee, they’re over age for that kind of thing. Now would be the ideal time to introduce some officers from the drug unit in the police department or maybe some patrol officers. New characters going into 2021 might be an idea whose time has come. Groovy Grove, may he rest in peace was a former felon who served his time, became a policeman and as it turned out was the father to that blind girl, I think her name was Tinky. Chester Gould was drawing the strip at that point in time.

Time to end the Some Drug War. After more than a century it is an utter failure. The cure was worse than the disease ever was.

Well, the plot is moving along nicely, which is a good thing. Still, I was kinda hoping for some more images of Cheesecake cooking. Having that show up at the same time that inSecurity was re-running the cake-baking episode was great!

I feel like the whole squad looks guilty. Think Sam’s nose is twitching. Tracy, be like, Sam, Lizz…afraid we are gonna have to lay off the nose candy for a bit.

So, everything is cool as long as consumtion is low?

Snowfall while talking about cocaine. Hmm.

Hello, Major Crimes Unit! I haven’t seen all these folks together in a long time!. Now, Chief Patton directs them to take a bite out of dope-dealing. This will no doubt come to involve Dollar Bill and Aquarius….

https://youtu.be/Pv0Q6IkAXa4

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3v4gw/vancouver-just-voted-to-decriminalize-all-drugs