Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 12, 2021

Ruht-Roh …

Good morning™, guys!

Well, hiding in the dumbwaiter is one of the oldest tricks in the book, but it looks even less comfortable than my first guess of a closet: “Lousy cops!” Tracy’s hand still looks awkward, but at least it’s a bit bigger.

It was nice of them to leave so many makeshift tools in the root cellar with Tiger Lilly. He should soon be popping out like a Jack in the Box.

Good morning™, dumb waiters !

Pouch sure is working up a sweat doing nothing. Since Tiger Lilly does not have his phone out this would have been an easy opportunity to have an entirely black box with a dialog balloon.

To see in the darkness, he lit a match…

The police and all the other commotion leave, the bad guys are all out at the same time. 2 on 2; this will be a good fight. Someone(s) may not come out of it alive.

When Pouch and Tiger meet, It won’t be an happy reunion, I suspect

A lot is going on in this story, should be a climactic ending!!!

Pouch should pack the blue balloon with coke and then swallow it to keep anyone from taking it from him again.

I’m dyin’ here… and I need the bathroom…

Why do I have an image in my head where Tiger shoves the pipe upwards and goes right up Pouch’s…..

Not sure what emergency powers DFCS has, but hopefully enough to immediately place Auntie Bellum elsewhere so she won’t have to return to the drug den. Looks like a two or three-way encounter is in the future.

If what I think is going to happen, there will be a lot of laughs

How long is this story going to string out? It’s been going on since dec 6, I don’t recall a storyline going on so long.

Tracy, still worried about his weight

1-DT: I stopped carrying my gun on my hip. It simply ruined the lines of this Dolce Gabanna raincoat ensemble. DISPENSABLE WALK-ON WOMAN: Should we check the dumb waiter?

DT: What? No. You’d have to be dumb to hide anything there. Dumb. See what I did there? DUMB waiter! Oh, who am I kidding. I’m just hiding my self-loathing behind hilarity. I’M SO FAT!

2-MEL: The Dumb F’in Cop Squad certainly is aptly named …

3-FRENCHY: If I’m gonna live here, I might as well make some improvements. Voila! A skylight! Feels homier already! I’m like the third Property Brother Twin!

And on and on. and on, on, on……………………………and on. What is the story line all about?

It was DCFS when Ms Han first appeared. Yeah, I’m That Guy. I don’t feel bad about being confused by the acronym now.https://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2021/03/01

Where’s the gas go?

oh i think we’re going to get a good laugh tomorrow

hey, Pouch Baby, you might want just scoot on out’a there, or you might be dyin’ in there more than you think!

Ms. Han will report back to the DFCS (or DCFS; take your pick) and they will be able (if so moved) to get a court order for Auntie’s removal from The 1312. Meanwhile scrunchy Pouch holds on uncomfortably in the small space of the dumb waiter, dumb (Tracy was amicable towards him as an informant) and waiting with exasperation. Betimes, Tige and his trusty rusty rebar are about to stop living in a root cellar. Don’tcha just wonder where that vent line emerges?

Haven’t been on the board today. I had to do a Zoom call interview with a London journalist who is making a documentary about a Russian movie I was in 20 years ago.