Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 15, 2021

Good morning™, everybody!

Tracy’s suspicions confirmed by Lee’s report from Pouch, but is he in time to track down Briar Rose at Diet’s office? She seemed so nice during the interview.

Briar Rose has suggested to Diet that they get out of there for a more “private” interview.

Why the twirling thumbs up from Tracy? Did he win the office pool? Did Lizz ask him if he wanted a cup of coffee? Did Pat ask if Tracy remembered to spray after leaving the bathroom? Did Sam let one rip, impressing Tracy?

These are the important questions we need answers to, not the silliness of the drone!

Finders, keepers!

Good morning™, moments of epiphany !

By jove, Tracy’s got it !!!  …In which case forget about talking to Smith on the phone when you can just haul your ass over there and slap some cuffs on.

The hot lights of interrogation and some pistol whipping should yield some very interesting answers.

Shows him reach for a desk phone in panel 2; uses watch to make a phone call. Sounds like my wife with her cellphone/watch combo.

Tracy! Get thee to Smith Industries!

I don’t wanna say I tol’ you so, but I tol’ you so!

Read the strip from December 4, 2017 where Sam says that he’s glad Smith’s original attempt at time travel was a bust. Tracy agrees. He even says, “Ye gods!” Totally different attitude from the current story, eh? I wonder why they changed their minds…

No doubt by a red headed fake newshound. As for yesterday, I guess with good false credentials, the police will allow interviews—After all, with Wendy Witchell on the job, the PD is desperate for ANY good press

BUSTED!

And, in a surprise twist, it will revealed that that new Ace is… Diet Smith! Meanwhile, I don’t believe finding lost fortunes is a crime. They may have warrants out for them on other crimes, but I’m not sure if they can charge Smith’s systems analyst with a crime or not. Smith can claim it was unauthorized use of the machine – but when it’s the guy he hired to check out the machine he can just claim he was doing test runs to make sure everything was running smoothly. They can charge him. A good defense lawyer will get him off. And the Apparatus can afford to hire a lot of good lawyers.

Why would Tracy have to go through a receptionist, if he’s calling Diet through the wrist genie? Shouldn’t that go directly to Diet’s genie? And, should Tracy’s rank be Chief of Detectives, not Chief Detective? The latter sounds like something from the 60’s Tracy cartoons. (RIP.)

Naah, it’s just the Psychic Hotline.

Interviewed by the red head chick from Apparatus!

It looks like the wrist radio is glowing instead of the usual lightning bolts. Perhaps that is the indication that it is making a phone call and not broadcasting radio waves.

What is this awkward thumbs up gesture for?

1-DT: Whaday know, whadaya say, kid? I’m doing lines from Cagney movies today and as your father, I insist you play along. DAUGHTER: Ummmm, ok…

2-…Uh, I was just in a fight with a street bum… see? He was selling balloons…ummm… you dirty rat. He said he was your snitch… I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy?

DT: NO, NO, NO! JUST THE GANGSTER MOVIES! Oh, forget it. You’re hopeless.

3-DT: New game – 1, 2, 3, 4, I CHALLENGE SAM TO A THUMB WAR!

SAM: Uh, I don’t wanna.

DT: DO IT, CHICKEN!

The Apparatus is on a roll collecting lost fortunes, other than Mumbles getting those books how come none of this fortune windfall has been shown in the strip? Show me some scuba divers, personnel dressed up in mining clothes retrieving the stuff. I have a “Missouri state of mind”.

Ouija board.

Thumbs up gesture equivalent of Rex Harrison’s “by George,she’s got it!”

Isn’t it jumping to conclusions to think the Apparatus is using the time drone for their project? They might have reliable maps. Oh wait a minute….maps on paper….paper gets yellow and crumbles….back to the time drone theory.

“Well,here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into”

“What do you mean,I got you into?”

“Well,you sold that policeman a bottle of beer!”

“I thought he was a streetcar conductor!”

Laurel&Hardy—-“PARDON US”—1931

I guess with Pouch’s cover, selling balloons, the criminal element in Tracy land don’t know he’s a renegade. A second stringer substitute for: Sporting James (from Hunter) Rooster (from Barretta) Huggy Bear (from Starsky & Hutch)

Boy, team Tracy has gotten as lost as this “throw it against the Wall” story. Can you spell ADHD Kids?

It’s too late, Tracy!

If you had enough time to take off your hat and sit at your desk, you had enough time to warn him, Tracy.

Be with us on Sunday for “Jim Pistol’s Torture Chamber!”.

And how about dropping the block,Dmitrio?

Briar Rose is Queen of Spades. Clue is hands and finger nails. See Sept. 8, 10, 12 and 15.

One does not put Chief Detective Tracy on hold.

The tidbits are starting to come together! Will the process result in a smooth, easy investigation and arrest of the perps, or will the coming together be more like a huge multi-vehicle [multi-storyline] traffic accident?

Even as Tracy urgently tries to contact surprisingly-gullible Diet Smith, the phony freckled reporter, Briar Rose, is “interviewing” him and milking him for useful info about the Time Drone Project. But for whose benefit? For whom is she working?