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

I told you so! LOL

As she really didn’t do much, I’d suspect that a deal could be arranged.

Good morning™, everyone!

I guess we can be reasonably sure that the mysterious hooded hitman has been shot dead now. Briar Rose does seem very cooperative, as a few people predicted.

Methinks someone is about to learn the hard way about a woman scorned….

Nice to see Sam Catchem is a lethal gunman for the law.

And since her boss decided to exterminate her, Briar Rose is gonna throw the Apparatus under the bus…..

Good morning™, turncoats !

Was she really a bad guy who is now so grateful she will spill it all, like a full punch bowl tipping over, or had she turned a new leaf months or years ago and agreed to this undercover stint as some kind of bargaining ?

Looks like Sam took this buzzard out to lunch, and the poor man will not have the satisfaction of a tasty after meal burp.

I never knew Sam’s eyes changed color during moments of stress/adrenaline. His eyes are brown on Sunday when he fires his gun. Today his eyes appear to be green. Holy color changing abilities!

Sure Shot Sam !

I wonder if anyone outside heard the shots and has called 911?

You might have an issue with main character plot armor when even the strip’s creative team finds it too boring to show how the fight ended. And kudos to the genius Briar Rose, who is now all too happy to incriminate herself and destroy her reputation in the criminal world by snitching to the police instead of just stonewalling them (because they still have nothing on her) and dealing with the Apparatus on her own terms.

Some “luxury apartment” by the way! How could an intelligent woman like Rose fall for such baloney?

Wouldn’t it be something if Rose’s testimony led to the destruction of the Apparatus once and for all? For one thing, she’ll be able to reveal the location of their HQ and who runs the organization. This could be the start of something big.

beware of the wrath of a betrayed woman

Looks like they have gained an ally. Good for Rose!

Terrible!

That’s a lot of green…..

Met Joe Stanton at comiccon in Albany yesterday. He seemed a little tired, but probably had every right to be. He had some Tracy stuff displayed, but to be honest I would have really preferred to talk about E-Man he did for Charlton many years ago. Complimented him for his run on Tracy.

I knew his eyes would be different today, don’t know why but I did.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned……

“He was going to kill me, and that’s why he was wrestling with me and had my arms up behind my back.”

“Why didn’t he just shoot you instead of grabbing you? He was holding a gun.”

“You don’t read the Dick Tracy comic strip, do you Sam. That would have made sense.”

Rose is an undercover agent for the FBI? Just guessing.

Sam and Rose have the same complexion. Hummm maybe a DNA test should be ordered when she’s booked-in

PS Today I received my San Diego Comic-Con Special Edition Badge Confirmation – HAPPY BOY!

(two hours into interrogation) “Clark Kent is secretly Superman. Soylent Green is people. When a woman says ‘you take the last piece of cake’, she never means it.” “Gee, Tracy. When she said ‘everything’, she really meant it!”

Briar seems almost too cooperative—could this be another wheel in a wheel?

After her explanation to Tracy, she’ll get a good lawyer for plea bargaining.

The dominoes are going to start falling now….it would behoove the Apparatus to move to the outskirts of town.

Briar HAD no plans to turn informant, even if she had been arrested. UNTIL the Apparatus decided the small chance of her turning was too big to take. Guess What boys? Tha small chance has turned into a probable 100% certainty.

The last time she was handcuffed, an entire factory blew up. Personally, I wouldn’t risk it.

Knew Sam was going to save her a—

1-SUKI: Wow. Both you boys like it rough, eh? That’ll cost you extra. Plus I get whatever’s in dead guy’s wallet.

2-SAM: I’m a cop. Tracy wants to ask you some questions. The handcuffs are for your own protection. You know how hysterical you chicks can get and then you start flailing your arms around and all and before you know it, stuff gets broken.

3-SUKI: Why does Tracy wanna question me? I’m clean. And I mean that in every sense of the word if that gives you any ideas, Big Boy.

SAM: Big Boy? Nah. I just ate. Plus there hasn’t been a Frisch’s in this town for years…

I miss Gould’s renderings of slugs crashing through skulls! Tracy always placed his shots right between the eyes even when he was handcuffed (Smallmouth Bass, 1963)!

Briar looks deranged in P1….scheming in P3.

Don’t just stand there ,Sam!Call Fred of SCOOBY-DOO! to unmask the bad guy.

Multiple stuff to like here.

1.)“Never shoot first at Dick Tracy”.Or Sam Catchem,either.

2,)I say that IS “The New Ace” who got blasted.He’s got the same muscular build as the new boss.

AND Rose would get an extra jolt knowing it was her so-called “BOY FRIEND” who tried to kill her.

3.)When everything has calmed down,Rose and Blaze Rize can play two-handed pinochle together in witnessprotection.

4.)If that was “The New Ace”,Doubleup is out of a bodyguard job,And he can pack his saddle bag and ride off into the sunset.

There’s been progress at Diet Smith Industries.They rebuilt the executive washroom.

The MC leaves me feeling extra sad today. Yesterday, Shane had Briar Rose rocking a Black Widow/Emma Peel/Julie Newmar Catwoman vibe in a sophisticated purple and auburn. Today, she’s back to the primary green & red you’d find in a Crayola 8-pack and has all the oomph of the helper elf standing next to your local shopping-mall Santa Claus. Sigh… ”Oh, I believe… in yesterday.” #return2B&Wdailies

I guess Sam has no interest in looking under the hood, so to speak.

Sam gets no respect. Everybody wants to talk to Tracy.

Sure-shot Sam has prevailed in the deadly exchange! “He’s not a problem anymore.”

The enigmatic Ms. Rose in panel 3 leaves me wondering just what she really means. Is she really going to “tell all” to Tracy, singing like a canary? Or is she being sarcastic? And, why does it have to be specifically Dick Tracy to whom she sings? —Unless he is the only one who knows her true identity and that she is deep undercover? Or has she some nefarious anti-Tracy plot to pull off if she gets her chance?

So many devious or deviant directions this chapter could go! Briar Rose may (or may not) be evil, but she is certainly interesting, driving the storyline at this point in the narrative!

Don’t forget to arrest the counter guy, Sam! (You’ll want that recipe for the barbecue brisket LOL)

Where is the body?