Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 31, 2022

New fill-in sequence? ✨

“Hey, need I remind you that ferrets are meaner than rabbits!”

Why that criminal chooses such miserable losers as goons?

If people weren’t being killed in this story, I’d say this is right out of a 1960s Batman TV show.

Including yesterday’s intro.

Good morning™, cowed coworkers !

As big as Ape is, Yeti is still bigger so it looks like he wont “try it” unless he catches the boss unawares which wont happen unless Ferret becomes victim to serious abuse which is going too far to be ignored.

Ferret looks like two completely different women in panels two and three. What gives with that,

bathroom break?

Does Ape have yellow gloves on or does he have Jaundice?

Oh, and for the nitpickers society members Ferret has a webbed thumb in panel three!

Meeting adjourned!

No she doesn’t.

I was thinking yesterday that Ferret looked pretty cute. The face she pulls in panel 2 though …

Apparently… YES.

“Go rob Fort Knox and bring me back 37 tons of gold in your Volkswagen Beetle.”

“That, uh, may not be so easy…”

“Ferret, may I remind you what happened to your brother?”

Yeti is supposed to be the boss/brains, but doesn’t give the underlings more than vague orders with no idea who the target is he’s sending them out to kill?

are these new minions supposed to be comedy relief?

I liked the suggestion yesterday that the girl should be Ape and the guy should be Ferret, and I’m a bit disappointed that it’s not.

A Batman type villain, with the appropriately named goons

Ape looks “Big and dumb” not to offend !

Excellent flow from Sunday’s last panel to today’s first panel! He’s still gripping the newspaper in anger as he berates his underlings about what he just read.

Oh, go paint a can of soup.

Ferret is rabbit’s sister? I think she picked the wrong boss.

It cant be just me who sees this, but…..anybody else think that Ape is reminiscent of Cad from the underdog cartoon?

1-AL BINO: See all this equipment? Most of it exists to produce poisons but one I bought because it made me laugh at its obscene shape. Guess which one. Hint: I keep it at eye level so I’ll always see it. And laugh!

2-FERRET: Ummm, it’s not on the ceiling… APE: There’s six test tubes and six sounds like “sex”. Is that it?

3-AL: EYE LEVEL YOU MORONS! OK. ANOTHER HINT. It reminds me of what I see when I look down in the shower.

FERRET: The drain?

APE: Are you saying you got six dirty toes?

AL: ARRRGHHH!

Ape is kind of a tall Quasimodo. He’s the Gary Cooper of carnies.He’s charming and alarming, all at once.

Why doesn’t Yeti lead by example? Someone had to show him how to be a criminal. I can imagine his reaction to such a remark….must I do everything? No but if you keep reading your staff/associates “the riot act”, you will end up doing everything. No doubt about it…Yeti will never be mistaken for a “smooth criminal”.

Where’s Ferret’s left arm in Panel #1?. Maybe Neil knows

“You’re a beautiful young lady, you should smile more. Show me your smile, show me… Oh…”

Was her brother one of the weasels that laughed to death in Roger Rabbit?

Ferret does not look like a goon?

does she have four arms??

Is this the same guy with the flower shops & his dumb goon?

Yeti is the cool-dressed villain who is mostly bluster and bullying. When the chips are down, Ferret will turn; Yeti will threaten her; Ape will come to her rescue. Yeti will be sorry; even if he survives, his little organization will have crumbled. Time for the Giant Spider to reappear….

Coming back from the grave (I thought that was the privilege of Abner Kadaver) did him no good, he is still a third rate tyrant.

Labor advocates tell us that the boss is only as good as his subordinates. As DC Comics readily admits, The Joker wastes his talents by always hiring nincompoops as his subordinates.

Wonder if, when the “camera pulls back” we will see Yeti with a prosthetic limb from the spider’s attack

MOVIE QUOTE—

“We don’t have the facilities to keep a giant”

WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST—1958

In reference to her facial expressions, why not, “Zero”?

Boss the Bossy Boss gets Bossy.