Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 27, 2022

Rose colored glasses not for Sam. Those petals out of place

Daisy has an axe to grind yet none have seen his face.

Ferret is a piece of work. She’ll do wrong for a price

Rabbit’s death, she shrugged it off. Did not mourn or think twice.

Eyes in the sky now on the job. They have the car in sight

Sam and Tracy hit the street prepared to do what’s right.

Path they take leads underground. A tour of the sewer

Should they try to shoot it out there soon shall be two fewer

In the employ of Yeti. Harsh poison works so fast

Should one feel the sting of it, next breath shall be the last.

Back in the sewers again! “Oh, hey Daisy. How’s it hangin’?”

Neil’s late again with my copy/paste"™". LOL !

Good thing I keep mah Trademarks numbud fuh just such an emuhgency.

Tracy still gets a signal down there?

Good morning™, sewer rat followers !

The illustrations and coloring are fab. Sam’s tie in P. 1 has a sort of glow to it and his face has a gritty and almost real look in P. 2. Love the behind shot of Ape and Ferret. If any of Tracy and Sam’s talk is supposed to be whispers dotted lines around their word balloons would serve to indicate that.

Hahaha, did Tracy and Sam grow mustaches in panel two?! Sam looks like Luigi! Otherwise, amazing art!

Ape should consider a career change. With that build, he might do well as a football player :)

Quiet, Tracy. If you can hear them then they can hear you.

Greetings, sewer searchers! I love the coloring and the shadows/shading in today’s installment, particularly in the third panel. Tracy and Sam have the element of surprise on their side, which may come in handy if Yeti tries to snuff out Ape and Ferret on their return. Our detectives may have to save their lives from the lunatic poisoner.

Good morning™, everybody!

I really like the angle in the first panel. They look good to me. Tracy’s coat is a little greenish, but it seems like a good colour. An outstanding strip overall, in terms of art.

And, of course, the sewer is well-lit and Dick ‘n Sam don’t need flashlights.

WHAT???? Tracy is calling for backup? Be still my heart! This must be a new Tracy.

Is that a plank that Ferret and Ape are running on?

Here in Boston, the subways and street level stops always have large crowds waiting.

I guess we can surmise that either: 1) Tracy and Sam saw them going into the man hole, or 2) the drone picked them up. But I do wonder where Ferret parked the car.

Great art today. First panel, last row is just like we’ve seen on dozens of cop shows. All the panels have something to admire.

Some good angle shots today—and I like Ferret tripping merrily along the sewer

Not pictured, Mole popping out of a tunnel….

Pleger’s artwork rocks and rolls. Mark’s writing is pleasantly accelerating…but it is going from good to better.

Tracy needs to get his finger off the trigger in the last panel.

SAM (in his best Freakazoid voice): You’re kidding! It’s full of poo gas down there!

TRACY: Shoves Sam through the manhole.

Exceptional art & color today, with a definite Eisner vibe going on!

Les Misérables

Beautiful composition today by Shelley.

You’re kidding… Ape fit though a manhole?

TRACY: “Sam? Load up you bullet!We’re going after big game!”

1-SAM: It’s a good thing that gal left off the manhole cover. We could a never moved it.

DT: True but now it’s a driving hazard. Oh well…

2-DT: UGH! This mud is squishy and it’s ruining my wingtips! SAM: Mud. Yeah…

3-DT: Draw your weapon, Sam. This might get ugly. SAM: Hmmm. I usually keep it right here…

4-APE: This would be a metaphor for sex if it was a train going through here instead of us. FERRET: I prefer the “rocket launch” metaphor.

5-BEEP BEEP BEEP DT: Oh there’s the lunch time alarm. What sounds good, Sam?

SAM: Any place that doesn’t contribute product to this sewer. PEE YUUUU! DT: Well Sam, ultimately they all contribute to it…

What a politically correct “sewer!!” Where is the assorted debris, rats and general all round “murk”? Stench, wavy lines? Oh! The maintenance department knew Tracy was coming and did not want his pristine coat soiled!! How thoughtful!!

guns out? without any threat or challenge given? following a hit and run? this is a massive over reaction and the story line has abandoned all attempt at tying to fact

Great art, but just wondering…yesterday stuck in traffic, now underground??> It almost looks like things skipped a day

Love the great art and color today. Plus the fine hats! Still missing their bows though. Story’s moving along nicely too, Wichita1.0.

“I’ll call in reinforcements to cover the exits in this area”. Terrific! Man hole cover assignments. What about the exits outside this area? Nah…don’t want to put too much of a burden on Tracy and Sam. Obviously a lot of unseen action off the page. (between yesterday and today) Such as the turn off Ferret and Ape took. Them exiting their vehicle and walking on foot. Thank you, guest writer. " I’ve got to use….my imagination". I had to dust that trait off, the trend nowadays is put things right in your face.

Why is Ferret running or jogging, whereas Ape is strolling. Must have been something he said.

All this for leaving the scene of an accident? That’s what I call law and order!

Any chance they’ll meet Harry Lime down there?

in that last panel, Tracy looks a little……flushed

Master Splinter?

Welcome to the sewers! To your right is Bane’s HQ! Up on the left is Lex Luther’s hide-out! & watch out for the alligators!

This strip really stinks these days. Very little Chester Gould influence left in it anymore. It feels like a comic based on an animated series that was loosely based on the original source material. Just cancel it already and be done with it.

Ouch!

Action in the storm drains!

Tracy and Sam are hot on the trail of Ferret and huge, lumbering Ape. Technical criticism, though: in the last panel, Tracy is holding his drawn pistol with his finger on the trigger! This is big No No, as taught in any gun safety course. The finger only goes on the trigger when it is time to shoot; otherwise, it is kept outside the trigger guard, typically along the receiver. Tracy should know better! In fact, why has he drawn his weapon at all? Ape and Ferret are not, to his knowledge, high-danger criminals.

Excellent artwork and variety of viewpoints. The pace has quickened….

And how different this might have been if Ferret hadn’t run after the side-swipe. Traffic accidents are fairly minor offenses, and so far as we know neither Ape nor Ferret has a warrant out on them. – BTW, now they are likely going from the frying pan to the fire. Could be neither will be in living condition to get arrested by the police.

To speculate about future story arcs, – We saw Dick Tracy resolve the last story arc of ‘Annie’, finding and returning Annie to her Daddy. – And we know that persons from ‘Terry and the Pirates’ have twice appeared, or been mentioned, in ‘Dick Tracy’. – Can Dick Tracy solve the abduction of Stalky Schweisenberger by her no-good brother ‘Gopher’, one of the last arcs in ‘Steve Canyon’? – Can you think of others?

I’m expecting a train to come out of that tunnel any second.

Twas ever thus…the not-so-bright henchpeople acidentally leading the cops to the main hideout.

If it wasn’t for that breed NOBODY would ever get caught.