Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 13, 2023

Good morning™, everyone!

Confirmation that both victims died from a wound from an edged weapon does suggest that it might have been someone interested in fencing.

Following the meeting:

“Just some people stabbed in the chest, books stolen. Not much interest for us.”

Good morning™, story side steppers !

Did I hear Sam almost say “cold cuts” ?  Love Sam’s thoughtful look in P.2. Will Tracy be going “downstate” for the meeting or will it just be in another room at the station ?  Will another murder happen during this interlude ?

speaking of an interlude, vengey has been gone for three days, I believe, MAYBE more…

has anyone heard anything?… did he give an explain as to where he is?…

hope everything with him is alright…

A single wound to the heart, delivered with an edged weapon? Sounds like Xaviera Libris’s tongue was the murder weapon.

How could it become a cold case when it’s still in the “investigative stage”?

Methinks it be a medieval knight back from the dead !

3rd panel, “me too Tracy”!

Can’t be a cold case as long as you have hot coffee.

It’s not a cold case… it’s a NUMB CASE brain killingly numb, the ONLY movement in this story is circular

I believe Chester Gould is turning over in his grave!!!

♪♪ Downstate,

Where all the coffee’s hot.

Downstate,

But cases are often not.

Downstate,

Tracy may find a clue there.

DOWNstate, DOWNstate, DOWNstate…. ♪♪

InterDepartmental cooperation is always nice, sometimes they even discuss cases.

I get it. It’s Van Helsing, who is frustrated at finding vampires increasingly difficult, and is branching out.

At last some solid cop talk . I’m starting to think this might be a cop / crime strip after all .

COLD CASE OFFICIAL (carrying in a very tall set of folders): Yes, Detective, let’s talk about your unsolved cases, starting with the most recent – the arsonist at the scam-call center…

Haven’t read Tracy in some time but off and on.. looked up the cartoonist working on it now and she is fabulous. The strip hasn’t looked this good in a while. (No offense to Joe Staton meant at all)

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

“Don’t want this to be a cold case. That’s what I’m calling anything we can’t figure out. Sounds better than ‘failure.’ Current location of my keys? Cold case. My wife’s birthday? You’d better believe that’s a cold case.”

want to bet the meeting ties into this case?

MOVIE QUOTE—

“You’re in the dark now. MY KINGDOM!!”

Edward Arnold—EYES IN THE NIGHT—1942

1-DT: DAMIT SAM! DID YOU DRAW A NIPPLE ON THIS AUTOPSY REPORT???

2-SAM: Well, Manutius just looked funny without any…

3-…Did you see I put some on Caxton’s results too – and drew on a bush. I figure someone her age wouldn’t be trimming it up.

DT: Oh yeah. Very nice job. Very nice. Umm, I’ll study this more in the Men’s Room…back in a few…

We will find out from the Cold Case Meeting that “Frau Schnitzelgruben” is far more horrible than we thought she was.

That diagram,to this old timer,suspiciously resembles one from the 1936 aDDIE gOTHORN CASE.

To the fireman !

“Can you feel the love tonight!”

All well, just got bored of posting about gay goats and smelly farts.Nothing about this story interests me, so why waste everyone’s time.I’m afraid I’ll turn into a miserable, nasty, shriveled up Viagra loving nut job like Firestrike. Please relay this to him for me! LOL!

Something of a slowdown in forward momentum here today. Will a Cold Case, particularly a downstate cold case, reveal anything useful about the two stabbing victims? For that matter, I think the autopsy report had already been anticipated; so, nothing new there, either..

But the need to “take a meeting” with the Cold Case committee does at least hint at the frenzied and overworked business of being a police detective in Tracyville (Chicago is very short of its optimal number of detectives on the CPD)….

Confirms that Tracy-town is not New York City (the rest of the state is “up-state”) and is not Mpls.-St. Paul (the rest of MN is “out-state”). Leading contender could be Chicago. The rest of IL is “down-state”.