Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 27, 2019

Is it the caffeine that turns people into killers???

In Tracyville the killers and koppers hold their phones, mugs and guns in the exact same weird way!

Reggie reminds me a bit of a young Silver Nitrate. ✨

B man’s statement was so chilling even the coffee cooled down!

The coffee don’t dare get on his wrong side which seems to be all his sides.

Good morning™ soon to branch into newsie killers !

Rocks is looking a little timid here. He has potential to turn Unabomber’s brother tactic or at least take flight to parts unknown and let Bar-bar fend for himself.

Good morning™, Pet keepers!

What’s he going to do about the nickname?

this guy just ain’t scary….

Whats he going to do, stay after school???

Given this fellow tends to solve his problems with murder, I’m thinking he’s going to try murder.

looks like the coffee calms him down… maybe its a case of “Im not human til I have my coffee”

“Chock Full of Nuts is that heeavenly coffee…”

I don’t need coffee to calm down—I need it to get the sludge I call blood moving. And just WHO is this Reggie fellow and why is a successful writer like Barnabas living with him?

Wasn’t there a “scientific study” recently that suggested if you drink you coffee black you’re a psychotic killer?

Bet it’s Reggie…….

Alt Script: 1- How come we don’t have one of those magic coffee pots like that woman who lives by the Clampitts? (see 3/23 strip if stumped by this) 2- BARN: I’m gonna start calling you Juan Valdez ‘cause all you ever talk about is coffee!!! BARN’S FRIEND: Ow. That was harsh… 3- BARN: You’re right. I’m sorry. I’ll call you Folgers instead because you’re the ‘best part of waking up’. BARN’S FRIEND: Or you could just say my name…

Reggie looks like Stan Laurel

I bet TEACHER’S PET is going after Wendy Wichel, except she’s not a teacher, at least that we know of

Wendy Wichel is going to get her “exclusive”…

So the guy thinks his brother is a serial killer and doesn’t go to the police?

Simple. He’s going to pet a teacher…… 8^)

If it is confirmed that Wendy Wichel wrote the print “Teacher’s Pet” story, we may yet see the ironic scene of Tracy having to save her from Bar Tar. (I would be too tempted to let the serial killer do his thing one last time before bringing him down….)

Brother Reg “Rocks” Tar is very afraid—maybe a familial version of Stockholm Syndrome….

Strong black coffee and organic dark chocolate (85-100%) cacao works for me…..I can bear hug and rip trees out of the ground all day. Lol