Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 20, 2025

everyone goes bug-eyes today…

Good morning™ everybody!

He has a collaborator that he met online, apparently, so he’s not working alone. Sam looks pretty shocked.

The sleaze is a “syndrome” unto himself.

Looks like Sam and Lizz are responding to Tracy letting one rip! LOL!

Good morning™ Amazing Light Bulb Moments !

I see that eureka look in Sam’s eyes. Dad looks so happy in telling Tracy how his little boy likes to travel.

“Don’t you want to ask if my son has come into possession of bomb-making material recently, officers?”“We’re saving that question for the strips in April. Don’t rush things.”

Well, he didn’t go to Sweden for the meatballs!

“He wanted to visit the headquarters of Ikea. It was too embarrassing to talk about.”

Wondering how you meet a part-time terrorist on line? Is there a Terrorist web site where you go and ask, “Hey, how can I blow up a really huge building?”

It was done on-line, so he didn’t have to go the Crop-Top approach, walking into a bar and asking, “Hey, who wants to teach me how to commit a terrorist act?”

Maybe you just ask on a random site like GoComics, “Hey, I’m interested into getting into terrorism. Anyone want to help me blow up a clock tower?”

And, of course, if I was a full-time bank robber who did a little free-lance terrorism on the side the first thing I’d think on seeing a request would be, “This guy wants help making a bomb. The police would never try a sting operation asking for a terrorist with experience. I’ll send him my résumé.”

Did Tracy’s trenchcoat ever have those shoulder flaps before? They almost look like miscolored “captain’s bars” or something…like military type

As has previously been mentioned, Totten Sr apparently doesn’t know of Junior’s dishonorable discharge from the military. And apparently Senior and Junior are all that are left of the Tottens, until an inevitable and heretofore unknown relative seeking revenge shows up in a few years!

Sonny recently returned, a broken man (In best Groucho: Where he got a broken man I’LL never know!). Seems he’d been on the Internet with a girl he said was the very image of Olive Oyl, his ‘steamy dream queen.’

Turned out he was catfished by a burly trucker named Sven Hoolie, whose hobbies ran towards slapping paste-smeared poodles to the windshields of passing Volvos, and macrame using barbed wire.

It was right terr’ble. Came back and swore off Diet Mountain Dew with root beer chasers! I tell you he’s a broken man, Tracy. Just sits there, staring at the bottles, his fingers twitching and endlessly running through his collection of Pee Wee comeback lines in that terrible voice! I’ve considered having him put down. Is there a permit for that?

1- DT: OWWWWW! Mind if I lean? I just got a vicious crick in my back. I’m old you know.

2- FRED SR: Tell me about it! My fingers are so arthritic, I can’t even pick my nose – Fred Jr has to do it for me. He’s a good boy.

3- DT: Yeah? How’s your knees? Mine… LIZZO: Pssst…let’s GTF outta here before they get to their bowel issues FRED SR: …yes but did you ever develop a hernia from straining so hard to push one out?

SAM: TOO LATE!!!

My God, Tracey! He’s going to open an IKEA franchise!

Let’s hope that it wasn’t the Stockholm in Saskatchewan. You know how much trouble those Canucks can cause.

cue the dark ambient music with discordant overtones which, although broadly tonal, is inflected with chromatic and polytonal passages representing the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style without being interpreted as an overly heavy-handed metaphor within the context of the thematic material a bit on the frenetic and frantic side with interesting rhythmic devices which seem to counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor utilizing a novel imaging technique known as positron emission tomography and the spontaneous nondenominational conceptions by expansively recontextualizing liminal narratives of colonic hydrotherapy with a twinge of giddiness

GASP! He has a friend in Stockholm! What a revelation! I’m flabbergasted! Don’t go there, Tracy – it’s a trap!

Oh wait, we need to spend the rest of the week investigating Stockholm online and getting the Stockholm police involved. Meanwhile, let’s do some more digging on Junior’s activities here. Maybe we can make some silent panels with ominous, pensive glances. They’ll look great because Carlos is Magnifico, and we won’t have to write out anything specific just yet. That will fill enough space for another week.

In World War II, we fought the nazis and won. The nazis are still around. Why aren’t we fighting them? Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! :)

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