When "Got Your Nose" goes too far.

Well this is interesting.  Jack seems to be having a little trouble holding himself together in panel one.  I'm not sure if he's wearing a mask, if Tracy threw water or acid in his face, or if he's actually made of clay.  (Clayface?  Is that you?)  Whatever the case may be, this panel only serves to reinforce what today's strip is about: action, action, action.  (Frankly, I'm a little surprised that things are moving so fast, but the change is gladly welcomed.)  Now on to the excitement that is panel two.

And exciting it is.  Not only does this panel continue the action from the previous one, while still managing to up the danger quotient, but it also provides a very good reason for why you should always make sure that the windows of your control room are clean.  You see folks, during the inevitable fight, you don't want the windows to be confused for walls because while it's fairly standard fighting procedure to run an opponent into the wall, most people would think twice about doing the same thing with a window.  (Of course, this is Dick Tracy we're talking about here, and regardless of what happens to you, how many jagged shards of shattered glass shower down, and how long the fall is, he knows he'll survive.)  Perhaps even more important than our hero and villain falling from the sky, locked in combat, is the fact that people are actually in the casino.  They might even be gambling (though a sensible person would probably put money on them just wandering in to ask for directions or change for the pay phone).  If they are, then I would have to say that their expressions aren't so much a reflection of the horror of watching two men falling from above, than they are of the thought that they only have a few seconds to scoop up what chips they can before the table is destroyed and they never find out what number the roulette wheel was going to stop on (and you know it would have been the guy on the right's lucky number too).  As for the fall itself, I will say that I don't much like how Jack seems to be heading straight for the roulette wheel, which can only mean that he isn't long for this world (and if this were a live-action sort of thing, the episode would end with him being impaled on the wheel as it slowly turns).