On the dark streets of Tracyville, the Maestro's son (who has yet to be named) is approached by a mysterious car filled with mysterious men and the deal is made: two million dollars for a violin made by a certain Mr. Stradivarius, and both sides appear to be relatively happy with the agreement. The son has his money to do with as he wishes and the mysterious men in the car can move on to the next part of their plan (which they have not told us anything more about and which we may never know unless a certain gumshoe gets pulled into this caper). As all of this goes down, the concert finally gets underway and not a moment too soon as Tess looks like she's about two seconds from socking Dick for all of his grumblings (that, and perhaps she's just discovered that tattoo on his neck, and we all know how she feels about those...well, I guess we don't, but still...). Let's hope he enjoys the music and won't make snide comments the whole way through. After all, there are other people at the concert who paid good money weeks in advance to hear this music.
Meanwhile, the Maestro's son celebrates his new wealth...or not. It looks like he got a little more than money there. He must be dealing with a high caliber class of crooks seeing as how it would appear that they gave him a fake violin to give to dear old dad, even if the old man could probably tell it was a fake just by looking at it, let alone hearing it. But wait, how many sons does he have anyway? This strip gets mighty confusing for a moment and leaves me thinking that the kid might be having second thoughts, has a previously unknown and unseen brother, or has some sort of split personality disorder where his darker half ends up bickering with his lighter half. (It's probably just second thoughts, but still, we do need a nemesis for this potential case, and those guys in the car were promising, but they've already driven away.) Oh well, back to Tess and Dick, who seem to be having a grand time at the symphony. Too bad it won't last.
Oh my! Look there! He's smiling! He's actually really smiling! Looks like all it took to get Dick to feel better after all of those problems at the circus was a little music from a couple hundred years ago. Way to go Tess! (Too bad it probably won't last much longer.) Meanwhile, the wayward son of the Maestro returns with the fake violin and a briefcase full of money (which is another sign that he's dealing with a high class of criminal since they didn't just use a sack with a dollar sign on it but instead used a more inconspicuous briefcase). Unfortunately, dear old dad is still pretty peeved and has decided that it might just be better to rid himself of the kid once and for all. (He probably won't, seeing as how he's using the word
could, but you know, accidents happen.) Looks like Tracy could be losing that smile sooner than I thought.
On the dark streets of Tracyville, the Maestro's son (who has yet to be named) is approached by a mysterious car filled with mysterious men and the deal is made: two million dollars for a violin made by a certain Mr. Stradivarius, and both sides appear to be relatively happy with the agreement. The son has his money to do with as he wishes and the mysterious men in the car can move on to the next part of their plan (which they have not told us anything more about and which we may never know unless a certain gumshoe gets pulled into this caper). As all of this goes down, the concert finally gets underway and not a moment too soon as Tess looks like she's about two seconds from socking Dick for all of his grumblings (that, and perhaps she's just discovered that tattoo on his neck, and we all know how she feels about those...well, I guess we don't, but still...). Let's hope he enjoys the music and won't make snide comments the whole way through. After all, there are other people at the concert who paid good money weeks in advance to hear this music.
Meanwhile, the Maestro's son celebrates his new wealth...or not. It looks like he got a little more than money there. He must be dealing with a high caliber class of crooks seeing as how it would appear that they gave him a fake violin to give to dear old dad, even if the old man could probably tell it was a fake just by looking at it, let alone hearing it. But wait, how many sons does he have anyway? This strip gets mighty confusing for a moment and leaves me thinking that the kid might be having second thoughts, has a previously unknown and unseen brother, or has some sort of split personality disorder where his darker half ends up bickering with his lighter half. (It's probably just second thoughts, but still, we do need a nemesis for this potential case, and those guys in the car were promising, but they've already driven away.) Oh well, back to Tess and Dick, who seem to be having a grand time at the symphony. Too bad it won't last.
Oh my! Look there! He's smiling! He's actually really smiling! Looks like all it took to get Dick to feel better after all of those problems at the circus was a little music from a couple hundred years ago. Way to go Tess! (Too bad it probably won't last much longer.) Meanwhile, the wayward son of the Maestro returns with the fake violin and a briefcase full of money (which is another sign that he's dealing with a high class of criminal since they didn't just use a sack with a dollar sign on it but instead used a more inconspicuous briefcase). Unfortunately, dear old dad is still pretty peeved and has decided that it might just be better to rid himself of the kid once and for all. (He probably won't, seeing as how he's using the word could, but you know, accidents happen.) Looks like Tracy could be losing that smile sooner than I thought.
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