When on the move, Sam & Dick seem to ball up their fists as in panel #3 today, maybe moreso Dick than Sam.
I am enjoying the artwork for all three panels but the storyline is so far away from my capacities for understanding, I don’t even try to figure out what is happening.
I like the connection of panel #1 with panel #3 and Tracy using the hat rack.
Little bits of drawing about light & shadow don’t bother me.
The visual arts logic of composition sometimes lack precise connentions with the story here, or with memories of Chester Gould’s mastery of both verbal and nonverbal media.
Ernie Bushmiller thought of himself as the “Lawrence Welk” of comic strips”.
Wikipedia will help you with this mystery.