Great Noir Episode art combined with great hard-boiled Private Eye Monologue - and both of those TV Tropes articles even use Tracer Bullet as header illustrations.
According to The Calvin and Hobbes Wiki, this is the last of Tracer Bullet’s three appearances, so here are his first two.
The very first is a single day’s strip, part of a larger arc involving a Really Bad Haircut, hence the hat.
The second strip is a week-long story about a Maths problem.
Remembering my own mathematical ineptitude, with ‘O’ Level results to prove it, one sympathises.
