In case anyone is curious about the reference in the last panel of Sunday, August 17, 2025's Dick Tracy:

"Wasn’t Pallas able to burn the Argive fleet, to sink it in the sea, because of the guilt and madness of one single man, Ajax, son of Oileus [i.e., Ajax the Lesser, or Ajax the Locrian]? She [Juno*] herself hurled Jupiter’s swift fire from the clouds, scattered the ships, and made the sea boil with storms: She caught him up in a water-spout, as he breathed flame from his pierced chest [i.e., pierced by lightning], and pinned him to a sharp rock"

-Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 1

In other words, Juno struck Ajax the Locrian in a chest with a bolt of lightning, thus drawing the parallel with the weapon being used by Tess LaKoyle.

*Different translations refer to Athena or Minerva, as well as Juno. W.F. Jackson Knight's translation for Penguin Books (1956) refers to Juno.