I have been following this strip for several months now, enjoying the wacky sidebar adventures of Vista Bill etc. but I have to say about the comic itself that despite all the Peqoudian poetry it is very dull. There are two problems with the new team 1) everything plays too much like a comic book, with preposterous Vampire tractors and so forth and worse 2) no sense of any real danger. The strip seems cleansed of Goulds sadism in favor of a kind of D.C. comics cartoony atmosphere.
Has anyone else noticed how the new Team Tracy stories always turn into a shoutout, usually with an It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World cast of villains from past and present running about?Think of the way this story is ending and the very similar Mr Crime arc. Lots of bang bang.I miss Gould’s sense of the chase. And the focus on one villain in this chase. And detection.
I still have problems with the amnesia side plot (why the heck isn’t the farmer taking SPARKLE TO THE AUTHORITIES)….but aside for this bravo new Dick Tracy guys—this story is longer, more haunting, complex and interesting than anything I have seen in a newspaper in years and years. Pretty amazing actually.
This is the first great Staton/ Curtis continuity. Particularly after the lifeless Fishface and Thunderchild episodes, this one is a real pleasure. And you know why? No more limits on the length of the story arc. At last…………
I have been following this strip for several months now, enjoying the wacky sidebar adventures of Vista Bill etc. but I have to say about the comic itself that despite all the Peqoudian poetry it is very dull. There are two problems with the new team 1) everything plays too much like a comic book, with preposterous Vampire tractors and so forth and worse 2) no sense of any real danger. The strip seems cleansed of Goulds sadism in favor of a kind of D.C. comics cartoony atmosphere.