CBR: "Dick Tracy" Comic Strip to Get New Creative Team

[CBR News]

Full article here.

[grphxkindaguy]

Wait, Dick Tracy is still being published?!?

[Leocomix]

I don't know who Curtis is but I'm glad for Staton whose art I've enjoyed on Hulk, All Star Comics and many other series.

[The Darknight Detective]

I don't know who Curtis is but I'm glad for Staton whose art I've enjoyed on Hulk, All Star Comics and many other series.

I remember Staton from Green Lantern years ago. Good artist.

[Gothos]

Back when Staton did Plastic Man with Pasko, a lot of the wacko villains could've been scaled down Tracy freakazoids.

[jumbobrain]

Dick Locher has had a long and distinguished career as a Tracy illustrator and editorial cartoonist. But since he took over as writer (following the death of Mike Killian, who was reportedly brought in at half the pay of the previous writer) the strip has really bottomed out.

I'm an old fan of the strip and started following it again a few years ago on gocomics.com, and it is a pathetic shadow of its old self. Just one example, a recent story about a murder at the circus ran three months and took place entirely with a bunch of characters standing around in a tent talking. The plots meander, go down dead alleys, and repeat themselves for weeks; characterization is nonexistent, supporting characters go missing for literally years (Junior hasn't appeared in the two years I've followed it, and Sam Ketchem just returned after an absence of years) and the artwork is crude and unimaginative (one reader pointed out that the art for one panel was repeated with minor changes 20 times in a month).

So I have to say, I am DELIGHTED to hear the strip is finally going to some people whose passion and reverence for it is obvious. It starts March 15, if you're curious you can find it free at gocomics.com/dicktracy .