Dick Tracy: Dead or Alive by Mike AllredMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
When Dick Tracy rolls into the city by the lake, he means to clean up the streets. Standing in his way are the entire corrupt police force and the underworld...
My exposure to Dick Tracy is limited to that movie starring Warren Beatty and Madonna but I'm a fan of the Allreds so I was all over this.
Dick Tracy: Dead or Alive, as much as I hate the term, is a reboot of Dick Tracy, adding in some modern technology and firmly establishing him in the city by the lake into four issues, laying the groundwork for more Dick Tracy from IDW, which I'm not sure has happened at this point.
The art by Rich Tommaso and Mike Allred has that timeless feel I've come to know and love, both retro and modern at the same time. You can tell they had fun with Tracy's grotesque enemies as well as his lantern jaw and Roman nose. You can feel the love for the source material in the Allred brothers' writing. Dick comes off as a hard boiled cop with a sense of humor and the criminal scheme was outlandish and entertaining. Dick had Robert Stack's voice in my head.
I have to say this made me really curious about early Dick Tracy so I'll have to track some of that down on the cheap.
Dick Tracy: Dead or Alive is a reboot of Dick Tracy for the modern age. Four out of five honest cops.
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