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humanoid-lovers · 6 years ago

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One of the best After hearing so many people complain about the "moon era" in Dick Tracy, I almost didn't get volume 21, and this volume; #22. I am glad that I got this book and judged for myself. I think the Moon maid is a brilliant and enchanting addition to Dick Tracy. I just don't really get all the complaints; I mean crime and action is really never very far away, and often interlaced with the Moon Maid story, with the Moon Maid herself having many crime-fighting tricks up her sleeves. The art is great, humor is in abundance. You can tell that Gould really enjoyed himself during this period. Go to Amazon

AT LAST...AT LONG, LONG LAST.... I've been awaiting this volume since IDW started this series in 2005; it represents a watershed moment for us Tracy fans who had the rug pulled out from under us in 1989 when Blackthorne Publishing went belly-up. Blackthorne's DICK TRACY WEEKLY was canceled after #99, just as the Moon Maid saga was getting good. Tracy, upset over Junior's running off to the moon with Moon Maid, resigned (!) on 4/26/64, his forlorn figure walking away from Chief Patton, Liz, and Sam...then nothing! Now, nearly thirty years later, we get to see what transpired next: the Skeleton in the Elm Tree, Junior and Moon Maid's wedding, the Disappearance of Lita Flite, the introduction of Matty Square and his gang, and, of course, Mr. Bribery and Ugly Christine. I don't believe any of the strips from this era have ever been reprinted before? Can't wait for future volumes that will contain the last twelve years of Mr. Gould's iconic run...Fellow Blackthorne mourners...OUR TIME HAS COME!!! Go to Amazon

Deeper into the Moon Age we go with Dick Tracy After the introduction in the last volume of the Space Coupe and Moon Maid, we move even further into the "Moon Phase" of Dick Tracy, to the point where I think I need to speak of the Moon Maid storyline that runs thru this volume separate from the crime stories. Go to Amazon

These reprints are terrific! It's great that these classic comic strips are being reprinted - for those of us who fondly remember them and for a new generation to discover and appreciate! Go to Amazon

Five Stars Another fine entry in the Dick Tracy series from IDW. Go to Amazon

MOONSTRUCK We come finally to the Moon Period in all its controversial glory! Junior flies to the moon to find an improbable civilization of Lunarites with strange powers and snail horns on their head and makes acquaintance with his grumpy soon to be father in law, none other than the Moon Governor! Soon Dick Tracy and Diet Smith will rejoin the fugitive Junior and experience an initially not too friendly First Contact experience. Take it as it is, the graphic is spectacular, and you need not be too pernickety about the overall (im)plausibility of it all. Dick Tracy will soon return to investigate an intriguing mystery of a skeleton found in a tree, making acquaintance of a zany cartoonist named Chet Jade, author of the strip Sawdust, a satire of minimalistic strips. The awfully corny puns of Sawdust will make us groan for several years. Then, another cold case, literally so, as a body of an aviatrix is found encased in a chunk of ice in Alaska. Could it be the disappeared aviatrix Lita Flite (an to Amelia Earhart)? An interesting story of espionage and deception. Then Matty Square's Incredible shrinking gang's story with an involuntary vigilante Moon Maid will introduce you to the infamous Mr Bribery and his aptly named sister Ugly Christine, two villains as great Flattop, Shaky and Mumbles. Meanwhile, a new star in the Tracyverse is born..Junior and Moon Maid's baby Honeymoon, who obviously would become a target of Mr Bribery and his sister.. All in all, a great volume, in the Dick Tracy series! Go to Amazon

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