The Creators – Alex Segura & Michael Moreci – Writers, Geraldo Borges – Artist, Chantelle Aimée Osman – Creative Consultant, Mark Englert – Colours, Jim Campbell – Letters

The Players – Dick Tracy, Tess Trueheart, Mumbles, Flattop

The Story – A massacre at a diner finds Dick Tracy on the case which is turning out to be much bigger than originally thought.

The Take – From Mad Cave Studios comes a new take and a new title featuring the legendary Dick Tracy and suffice it to say, it is quite good. Who would have thought that in 2024, the world would see a new hard-hitting crime comic featuring the colourful detective who first premiered almost a hundred years ago and yet here it is and it could not be any better. Written by Alex Segura and Michael Moreci, the two team up to modernize the character just a wee bit, making him a veteran of World War II and the youngest hotshot detective on the police force in 1947. It finds the young detective investigating a massacre at a local diner and while it seems random in nature, nothing has been stolen and while it seems chaotic in nature with everything having been shot up, there are precise bullet holes in two men meaning they were targeted. This of course means it was anything but random and Tracy means to get to the bottom of it. As the book moves along, a woman named Tess Trueheart is introduced, the daughter of one of the victims and she too is looking for answers, trying to find out who murdered her dad. Soon enough, the two characters are brought together to try and find the man named Mumbles but they are not the only ones on his trail for what Mumbles knows could be bad for someone much higher up the food chain in the criminal underworld. From the first moment to the last, there is quite a bit of action-packed within these pages and it moves the book along at quite a good pace. The opening scene where everyone at the eatery is killed is quite bloody and lets the reader know right off the hop that this is not their grandfather’s Dick Tracy, it is something new and yet something very familiar. Making it all come alive is Geraldo Borges with a bit of help from Chantelle Aimée Osman who is credited as a creative consultant. However, the partnership works between the two equals a fruitful relationship as the book looks great with a very modern style never seen in a Dick Tracy book before. With a great noir vibe to it all and a mystery to keep one engrossed in the proceedings, the book ends on a cliffhanger ensuring that those who peruse this first story will want to come back and see how it continues. Those who happen to chance upon this book should give it just that as they will be pleasantly pleased with the contents of its pages.

Worth It? – Yes.