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Dick Tracy

Passionate About Pulp: Revisiting Dick Tracy (1990)

By Angie Barry

July 25, 2016

THE SUBGENRE: Comic book noir. THE HERO: Hardnosed detective Dick Tracy. THE VILLAIN: Crime boss Alphonse “Big Boy” Caprice. THE LOVE INTEREST(S): Loyal “Girl Friday” Tess Trueheart and gangster's moll Breathless Mahoney. THE SETTING: A 1920's metropolis. Pulp fiction gets a bad name in my opinion—no, not the Quentin Tarantino flick where Travolta jams a…

Why So Serious? A Little Less Grimdark and a Little More Fun, Please

By Angie Barry

May 12, 2016

“Are you a Marvel or a DC?” It's become one of those questions—just as everyone has to pick Bats or Supes or side with Cap over Iron Man. And, for the most part, I've been firmly in the Marvel camp. Mainly because, when I go to the theater to see a comic book movie, I…

Dick Tracy and Blowtorches

By Matt Kindt

May 17, 2013

I tend to get on kicks. I ran through Homeland Season 1 in three days and then moved on. I became obsessed with baseball for a summer and then moved on (mostly). I spent one summer in high school reading every Ian Fleming and Doc Savage book ever. And then I moved on. I saved…

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