Review: ‘Dick Tracy’ #19 Versus A Figurative Mountain

Writers Alex Segura and Michael Moreci are still consolidating a strong narrative throughline for this entire series. However, this issue is reliant on readers who are starting here to be able to immerse themselves in an ongoing tale. Although, that is true of a lot of stories no matter the media format. Nevertheless, anyone who reads this issue will get a lot of good material in a relatively short amount of pages. Two elements that make it good are the characters being logical and the commentary on mental health.

Artist Geraldo Borges and colorist Mark Englert provide some amazing visuals for several pages of this issue. Unfortunately, Borges breaks the 180 degree rule of visual story telling on select pages. Luckily, this occurs in a manner that should mostly be noticeable to those understand the concept and are heavily observant of it. The art is great overall, but those with overly critical minds and studious eyes will see the errors. As for Englert’s application of hues, there is not much new happening in it except for maybe making eye colors more obvious. They both also do work on cover A which has amazing depth and some great coloring for the clouds.

Letterer Patrick Brosseau does a great job on sizing the font and word balloons. Brosseau also makes some shouts that purposely lack word balloons a distinct color that debatably creates more appeal.

Creative consultant Chantelle Aimée Osman is similar to book designer Camilo Sánchez in that both contribute something to the series. However, without in-depth behind-the-scenes information, it is nearly impossible to accurately review their work.

Cover B is the creation of artist Frazer Irving. While it is a high quality piece of artwork there is a possible argument one could make that it has too much stylization while being generically noir.

Dick Tracy #19 is available now from Mad Cave Studios.