Little more than a month ago , Archie Comics bring out Dick Tracy ’s triumphant return to amusing book memory board witha young seriesfrom Alex Segura , Michael Moreci , and Thomas Pitilli . Fans were sex at the prospect of new stories featuring the yellow - coated investigator . Today , the series is on the spur of the moment no more .
The abrupt cancellation of the series , well before it was due to hit ledge this April , was announced in a series of tweets from theTribune Content Agencyin Chicago — which have , weirdly enough , since been cancel . The tweets confirm that the serial , alas , had to be trash due to a licensing error on Tribune ’s part , after the discovery of a pre - existing deal that made it impossible for the novel serial to go beforehand .
Here ’s the full text edition of the original statement , which was before long substantiate by the serial publication ’ planned conscientious objector - author , Alex Segura :
Due to an unfortunate erroneous belief on our part , Tribune is sad to foretell that there will not be a DICK TRACY comic volume serial publication from Archie Comics . While we had high hopes for the Scripture and Archie Comics negotiated the hand in good faith and is not at fault , we discovered a preexisting licensing deal that precludes us from continuing with this project . We apologize to Archie Comics , the very talented creators and their many fans .
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Although Dick Tracy presently still operates in thesyndicated newspaper strip from Joe Staton and Mike Curtis , this actually is n’t the first time a Dick Tracy monthly comedian has been unknowingly scrapped due to licensing issues . In the last X , Tribune has been throughseverallegalbattleswith actor Warren Beatty — who take and star in the 1990 film adaptation — which allegedlylead to a planned seriesby Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Oeming being cancelled .
Whether or not this latest event is due to legal wrangling with Beatty or something else , it ’s a bizarre and inauspicious scenario — and while whatever deal is presently in place could potentially lead to Tracy making a homecoming to monthly comics elsewhere , for now , the detective ’s tremendous return has sadly been put on hold .
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