I've just finished reading Issue 2 of the Tick's new series "Days of Drama" and it's pretty funny.

Basically, the plot is that The Tick has returned to The City to find that all the other heros are gone, the place is over-run by supervillians, and nearly all of the regular citizens have joined a mysterious cult.

After reading this I was cusiouse about the old The Tick comics, which unfortunately I missed when they first ran, but the good news is New England Comics has most of them available through their website!

Daaang. I've never read the comic, but my sister and I are major fans of the TV series (11 pm, Toon Disney-- about the only thing redeeming on the whole channel). I am going to have to buy this when it comes out in trade paperback.

~IJ

Well, on the official site they were saying if it does well on Toon Disney they will finally be able to release it on DVD. SO EVERYONE WATCH IT!

ahem...
I really want those DVD's :P

Ian Jay
Daaang. I've never read the comic, but my sister and I are major fans of the TV series (11 pm, Toon Disney-- about the only thing redeeming on the whole channel). I am going to have to buy this when it comes out in trade paperback.

~IJ

In england it no longer runs but i used to love it.

Now for me the only redeeming cartoons for disney channels are Fillmore and Kim possible.


The Tick rules.

I pretty much just have one thing to say about Days of Drama: "I'd rather play chin music for ratzis than eat pie. You pipe that, joker?"

I first came across The Tick during his original series when creator Ben Edlund was still doing it. I never liked the cartoon because it just didn't capture the humor of the comic blook. The cartoon was more blatant and silly. The many Tick comics that followed after Ben left were more in that vain. Edlund needs to return to the book and at least do a proper wrap-up issue to his storyline.

i've loved the tick since i was about...i think....5 years old on. i wish the dvd would just come out now. people should realize how cool of a show/comic it is.

SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

:-D

.: SpANG! :.

From your reports of it I better stay away from it or I'll become obsessed. The worst thing that can happen is for me to become obsessed with one more thing that's not available.

well, it was on abc family in the mornings...but they stopped showing it...stupid kids wouldn't know funny if it murdered them in a bizzare satanic ritual...if there isn't a flying superpowered robotic monkey in the cartoon they couldn't care less.

I loved both the cartoon and the comic. And.. even.. dare we speak its name? The Real-Life TV series. I thought they were all hilarious, but in their own separate rights. They were trying to do different things.

I still have the entire set of the trading cards. From "spoon!" to the metaphysical adventure through time he had.
One of the most under-rated characters of all time in comics.

I read a non-comic book book version of the Tick, and it was totally awesome.

Deflator Mouse? Gone? It CAN'T BE!

:smt022

Actually, since I never read the comics, I don't even know if he was in there to begin with... but he was in the cartoon, and, dangit, that's good enough for me!

none have ever captured the Ben Edlund awesomeness of the originals nor his very distinct art style. It's a real shame that the man has seemingly fallen off the planet.

Edlund has been doing television stuff. Last I saw, he had worked with Joss Whedon as a writer on Angel and Firely. Two of the best episodes of either series, "Smile Time" and "Jain's Town" respectively, were his work.

The last comic work I saw of his was in the first Monkeysuit anthology-- a hilarious story about a professional boogeyman called Mr. Makesbabiescry, and his romance with a nurse. "Profiles in Tenacity" was the title, I believe.

Clay Griffith, who has done Tick-related work since Edlund's departure, was in my library the other day. We talked a bit, and he reminded me of one of his creations. The real hero of the "Man-Eating Cow" comic, The Crime Cannibal may be the most underrated character ever.

"Some guys are fast. Some guys smell real good. I eat people. It's my power."

His super powers included "mightyness" ("Crime Cannibal's pretty mighty... he might just mighty himself through the jailhouse wall...") and eating people. His last victim was a villain called the Phantom Plowboy. A genuinely good egg, CC was working hard at becoming a vegetarian.

The Tick returns, again.