The Tick’s Next Adventure? Saving One Amazon Viewer’s City

The weirdest superhero to ever cross over into the mainstream returns on Amazon in August, and the streaming service wants him to do some good. Before the superhero boom of the ’00s led to the superhero glut of the ’10s, there was The Tick. The character, created by cartoonist Ben Edlund to promote a small chain of Boston-based comic book stores, found a comfy home bringing weirdness to afternoon viewers of Fox Kids’ animation block in the mid-’90s, giving fans a dose of absurdism to their tales of costumed adventurers. Armed with his rallying cry (“Spoon!”) and allies like Batmanuel, Die Fledermaus, and trusty sidekick Arthur, The Tick nominally protected his city as its greatest hero.Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

[ Fast Company | 2017-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]

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