The best writing in the world can be sabotaged by lousy voice acting, but The Tick was exceptionally well cast. and Venture Bros., not to mention the live action version of The Tick that has found more of an audience on DVD than Fox ever allowed it in 2001.
He also has writing credits for Titan A.E. His sharp writing ability, laced with irony and an appreciation for camp, led to him working with Joss Whedon, writing and producing Angel and Firefly. Do you like it? No? OK, I won’t do it again…) Most episodes were co-written by Edlund, who has a talent for creating absurdly wonderful plotlines and characters, and has both heroes and bad guys spouting deliriously absurd dialog. Since then, though, further repeats of what still ended up being a strong show have cemented The Tick as a favorite among Cartoon fans who enjoy their “super-humorics”. It’s that same old story that plagues comic book adaptations- someone buys the rights to a property, but decides they don’t like it and want to make it into something else, thus satisfying no one. The chief reason for the change of networks was that Fox wanted The Tick to be a kids’ show, whereas the producers and writers wanted it to be actually based on the comic, which was for older readers. The show was a bit of a success, running eventually for 36 episodes, although its last original episodes were run on Comedy Central in 1996 (while Fox was content to run repeats). From there, he became something of a cult success, providing comic fans in the know with a rarity in those days- a funny comic book.Įdlund became one of the first of the 1990s comic book cartoonists to achieve success in other media when Fox Kids produced a 1994 Saturday morning cartoon starring The Tick. The Tick’s exploits became very popular with local and mail-order customers, and he was launched into his own nationally distributed comic book in 1988. When he met his partner Arthur in 1989, his formula for success was complete.
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After escaping from a Minnesota asylum, The Tick embarked a crime-fighting career in The City, in a series of over-the-top superhero comedies. Edlund created The Tick to star in a newsletter published by New England Comics, with The Tick first appearing there in the summer of 1986. The main writer, of course, was Ben Edlund. Superhero parodies, like most animated films from the year 2006 about anthropomorphic animals, too often seem to exist only for themselves, not to actually tell a worthwhile story. The trick is to recognize what we always talk about, but so few creators seem to take seriously: no matter what genre you are operating in, you have to have a good story. Superhero conventions are easy to make fun of, but apparently it is not so easy to make all the teasing into a fun story. Superhero parodies have been done to death over the years, despite so often being, well, pretty lame. The Sweatbox Review:Ĭitizens! Behold the origin of the mighty Tick!
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Sunbow Productions/Graz Entertainment/20th Century Fox Children’s Television (1994), Buena Vista Home Entertainment (August 29, 2006), 2 discs, 252 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Not Rated, Retail: $34.99 Storyboard:Ī lovable big, blue dufus and his little pal fight crime in The City.
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