The Tick

The Tick 1-12

How much did I love The Tick when I first read it?  It was my email address in college: thetick@***.edu.  (And yet I never got more than a few episodes into the three tv iterations.)  

Going through it again, the first five issues are as good as I remember.  The jokes are all just as funny, the art just as good.  (Ben Edlund’s art is really good, not at all what I would expect from an independent black and white comic.)

"Nigh-invulnerable!"  "Me too!  Me too!"  "Wub wub wub"

Hee, the glasses!

It's like The Foot w/ TMNT.  Everyone's got to rip off Frank Miller.

It's like "What also floats in water?"

Tee hee!

Pockets!

The quality definitely slips in the back half of the run.  The Tick’s delusions aren’t as amusing, the aimlessness of the story a little more glaring.  Not that there isn’t still a treasure trove of zingers:

This has not aged well at all.

I'd forgotten about Man-Eating Cow!

LOVE Hand Grenade Man.

There's something so Ennis' The Boys about this scene.

So true.

I’m thrilled that some of it is still keen and swell.

Regret buying: No

Would buy again: Yes

Would read again: Yes

Rating: Pure joy (Pretty good for 6-12)

That’s it for Misc Box 13!

Box Summary

Time spent reading: 17 hours, 27 minutes

Issues read: 114

Issues cut: 0

Highlights (Good or better): Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things; Courtney Crumrin and the Coven of Mystics; Polly and the Pirates; Princess Ugg; True Story Swear to God vol 1-2; Chicacabra; Blankets; The Tick 1-5

Project Summary:

Time spent reading: 54 days, 20 hours, 34 minutes

Issues read: 11394

Issues cut: 1154