Ben Edlund Archives

If you're like us, then you hold a special place in your heart for Ben Edlund's The Tick, which made the leap from the comic book pages to the small screen on three different occasions But whether it was 1994's The Tick: The Animated Series, 2001's Patrick Warburton-starring live-action take, or 2016's Peter Serafinowicz-starring live-action[...]

Since Ben Edlund introduced the popular original comic book parody The Tick in 1986, there have been a few attempts at adapting it to television The original animated version was on FOX, running for three seasons from 1994-1996 The first live-action adaptation lasted one season on FOX in 2001, and the most recent live-action version[...]

Ben Edlund's creation, which debuted in this Special Edition comic back in 1988, has become a pop culture icon, the lead of two different tv shows, and of course, the mega-popular animated show we all watched in the '90s On auction right now at ComicConnect is a super rare first print of the Special Edition,[...]

Based on the Ben Edlund comic book character, The Tick follows the titular hero and his sidekick Arthur We reported on this auction mere days ago, but starting tonight at 7pm EST fans can check out the auction, and bid on their favorite items from the show There's a little bit of everything here too! Fans[...]

Image Credit: Amazon. "Things can either be venerated or rot away, and any sustained interest in something like this only means it made a real connection," Ben Edlund said in advance of the auction "One of the things about doing this show that was really wonderful was the amazing artists who came together and made all[...]

A month after viewers' hopes of a third season were left dangling by a thread, The Tick creator Ben Edlund was left in the unfortunate situation of having to cut it On Friday, Edlund took to Twitter to announce that they were unable to find a new home for Amazon Prime's The Tick: "We will[...]

Now that Superian has been unwittingly proven a fraud, Overkill has promised not to kill, and Dot has discovered she may have some blossoming super powers what can we expect from the crazy mind of creator Ben Edlund as his hit series rounds second? At WonderCon 2019, Brendan Hines (Scandal, Suits), Valorie Curry (Veronica Mars, The[...]

Now that our heroes have returned the VLM to normal size and defeated the Terror, what can we expect from the crazy mind of creator Ben Edlund in this sophomore turn? Peter Serafinowicz (Guardians of the Galaxy, Shaun of the Dead) and Griffin Newman (Our Cartoon President, Draft Day) took a few minutes out of their[...]

As he struggles to uncover this conspiracy, he falls in league with a strange blue superhero. Credit: Amazon Here's a look back at the first half of the season: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiFF18KblJ0&t=17s From creator Ben Edlund comes the hero you've been waiting for In a world where heroes and villains have existed for decades, a mild-mannered accountant named Arthur has his[...]

The hour began with various members of the cast coming to the stage: Ben Edlund (Creator), Barry Josephson (Executive Producer), David Fury (Executive Producer), Peter Serafinowicz (The Tick), Griffin Newman (Arthur), Valorie Curry (Dot), Yara Martinez (Miss Lint), Brendan Hines (Superian), Scott Speiser (Overkill), Michael Cerveris (Ramses), and Jackie Earle Haley (The Terror) The cast[...]

Though it didn't take off with audiences, they kept the heart of the comic intact. As part of Pilot Season for Amazon, Ben Edlund the creator of the Tick, got a chance to make a pilot episode for a new The Tick series staring Peter Serafinowicz and Griffin Newman I like Serafinowicz a lot And I'll[...]

The Tick is executive produced by Ben Edlund (Supernatural), Barry Josephson (Bones) and Barry Sonnenfeld (A Series of Unfortunate Events), directed by Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight), and written by Edlund The Tick is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television.   _DSC1410.NEF Amazon has given a release date and first promo images for their revival of The[...]

If a marketing gimmick is good once, it's good twice, right? On hand for discussion were Ben Edlund, the creator of the Tick, Chris "Jackson Publick" McCulloch who was a worked on the comic, cartoon and live action TV show with Ben, as well as Bob Polio, one of the heads of New England Comics and[...]