The Tick Archives

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? AMC's Fear the Walking Dead, Showtime's Yellowjackets, Crunchyroll's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba, FOX's The Great North, The CW's The Flash, BBC's Doctor Who, Adult Swim's Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, FX's What We Do in the Shadows, The Tick/Ben Edlund, TNT's AEW Rampage, NBC's Saturday Night Live, Netflix's[...]

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[...]

Monster Cassie Hack The Tick Grendel Onslaught Trooper Black Phantom  Obviously, some of the heavy hitters are Madman, The Rocketeer, and The Tick However, it is great to see figures for The Goon, Mr Monster, and even Black Phantom! Independent comic fans have been waiting for collectibles like this, and Fresh Monkey Fiction and ToyOtter have delivered[...]

The Tick is one of the weirdest and coolest success stories in modern comics 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[...]

Four new Vinyl figures are on the way, which will include. Avengers: Endgame – Iron Man – Unmasked Chase – Limited to 20,000 Music – Devo – Glow in the Dark Chase – Limited to 8,000 DC Comics – Captain Cold – Flocked Chase – Limited to 7,500 Animation – The Tick – Metallic Chase – Limited to 10,000 Each of[...]

The Tick has been a regular at San Diego Comic-Con for decades, always publishing, before the first TV show, between that show and the more recent Amazon Prime series, and afterwards The Tick is The Tick, it is always going to be the Tick, and it has a small but loyal fan following not swayed[...]

NBC and The Crossing co-creators Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie have tapped Valorie Curry (The Tick) and Eddie Izzard (Hannibal, Six Minutes To Midnight) to join Succession star Ashley Zukerman's Robert Langdon in the drama pilot Langdon Written and executive produced by Dworkin and Beattie and based on Dan Brown's best-selling thriller The Lost Symbol, the series follows[...]

Fans of the Amazon Prime series The Tick now have a chance to bid on and win their favorite costumes and props from the show 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[...]

Amazon Prime's The Tick is one of the most underrated and short-lived superhero shows in recent memory While there was a push to save The Tick after Amazon canceled it, our dreams were dashed But Tick fans can find some comfort, hopefully in the arms of the big blue hero's costume Starting on May 27th,[...]

Amazon Prime's The Tick is now storming its through its second hilarious season… and it doesn't look like The Tick (Peter Serafinowicz) or Arthur (Griffin Newman) are going to have an easier of a time sticking that "sweet superhero landing" than they did last season Now that Superian has been unwittingly proven a fraud, Overkill[...]

Stranger. Amazon Prime's The Tick has rounded third and headed home into its highly anticipated second season this week 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[...]

Goodness, does Amazon ever have some good titles coming to this April!  From the Tim Burton classic Beetlejuice to John Krasinski's masterful A Quiet Place, to The Tick season 2 and freaking Murder, She Wrote seasons 1-5, there is certainly something for everyone. Oh yes, and also Vikings season 5! Here's what you'll be seeing on Amazon come April 2019: April 1st: Murder, She[...]

Amazon Studios unveiled a new behind-the-scenes video from The Tick at their panel at San Diego Comic-Con today You're not there, so you're probably feeling pretty damn left out right now FOMO, amirite? Well, we've got your back The video is up online, and you can watch it at home, which is… almost as good[...]

Here's hoping that Tom Taylor and Mahmud Asrar can hold this series together. Tick #3 cover by Duane Redhead Tick #3 The Tick has learned some startling things about his own past, and now he must decide what that means for his future I'm always willing to stump for the lovable big blue bug[...]

The Tick lives to fight another day! Amazon has renewed quirky superhero comedy for a second season of 10 half-hour episodes Production should begin later this year with the shows premiering in 2019. Peter Serafinowicz (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Griffin Newman (Search Party) will both be back at The Tick and Arthur along with creator[...]

Case in point: The Tick (Peter Serafinowicz), who spent the first half of The Tick's Season 1 on Amazon trying to convince everyone that super-villain The Terror (Jackie Earle Haley) was actually still alive On a positive note? He was right for once On a negative note? He was right for once Yup — The Terror[...]

Here's the breakdown, separated between "streamed" and "downloaded"; and then further divided between domestic and international viewership: Most Streamed (U.S.A.) (1) Sneaky Pete – Season 1 (2) The Grand Tour – Season 1 (3) The Man In the High Castle – Season 1 (4) The Man In the High Castle – Season 2 (5) The Tick Most Streamed (International) (1) The Grand Tour[...]

And while some of you have DVRs full of network shows you've been itching to get to or a Netflix queue overflowing with Marvel and Stranger Things, some of you may need some new shows to watch while wrapping gifts or hiding from in-laws in the "game" room. The Tick is the third adaptation of the comics[...]

One of the rare little oddities I picked up last month at PAX West was this Pixel Party figure from Breaking Games featuring The Tick I wasn't entirely sure what to make of him at first, considering I love the Tick as a character but the design was an odd one to catch at first[...]

Freddy Vale writes from New York Comic Con 2017: In a world riddled with dark, gritty, sepia-toned superheroes, one show dares to defy the status quo: The Tick! The latest iteration of the blue suited super-bug is heavily inspired by the more classic model of the superhero; one filled with cheesy catchphrases and over-the-top characters I[...]

And what does that have to do with The Tick? Since we have International Cat Day, at least we can get some funny things out of it like this new video for The Tick The series premieres in just over two weeks time on Amazon Prime, and they've released this new viral video of a little[...]

Amazon has released a new video featuring interviews with cast and crew members of their new upcoming superhero comedy series The Tick Interviews included Griffin Newman who plays Arthur Everest, Brendan Hines who plays Superian as well as production designed John Kasarda and costume designer Gary Jones Newman admits to not only being a comic[...]

Jimmy Leszczynski writes from San Diego Comic-Con 2017: Warning: Spoilers ahead — if you're going to experience The Tick Takeover Experience for yourself, I'd advise not reading further! *  *  *  *  * We just finished The Tick Takeover Experience at SDCC 2017, where I learned that I'm not going crazy — I'm going sane in a crazy world! Amazon Prime[...]

Here it is: every Funko SDCC exclusive for 2017 all in one place, along with booth guidelines and pricing info! LOTS of pictures!

Amazon has released a new official trailer for their upcoming superhero comedy series The Tick The series stars Peter Serafinowicz, Griffin Newman, Jackie Earle Haley, Valorie Curry, Yara Martinez and Brendan Hines For those of you not familiar with the comic series by Ben Edlund, the series focuses on a non-powered accountant named Arthur who[...]

Amazon's new series The Tick will be debuting on August 25th, with Peter Serafinowicz playing the big blue hero Amazon has started a contest with tongal.com asking fans make videos showing why their cities need the Tick's help The initial video along with three entries that have been awarded $5,000 each are shown below[...]

Available from New England Comics Press at San Diego Comic-Con 2017…and nowhere else! All the Tick you can humanly carry, at Booth 1807: ALL NEW TICK SDCC 2017 5×7 POSTCARD ($2): Limited print run FULL COLOR both sides (Limit 2 per person) THE TICK SDCC 2017 (Blank cover) ($7.99): ALL NEW TICK STORY in Full Color! A limited print run, serially numbered[...]

Let us dive in shall we? Pop! Television: Twin Peaks – Black Lodge Cooper & Laura 2-pack Straight from the Black Lodge comes this SDCC 2-Pack featuring Agent Cooper and Laura Palmer! Pop! Television: The Tick –The Tick (Glow-in-the-Dark) Be prepared when The Tick hits Amazon Prime Video on August 25th with this SDCC exclusive glow-in-the-dark Tick Pop! Neat! Pop![...]

About a month back we ran a story naming Douglas Paszkiewicz (Arsenic Lullaby) as the artist on a new The Tick comic series from New England Comics Now we have more details including Cullen Bunn (X-Men Blue) will be co-writing the series with Jimmy Z Johnston The first issue will be listed in the June[...]