Podcast The Classy Comics Podcast

The Tick is mighty! So mighty that he got me to break my rule of only reviewing trades as we look at New England Comics latest Tick comics including Issues 1-4 of the new series and the Free Comic Book Day issue. Transcript:The Tick is Mighty. Join us as we take a look at the latest comic book adventures of The Tick.The Tick is a much-beloved character, probably best remembered for his 1990s Fox animated TV series; and there'd been two subsequent live-action series, one of which will have new episodes. I believe in February 2019 we'll get Season Two of the Tick for Amazon Prime. Now most people know that the Tick began as a comic book but the Tick’s relationship to a regular publishing schedule is a bit strange. The first issue of the Tick appeared thirty years ago, and in those thirty years there have been 100-odd issues of the Tick. Some of those actually were very odd but, be that as it may, that averages out to just about three to four comics per year. There have been quite a few ongoing Tick series as we