He's Big, He's Blue, And Now, He's Bingeable: 'The Tick' Returns
The new, 10-episode Amazon series isn't a grim-and-gritty reboot, exactly — but its dark-ish tone will surprise some fans of Ben Edlund's superhero spoof.
Say this much for The Tick: He comes with some serious, baked-in nerd-cred. Writer Ben Edlund created him back in 1986 to be the mascot of a Massachusetts comic book store.
Since then, his bumbling exploits have been chronicled in comic books, video games, a Saturday morning cartoon, and, back in 2001, a short-lived, little-seen but much-beloved live-action series starring Patrick Warburton. (On which actor Nestor Carbonell wore the holy hell out of some leopard-print tights as the
