The Tick made its debut last year, alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme’s action-comedy Jean-Claude Van Johnson and the adaptation of Chris Kraus’s book I Love Dick, starring Katherine Hahn and Kevin Bacon, from creator Jill Soloway (Transparent), and not long after, it was announced all three were officially headed to series.
The series only lasted nine episodes, but it made enough of an impact that, over a decade later, there’s a new Tick on the horizon.
Ben Edlund’s The Tick has had been around for decades in comic book form, but the dark, satiric series about a nigh-invulnerable, super-strong do-gooder in a blue suit who calls himself simply, the Tick gained considerably more exposure when it was translated into a Saturday-morning cartoon on FOX.
Not long after, the network tried its hands at delivering the Tick, his sidekick Arthur, and all the other weird, semi-competent heroes protecting The City in live-action form with Patrick Warburton as the titular character.